The Sound of Gold with guest SounDStorm

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0:51 Hi, Welcome to the Sound of Gold. This is my seventeenth show. It just so happens to be November seventeenth, and I just thought that was kind of funny. So if you've been here before, welcome back. If you're a new welcome. The Sound of Gold is based on My focus is on music, musicians, music schools, music teachers, and there is so much talent in our communities and there's you know, if you go out and you go to restaurants, you there's music playing, there's musicians, and sometimes you know them, sometimes you don't. But the more you get out, the more you get to know local musicians. And if you have not started going out a lot, but are thinking about getting out and maybe getting involved in some communities that offer live music or some venues that offer live music.

1:53 You can go to dinner venues, dinner restaurants, you can go to gosh, there's so much. There's there's the vfw's, the Moose, the I don't even know all of these, but there is so much out there. So if you're looking to get out and about and groove and dance and move around to some live music, definitely, wherever you're calling it or wherever you're tuning in from, check your local either google it or ask your neighbors, but definitely your local environment, your local community has live music. With that being said, I have and this is a return, a return of what we call SoundStorm and the return of SoundStorm. I say it that way because my very first show wash with SoundStorm and we had a little bit of technical sound issues. So it's my pleasure to welcome back SoundStorm. And I'd like to introduce Steve Smith and Dave Nudick.

2:57 And Steve, are you there, I'm here. Hi, Yes, And we got message that Dave is working, but he will try and pop in, but you can and if he can, so thank you for making the time to join us today on our show. And if you heard, this is November seventeenth, and this is the seventeenth show. I thought, that's pretty cool. That's funny. Seven plus one is eight. That's infinity. Yes it is. I love that. That's great. So yeah, thanks for having us me or them. And I'm a big fan of the show, so I really can't wait to do this.

3:38 So Steve is not only a guest on my show, Steve can I give it away? Steve is also my husband and he's calling in off the road because he's working today. So again, thank you for making the time. And I want to dive right into Soundstore, and I mean actually even before we dive into SoundStorm see for our listeners. Music for us, for you and me, is such a big part of our lives and a lot of friends and family that we know are also musicians or involved with music. And then we have friends that are really not too involved because they're not musicians. And that's okay. But I think for you and Dave, I want to later get into like where you're performing and what you perform, but being that you have the stage right now, share with our audience, like what was your beginning, like what led you to this musical path.

4:41 Well, it all started probably with my late mother. Who was always play music while we were home, and I was influenced her by her singing voice, and yeah, we used to She used to play on a chord organ and we would sing carpenters songs and things from the early seventies because I'm that old, and and it just grew from there, and then I had to take a put it on the back burner for a long time, and I got back into karaoke at home in middle two thousand, no, not even OK, yeah, about two thousand probably, And then from there I went to Smule, which was an app remote app for karaoke all around the world, and I would record with other people on that and time and time again, everybody would say, why aren't you out doing that for a living?

5:50 And I never gave it a second thought. And then I started doing karaoke in person, and it was right then that I said, yeah, I want to be a singer. That's that I mean. I always wanted to be a singer, but I knew that I had the chops for at that point. And from there to open Mic, I met Jim. Siggy and I finally did my first live performance January of twenty twenty three. Nice. Yeah, now you mentioned karaoke for our listeners, for those that are maybe venturing into the music world or thinking about it or maybe just starting. Now. You and I'm skipping a little bit, but I'll get back to my point. You and I we we do most of mark so you but us together, we do have karaoke every two weeks since Stewart. Right, So from you mentioned you kind of started with karaoke and the smell, which is like an online karaoke, just not in person, right, And would you say to our listeners that karaoke is a wonderful place to start because I know what my definition is, but what's your definition of why karaoke would be a good place to start if you love singing and want to learn to kind of be a part of the community and sing.

7:14 Yeah, there's there's a karaoke community, which is a phenomenal support system within the venue that you're at. There's no there's no belittling people and anymore and stuff like that. Everybody's right there because they know where they were when they started, so everybody gives everybody a fair shake, you know. And then to transfer to the live community was even more of a surprise because you know, once you have the pitch, and once you have the cadence correct and you can hit your marks, then live views as a smooth, smooth transition or I felt it was, you know sure, and I.

8:06 Would say I can if you don't mind me adding to that karaoke you said, you know, people do not belittle you. A's a group of it's a community where everybody started somewhere the beginning usually, but to step outside and to be on stage is very a little bit scary because we're all afraid of rejection. However, to be able to be in that community, stand up, show up and do the best that you can. After a while, and I can say this for myself, after you keep on doing it over and over again, you really build your confidence, of course, and you not only build your confidence, but you can you get feedback, like not criticism, but feedback that you want because I think in life, whether you're a musician or whatever you're doing, we kind of need that feedback to know that if we are doing it right or wrong or whatever. So we all need a little bit of support and guidance in our journeys whatever we're doing. Absolutely, yeah, so that's wonderful. So Jim I know you sing with Jim, and we haven't seen Jim in a little while. However, you have joined with Dave.

9:18 And as we mentioned a few minutes ago, Dave is working and may pop in if you can. How did you meet Dave? So I started going to karaoke the first time at Johnny Mangoes in. Stupiter. There was a guy, yeah, Juper Florida, And there was a guy there named Tony who always sang every work, every week shout out Tony Simon's wherever you are. He was the one that invited me up to the Stuart Moose. And again the community just envelops you and brings you in as one of their own. Afterwards, just to few short weeks, and you know, Dave and his wife Tammy are like family to me and now us, you know.

10:09 And yeah, that's where everything started, was right there. And then every and I'm not so new anymore but fairly new, newer to the community of like the Moose or the VFW. And from what I understand and what I've learned is that because I actually knew nothing about it, I mean, I didn't understand it. But it's a it's a meeting place, it's kind of like the idea of Cheers, Remember Cheers, that bar where everybody is like the. Same, everybody knows your name. Everybody knows your name. Yeah, and it's welcoming. It's not like that typical idea of a bar of like if people go and get slashed and they're rude and obnoxious.

10:54 It's a community that wants to get out and about that doesn't really want to stay home alone or just like watch TV. They want to be in a community. You don't have to necessarily drink. I don't drink. You don't drink. So it's not about the drinking. It's about the community. It's about connecting. It's about the support system that's there, and that I'm advertising the Moose or VFW. But it's just I never knew before how like you said, they embrace you. They embrace you because you just it's the same people over and over again, and it's and there is I think in every chapter from the Little I Know, every chapter there is a karaoke night. There there is events for like barbecues and parties and and here's Cali, our cat is visiting on stage here. And so you know, for our listeners, if you use our home a lot. If you're not sure where you want to go in your community and you're kind of shy about going to like the local restaurant or the local whatever, like we have a brew house, right, If that doesn't throws you off a little bit, definitely check in with your community and your town for the local chapter of your MOOSE or VFW, and you don't necessarily have to.

12:14 I know, I used to think to be a member of the Moose you had to be in the military, but you don't know. Yeah, so that would be a wonderful place to start. And then the VFW. I don't know if that's a different story, but we don't really go there, but you do perform there, so going so skipping a few notes here performing. When is the next time that you and Dave are performing and where so our audience can tune in and maybe show up. Yeah, we are at the Jensen Beach VFW on Black Friday Friday, November twenty eighth, so everybody's got a four day weekend. Usually come on out to the Jensen Beach VFW and here Dave and I.

12:56 Okay, now, if people want to check out your music, can listen to some of your music. What are some of the maybe connections social media that they can tune into to listen to some of your songs and your work. Yeah, you can find that on Facebook. I have a wonderful videographer who takes great videos of practices as well as performances, and we throw it out there. SoundStorm twenty twenty five, I believe is in the way to find it. You can't miss the sound with the lightning bolt Storm insignia. So that's that's where we are there nowhere else yet. My website hasn't updated to use that yet, so I can't go to Steve Smith dot live and see those dates yet.

13:54 Facebook is a wonderful social media platform. I mean I do most I would have to say ninety percent of my marketing, not marketing, but my what I do I put on on Facebook. That's like my go to and I think that's one of the best go tos because connections. Thank you, because you you've reached the most people. And I think it's easily accessible. There's so much out there. There's the TikTok, there's the LinkedIn, there's Instagram and a lot of I think younger generation is more on the Instagram However, Facebook also is LinkedIn with Instagram, so if you're on Instagram and not more on Instagram than you are on Facebook, you can still find SoundStorm on stor So Steve tell us, I know, but tell the audience what kinds of music do you and Dave love to play?

14:50 Like? What is your like from start to finish? Let's say you have two hours and I'm kind of playing a little silly here because I'm there every practice so I know, I know. But for our. Audience that wants to get to know you and Dave and SoundStorm, let's share with them. How do you share with them how you show up, what you deliver, and what you bring to. The dance for Yeah, we bring a lot of two step. We're trying to get more of other dance songs, you know, seventies grooving, eighties grooving songs. We're working on getting some of those in. We got some, but probably not enough. We like country. Both of us sing it very well, and we do a great job playing off each other and harmonizing and and splitting up vocals and then splitting the harmonies as well. Jim Segy, you taught me most of that. So again, shout out to Jim.

15:51 So, well, let me ask you this, what is your favorite like? Do you have a favorite genre that if it were You're a team player. And I'm not just saying this because you're my husband, but I've watched you practice and this is a message for all of our listeners. I'm going to skip a beat, but I'm going to get back to my point. I had one of my I'm also a music teacher for my listeners, I teach piano, and I had one of my students' moms come up to me and she said, I want my daughter to, you know, audition for Bop. Can you help them? And I said, well, yes, I've I've had other students that have auditioned for BOB. I said, the biggest secret and I said this to my student as well. I said, the biggest giveaway secret is that judges look for how well you are able to work with others. Right, So, if you're a musician and you're you're playing a piece, however there's room to play with other musicians. You want to be a team player so that you're not rigid in your in your practice, and you're not rigid and your playing, and then it makes it easier to say, yes, you know, this student would be a wonderful addition to back because she can play with these different groups or these different genres, and and that would not you know, that would be great. So back to you, I'm saying that because I've seen you practice and I've even complimented

17:22 you before because you're you know, and again for the audience out there that's out listening or practicing or getting involved with a new band, when you show up and you bring what you've got to the table and I Ellen said this, Ellen Vargas said this. You know, you want to like, it's easy to be stuck in your head and stuck in your way as how you're trained, but you want to remind yourself to be flexible. And you specifically said or didn't say that you were had any training. However, I've seen you practice and you're just so easy to work with because Dave will say this, or when you were practicing with Jim, Jim would say this, and you were just like you didn't skip a beat.

18:07 You were just you listen to what they said and you just follow it through. And I compliment you so much because I don't know that everybody could do that so easily because it's not like second, third, fourth try. It's like you're right on it, right, Okay, Well, thank you, You're welcome. You're welcome. And with that being said, I think I know, but maybe I don't know. Have you had any training in the past, I had coaching and voice coaching or none at all. And I probably still do not sing properly, but I sing enough. I sing well enough to get by and maybe a short term thing and I might have to alter some things, but for now, it's how I do it, and I hear it, I can sing it.

18:56 It's second nature, you know. It's a natural thing, perfect pitch, whatever they call it, it's just a natural thing. So I'm also very impressed. And a lot of other friends of ours and other people have said, Now, let's say on on a night that you're playing, right, let's say you have two set lists, right, maybe fifty songs, maybe more, I don't know. You get on stage and you sing all the words to the songs. I've seen you, I've listened to you. You really don't have the music in front. Of you, the lyrics right right right, And I know. Like even when you've played with Jim, you have not had the music in front of you, but you know every word to every song. What's your secret?

19:44 Well, I eat my weedies in the morning, and no, I have no idea. I have no idea. It's just that you know when you sing the songs as long as you have you know America stylistics, whatever it is, when you sing them since a child, and and you sing them with the radio and you turned the radio off and you're going down the street and you're singing the song. What difference does. It matter that you're in front of a live audience sing the song as you know it sung you know, and and if you you know, and and then throw your own style into it. And that's it's it's not to me, you know. They I'm sorry.

20:25 Jim had me learn the verse of a song that I had never sung. And how many times did I run it through for and I had it down, you know. So again it's it's natural ability. It's I don't think it's anything I can teach anybody, you know, it's just close your eyes, remember the song, remember the way the song is sung on the radio, and envisioned that and belt it out. Now, there's been times where I've been with you at practice where there's a song that you might not be familiar with, and I'm saying this to the audience. I kid you not. He'll look at this the maybe scroll it on his cell phone because he's learning a new song that he doesn't know, maybe not even five minutes and he's like, okay, I'm ready. And then Jim will play a song, or you know, play a song, or a day will play a song and you just you sing it right through right. Do you have any tips for our listeners on memory, on how to remember something new or how do you adapt to that rhythm and that flow of the of the words and the notes without any hiccups. It's amazing.

21:40 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I like I said, I don't think it's anything that I could teach anybody. I just feel, you know. There were one of the guys of the Stewart Moves used to always say somebody would come up to me and say, hey, would you do a duet with me for this song? And I never heard it in my life, And I'd go out back and listen to it twice and go back in and act like I've heard it for thirty years, but I don't know how I do. That's it's a gift, God's gift, you know. And I'm just out now finally I figured out my path and now I'm finally when well, yeah, you do.

22:21 A great job. Thanks, You're welcome. So the next time you're playing is November twenty eighth with Dave SoundStorm and you're playing at the VFW and Jensen. Beach, Jensen Beach, yep, right, and a. Lot of shows that you and Dave do are mostly in the Treasurer coast right now, right right now. If a venue is our listeners right now. If somebody wants to contact you and Dave is Facebook the best way to connect. Facebook has Dave's number on the page so they can call him and book and then he gets with me and I check the calendar or any other you know, thing going on if there's conflict or whatever.

23:04 But yeah, that's that's the fastest way really. Now the holidays are upon us. Next week? Is is it? Next week? Yeah? Next week is Thanksgiving already? Wow? It is? So next Friday night, next Friday, and. Then with the holidays coming up, are you booked? I think you have the VFW next month as well. Yeah, we have the VFW again Friday, December nineteenth, and if you want to keep on going, we have the Friday January twenty third, twenty twenty six at the same venue, Jensen BEACHVFW and it's free to enter and just sit and listen, you know, have a drink, sit back, and let us take you on a magical journey.

23:51 You know. It could be sixties, seventies, eighties, could be country, could be blues, could. Be you know, you know I love the slow. Yes. So with that being said, and we talked about how to get in touch with you, what would you share with our audience as far as you've made your connections the way you have, but let's say some of our audience is just venturing out or thinking about venturing out to meet people like you didn't. As you mentioned, you didn't just start like where you're at today, Like you've built your way here and you continue to grow and you continue to meet people in the community and have other opportunities greet you. Would you recommend that Let's see, there's a few questions I want to ask at the same time, but I can't do that. I got to ask once one at a time, would you recommend that people go out and get a feel for maybe a place like if there been wanting to venture and step like similar to your pathway with singing. What would be your advice for for somebody that's not sure.

25:10 I mean, I'm just an infant in this industry, so I really can't specifically say what to do, but open mic seems to be the best chance I think for venturing out, playing your guitar, playing harmonica, whatever you're going to do. Another great community Angelo's in Jupiter Monday night, six to nine will be there tonight. That's just the you know, Gary Frost's hosts, and he's such a gracious host. He'll play guitar for you. If you just want to go up and sing, he'll play guitar for you. That's how I started. I went up, I said, you want to play Tequila Sunrise for me? He played it, I sang it, and then the then the I was off.

25:54 It was off right there I had I said, this is where it is, this is it? And after that, you know, Jim Jim put me on stage with him and the race was on. But yeah, that that's the that's the best thing. Bring your bring your equipment. It is a great community. And you don't want you don't want to hum it. We all juggle so much. We have you know, we all have a most ninety people have a job and a family, your friends, and so it's a constant juggle. And then like you have, our show is about SoundStorm. However we're also talking about Jim. So my point is is that you know, don't limit yourself to like one group.

26:41 It's all fair play to kind of dabble in a couple of different groups because then it brings different parts of you alive and you get some experience, different realms of yourself that you didn't even know. Because music is so magical, we don't even know what we've got to give until we're giving it. And yeah, and so you know, with with the juggle, I mentioned this I think to Ellen or or THEA in one of our previous shows. It's a juggle, right, So you know, you want to do what you can, but you definitely want to get your priorities, keep your priorities straight and not you know, give up. Okay, I'm not going home. I'm just going open mic hopping and band hopping. Like you want to have priorities and be sensible about it. But you know, in a reasonable amount of time, let yourself, you know, spread out a little bit enough to kind of see where you fit. Because maybe one band here might not feel as homey as this band over here. So you want to you want to try a little bit. My dad used to say, and I lived by this when my dad was alive. He used to say, life is a schamorgous board, and you want to try a little bit of everything because you want to know what you like because the next time you go, you'll know what you don't want.

28:04 So Spielberg got it from your dad then, right laugh is like like a box of chocolates. Right then? That was Forrest Gump. I know. I said Spielberg did did Forrest Gump, And that's where he got it from your dad. Now we know probably And you mentioned open mic, so I'm gonna I'm gonna just raise the bar here. So open mic is not only fun to meet other musicians that haven and to have an opportunity to be on stage. But you and I met at open mic, and if it were not for open mic, we might I don't know where we would have met if not so so you never know who you're going to meet at open mic.

28:46 You never know what opportunities, So open mic is very special to us, exactly. Yes, and uh Angelo's and Jupiter. Angela's also opened to another venue in Stewart and I do not remember the date right now, but angela is. I will have the owners on on this show to talk about the venue. I just don't have a date in mind right now. So yes, So Angela's in Jupiter. If you are a Floridian and you live in the Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter area, come out and visit us tonight every Monday night right with Gary Frost. And we try to make every Monday. I mean it depends on where am I where I am on the day.

29:30 Yes, yes, and that's okay. I don't know what do you think, Steve would would it be strange? I don't know how the sound would be If we do, we have a piece that you and Dave have recently sung, or maybe a practice that we can share because I know we're live. However, our listening audience who's not seeing us can still listen to what to what we're talking about and listen to our music. I mean, is it do you think it would be possible to to share some music or your You are on your. Phone, correct, I'm on my phone right. Okay, so then that's not possible. No, no, unfortunately not.

30:13 I'll tell you next time if I get to do this again, I'm definitely going to use an iPad so I can see you better, your beautiful, beautiful face. Oh, thank you. I told you I was a fan. I told you I was a fan. Yes, you are my biggest fan. You flatter me. Still. So getting back to Dave and SoundStorm, I'm going to give a secret away because this is only going to benefit some of our listeners. And that secret is and Tiya told Dave who told you? Who told me about jam Zone?

30:54 Right? Right? What do you know about jam Zone that we could s Zone? Jamsung's an app that uses studio musicians to recreate thousands and thousands of songs and allows you to take out every channel of the music. You want to take out the horns, you take out the horns, you want to take out the background vocals, you can do that. You take out the main guitar and play over it, you can do that. So, yeah, that is a fantastic app and we use it now, yes. And would you say that it has better or more music on it than like is it comparable to like Terrafun?

31:40 Is that like. No carafun Cara Fun is strictly a karaoke app. All you can do is drop out the main vocal with kampu Host is another app that uses tracks, so you can drop out certain certain. Instruments out of it. That would be the comp the comp to it, which I've only been experienced with Dave once or twice. But now now jam Zone is the way to go, and that. Sounds more reasonable because, yeah, like you said, you could drop out the horns or the bass or you know, the violin, whatever other instruments are in that song, so you can actually nitpick and take out what you don't want, which sometimes is good because all music is beautiful. But sometimes you have a beautiful voice like you do, and sometimes I think maybe I'm just partial. The less instrumental that's backing you up, the more we can hear your instrument, which is your voice.

32:51 Yeah. That that's one thing that I'm looking toward within the future is dropping some extra stuff out of it and making it more acoustic and just a homey feel, you know. Not the bombastic you know, extra piano solos and things like that, you know, but it's a work in progress and. We'll figure it out as we go along. Yes, because there's nobody there. On stage playing piano for us, So why do we have piano playing in the background? You know? Not yet, not yet, that's true. Not yet, yes, intind Well, thank you so much for taking the time. I know you're you've had a busy day at work and you know you've taken the time to detour a little bit to make this happen. And Dave is stuck at work. Well we miss him today, however.

33:50 Yeah, for sure, if you're. Wanting to connect with Dave and Steve SoundStorm on Facebook Downstorm twenty twenty five you said, is the easiest way you connect, and sure and actually tune into Facebook Sounds from twenty twenty five so you can hear some of their music and kind of get some glimpses of some of their practice time behind. State, behind the scenes, made by a world class videographer. That would be me. Do you have any last minute words to share with our listeners today? Again, this show is going out to amateur musicians, skilled musicians, professional musicians, music schools, music teachers, music venues.

34:40 Yeah, well, if you like to sing, go to karaoke, because that's where that's where it's at for singers. If you want to be into the into the live music and start playing out on your own, go to open mic. Yep, that's the way to go. And do I plug us at Stuart Mood every other week, come out and uh sing karaoke with us. And the date that you'll be doing that, we'll be doing that again. That would be. December second, is that or no, December fourth. I'll take your word for it. I think I think you're right. December fourth, correct, December fourth from at what time we started seven and we go to ten okay yep, all.

35:24 Right, And there's all kinds of music. And yeah, there's venues everywhere for karaoke and there's probably in the Treasure Coast area alone. You could probably go once every night somewhere just just Karaoke. Stars of the Treasure Coast has a Facebook page and on that page is a chart that shows where everything is in this area. And did they have the same thing in like the Palm Beach Gardens in Jupiter area. Do you think they may but I've never seen it. I know they I know they cover Jupiter and Hope sound, but I don't think they go any further than that.

36:07 I think I think if you wherever you are in the world or in the United States, uh, if you just google open mic, yeah, I think you'll find a whole list of venues in your area that you can And it's just it's like extended family. Sure is well, thank you Steve for for being. Um, you've got plenty of those family all You've had plenty of those family on our on your show already. You know, Yes, our extended family, our friends. Yes, yep, they've been on our show. And they're nothing but inspirational. I mean that they're not an offing. Nobody's nothing but yes, everyone in our lives is just like so inspirational, so supportive.

36:54 And for our listeners out there who are wanting to get out there, you're just gonna find like minded people that just like you, just like me, just like we're not any better than anybody else. We're just regular folks that just want to enjoy life and meet new people. And there's the saying I've heard that the older you get, the less likely likely is to like meet more friends. But you know what, the older I get, I don't want to say that. The younger I get, I find the more opportunities I have to meet more people and to meet more friends. And it's just it just makes life so much sweeter because nobody's judging you any you know, it's nobody's judging you. We're all in the same boat, like more people. If you're worried about what somebody else is thinking, I promise you I almost can bet on so much to say that that person is more worried about what you're thinking about them than what you think they're thinking about you, right right, And we get so stuck in our heads. So if you get stuck in your head with that, not you, but our listeners like, just stop, stop and recalibrate and think. You know, they're probably thinking the same thing and worrying about what I'm going to think of that. So so just get out there, you know, and if you're not very social, just show up anyway. There's a time her yeah, when I will say this, not to take away from a sound storm,

38:25 but in our conversation here, there was a time when I raised my daughter and once she was seventeen eighteen and kind of like doing her own thing. I started stepping out a little bit and meeting more friends and doing more things, and I was I found myself to be very sheltered because I was you know, I'm not going to call it rejection, but it's just it's a little scary when you step out of your comfort zone and you want to get out there. So whatever stage of life you're in and you're want need to expand, do it right, Just step out, step out there. And if you're if you are like really really scared, maybe bring a friend, like go somewhere, do something different and uh and you'll be surprised how many more friends you'll meet.

39:15 Even the uh Karma Coastal Karma I had, I had the owner on here, Charles I think it was I think that was his name, Charlie, And he even said a lot of people that show up end up becoming really good friends and end up like meeting for lunch and it's not about the alcohol. It's just a place to meet, get together, listen to live music and and be supportive. But right, yeah, and one of the other things, going back to the karaoke thing, karaoke as I was fearful of doing it the first time. My therapist said to me, she said, it's not an audition. You're going in there to have fun. Go go, just go have fun. It's not an audition. Just come in sing your sing your songs.

40:04 You know you're gonna you're gonna love it. And with that being said, I'm not well. I'm you mentioned a word, and I'm gonna go off of it. Because music is healing. Music is a therapy in itself. And if you can like like I have this piano here and in some instances you can look at it like a piece of furniture because it just sits here until I come and I play it. And so if you're a musician, whatever instrument you have, it doesn't do anything without you. And so you're the one that brings it to life. And in so many I mean, words can only express so much, but I mean this so much more. It is a way of therapy. Like you're singing, like you sing wholeheartedly, you sing from your heart, and when you sing, you could really as a listener, really feel what you're sharing. And even if you're not a singer and you're playing an instrum, listeners can hear what you're playing, because I will say this live and because I've said this to my students. If you can't feel what you're playing, I can't hear what you're playing, right, So you want to tune into your feelings and express them in your voice or in your instrument because it is a form of therapy and you don't need to go out and pay somebody for that. You just need to be okay with giving yourself permission to get out of your own way and to show up and do it.

41:34 Well said, thank you, thank you. And on that note, so we mentioned SoundStorm. I'm going to end with this, Dave, please forgive me because this isn't about SoundStorm. But we are going to be in Wellington right for the holidays December sixth. I had MTNA on the show last week. The Music Teachers National Association. We have a razor in Wellington to support the children of Hospice and I know that Steve, you and I will be there later on in the day December sixth, So if you are in the Wellington area, come out to benefit a charity. I don't know if I said that right, And we will get to play and sing a little bit together, and lots of our students from the areas will come in and play piano. So you're on stage, so I kind of i'm picking on you there, so sorry, Dave. But the Dave and Steve you are in the dynamic duo of SoundStorm. If you are in Jenson Beach the day after Thanksgiving, come out and visit us Jenson B to BFW. Check out SoundStorm on Facebook and message us if you're wanting us to play at another venue in your area. If you are, if you have a venue and want us to play, and yeah, so.

43:00 Thank you Steve, thank you Lisa, and I'll. See you home soon. I can say that you're my husband, so all right. All right, thank you again, You're welcome. Thank you ladies and gentlemen for tuning in and again repeating myself. SoundStorm you can find on Facebook platform. That's the easiest SoundStorm twenty twenty five. Listen to some of their music and find out more about them. Where they're playing next, as we mentioned, but they're always playing somewhere so you can tune into that. In the meantime, we definitely want to keep music alive. This is why I do this show. There is so much talent out there, and it's time that you all, we all have gotten some recognition and some acknowledgment, and we don't want to go unrecognized. We want to be heard. We want to give what we've got and whatever instrument you play, wherever you're playing, and if you're not playing yet, venture out, step out there. So with a couple of minutes left, I'd like to play some music for you and as we're keeping the music alive and want to continue to do that, thank you for joining us today. Music is healing to play, Music is healing to listen to

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