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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. And it is December. First,
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it's starts to believe it's story to December. I hope
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everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. If you are tuning in
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from the United States, we share that Thanksgiving holiday together.
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And if you're tuning in from overseas, I hope you
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had a nice weekend. And while we're here today, if
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you've been here before, you know, welcome back. If you're
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new to the show, I would like to share with
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you the purpose of why I do this show. And
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The Sound of Gold is based on music, musicians and
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music schools, music teachers, music venues. I obviously love cats.
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If you're watching this live, you'll see that I have
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two of my cats joining us today and they love
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music too. So with that Bean said, we're in good company.
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Wherever you are, wherever you're tuning in from. My heart
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is full of music, and everything around us is music.
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Music is so healing, Music lifts us up with music
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can depending on how we feel, we can connect to
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music at any level. So that being said, it's fun
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when we have the opportunity to get out and about
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and to meet up and see live performances. I have
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a scheduled guest today who may be writing behind with work,
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and so once once he's perhaps gets off of work,
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he'll join us. But in the meantime, while I have
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your attention, I thought maybe I could just play a
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little bit of music for you and then talk a
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little bit more about the meeting of music and what
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it feels like to be a musician. What it's not work. Right, So,
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anytime we go out we see a musician playing or performing,
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they definitely have put the time into practicing. They've taken lessons,
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or they have a mentor. I know I do. I
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still take lessons even though I've played for forty five
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years and I'm always learning something new. But every time
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I play a performance, anytime I play for an audience,
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it's not work. It's something I enjoy doing. I just
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know how to do it. And if you are a
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musician who's listening, you'll understand that it's just it's just
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sharing a love of passion.
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Beca and.
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I'm not playing from many sheet music. When I go
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to open mic, they call me the instant composer. I
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just kind of play the energy that's in the room,
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or play whatever is channeling through me, and so I
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get to share that with you. I get to share
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that with my audiences when I perform live as well.
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I wanted to focus well, as I mentioned earlier, I
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have a guest we're expecting again might be working over time,
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so we're waiting for their presence, so before they get here,
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I do want to talk more about music and more
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about what goes into it. So other than having a
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radio show, I'm a music teacher. I teach piano and
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I teach music theory. And if you are a musician,
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that's listening. If you are not a musician, that's that's
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still listening. Music theory basically is a language, right, So
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when we let's say we read a newspaper or we
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read a book, whatever language we speak, we're reading the word.
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We understand the grammar, we understand pronunciation. You know, there's
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a difference between a question mark and a period. There's
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a difference between an exclamation mark and a comma. So
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wouldn't that being said the grammar and the literature that
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we learn in school to speak a language or to
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read a language, it's kind of the same when it
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comes to music. If you're learning to read sheet music,
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it's learning a different language. It's learning the pronunciations, it's
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learning what we call the dynamics, it's learning what we
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call Ila's call it ornaments. Right, So you can have
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just a sheet of music, whatever song you're picking, and
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it could have like all these details on the sheet music,
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and we have no idea what they mean. That's where
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music comes in. Music theory comes in and breaks down
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the meanings of how to play a sheet how to
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play sheet music. So if you are a musician who
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just not read music but can play by ear, that's
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almost another talent. Well, it is another talent, And I've
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learned you can learn to play by ear with training
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your ear right, really listening. So when you're training your
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ear to listen, you're listening to language, and you already
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can hone into the grammar of it, if that's the
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right way to say it. So the same thing goes
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with reading music theory and reading music and learning music theory,
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is you learn that grammar and how to play sheet
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music when you're learning music as me teaching as a
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from my point of view, every teacher has their own way,
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so there's no one teacher better than the other.
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We all have.
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Something different to share and we all have something to teach.
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So if you were working with me and we went
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over the notes and learning the different grammar grammar, I
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wouldn't I would not encourage you to get overwhelmed with it,
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because it can be overwhelming. So I would suggest, and
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if you're new to music and new to wanting wanting
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to play an instrument, get to know your instrument. Learn
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like you have your low end, your high end. Learn
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the different sounds you you have your mid octave. And
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I'm going by a piano because piano is my my instrument.
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But there's guitar, there's banjo, there's drums, there's so many
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different other instruments out there. Learn the difference in the sound,
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because if you think about it, there's a difference. I'm
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gonna I'm kind of mixing this up today in regards
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to grammar. I'm going back and forth in regards to grammar.
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If I'm yelling at you opposed to speaking at a
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low tone, it's a different dynamic. That's the term we'd
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use in music. In literature, it's a different pronunciation of
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how we would speak or how we would we would
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say something. So the same thing goes for the piano
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or again the instrument, whatever instrument you're playing, pay attention
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to the sound because depending on where you are playing
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your low end, high end, mid range, it's going to
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have have a different feeling. And that's another thing too.
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Music is all about feelings, right. What I said earlier
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is you can relate to music no matter how you feel,
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no matter what level you're at, we can all relate
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to music. So when you're playing music, the same is true.
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You're playing what you feel. The more you can connect
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to a piece that you're learning to play, the more
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you can understand what the story is, the more you
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can relate to that story, the more you can play it.
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I have a saying that I tell my students, if
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I can't feel what you're playing, I can't hear it.
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And so when you play a piece, really get in
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tuned with where that piece is coming from. Understand the
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story of the song. Right, the song the lyrics is
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the same as the story, So understand where it's all
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stemming from, so that you can you can connect with
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that song, kind of like being an actor. Right when
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you're acting, when you're on stage and I have theater background.
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When you're on stage, when you're playing a character, you're
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connected to where that character is emotionally. You are connected
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where that character is in space and time, depending on
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what the story is. So connect with your song, connect
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with what you want to play, and connect with understanding
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where the song is coming from. With the same idea
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when you're sitting and you're playing and wanting to create right,
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there's no limit. There's no limit on playing lower, higher,
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mid range. It's just expressing who you are through sound.
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And I think the biggest how would I say this,
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There's a few different ways I want to express us.
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You want to get to know your instrument, know your lows,
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your mid range, your highs, but you want to play
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in a way that you're expressing yourself. However, the secret
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is you have to give yourself a permission, right, Because
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I think it's really scary when like someone says, okay,
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just play something. And I have a lot of my students,
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they'll be like, well, I don't know how to play.
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But you know what, we all do. We all have
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this gift to play an instrument. We all have this
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gift to play music. It's just kind of getting out
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of our own way and being a little free without
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limitations to just play. Easier said than done, perhaps, However,
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for my musicians, for my non musicians, for my friends
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that are wanting to learn to play or are playing
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like step outside the box, right, I can express to
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you that growing up, I took classical lessons. I started
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when I was five. I played up until thirteen fourteen,
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and then I kind of went off and did other things.
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But I played. I played many years, and then I
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went back to lessons. But I had to learn. I
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was a classical teaching. You are taught very structured, right.
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You were taught to read music and to play it.
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Let's say perhaps classical Beethoven or chopin. You have to
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play it a certain way with the timing correct, and
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you have to It's almost like going to somebody's house no,
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I'm going to take that back. It's almost like having
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to follow directions right. Let's say you are show up
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at a new job and you're told you have to
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do this, this and this, but I've never done it before,
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so you're maybe tagging along with someone that's going to
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show you the way of how to do the job right.
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So with music, when you're classically taught, when I was
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classically taught, you are taught inside this box of having
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to learn it a specific way, right, So it limits
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it limited me. It limits us as musicians when we're
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just playing what we're reading right, when we're playing what
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we're hearing, we get to hone into what we hear
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and play it. However, some of us can also improvise
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on that as well. I don't think there are any
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two musicians that are the same. Every musician has a gift.
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Every musician has an ear for how they play. If
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you have set Billy Joel down and you set Elton
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John down, they are not going to play the same
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exact way. They're going to have their own style, their
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own way of playing. Another analogy I can make is
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if you are not if you and I were given
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a recipe to bake a cake. Okay, and I'm kind
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of going all over the map, but hopefully all over
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the map today. But I'm zigzagging a little bit, and
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I hope you're following along. If you and I were
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given a recipe, let's say we're going to bake a cake,
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and I'm on one side of the kitchen, You're on
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the other side. We both have the same ingredients. I
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guarantee you our two cakes are not going to taste
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the same because we kind of give it our own
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little flavor. We might add maybe I might add a
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little bit more vanilla extract if it calls for that,
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or or I might not where you might, you know,
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you might add a little something different to your recipe.
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Even though we're following the directions, we might improvise a
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little bit on our recipe, so it's not going to
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turn out the same. That's where I go back to saying,
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no two musicians are the same. If you are looking
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at my listeners out there, if you have not ventured
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out to an open mic, check out whatever town you're in.
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There are open mics everywhere that you can connect with
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friends out there that will support you, loop that will
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support you in your music journey. If you're just in
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the beginning of your music journey and you're wanting to
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get out and play and be around musicians that are
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going to support you and growing through music and learning,
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that's the place to be. So don't be afraid. Don't
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be afraid to step out there. I can promise you.
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In past radio shows, I've had lots of guests on
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that have said that they have been so supported in
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the music community they become an extended family. So definitely
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step out and try and connect with music people out there.
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There are also online music schools that you can connect
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with online friends, and there's Zoom. There's different ways to
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communicate where you can see each other, you can listen
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to your videos. There are great schools out there that
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do that and great communities where you can meet friends
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that way. So I encourage you to do that. Getting
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back to the language of music, don't let it overwhelm you.
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You speak English and or actually it doesn't matter what
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language you speak. Whatever language you speak, music again is
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like learning another language. But don't be overwhelmed because it's
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step by step. There's so much to learn about music
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and it never ends in the forty five years i've
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been playing music. I'm still learning. As I mentioned earlier,
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I still take lessons. There's so much more for me
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to learn. That will never come a time where I'll say, Okay,
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it's kind of like the cake. Like the cake is baked,
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it's good. We're done with cooking. That doesn't happen with music,
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and that's the beauty of it. I will tell you this, though.