if every day of your life was a measure, and your entire life a
   song, what chords will play for today? What is the melody? What
   notes? Is this measure a repeat with very few changes? Is it a
   variation on a similar theme of the past? Or it a foreshadowing
   of melodies and themes yet to be introduced in the song? And
   lastly, should your song be this type of song, what will your
   chorus sound like? If there's no chorus, where is the point
   where everything gets quiet just before something loud? Or when
   franzied notes settle to a quiet flute?
   Oh, and does this song have lyrics? What words are you singing
   in today's measure? The notes are filled up with you. Chords are
   the overlapping thoughts and emotions, reactions and creations
   that can occur at any point in time. Also, you have your own
   tempos. Find your tempos. Use your tempos. If you spend too much
   of the song playing somebody else's song at somebody else's
   speed, some of your musicians's instruments will break, your
   guitar will have a broken string, your clarinet a dry reed, and
   your singer will have laryngitis...and your audience may walk
   out the door. [but don't worry if the critics give your song a
   bad review. They're just critics. That's what critics do.
   Criticize. It's _your_ song. The critics are not members of your
   band. They're just sitting in the audience with an agenda. Let
   them do what they want. You're here to make music. -Kenneth Udut
   4/7/2015 12:19pm