Thanks for contacting me. I think this is a great idea. We need more vehicles to help facilitate and cultivate our industry. As you know, it is becoming increasingly difficult just surviving as a musician.
It would be great to post serious auditions, which a lot of people don't have the connections to hear about them. I also think it would be great to get some of the labels and their connections with management companies to post auditions. These are just some thoughts off the cuff.
Stephen R. Moretti
Drummer/Percussionist
Morettiman Music™
Studio, Touring, Producing, Instruction
www.stevemoretti.com
www.myspace.com/stevemorettimusic
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Why I Am; Why I Am MyGigNet
I make my case here, not for any special place, not that I am any more special than anyone else. I deliver an appeal as an average guy, but with one key, conscious difference. I argue that I, indeed, do have something special that needs to reach out, communicate and connect. I argue that so do you, each and all.
I am the poster boy for someone who knows a lot, has experience in even greater abundance, is willing to share it, but needs help. I need help in organization, not that I can't organize. Keeping up with it is a bitch, with gigging, looking for gigs, talking about them, and just living; the hope is to have enough life to have a life. There is a need to connect, but there is a more immediate need to survive. I have a family that struggles, but that gives me purpose. I have to outlive the odds for their sake.
I have songs that I have written, but have yet to be recorded. I have other songs, still yet to sing. I have friends in the same boat. All of it. Some are just beginning and a lot of them have been at it "too long". We're stuck in it -- both blessing and curse.
And there lies the point. We are cursed by the blessing of our common gift: the song, the anthem, the symphony. It moves us to action; we want to share it. But the imposing power of others, and the opportunism that they take advantage of, has caused too many of us to protect our offerings and, thereby, take away the power of our significance. This is the curse.
Who we are and what we have, by sharing, harnesses our creative and experienced energy and moves it toward a directed, ethical use, whose integrity is shown in the prosperity that it generates through cooperation and collaboration. This is the blessing.
I am old enough to know what the "old dogs" in the industry know and how they use it. I am not unlike any other who has been disadvantaged by it. I have seen others royally screwed, far more than me. But I have seen it. I am, also, old enough to know that the youngest of us knows a lot. It's a different knowledge, but it is the knowledge of the verging world. It's their world. I can learn much from them, as they can from me. Technology drives their muse, but they still have to feel the strings, touch the keys, move the pipes. And they love old guys -- like me -- a lot more than many realize.
We have much to learn from each other. We all have much to learn from each other.
We have much more to gain.
I am no different than you -- average and special.
David Kahl
President, CVO
MyGigNet.com
I am the poster boy for someone who knows a lot, has experience in even greater abundance, is willing to share it, but needs help. I need help in organization, not that I can't organize. Keeping up with it is a bitch, with gigging, looking for gigs, talking about them, and just living; the hope is to have enough life to have a life. There is a need to connect, but there is a more immediate need to survive. I have a family that struggles, but that gives me purpose. I have to outlive the odds for their sake.
I have songs that I have written, but have yet to be recorded. I have other songs, still yet to sing. I have friends in the same boat. All of it. Some are just beginning and a lot of them have been at it "too long". We're stuck in it -- both blessing and curse.
And there lies the point. We are cursed by the blessing of our common gift: the song, the anthem, the symphony. It moves us to action; we want to share it. But the imposing power of others, and the opportunism that they take advantage of, has caused too many of us to protect our offerings and, thereby, take away the power of our significance. This is the curse.
Who we are and what we have, by sharing, harnesses our creative and experienced energy and moves it toward a directed, ethical use, whose integrity is shown in the prosperity that it generates through cooperation and collaboration. This is the blessing.
I am old enough to know what the "old dogs" in the industry know and how they use it. I am not unlike any other who has been disadvantaged by it. I have seen others royally screwed, far more than me. But I have seen it. I am, also, old enough to know that the youngest of us knows a lot. It's a different knowledge, but it is the knowledge of the verging world. It's their world. I can learn much from them, as they can from me. Technology drives their muse, but they still have to feel the strings, touch the keys, move the pipes. And they love old guys -- like me -- a lot more than many realize.
We have much to learn from each other. We all have much to learn from each other.
We have much more to gain.
I am no different than you -- average and special.
David Kahl
President, CVO
MyGigNet.com
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
MyGigNet and the Golden Rule: What Are You Willing to Offer? Is It Equal to What You Expect You Deserve?
I came to this place -- one that is feeling centered and more comfortable, like home -- with a clear intent. I wanted to talk about who you could trust. And why. I came prepared to make the case that, intended or not, the wolves are about, masquerading in the garb of sheep. Some of them adorned -- prize winning ones, but wolfish result, just the same. I came "home" to vent indignant outrage, the way we all do when we are in our most sacred and protected of spaces.
I was fully prepared to say, without hesitation and with fullest conviction, that my spleen was inflamed, not by the experience of getting reamed by the best and the lowest of them. Nor was it because I'd heard it all before: how great it used to be, how hard it's getting, how a Springsteen can't be discovered the way the industry is, how -- a lot of things. I was angry because my anger was my brothers' and sisters' anger.
I came to say that, how it is, is that we know who we can't trust, but that we still deal with them or, that we hoard our most personal gifts from fear of losing -- losing traction in the first scenario and losing ourselves in the second. I knew what everybody else had to know. And, if they knew it, then they were trustworthy, which validated a premise. "Why Don't We Build It?"
The answer was easy, because no one that might have thought about it ever did anything about it. Even after I took this a few more steps past a summary and every implication, after others encouraged me forward while still others claimed impossibility -- even after loss after loss, anguish after anguish, mine and my community's -- I kept this consciousness and its will to be bigger than me. I couldn't identify it, but there it was, undeniably there.
It is more than mere feeling when there is consciousness attached to it. I was mulling over this when it occurred; the language of consciousness and of emotion was music. It is the one language that we share between ourselves, our conscious selves, our cosmos. If we can agree upon that, then we can trust each other, because that's the part that makes us the same. You don't have to play the instrument to make music. You can move an amp, man a booth, run a club, listen to a choir, or just want to play. If you're there, then you're there. The greatest musical vibe is the one that's shared.
That you can trust.
Now, to pragmatism.
I have heard, as old as I am, essentially one thing: everybody's looking for assurance, but not thinking as much about what assurances they can (or are willing to) give. It takes a few to move many; many more are then moved. MyGigNet is now a group of qualified, committed professionals, like you and like those you want to be. We are not any more special than any of you. We are just doing something about it.
There have been object lessons all around us. When people are called to act upon their principles, there are obstacles. Initial frustration is natural, giving rise to "why me, what have I got, what can I do?". The successful ones changed the first response to "why not me?" and the follow up questions changed their polarity. "Why me?" takes any empowerment potential and places them out of phase like unmatched speakers. I sucks energy and goes nowhere. "Why not me?" bursts the energy forward and outward. It ripples. It can become a wave.
What Can You Offer? Is It Equal to What You Expect You Deserve?
I would have rested my case here, but I read Boyd's post of Heather's email. Remember coming "home", earlier? Read her email.
Then I'll rest my case.
David Kahl
CVO, MyGigNet
I was fully prepared to say, without hesitation and with fullest conviction, that my spleen was inflamed, not by the experience of getting reamed by the best and the lowest of them. Nor was it because I'd heard it all before: how great it used to be, how hard it's getting, how a Springsteen can't be discovered the way the industry is, how -- a lot of things. I was angry because my anger was my brothers' and sisters' anger.
I came to say that, how it is, is that we know who we can't trust, but that we still deal with them or, that we hoard our most personal gifts from fear of losing -- losing traction in the first scenario and losing ourselves in the second. I knew what everybody else had to know. And, if they knew it, then they were trustworthy, which validated a premise. "Why Don't We Build It?"
The answer was easy, because no one that might have thought about it ever did anything about it. Even after I took this a few more steps past a summary and every implication, after others encouraged me forward while still others claimed impossibility -- even after loss after loss, anguish after anguish, mine and my community's -- I kept this consciousness and its will to be bigger than me. I couldn't identify it, but there it was, undeniably there.
It is more than mere feeling when there is consciousness attached to it. I was mulling over this when it occurred; the language of consciousness and of emotion was music. It is the one language that we share between ourselves, our conscious selves, our cosmos. If we can agree upon that, then we can trust each other, because that's the part that makes us the same. You don't have to play the instrument to make music. You can move an amp, man a booth, run a club, listen to a choir, or just want to play. If you're there, then you're there. The greatest musical vibe is the one that's shared.
That you can trust.
Now, to pragmatism.
I have heard, as old as I am, essentially one thing: everybody's looking for assurance, but not thinking as much about what assurances they can (or are willing to) give. It takes a few to move many; many more are then moved. MyGigNet is now a group of qualified, committed professionals, like you and like those you want to be. We are not any more special than any of you. We are just doing something about it.
There have been object lessons all around us. When people are called to act upon their principles, there are obstacles. Initial frustration is natural, giving rise to "why me, what have I got, what can I do?". The successful ones changed the first response to "why not me?" and the follow up questions changed their polarity. "Why me?" takes any empowerment potential and places them out of phase like unmatched speakers. I sucks energy and goes nowhere. "Why not me?" bursts the energy forward and outward. It ripples. It can become a wave.
What Can You Offer? Is It Equal to What You Expect You Deserve?
I would have rested my case here, but I read Boyd's post of Heather's email. Remember coming "home", earlier? Read her email.
Then I'll rest my case.
David Kahl
CVO, MyGigNet
A Musician Speaks Out...
My dear friend, Heather Hammond (her stage name), responded to an invitation I sent her to check out the MyGigNet brochure online. Heather is one of the more blatently honest people I know, and it formed the basis of our friendship down through the years. So, when she says something, she means it, and with a genuinely inquiring mind and heart of a true artist, her statements are hard to ignore.
With that short introduction, I'm posting her email message to me about her experiences in the music business...
I think this is a great idea Boyd.
I think you should include an easy way to copyright and legally protect one's music. I know people who have written prolifically and gorgeously and fear losing their music because they can't afford to copyright it. So they never let anyone see it. Much of it is hit music if they would just let somebody else record it.
The copyright office/business seems slow and cumbersome. If there was some other way to protect the music that was quick, easy and inexpensive, like a lifetime automatic copyright for everything you submit, or something, something easy, like a personal copyright page so anybody could say "let's record something by Harry Pierce," go to his page, peruse his written or recorded music, pick something, contact him, get his permission, make a fair business deal so he gets royalties, and record it. People could be making a fortune off his music, and he could also, as a songwriter, because it's great.
That's what I find to be one of the greatest problems, people stealing other people's music. I do it myself. I tried to get permission with Harry Fox, waited for months, finally figured I'll just keep track of how much sells and when they sue me they get their cut. I never have ever heard from them.
There needs to be some way to keep people honest. Contracts through your system or something so recording artists would have to honor their agreements and make fair agreements with songwriters. They should be required to put on every cd, credit to your website and to the songwriter, to do business with you.
I don't know. I'm just guessing. The technical stuff is beyond me.
Another thing you could do is help get recording studios together with artists to record and distribute on a sale-based agreement where both parties produce the recording at their own expense, share expenses, and get equal royalties. There's a lot of little recording studios around that are going nowhere. Make it so these techies and artists could find each other and make a deal. Or audio engineers who come work other people's equipment. Take that time restraint off the studios racking up money by the hour. That preys on the mind of the artist while he's trying to concentrate, dollars slipping away every minute of studio time, and he can't help lousing up his performance.
Skerik recorded one of Harry's tunes, Harry wrote the arrangement for him, and Skerik recorded it and is selling it online. He gave Harry $200 a couple years ago. No royalties. I don't know if he's copyrighted it in his own name or what he's done but it's selling and Harry is getting nothing. The name of the tune is Let Me Be Your Voodoo Doll. If you look it up online you can hear it and hear Harry's arrangement of it. It's selling.
Harry is homeless! He has hundreds of great tunes. He could be a millionaire but he can't afford to copyright and gets frustrated with the procedure and the delays. Any kind of official paperwork. He's totally an artist and just can't deal with it. I see him clutching these tunes to his breast and he won't let anyone have the sheet music. He's written several books worth of music. Gorgeous stuff.
He wants to record it. He has several cds worth but he hasn't got the money, he's barely surviving playing Schubert for a ballet class, he's homeless, tries to keep his spirits up but he's depressed, his voice is going and he's going down man. He's going down. And he keeps writing.
Somebody like Harry should be able to put up everything he has written, arrangements, everything, and people should be able to buy it online without registering with the site. Just go shopping and buy it. Let the fund in his name build up and he can draw it out once a month or whatever way you want to do it. And protect his music.
iTunes is supposed to be the best but I'm on iTunes and I don't know how anybody finds anything on there. All these sites require that you register and download a program to buy anything. It's confusing and who can remember all those passwords?
I want to buy anonymously. I want to be able to go to any site and buy a product without registering with the site. Maybe a generic registration that everyone could use, if it's necessary to register at all to buy. (NoCharge dial-up has a generic registration, everyone signs in as "guest" and the password is "password.") Of course the sellers would have to register and get set up. But it should be easy for buyers to buy.
The focus should be on getting out the music that is being suppressed by the system. Right now, studios make money from losers who have money to invest and limited talent, while the real artists go hungry and the losers don't make it anyway. Or if they do, it's just stupid.
Just more of the same. Just another take on the same old bullshit.
We have Shakespeares and Gershwins and Bob Dylans among us and they're dying like rats on the streets. I've seen it all my life.
Ever since I was very young I've wanted to have an institution someday for 'criminal' jazz musicians where they could practice, write, record and live until they were recognized and could go out on their own. I wanted a big garden to feed everybody and everybody would be required to spend 5-6 hours a week working in the garden or cleaning up or something, a community, but the focus would be on rescuing these great talents. No drugs. The recordings would belong to the institution, whatever they recorded while they were there, or the royalties shared for all time on those recordings. Then when they leave, everything they do outside would be their own. Something like that.
Anyway, I'm willing to help. I think you have a great idea. That's all it takes is a great idea and honest people to make a fortune these days on the internet. I like the name too, mygignet.
This constant struggle for musicians is just awful. They have to do their own marketing now, they only get one night a month in a club, they're reduced to playing in bars for drunks, prostituting their talents, or being controlled by the big record companies who will only promote certain styles that generally debase the public. We don't have real music any more. People need real artists. All we have is junk stupidity. The same old thing over and over. In the old days the jazzers used to say, as rock was gaining ground, " don't play good, play loud." Well they got blasted out. The music we have now does not give people what they really need. Party party party is all they think about because that's all they're allowed to know. They think that's life. Meanwhile, the real life is dying, penniless.
That's my 2 cents worth. I think the major focus should be on rescuing these great talents.
hedy
With that short introduction, I'm posting her email message to me about her experiences in the music business...
I think this is a great idea Boyd.
I think you should include an easy way to copyright and legally protect one's music. I know people who have written prolifically and gorgeously and fear losing their music because they can't afford to copyright it. So they never let anyone see it. Much of it is hit music if they would just let somebody else record it.
The copyright office/business seems slow and cumbersome. If there was some other way to protect the music that was quick, easy and inexpensive, like a lifetime automatic copyright for everything you submit, or something, something easy, like a personal copyright page so anybody could say "let's record something by Harry Pierce," go to his page, peruse his written or recorded music, pick something, contact him, get his permission, make a fair business deal so he gets royalties, and record it. People could be making a fortune off his music, and he could also, as a songwriter, because it's great.
That's what I find to be one of the greatest problems, people stealing other people's music. I do it myself. I tried to get permission with Harry Fox, waited for months, finally figured I'll just keep track of how much sells and when they sue me they get their cut. I never have ever heard from them.
There needs to be some way to keep people honest. Contracts through your system or something so recording artists would have to honor their agreements and make fair agreements with songwriters. They should be required to put on every cd, credit to your website and to the songwriter, to do business with you.
I don't know. I'm just guessing. The technical stuff is beyond me.
Another thing you could do is help get recording studios together with artists to record and distribute on a sale-based agreement where both parties produce the recording at their own expense, share expenses, and get equal royalties. There's a lot of little recording studios around that are going nowhere. Make it so these techies and artists could find each other and make a deal. Or audio engineers who come work other people's equipment. Take that time restraint off the studios racking up money by the hour. That preys on the mind of the artist while he's trying to concentrate, dollars slipping away every minute of studio time, and he can't help lousing up his performance.
Skerik recorded one of Harry's tunes, Harry wrote the arrangement for him, and Skerik recorded it and is selling it online. He gave Harry $200 a couple years ago. No royalties. I don't know if he's copyrighted it in his own name or what he's done but it's selling and Harry is getting nothing. The name of the tune is Let Me Be Your Voodoo Doll. If you look it up online you can hear it and hear Harry's arrangement of it. It's selling.
Harry is homeless! He has hundreds of great tunes. He could be a millionaire but he can't afford to copyright and gets frustrated with the procedure and the delays. Any kind of official paperwork. He's totally an artist and just can't deal with it. I see him clutching these tunes to his breast and he won't let anyone have the sheet music. He's written several books worth of music. Gorgeous stuff.
He wants to record it. He has several cds worth but he hasn't got the money, he's barely surviving playing Schubert for a ballet class, he's homeless, tries to keep his spirits up but he's depressed, his voice is going and he's going down man. He's going down. And he keeps writing.
Somebody like Harry should be able to put up everything he has written, arrangements, everything, and people should be able to buy it online without registering with the site. Just go shopping and buy it. Let the fund in his name build up and he can draw it out once a month or whatever way you want to do it. And protect his music.
iTunes is supposed to be the best but I'm on iTunes and I don't know how anybody finds anything on there. All these sites require that you register and download a program to buy anything. It's confusing and who can remember all those passwords?
I want to buy anonymously. I want to be able to go to any site and buy a product without registering with the site. Maybe a generic registration that everyone could use, if it's necessary to register at all to buy. (NoCharge dial-up has a generic registration, everyone signs in as "guest" and the password is "password.") Of course the sellers would have to register and get set up. But it should be easy for buyers to buy.
The focus should be on getting out the music that is being suppressed by the system. Right now, studios make money from losers who have money to invest and limited talent, while the real artists go hungry and the losers don't make it anyway. Or if they do, it's just stupid.
Just more of the same. Just another take on the same old bullshit.
We have Shakespeares and Gershwins and Bob Dylans among us and they're dying like rats on the streets. I've seen it all my life.
Ever since I was very young I've wanted to have an institution someday for 'criminal' jazz musicians where they could practice, write, record and live until they were recognized and could go out on their own. I wanted a big garden to feed everybody and everybody would be required to spend 5-6 hours a week working in the garden or cleaning up or something, a community, but the focus would be on rescuing these great talents. No drugs. The recordings would belong to the institution, whatever they recorded while they were there, or the royalties shared for all time on those recordings. Then when they leave, everything they do outside would be their own. Something like that.
Anyway, I'm willing to help. I think you have a great idea. That's all it takes is a great idea and honest people to make a fortune these days on the internet. I like the name too, mygignet.
This constant struggle for musicians is just awful. They have to do their own marketing now, they only get one night a month in a club, they're reduced to playing in bars for drunks, prostituting their talents, or being controlled by the big record companies who will only promote certain styles that generally debase the public. We don't have real music any more. People need real artists. All we have is junk stupidity. The same old thing over and over. In the old days the jazzers used to say, as rock was gaining ground, " don't play good, play loud." Well they got blasted out. The music we have now does not give people what they really need. Party party party is all they think about because that's all they're allowed to know. They think that's life. Meanwhile, the real life is dying, penniless.
That's my 2 cents worth. I think the major focus should be on rescuing these great talents.
hedy
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Impact of MySpace Music on Working Musicians
MySpace has just announced its intent to roll out MySpace Music, a social networking site dedicated to the sale of concert tickets, merchandise, and downloads. The 5 million artists represented on their site are supposed to be excited over the prospect of handing over the fruits of their labors in order to receive a piece of the action. I'm certain that this will probably be true, but let's take a closer look at what we know, extrapolate from that, and determine just what realities are about to take place.
We know that MySpace is talking about "content", but everything still looks like product to me. The creators of this content are being glorified on the one hand, while the fact is that they will be part of the assembly line that feeds NewsCorp (owner of MySpace). How can I say this? Easy, just note what goes on in the current Music portion of the MySpace site. A lot of work to qualify your friends, a lot of bulletins that no one reads, a lot of invitations that no one cares about. Yes, the distribution of exposure is a help, but who and how many are getting real benefits? How much have any of you received from MySpace for what you already have done to deliver success and revenue to their stockholders?
Chris DeWolfe, MySpace co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, I am certain, knows, from personal experience, what the common musician, teacher, student, or club owner is going through to survive. Universal, Sony BMG and Warner are participants in this venture. What DeWolfe (and Rupert Murdoch, for that matter) don't know, I'm sure these industry "leaders" can teach him. Speaking of Universal, the stakes must be high for them to set aside their lawsuit against MySpace in order to get a piece of this pie.
These guys are not idiots. MySpace Music is to be launched as a separate entity and will have to justify its existence by pointing to the accountant's bottom line. They have had their thorough analysis and projections, seen what has happened with iTunes, and know that they are losing traction. But what about their record? Aren't these the same guys that have resisted technological change? Aren't they the ones that have put up countless roadblocks to the workings of fact in the real world? How about their anticipation of musical trends or their support of either traditional music or the voices of originality? They are clueless, at best, and the slickest of thieves, at worst.
For every successful act, how many have been turned down, ignored, or signed, left in the can and put on a shelf? Masters of manipulation are intent upon making up for lost time; their marketing belies their blindness. There is no vision, there is no ethic, there is no principle, except the one driven by profit.
In the end, the only way for us to thrive in this jungle of hucksterism is to sort it all out for ourselves, to serve ourselves by serving each other, and to show these opulant opportunists that we actually know what we are doing.
We know that MySpace is talking about "content", but everything still looks like product to me. The creators of this content are being glorified on the one hand, while the fact is that they will be part of the assembly line that feeds NewsCorp (owner of MySpace). How can I say this? Easy, just note what goes on in the current Music portion of the MySpace site. A lot of work to qualify your friends, a lot of bulletins that no one reads, a lot of invitations that no one cares about. Yes, the distribution of exposure is a help, but who and how many are getting real benefits? How much have any of you received from MySpace for what you already have done to deliver success and revenue to their stockholders?
Chris DeWolfe, MySpace co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, I am certain, knows, from personal experience, what the common musician, teacher, student, or club owner is going through to survive. Universal, Sony BMG and Warner are participants in this venture. What DeWolfe (and Rupert Murdoch, for that matter) don't know, I'm sure these industry "leaders" can teach him. Speaking of Universal, the stakes must be high for them to set aside their lawsuit against MySpace in order to get a piece of this pie.
These guys are not idiots. MySpace Music is to be launched as a separate entity and will have to justify its existence by pointing to the accountant's bottom line. They have had their thorough analysis and projections, seen what has happened with iTunes, and know that they are losing traction. But what about their record? Aren't these the same guys that have resisted technological change? Aren't they the ones that have put up countless roadblocks to the workings of fact in the real world? How about their anticipation of musical trends or their support of either traditional music or the voices of originality? They are clueless, at best, and the slickest of thieves, at worst.
For every successful act, how many have been turned down, ignored, or signed, left in the can and put on a shelf? Masters of manipulation are intent upon making up for lost time; their marketing belies their blindness. There is no vision, there is no ethic, there is no principle, except the one driven by profit.
In the end, the only way for us to thrive in this jungle of hucksterism is to sort it all out for ourselves, to serve ourselves by serving each other, and to show these opulant opportunists that we actually know what we are doing.
Friday, April 4, 2008
What is a Teacher? How Does MyGigNet Relate?
I have always been a teacher in essence and this is the perspective that I bring. It is born of observing, of listening. It didn't matter if it was a lecture, a film, or a friend just pouring their heart out. Listening was the key. Again, this is the perspective that I bring to bear in the following:
I had an experience today that bears relating. I was at the desk in the showroom of my family's floor covering business, attending to the formidable assemblage of MyGigNet, asking questions, positing answers, organizing, implying, and applying, when the phone rang.
An obviously focused instructor at one of the local high schools was at the other end of the line. He was mentoring a class that was to present a demonstration at a trade show and needed tiles, of various sort and application, along with preparation and installation information, and other specifications. I explained to him that, while we did not stock the fullness of his requests, I could offer him a reasonable and accessible solution.
His response was one that emphasized time management (his words) and that his choice to call us was one of convenience, as we were down the street. I offered that our suppliers were equally close and would hold the easy solution to his dilemma, but he would hear none of it. He wasn't familiar with certain streets though he was familiar enough with the landmark ones. Repeating that he chose us because we were on the boulevard, he further added that he apparently had phoned the wrong people and hung up.
A man speaking the principles of time management would not take the time to listen, even when the solution was in front of him. A “teacher”. God help us.
What is a teacher? A teacher is not necessarily an instructor, though an instructor may, at times, be a teacher. An instructor will take the step by step approach while a teacher will broaden the scope of perspective. An instructor may teach by implication and application, but the teacher always teaches.
MyGigNet, to be differentiated from other Internet solutions, is the teacher. Let the others instruct. MyGigNet will teach them, too. And so, today's lesson:
There is one language that the whole of the Cosmos holds common: the language of vibration. This is music. Until the innate nature of this language, in a holistic sense, is embraced as the prime mover – the initiator of action – as well as its result, human beings will experience a lack in the significance of their being. Significance may arise, but not its full potential.
Music activates complexities in brain activity more dimensional than that of any language. These are the pathways to fullest use of our faculties, as well as our potentials for solving and avoiding problems. Music is the teacher because it changes our perspective. MyGigNet embraces the whole of music by identifying with the creative force, itself. There are no barriers. MyGigNet, therefore, is the teacher.
Let me get back to today's experience. The easiest thing for anyone to do is to go to what's convenient. The point is that everything on the Internet is down the street. The solutions are in front of us, though it takes some time for the best answers to appear. Patience and perseverance are the best solutions to time management. The question is: do we, as a community, hold the will to take to the side streets, make discoveries, share them, learn, and teach?
“MyGigNet: Teaching the Creators in the Music World to Prosper”
I had an experience today that bears relating. I was at the desk in the showroom of my family's floor covering business, attending to the formidable assemblage of MyGigNet, asking questions, positing answers, organizing, implying, and applying, when the phone rang.
An obviously focused instructor at one of the local high schools was at the other end of the line. He was mentoring a class that was to present a demonstration at a trade show and needed tiles, of various sort and application, along with preparation and installation information, and other specifications. I explained to him that, while we did not stock the fullness of his requests, I could offer him a reasonable and accessible solution.
His response was one that emphasized time management (his words) and that his choice to call us was one of convenience, as we were down the street. I offered that our suppliers were equally close and would hold the easy solution to his dilemma, but he would hear none of it. He wasn't familiar with certain streets though he was familiar enough with the landmark ones. Repeating that he chose us because we were on the boulevard, he further added that he apparently had phoned the wrong people and hung up.
A man speaking the principles of time management would not take the time to listen, even when the solution was in front of him. A “teacher”. God help us.
What is a teacher? A teacher is not necessarily an instructor, though an instructor may, at times, be a teacher. An instructor will take the step by step approach while a teacher will broaden the scope of perspective. An instructor may teach by implication and application, but the teacher always teaches.
MyGigNet, to be differentiated from other Internet solutions, is the teacher. Let the others instruct. MyGigNet will teach them, too. And so, today's lesson:
There is one language that the whole of the Cosmos holds common: the language of vibration. This is music. Until the innate nature of this language, in a holistic sense, is embraced as the prime mover – the initiator of action – as well as its result, human beings will experience a lack in the significance of their being. Significance may arise, but not its full potential.
Music activates complexities in brain activity more dimensional than that of any language. These are the pathways to fullest use of our faculties, as well as our potentials for solving and avoiding problems. Music is the teacher because it changes our perspective. MyGigNet embraces the whole of music by identifying with the creative force, itself. There are no barriers. MyGigNet, therefore, is the teacher.
Let me get back to today's experience. The easiest thing for anyone to do is to go to what's convenient. The point is that everything on the Internet is down the street. The solutions are in front of us, though it takes some time for the best answers to appear. Patience and perseverance are the best solutions to time management. The question is: do we, as a community, hold the will to take to the side streets, make discoveries, share them, learn, and teach?
“MyGigNet: Teaching the Creators in the Music World to Prosper”
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Welcome to the MyGigNet Blog here at Blogger. Please visit our website at mygignet.com, and click on the "Register to Download the MGN Briefing Brochure" link at the bottom of the page. That document explains what MyGigNet is all about, and registers you to receive updates as MGN develops.
Our mission is: To create a social network of musicians, music professionals and music lovers driven by an innate desire to communicate about their music passions, their drive to create and promote music for personal fulfillment, and creating positive economic outcomes for all.
We like to think of it as the new online operating system for the music business. Beyond that, MGN offers a complete suite of services for musicians and those in the music industries from "cradle to grave."
We are always open to input and feedback on this project because it is a community project, and we are very interested in your opinions, desires, frustrations, and inspiration about music, the business surrounding it, and the overall culture of it.
Thank you for visiting!
Our mission is: To create a social network of musicians, music professionals and music lovers driven by an innate desire to communicate about their music passions, their drive to create and promote music for personal fulfillment, and creating positive economic outcomes for all.
We like to think of it as the new online operating system for the music business. Beyond that, MGN offers a complete suite of services for musicians and those in the music industries from "cradle to grave."
We are always open to input and feedback on this project because it is a community project, and we are very interested in your opinions, desires, frustrations, and inspiration about music, the business surrounding it, and the overall culture of it.
Thank you for visiting!
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