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2024-03-27T08:00:00-07:00
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2024-03-27T08:00:00-07:00
2024-03-27T11:45:53-07:00
The Personal Renaissance: Growth & Transformation
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<p>In the creative sphere, an artist’s journey reflects the regenerative essence of personal renaissance. This significant rebirth, where passion meets purpose, highlights the power of transformation. It extends beyond the realm of art, touching the artist’s core. Each brushstroke, note, and word allows renewal and discovery of new facets of oneself. This renaissance is more […]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-personal-renaissance-growth-transformation/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Personal Renaissance: Growth & Transformation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7372951
2024-03-26T11:40:20-07:00
2024-03-27T09:33:59-07:00
Society Of The Image: A Mack-n-Cheeze Music Video
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In today’s “Society Of The Image,” the blend of visual and musical elements reshapes artistic expression, especially in music. Artists face the task of using visuals to enhance the impact of their music while keeping its core intact. The integration of visuals offers a chance to deepen audience connections, merging sight with sound for an […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/society-of-the-image-a-mack-n-cheeze-music-video/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Society Of The Image: A Mack-n-Cheeze Music Video</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7369926
2024-03-20T08:00:00-07:00
2024-03-23T10:19:12-07:00
Creative Intuition As An Algorithm
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Exploring how human creativity and computer logic mix, the idea of “Creative Intuition As An Algorithm” suggests a provocative insight. This post’s title suggests a seamless blend of human creativity and computer precision. It explores how our creative ideas can align with the structured rules that drive artificial intelligence (AI). This concept conveys that our […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/creative-intuition-as-an-algorithm/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Creative Intuition As An Algorithm</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7366531
2024-03-13T08:00:00-07:00
2024-03-16T09:53:16-07:00
Imparting Knowledge: Empowering Creativity Through Connection
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Embarking on the quest for mastery, one potent yet frequently underestimated method for deepening one’s grasp is imparting knowledge to others. This blog post, “Imparting Knowledge: Empowering Creativity Through Connection,” embraces significant insight into the essence of learning. This discussion delves into the myriad advantages of utilizing teaching as a powerful instrument for personal growth. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/imparting-knowledge-empowering-creativity-through-connection/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Imparting Knowledge: Empowering Creativity Through Connection</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7362653
2024-03-06T08:00:00-08:00
2024-03-06T12:29:45-08:00
Reframing Creativity: Challenging Our Core Beliefs
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Beliefs are the weft and warp of creativity’s tapestry, subtly crafting our work. “Reframing Creativity: Challenging Core Beliefs” examines these foundational ideas. It reveals how such convictions can confine or mold artistic potential. This blog post urges creators to transcend conventions and examine the status quo. Its purpose is to stir a quest against the […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/reframing-creativity-challenging-our-core-beliefs/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Reframing Creativity: Challenging Our Core Beliefs</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7358701
2024-02-28T08:00:00-08:00
2024-03-06T12:28:56-08:00
Artistic Re-Imagining: The Protean Art Of Adaptation
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>As the sun rises and the horizon meets the sea, the legend of Proteus, a god of transformation, materializes. Our exploration of “Artistic Re-Imagining: The Protean Art of Adaptation” is an ode to the profound essence of adaptive evolution with foresight and audacity. This post aims to inspire us, highlighting our endless potential for transformation. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/artistic-re-imagining-the-protean-art-of-adaptation/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Artistic Re-Imagining: The Protean Art Of Adaptation</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7354893
2024-02-21T08:00:00-08:00
2024-02-22T11:11:53-08:00
Unsung Heroines: Rediscovering Women In Art
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In the shadows cast by great masters, the luminous talents of many women have flickered quietly. “Unsung Heroines: Rediscovering Women In Art” shines a light on overlooked geniuses, women whose contributions male counterparts often eclipse. This journey uncovers the lasting impact of female artists, largely ignored until now. Their stories are tales of defiance against […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/unsung-heroines-rediscovering-women-in-art/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Unsung Heroines: Rediscovering Women In Art</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7351213
2024-02-14T08:00:00-08:00
2024-02-14T11:51:40-08:00
Unleashing Creativity Through Self-Reflection
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Art and self-discovery intertwine, revealing a critical insight: unlocking creative potential deeply connects with self-reflection and personal assessment. This blog post, ‘Unleashing Creativity Through Self-Reflection,’ explores the habit of inner scrutiny as a foundation of artistic growth. It champions a shared journey toward transformation, highlighting introspection’s role in sparking significant creative insights. Our focus on […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/unleashing-creativity-through-self-reflection/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Unleashing Creativity Through Self-Reflection</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7349027
2024-02-09T19:34:25-08:00
2024-02-11T08:28:31-08:00
Ian MacNeil And The Art Of Distilling
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In the world of artistry, there’s a fine line between the traditional and the innovative, a balance that few manage to master. Ian MacNeil, founder of Glass Distillery, vividly embodies what it means to tread this line with grace and audacity. His journey from the structured realms of business and finance into the fluid and […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/ian-macneil-and-the-art-of-distilling/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Ian MacNeil And The Art Of Distilling</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7347687
2024-02-07T12:43:52-08:00
2024-02-11T08:28:31-08:00
Unio Mystica: Creativity’s Mystical Union
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Welcome to “Unio Mystica: Creativity’s Mystical Union.” This blog explores the link between spiritual transcendence and artistic expression. Unio Mystica, a concept from Christian mysticism, represents a soul’s mystical union with the divine. It’s a path of profound transformation and realization. Interestingly, this spiritual journey parallels the creative process. Much like a mystic’s sanctuary, the […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/unio-mystica-creativitys-mystical-union/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Unio Mystica: Creativity’s Mystical Union</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7343549
2024-01-31T08:00:00-08:00
2024-02-02T08:32:07-08:00
Artistry Beyond Scarcity: A New Song
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In “Artistry Beyond Scarcity: A New Song,” we delve into the pervasive influence of scarcity in the artistic world. Scarcity, a term traditionally signifies a lack of resources, goes beyond a physical or economic constraint; it has evolved into a mindset that subtly shapes the creative and cultural landscape. This scarcity mindset casts a long […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/artistry-beyond-scarcity-a-new-song/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Artistry Beyond Scarcity: A New Song</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7339354
2024-01-24T08:00:00-08:00
2024-01-27T20:10:15-08:00
The Authenticity Of Truth: Our Inner-Soundtrack
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Life is a vast and varied canvas and each of us is an artist. Hopefully, we are sketching a path that rings true to our innermost being. ‘The Authenticity Of Truth: Our Inner Soundtrack’ is a post that explores how art and life intertwine. Being guided by sincerity and authenticity, we create a melody that’s uniquely ours. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-authenticity-of-truth-our-inner-soundtrack/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Authenticity Of Truth: Our Inner-Soundtrack</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7335350
2024-01-17T08:00:00-08:00
2024-01-18T12:06:35-08:00
Artistic Mastery: Rethinking Limitations
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>“Artistic Mastery: Rethinking Limitations” delves into the transformative power of an abundance mindset in the arts. Moving away from the scarcity thinking that often confines creativity, this blog explores how embracing a broader perspective can lead to unparalleled growth, innovation, and fulfillment in our artistic endeavors. Here, we unravel the threads of black-and-white thinking, dissect […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/artistic-mastery-rethinking-limitations/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Artistic Mastery: Rethinking Limitations</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7331493
2024-01-10T08:00:00-08:00
2024-01-11T20:00:46-08:00
Unshaken And Unyielding: Stay The Path
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In art and creativity, the journey is often solitary, often marked by a silent studio before dawn and the steady hum of focus. “Unshaken and Unyielding: Stay The Path” embodies this solitary journey — a testament to artists’ and creators’ resilience and unwavering commitment to their craft. It’s a narrative that unfolds in every brush […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/unshaken-and-unyielding-stay-the-path/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Unshaken And Unyielding: Stay The Path</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7327748
2024-01-03T08:00:00-08:00
2024-01-07T06:46:26-08:00
Artistic Essence: Nurturing And Preserving Creativity
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In this post, ‘Artistic Essence: Nurturing and Preserving Creativity,’ we journey into the heart of being an artist. Your creativity is your unique essence. How do we protect and nourish the very core of our artistry? We’ve talked about how artistic genius isn’t just born; it’s grown. Now, we’re focusing on how to care for […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/artistic-essence-nurturing-and-preserving-creativity/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Artistic Essence: Nurturing And Preserving Creativity</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7324936
2023-12-27T08:00:00-08:00
2023-12-28T11:01:03-08:00
Empowerment: Shattering The Natural Talent Fallacy
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In the quest for greatness, we often find ourselves at a crossroads: believing in the allure of innate genius or facing the reality of hard-earned talent. “Empowerment: Shattering the Natural Talent Fallacy” peels back the layers of this long-held myth, revealing a truth that’s both liberating and challenging. We live in a world where the […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/empowerment-shattering-the-natural-talent-fallacy/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Empowerment: Shattering The Natural Talent Fallacy</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7321856
2023-12-20T08:00:00-08:00
2023-12-20T13:20:54-08:00
The Two Faces Of Creativity
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>As you navigate the ever-changing realms of art and music, you embody the duality of Janus, the ancient deity with two faces. In this space, “The Two Faces Of Creativity,” your journey mirrors Janus, looking ahead to the uncharted and back to the revered traditions. You stand at the crossroads, where the push for innovation […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-two-faces-of-creativity/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Two Faces Of Creativity</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7318693
2023-12-13T08:00:00-08:00
2023-12-13T11:32:10-08:00
The Mosaic of Personal Passion
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Welcome to the intricate tapestry of your life. It is your heart and soul, the intimate journey of artistic creation. “The Mosaic of Personal Passion” sojourns into what it means to live and breathe as an artist. Here, we’ll reveal the layers of creativity, revealing just how personal we take all of this. Not just […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-mosaic-of-personal-passion/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Mosaic of Personal Passion</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7315323
2023-12-06T08:00:00-08:00
2023-12-13T11:28:48-08:00
What Are Your Creative Limits?
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Where do we start when we want to understand our creative limits? Be The Artist You Know You Are Journeying together in discovering and honoring the artist within each of us is a shared adventure of heart and soul. It’s about weaving our unique stories and emotions into our work, where our art reflects our […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/what-are-your-creative-limits/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">What Are Your Creative Limits?</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7310984
2023-11-29T08:00:00-08:00
2023-12-02T16:48:23-08:00
Innovative Threads: Weaving Together Artistic Elements
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>A Tapestry of Talent – Delving into ‘Innovative Threads: Weaving Together Artistic Elements. This blog post explores how different art forms blend and influence each other. Here, we delve into the world where art forms are influenced by different stylistic approaches. It’s not just about each form of art on its own. It’s about how […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/innovative-threads-weaving-together-artistic-elements/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Innovative Threads: Weaving Together Artistic Elements</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7307948
2023-11-22T08:00:00-08:00
2023-11-23T13:34:45-08:00
The Power of Artistic Faith
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>In art, faith is not just a spiritual concept; it’s the backbone of creativity. “The Power of Artistic Faith” delves into this invisible yet potent force that drives artists through the ebb and flow of their creative journeys. This post explores how belief in oneself, one’s vision, and the artistic process can shape an artist’s […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-power-of-artistic-faith/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Power of Artistic Faith</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7304134
2023-11-15T08:00:00-08:00
2023-11-22T11:45:15-08:00
Self-Betrayal: The Artist’s Greatest Sellout
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>“Self-Betrayal: The Artist’s Greatest Sellout” isn’t just a provocative statement; it is a battle cry against the internal and external conflicts that threaten to dilute our purest artistic expression in all its forms. Every artist knows the crossroads well: the burning need to create clashing with the temptation to conform. It’s a moment of truth. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/self-betrayal-the-artists-greatest-sellout/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Self-Betrayal: The Artist’s Greatest Sellout</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7300686
2023-11-08T08:00:00-08:00
2023-11-18T19:38:36-08:00
“Artistic Drive: Navigating Passion and Purpose”
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>“Artistic Drive: Navigating Passion & Purpose” is the heartbeat of Mack-n-Cheeze Music.Every chord that resonates, every song note, seeks to bridge a connection between zeal and the things that drive us. You, as well as myself, continue to chase the ever-elusive embrace of success. Include in that pursuit a sustainable self-determination. Think of Van Gogh, […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/artistic-drive-navigating-passion-and-purpose/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">“Artistic Drive: Navigating Passion and Purpose”</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7297261
2023-11-01T08:00:00-07:00
2023-11-02T16:23:08-07:00
The Weight Of An Unaligned Heart
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Deep within the quiet corners of our souls, there lies a weight—an undeniable, heavy presence that speaks of dreams not yet realized, of passions not fully embraced. “The Weight Of The Unaligned Heart” is more than words; it reflects that raw, poignant feeling of yearning and dissonance you may often grapple with. As an artist, […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-weight-of-an-unaligned-heart/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The Weight Of An Unaligned Heart</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7293241
2023-10-25T08:00:00-07:00
2023-10-27T08:17:53-07:00
Musical Truths In An Era Of Distortion
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>As you immerse yourself in your art, do you ever feel overwhelmed by the persistent noise of the digital age? How often do you struggle to find a genuine and original voice amidst the cacophony in a world flooded with information? Aren’t “musical truths” for you more than just sequences and rhythms? The truth we […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/musical-truths-in-an-era-of-distortion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Musical Truths In An Era Of Distortion</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7289617
2023-10-18T08:00:00-07:00
2023-10-19T08:02:28-07:00
Striking The Chords Of Significance: Our Harmonized Quest Through Music
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>“Striking The Chords Of Significance” highlights music’s power to define us. We are searching for a harmonized quest through music. For many of us, music isn’t just a hobby. Our art is more than just notes; it’s a search for meaning. We aim for something timeless when we play, reaching for significance amid life’s noise. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/striking-the-chords-of-significance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Striking The Chords Of Significance: Our Harmonized Quest Through Music</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7282951
2023-10-04T12:52:11-07:00
2023-10-05T20:28:20-07:00
The Silent Notes: Uncovering Dormant Ideas
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Our inner minds are endless seas where ideas are born and nurtured. Yet often, they are left to snooze like lazy cats on a Sunday afternoon. Here at Mack-n-Cheeze Music, compelling ideas brew. Our minds compose notes of insight. If played right, they create a melody of genius. These moments of inspiration aren’t usually spontaneous. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-silent-notes-uncovering-dormant-ideas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">The Silent Notes: Uncovering Dormant Ideas</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7279491
2023-09-27T08:00:00-07:00
2023-09-28T09:29:50-07:00
Musical Scales: Why We Love The Lizard Brain
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Have you ever wondered why you compulsively bought that 7th guitar or went all out on that high note? Blame it on this ancient little corner of our brain, serving up those wild moments on a melodious platter. Let’s rock and roll into this captivating, quirky concept and discover the Lizard Brain and its connection […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/musical-scales-why-we-love-the-lizard-brain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Musical Scales: Why We Love The Lizard Brain</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7276263
2023-09-20T08:00:00-07:00
2023-09-23T17:03:43-07:00
Harmonizing Human Desires: The Power of Music
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Graphic from Mack-n-Cheeze Music In human experience, few things are as universally resonant as the power of music. It transcends boundaries, speaks to our innermost feelings, and brings together people from all walks of life. Every note played or sung has the potential to stir emotions that words often cannot articulate. This post delves into […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/harmonizing-human-desires-the-power-of-music/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Harmonizing Human Desires: The Power of Music</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7272746
2023-09-13T07:00:00-07:00
2023-09-13T11:54:58-07:00
As Long As You’re Here, You Might As Well Smile
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Count Chris Congratulations! You’ve survived yet another day in this glorious hot mess we call life. You’ve undoubtedly stumbled upon a million reasons not to crack a grin, let alone sustain one. But guess what? As luck would have it, your smile might just be your golden ticket out of the gloom-and-doom […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/as-long-as-youre-here-you-might-as-well-smile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">As Long As You’re Here, You Might As Well Smile</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7269414
2023-09-06T08:00:00-07:00
2023-09-09T08:37:50-07:00
Thomas Price – Artist in the World of Wine
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Mack-n-Cheeze Music Podcast # 37 Dive into an evocative episode where we uncork the story of Thomas Price, a symbol of resilience, dedication, and ground-breaking achievement. In 2012, Thomas shattered ceilings as he became not only the 190th American Master Sommelier but also the pioneering Black American to hold this esteemed certification. With a rich […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/mack-n-cheeze-music-podcast-episode-37/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Thomas Price – Artist in the World of Wine</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7265758
2023-08-30T08:00:00-07:00
2023-09-01T09:23:55-07:00
Broken Chords: When Addiction Strikes Home
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Annie Spratt In the dimly lit corners of the art world, a dangerous notion lingers. A whisper that suggests one’s muse is found at the bottom of a bottle or within the fine lines of illicit powder. As I’ve journeyed through this world, I’ve encountered artists who’ve embraced this belief, thinking that […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/broken-chords-when-addiction-strikes-home/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Broken Chords: When Addiction Strikes Home</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7261648
2023-08-23T08:00:00-07:00
2023-09-01T09:23:55-07:00
The Power And Pleasure Of Art
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Ever felt that art and pleasure are just an elusive combo meal, always on the menu but rarely within your grasp? That jazz riff that’s just not jiving, that blank canvas daring you to make a mark, that storyline stubbornly stuck on chapter one. You’re not alone. We get it. Let’s talk about the power […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-power-and-pleasure-of-art/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">The Power And Pleasure Of Art</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7257753
2023-08-16T08:00:00-07:00
2023-08-16T12:10:46-07:00
If You Find Something You Love, Keep Doing It
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Ian Schneider Well, well, well, “If You Find Something You Love, Keep Doing It,” they say, whoever they are. It’s a bit of worldly wisdom, like an old grandma’s advice with a twist. This philosophy encourages you to cling to your passions and interests, like a koala to a eucalyptus tree. Have […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/if-you-find-something-you-love-keep-doing-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">If You Find Something You Love, Keep Doing It</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7254609
2023-08-09T08:00:00-07:00
2023-08-16T12:10:46-07:00
What Is Your Massive Transformative Purpose?
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Since you have been following the Mackncheeze Music Blog, you understand we delve into the profound heart of creativity, purpose, and transformation. Today, we pose a critical question: What Is Your Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP)? This concept, originating from exponential organizations, serves as a guiding beacon, illuminating the path of individuals, teams, and organizations. For […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/what-is-your-massive-transformative-purpose/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">What Is Your Massive Transformative Purpose?</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7250904
2023-08-02T08:00:00-07:00
2023-08-03T10:53:04-07:00
Unmasking The Learning Hero Within
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Denise Jans Welcome to “Unmasking The Learning Hero Within.” We are going to introduce ideas reflecting transformative concepts. These principles are designed to help you revolutionize your study methods and awaken your untapped potential. Today’s focus is on your innate creativity and reshaping how you approach the process of development. In the […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/unmasking-the-learning-hero-within/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Unmasking The Learning Hero Within</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7247550
2023-07-26T08:00:00-07:00
2023-07-27T16:06:17-07:00
Did You Ask For Creative Destruction?
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>“Creative Destruction” is a snazzy phrase cooked up by an economist named Joseph Schumpeter. You might consider the term oxymoronic, and it could be a title for a Godzilla movie. Photograph Compliments of Javier Miranda What Is Creative Destruction? Creative Destruction is really about how fancy-schmancy new things can trample old, rusty things into oblivion, […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/did-you-ask-for-creative-destruction/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Did You Ask For Creative Destruction?</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7244212
2023-07-19T08:00:00-07:00
2023-07-21T08:22:41-07:00
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Luis Villasmil Gazing into the mirror, you might find yourself idly tapping your foot to the rhythmic tick-tock of life passing by. You observe as others seemingly glide through life, acing those high-stakes ventures, while you are still figuring out how to spread your wings and step out of your cozy comfort […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Mirror, Mirror On The Wall</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7240717
2023-07-12T07:27:00-07:00
2023-07-12T12:23:11-07:00
Don’t Be a Copy: Harness Your Genius and Become a Monopoly of One
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Brett Jordan Like a cat with nine lives, forging a Monopoly of One demands being the eternal student, mining for wisdom in your belly button, wrestling problems like they owe you money, and sipping from a growth smoothie every single day! What Is A Monopoly Of One Picture a world where only […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/dont-be-a-copy-harness-your-genius-and-become-a-monopoly-of-one/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Don’t Be a Copy: Harness Your Genius and Become a Monopoly of One</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7237123
2023-07-05T04:00:00-07:00
2023-07-06T13:16:43-07:00
Gifts of Love: How Our Art Inspires, Uplifts, and Connects
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Dương Trần Quốc The love of our art holds tremendous power. It fuels our creativity, ignites our passion, and gives ambition to our artistic endeavors. When we pour our hearts into our work, it transforms ordinary creations into remarkable expressions, our gifts of love. Passion And Gifts Of Love Our love for […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/gifts-of-love-how-our-art-inspires-uplifts-and-connects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Gifts of Love: How Our Art Inspires, Uplifts, and Connects</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7233702
2023-06-28T00:00:00-07:00
2023-06-29T10:56:17-07:00
Meet Your Attributes And The Real You
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Meet your attributes and the real you. Do you know what your attributes are? Have you confronted who you are and what you strive to be? Photograph Compliments of Clark Tibbs What Are Attributes? Attributes are fundamental in describing objects or individuals, encapsulating their distinctive characteristics. In computer programming, various elements, entities, fields, and files […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/meet-your-attributes-and-the-real-you/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Meet Your Attributes And The Real You</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7230154
2023-06-21T10:34:39-07:00
2023-06-22T19:41:28-07:00
The Creative Alchemist: Exploring The Work Of Guy Staley
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Free Electron Media Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 36 Into The Heart Of A Creative Alchemist Free Electron Media, owned by Guy Staley, is a premier provider of superior audio, video, and film post-production services. He specializes in an extensive range of offerings, including online and offline editing, color correction, sound design, dialogue editing, and audio […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-creative-alchemist-exploring-the-work-of-guy-staley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">The Creative Alchemist: Exploring The Work Of Guy Staley</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7226313
2023-06-14T04:00:00-07:00
2023-06-21T11:49:29-07:00
Copyright Wars: Tales of Artistic Tussles!
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Welcome to the realm of copyright protection! We are tackling the journey through the intricate world of US and international copyright. Prepare to encounter tales of legal battles, financial settlements, and the curious nuances of intellectual property rights across various countries. Photograph Courtesy of Erik Mclean A Quick Definition Of Copyright Laws Unleashing Creativity with […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/copyright-wars-tales-of-artistic-tussles/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Copyright Wars: Tales of Artistic Tussles!</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7222652
2023-06-07T08:00:00-07:00
2023-06-21T11:47:38-07:00
Hertz So Good: The Pursuit of Auditory Nirvana
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Do you know the thrill of unboxing a brand-new piece of audio gear? The smell of fresh plastic, the satisfying rustle of packaging, the gleam of new and untried dials? Ah yes, welcome to the high of gear addiction and the pursuit of auditory Nirvana. Photograph Compliments of Caio Silva The Lust For Equipment If […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-pursuit-of-auditory-nirvana/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Hertz So Good: The Pursuit of Auditory Nirvana</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7218373
2023-05-31T08:00:00-07:00
2023-05-31T12:10:02-07:00
Creating Mastery in Music’s Time Space
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Marcela Laskoski Time is the ultimate foundation upon which all our work rests. It reigns supreme, permeating every aspect of our existence. We spend countless hours dedicated to creating and performing music. Then there are the arduous personal practice sessions we diligently undertake. We often expend tireless efforts investing in the promotion […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/creating-mastery-in-musics-time-space/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Creating Mastery in Music’s Time Space</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7214819
2023-05-24T08:00:00-07:00
2023-05-31T12:08:15-07:00
The Myth Of Talent
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Etienne Girardet What is the benchmark of talent? What determines artistic ability?A person may ask themselves – am I talented enough? The answer is another question – for what? Talent And The Human Species We all have our opinions on the connotation of talent. It is inherent in cultural mind-speak to think […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-myth-of-talent/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">The Myth Of Talent</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7194771
2023-04-21T11:15:34-07:00
2023-04-21T19:25:08-07:00
Tell Me No Lies
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>A Mackncheeze Music Video Tell Me No Lies was co-written by Amy Turner and Adam Puchalski. This is part of an going series of Mackncheeze Music Videos. It is my extreme pleasure to work with the amazing Amy Turner and Adam Puchalski of Windstudio Records. Huge gratitude to Cristo Cola. Thank you for your genius. […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/tell-me-no-lies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Tell Me No Lies</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7193003
2023-04-19T08:00:00-07:00
2023-04-21T19:25:08-07:00
Why Is Ego So Important?
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Pride has many shapes and sizes. Our egos have the strength and power to sustain the momentum needed to achieve goals. What is this force that drives us? Is it self-fulfillment? Are you looking to prove yourself by a “Hey Ma, look at me” sort of thing? The ego is everything. Whether you consider your […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/why-is-ego-so-important/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Why Is Ego So Important?</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7178387
2023-03-25T08:00:00-07:00
2023-03-27T10:43:35-07:00
Music And The Sublime
<p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/author/mackncheeze/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">mackncheeze</a></p><p>Photograph Compliments of Alexandra Nicolae Music is everywhere. What is the relation of music and the sublime? The Definition Of Sublime The dictionary definition of the sublime embraces the attributes of excellence, grandeur, or beauty; these concepts inspire great admiration. Regarding spirituality, the sublime represents a high degree of moral or spiritual purity. Aesthetics, as […]</p><p>The post <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/music-and-the-sublime/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Music And The Sublime</a> appeared first on <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="internal">Bryan at Mackncheeze</a>.</p>
Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7110496
2022-11-25T11:00:00-08:00
2022-11-30T10:58:01-08:00
The Pursuit Of Beauty
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<p>Photograph Compliments of Evgeniya Litovchenko Are you looking for something beautiful? Why is it our spirit seeks beauty? The Human Desire For Beauty There is a vacuum in each one of our souls. For some, it is a small hole. Other people have emptiness as immense as a canyon or vast as the heavens. The […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7099136
2022-11-09T22:00:00-08:00
2022-11-11T11:03:36-08:00
A Conversation Regarding Musical Influence
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<p>Have you considered why you like the music you do? Do you know your musical influences? How are your memories associated with your taste in music? Where did your preferences originate.</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7088797
2022-10-25T22:00:00-07:00
2022-10-29T07:53:31-07:00
Blind To Our Own Blindness
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<p>Photograph Compliments Of Rhoda Alex Humans are great at being wrong, whether we admit it to ourselves or not, blind to our blindness. Whether right or wrong, our convictions, and belief in our self-perceived correctness carries us daily. For instance, I’m very good at finding great deals on used automobiles. On my last purchase, I […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7084592
2022-10-19T10:15:51-07:00
2022-10-22T19:30:48-07:00
The Action Buddie Interview
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<p>Mackncheeze Music Podcast #34 Action Buddie was a considerable part of the Seattle Music scene in the 1990s and early 2000s. The band has reformed and will appear at the Central Saloon on Friday, October 21st. Action Buddie has roots in Rock, Rap, Funk, and Hip Hop. When I had the pleasure of seeing them perform, […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7084593
2022-10-19T10:04:27-07:00
2022-10-22T19:30:48-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 34: The Action Buddie Interview
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<p>Action Buddie was a considerable part of the Seattle Music scene in the 1990s and early 2000s. The impetus for Action Buddie’s reforming originated from David Portnow, owner of Pig Records. Having produced over 500 albums, one of David’s favorite bands is Action Buddie.</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7071712
2022-09-30T01:00:00-07:00
2022-10-22T19:29:53-07:00
Ability And Confidence
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<p>Let’s break down ability and confidence. Photograph Compliments Of Alena Jarret Ability Let’s define ability: Ability represents capability and capacity. There is power, command, and proficiency in your physical and mental energies implementing authority over your instrument. Your talents are what you have attained; you have achieved these skills. Those abilities reflect what you have […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7049860
2022-08-30T23:00:00-07:00
2022-08-31T20:19:56-07:00
Ideas Of The Plausible
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<p>As a creative, your ideas of the plausible are what have sustained you. Photograph Compliments of Jacob Bentziger Creativity and Ideas Of The Plausible Do you want to devise something genuinely new? The adage that anything is possible is false; we are not God. We can achieve difficult things, but we can not reach for […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7043907
2022-08-22T23:00:00-07:00
2022-08-31T20:16:40-07:00
The Art Of Self-Sabotage
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<p>The art of self-sabotage materializes when we act in counter-productive ways that interfere with achieving our goals. This can become a skill. Photograph Compliments of Noah Buscher Self-Sabotage Defined Self-sabotage is a pretty heavy subject. People can destroy themselves emotionally, physically, and mentally, undermining their goals and values with self-sabotage. Here’s the good news – […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7017721
2022-07-19T00:00:00-07:00
2022-08-31T20:19:56-07:00
Creativity, The Act Of Rebellion
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<p>Creativity is an act, or many acts, of rebellion. Here’s why: Photograph Compliments of Jakayla Toney Evolution As An Act Of Rebellion Evolutionary Biologists debate life’s origins; no one knows how life came to exist. There is the thought among evolutionary theorists that nature innovates by using available resources and creating new ways for life […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/7003227
2022-06-27T23:00:00-07:00
2022-07-14T09:57:27-07:00
The Currency Of Unhappiness
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<p>Photograph Courtesy Of Jason Leung I am assuming you are a goal-oriented person. If you are like me, you are paying with the currency of unhappiness until the day you reach that perfect spot in life, where everything is going your way. Call this place Shangri-la: that harmonious, mystical place of fulfillment and attainment. Building […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6994294
2022-06-14T23:39:00-07:00
2022-07-14T09:36:07-07:00
Crawling To The Water Well
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<p>While you are crawling to the water well, don’t give your obstacles too much power. What Is The Water Well I love this analogy: the water well is the source of my creative power. Not only do I need to quench my thirst, but the water I desire also sustains me. These are my notions: […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6980100
2022-05-25T23:00:00-07:00
2022-07-14T09:46:13-07:00
The Wheel Of Fortune
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<p>o you understand how the wheel of fortune spins? Remember, each set of circumstances is particular to that situation. The variables you encounter may be different from those of someone else.</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6953063
2022-04-20T11:00:00-07:00
2022-07-14T09:57:27-07:00
What is Mental Fortitude?
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<p>What is mental fortitude? Fortitude is considered a virtue by many. Resoluteness through challenges and chasing vision is part of fortitude’s defining characteristics. This blog is all about the pursuit of creativity; this is how I present fortitude. We base our decisions on exercising action. By using our ability to visualize we can predict what […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6916694
2022-03-08T00:00:00-08:00
2022-03-09T10:38:55-08:00
Artistic Productivity And Creative Insight
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<p>How can we boost our artistic productivity and develop creative insight? I am constantly dealing with this challenge. There is a long list of projects in the docket. Even though I am not the most renowned of artists, I am creatively profuse. The following are priority questions that facilitate artistic productivity and creative insight. Key […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6881738
2022-01-27T23:00:00-08:00
2022-03-07T12:27:37-08:00
It Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings
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<p>It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. It’s not over till it’s over. The saying is a general colloquialism used in a great many references. That’s all I have to say about that. After passing from this world, how will you be remembered? Is that something that concerns you? Wouldn’t it be amazing if […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6854164
2021-12-29T00:00:00-08:00
2021-12-29T10:21:31-08:00
Dreams Of Flying
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<p>Dreams of flying have deep roots in the human psyche. As long as we have existed, one of humankind’s greatest desires has included visions of flight. Beyond count are the legends and stories that depict gods and heroes flying. Have you ever had dreams of flying or of floating? I have. I have had some […]</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6822641
2021-11-27T00:00:00-08:00
2021-12-22T19:01:40-08:00
Practice and Rehearsal
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<p>Practice and rehearsal are the defining exercises of improving creativity in your chosen art form.</p>
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2021-11-05T09:00:00-07:00
2021-11-23T14:14:28-08:00
Tools For A Positive Mental Outlook
<p>Life is difficult to negotiate even with a positive mental outlook. There is a perception that the world is out of control. This frame of reference affects our daily lives. It can seem that our individual actions become negligible with so many challenges. Here are a few very important applications to help balance our lives.</p>
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2021-10-04T01:00:00-07:00
2021-10-04T06:45:31-07:00
What Are Your Options?
<p>There are always choices. Some of those choices may not seem too good, but they are always there. A close relative of mine has chosen to live on the streets. I wont even pretend to understand her decision.</p>
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2021-09-29T14:22:37-07:00
2021-10-04T06:45:13-07:00
NightWatcher
<p>Home Recording at it's finest.</p>
<p>The Nightwatcher Crew : Calvin Rossman, Eric Ritts, David Tieman, Jeff Fried and moi, Bryan DeHart</p>
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2021-09-18T01:00:00-07:00
2021-10-04T06:44:28-07:00
A Call To Action
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is important that you and I reach our full potential. Why? Because you and I matter, and what we do matters. It is the way we think, act and the path of our lives. I want to live to my fullest potential. How about you?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-a-philosopher-speaks-out" style="line-height:2">A Philosopher Speaks Out</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">How about this guy? <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/18/the-genius-factor/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>. Have you have heard his name? A German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theater director, critic, and amateur artist. That’s quite a line up of accolades. The man has had a major influence in Western and World thought.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">He said this-</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong><em>Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it</em></strong>.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-what-is-genius" style="line-height:2">What Is Genius?</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I define genius as someone who is exceptionally intelligent or creative. Some folks would lump natural ability on top of that.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A couple of deciding factors I live by are grit and determination. For more on that check out this blog post on <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/22/discipline-perseverance-self-control-discipline-leverage-conquer/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Discipline and Perseverance</a>.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One of my mentors, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/wp-admin/post.php?post=4825&action=edit" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Steve Smith</a>, definitely fits the category of <strong>Renaissance Person</strong>. One of the concepts he advocates is diligence in correct practice. Steve admits, as a kid, he wasn’t a naturally gifted drummer. By shear determination, and with the right mentorship, he was able to overcome his lack of skill.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">By diligence and focus, Steve, and his wife Kristy, have created an internationally recognized <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://seattledrumschool.com" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer" target="_self">music school. </a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Back to Goethe – What is Power? There is the control, authority, or influence over others. How about having control, authority and influence over your abilities? How about the ability to change things in your life?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Magic is the ability to acquire mysterious or supernatural forces with wonderful and exciting outcomes. Johann might have known something about that.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">With genius, power and magic is boldness. Boldness is the display of confidence and utilizing innovation. Boldness exhibits courage, appearing vivid and clear, with strength.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" id="h-comfort-zones" style="line-height:2">Comfort Zones</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I get it. It is often not easy to push yourself and go beyond your perceived limitations. It is much more simple to spend time on the things in which you are familiar. But to expand, and become more than we currently are, it is important to push ourselves. The effort you expend needs to be spent in unfamiliar territory. This can be, at the very least, uncomfortable. At the worst, emotionally and physically painful.</p>
<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/mackncheezemusic.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/leave-your-comfort-zone-mackncheeze.jpg?resize=300%2C400&ssl=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="400" width="300" /><figcaption>Seek Out Unfamiliar Territory</figcaption></figure></div>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-why-i-work-with-others" style="line-height:2">Why I Work With Others</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In my pursuit of creativity, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.aiim.org" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer" target="_self">collaboration</a> has been the foundation of everything. I haven’t displayed great song writing abilities or command of melody. I’m not a guitar player, but I recently picked it up again. I can carve out ideas on the piano, but haven’t pursued mastering the instrument. I’m a good drummer and pretty decent in my home recording environment. I am confident in my ears and can hear deep into a mix.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Every new project that I complete is another step to that elusive level of mastery. There is a foundation of faith built upon previous accomplishment which reinforces this belief.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The challenge has been the strength of my musical relationships. Some people have only so much talent, time and resources they are able to commit. Some talk of embracing commitment, but do not want-to-want the responsibility. Many wait to the last minute to break scheduled rehearsal and recording engagements. Most people aren’t prepared when they do show up.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a major question that needs asking – am I being too dependent on others? Despite my limitations, the solution may be conducting more process on my own.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-motivators" style="line-height:2">Motivators</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Please don’t misunderstand me. I know a lot of people who are happy with where they are. A lot of artists are like that; they are happy with their circumstances.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Everybody makes the choices they want; everyone has their own reasons. I have taken this to heart.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Quoting Neil deGrasse Tyson –</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong><em>The most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation</em>.</strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are times when I just want to do something for its own sake. Catch up on novels, watch a movie or cooking for friends. I really like to cook.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most things I focus on are long term by nature. Rome wasn’t built in a day and my <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/06/25/art-is-process-building-blocks/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">goals</a> won’t be either.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-attributes-of-motivation" style="line-height:2">Attributes of Motivation</h2>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-self-efficacy" style="line-height:2">Self-Efficacy</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Psychologists state that <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.verywellmind.com/albert-bandura-biography-1925-2795537" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer" target="_self">self-efficacy</a> is the belief that we are able to control our emotions, behavior and motivations. Simply put, it is a personal judgement of how we are able to cope with circumstances utilizing our abilities.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is a learned attribute. I had no idea that I could do the things I do until I started applying myself. One morning I looked in the mirror and asked myself, “Who are you? I do not recognize this person.” There is growing confidence in every endeavor in which I apply myself. It’s pretty amazing.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-discipline" style="line-height:2">Discipline</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The dictionary definition – a branch of knowledge, a subject of study in higher education. The practice of discipline requires holding yourself to standards. You could feel exhausted, angry or disgusted from your circumstances. Everything could be going south, yet you <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/11/13/motivation/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">persevere</a>. You have created a standard of accountability and you adhere to it.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-open-mindedness" style="line-height:2">Open-Mindedness</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Open-minded people are likely to be more empathetic. It is a good thing to see the other person’s point of view. I had considered myself to be an unbiased person for many years. I started to realize that my speech patterns were not aligning to my self-image. It took a while for me to start being receptive to other people’s point of view.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Listening to what people are saying is critical. I have given up investment in many of my beliefs. Letting go of my pride has helped transition to a less biased belief system. Through this process there has come personal growth. The results include more optimism, growing mental strength and new insights.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-cunning" style="line-height:2">Cunning</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/07/16/think-again/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Cunning</a> is often associated with nefarious behavior. Being able to use perspectives that are unorthodox is a form of cunning. It does not always need to be associated with negative conduct. There is a positive side to its practice.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Cunning is correlated to open-mindedness. Using our abilities to see around circumstances, looking for uncommon ways to find solutions, is a wily and artful device. The way to develop this is to cram ideas into our brains. The solutions will come.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-narcissism" style="line-height:2">Narcissism</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Again, this is generally considered a negative behavior; I have an alternate <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/04/perspective-is-a-super-power/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">perspective</a>. We have all confronted individuals caught up in themselves. Some of those people practice narcissism to such a high degree that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Those persons are no fun and tedious.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">On the positive side of narcissism, focusing on yourself can develop power. As creative individuals, we need to spend time producing. We have to arrange our schedules to help the generation of our creative process. This requires an immense amount of time shutting out the world. I spend hour upon hour, everyday, concentrating on activities which further my creativity.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is a true act of selfishness. You can only be good at the things you are obsessed with. Being obsessed, you will spend time and allocate the energy needed to develop skill with your obsession. I know of no other way. Please tell me if there are alternatives, I would love to explore those.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-the-left-field" style="line-height:2">The left Field</h2>
<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/mackncheezemusic.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/left-field-humor-mackncheeze.jpg?resize=474%2C696&ssl=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="696" width="474" /><figcaption>Left Field Humor</figcaption></figure></div>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Life is throwing situations at us all the time. Some circumstances need only small amounts of effort while others may need more. Yesterday, the brakes went out on my bicycle. I’m no bike mechanic; to keep riding I needed to take it to the shop. I spent a couple of hours of time to get the repair set up.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">The pandemic is a different kind of left field. I expected to be out of work for a few weeks. That few weeks turned into a year and half with intermittent periods of employment.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">We take these situations as life lessons, a path to building character. What does our culture say – whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Stuff happens, there is no way around it. Change happens; it is one great constants in life. Is our strength of character magnified by the trials and challenges in our lives? Many would say yes. You can count on life presenting obstacles which will hinder the progress of your dreams.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Count me in; all I can say is amen and amen.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What ever happens, don’t stop. Stay <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/12/06/dont-drink-the-kool-aid/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">all-in</a>.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-complacency" style="line-height:2">Complacency</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Herein lies great danger. I do everything in my power to avoid a settled for life. When is good enough, good enough?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There have been periods of time, sometimes many years, where the goals I sought seemed to be the right ones. I would spend enormous amounts of time and resources pursuing them. These circumstances always revolved around someone else’s dream.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I was a willing co-worker; embracing their projects as if they were my own. I would ignore their foibles and shortcomings, but they were always willing to point out mine. I now see it for what it was; it was a form of control. Also, it fostered a relationship of codependency.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I thought that these situations were the best thing I had going. All I had to do was open my eyes and believe more in myself. I felt security in these band situations. Realizing Good enough was not good enough changed my approach.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-the-aha-moment" style="line-height:2">The ‘AHA’ Moment</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The markers of my direction became clear to me in several different situations. There were three different tribute bands which sought me out. These bands were very successful and a had a huge repertoire of material. I thought these were good ideas and would allow me to keep my horizons broad.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For the first opportunity, I spent three weeks writing out charts. I committed to spending hour after hour practicing the tunes. As this process unfolded I started realizing that my personal goals were being put on the shelf. Frustration compounded; I needed to make a decision. Am I going to work with this cover band or am I going to pursue my own interests? What about my studio projects? I walked away from the gig.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For the second tribute band, the exact same situation repeated itself. I guess I am a slow learner. Priorities, Bry, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/01/vision/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Priorities</a>.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For the third tribute band, I immediately said no. At that point I was creating a tremendous amount of content; first things first.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" id="h-perspective" style="line-height:2">Perspective</h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In any field, fundamentals hold the keys to success. Reinforcing basics is everything. Embrace them, never let go.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Self-belief is paramount. Do you have faith in your chosen path and are you expecting results from your efforts? We might try to predict the outturns of our efforts but end up with different results. Those efforts might unveil new goals and create unexpected outcomes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Your group of associations has it’s own set of established traditions. There is some sort of mythology in your sphere of influence. That sphere has its own myths and legends. Those interpretations change as your group’s myths collide with the group’s preconceptions.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you think you can do it, you probably can. Belief in yourself has to be bigger than your circumstances. Make sure you are around people who think, believe and behave the way you do.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6733645
2021-09-01T18:23:27-07:00
2021-09-03T05:05:51-07:00
Bridges Burned
<h2>A Mackncheeze Music Video</h2>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-style-default"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/mackncheezemusic.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/mackncheeze-bridges-burned.jpg?resize=1000%2C563&ssl=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="563" width="1000" /><figcaption>A Mackncheeze Music Production</figcaption></figure>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#d2b988">Bridges Burned</h2>
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<figcaption>A Mackncheeze Music Video featuring Chandler Thomas</figcaption></figure>
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If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have recently encountered circumstances which have put limitations on time. Time constraints – the worse, Man.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My productivity has fallen and the thought crushes me. The results are showing up. What was once expanding and growing is now stagnant. It’s not that I’m not doing what I need to do, it’s that I don’t have the time to do it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What makes my soul vibrate is being held at bay. I am discouraged to the point of tears.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Futility</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Do you feel like you are <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/05/yelling-at-my-devices-ritual-hard-drive-learning-curve-flat-screen-monitor-patient-crushed/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">banging your head against the wall</a>? Road blocks are everywhere? Did you finally figure out the answer but can’t remember the question?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have learned not to equate short-term results with long-term expectations. The reverse is true: Don’t base long-term expectations on short-term results.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We interpret our own reality. We define what we see and live by that vision. The perceptions we have created are difficult to let go of. Our brain tells us how to see the world. We live by that.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Embracing an open mind requires the desire and ability to put aside preconceptions. I’m letting go of other’s opinions and judgments. I’m considering challenges from a fresh perspective.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s possible there is different way to look at things. To do that, sometimes it is necessary to put to one side real or imaginary constraints. How is this to be done?</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>The questions I ask myself: How can I look at this from a different perspective? What can I do to go over, through or around the obstacle? What options are practicable? Can I exercise more than one course of action as a solution to the challenge?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Life Is hard</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My house is on a dead end street. This morning, a homeless guy was sleeping at the end of the cul-de-sac, using the guardrail as a pillow. I look at him and wonder what has brought him to this point. Addiction, mental illness? I could go out and ask him, but I would rather let him sleep and wander off at his own leisure.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am thankful; thankful that the obstacles in my life are far less than his. My obstacles are surmountable; his obstacles are far greater. Whatever cards have been dealt, whatever throw of the dice I am allotted, I’m grateful I didn’t get his. How does a person climb out of abject tragedy? It seems that it could be futile; I don’t know.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Is Good Enough Good Enough?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We are creatures of habit; over time, our habits become who we are. The regimens of daily life become ingrained into our psyche. These regimens reinforce our guiding <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/09/25/finding-my-core-values/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">core values.</a> Life can change, creating circumstances more difficult to negotiate. The challenges we may have to face need a change of mindset. This can become a tremendous challenge, especially when dealing with health or finances.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most people do not want to work hard. Well over half of the workforce is unhappy with their job.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We stick around for the money. There is a possibility of a promising future. Job recognition, connections and prestige look favorable. There is availability of increasing your skill set. Then there is uncertainty. What are your options? Is the effort necessary to change your work situation worth the risk. This is a cost-to-benefit quandary.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Are you concerned about what others think? No one cares about how you feel or your set of circumstances. As long as you aren’t harming or using others, people don’t care. People are struggling with their own set of challenges.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">We Can Change Ourselves</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have a friend who suffered horrific abuse as a child, as bad as it gets. Enough said. Through the years I have watched him face apparently insurmountable challenges. Self-image, self-abasement, self-doubt, you name it. The outcome of his life should have been predictable. The possibility of living like the homeless guy on the end of my street would have been likely.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">He overcame everything thrown at him. He is happily married, owns a home, has two cats and two dogs and has become a responsible citizen. Who would have guessed. The odds were against him and he conquered his life.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is good enough good enough? It is a challenge for those of us forging ahead in our journeys. We have a natural tendency to rest on our laurels. It’s natural to relax when everything seems to be going our way, not a lot of challenges, smooth sailing and easy driving. One of life’s inescapable truths is that change is coming.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The situation we are in becomes comfortable because it is place we know.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We want to avoid uncertainty.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Creativity</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What is creativity? Imagining things that don’t exist, embracing original ideas and concepts.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/03/mackncheeze-music-podcast-24-arami-walker-seattle-singer-songwriter-recording-artist/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">The creative process </a>is open ended and free flowing, like a jam session. One of the props of jamming is to come up with new and original ideas. I have always believed a band that is unable to be spontaneous is a band I have no interest in working with.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Everyday I sit down and spend time rethinking. I read books written by those who have gone before. They present some clear ways to move forward. Reading how-to-guides and watching You Tube videos is a great way to learn new techniques. They have been beneficial at the highest level. I investigate new ideas and concepts everyday. Most of those ideas are not my own.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Ideas are only ideas. Most are neither good nor bad; they are only ideas. I act on about one out of a thousand. The process is to come up with them, regardless of the source. It is completely possible to come up with many new ideas everyday. It is a practice of applying oneself, making it a priority.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Using creativity is a way out of the logjam.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Tools</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I bought Search Optimization for Dummies a couple of years ago. SEO is crucial to expanding your presence on the internet.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Standard Operating procedure for me – buy a piece of hardware or software and wait two years before I figure it out. SEO For Dummies was the same. I would read a few pages, scratch my head, go blank and put it down. Then I would wait a few days, pick the book back up and repeat, ad nauseam.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When frustration with my circumstances grew, I sought out You Tube. I watched SEO You Tube videos for hours. There must be a blockage in my skull somewhere. The end results of all that content were vacuous stares at my lap top screen.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then I tried the technique of subliminal learning. Before bed, put on the You Tube video, go to sleep and let it play all night. I am not too sure that worked.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Finally, I started reading about SEO from different sources. Cross checking those sources with my SEO For Dummies has been invaluable. I am beginning to comprehend this stuff.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then I read that implementation of SEO usually takes at least two years to start working. I’m in this for the long haul, what’s two more years? Honestly, two years is probably being optimistic. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/25/in-process/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">There are lot of tools out there</a>; find and utilize them. You know somebody who can help, ask them.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Mirroring</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Parroting other’s techniques, habits and behaviors can be helpful.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">As a kid, in order for me to learn to play drums, I would set up the phonograph behind my drum kit, and play along. I did not have much control. I would play so loud that the needle would skip on the turn table.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Time is super essential for a drummer. Knowing this, I picked up a metronome. In those days mechanical metronomes were the norm.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I would practice my rudiments and concert band pieces with this metronome.<a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/10/11/habits/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> There was constant repetition</a>, going over and over those exercises, struggling to hear the click. There never seemed to be any progress. Month in and month out, week after week, all effort seemed futile.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Finding The Solution</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One day I was at the local music store and, behold, there was an electronic metronome for sale. It had a flashing light. Wow, a flashing light, that’s going to help so much. It took me about two months to save up the money from my weekend dish washing job. Back in those days, electronic gadgets were expensive.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There was a huge thrill when I opened the box and pulled out the metronome. It ran on a 9 volt battery and made a super loud click. That light flashed bright red, almost blinding a person if they looked straight at it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The great thing was is that the click was so loud, it could be heard over the drums. It was louder than the old-school metronome. I would work with it with my full kit. It still wasn’t easy, but at least there seemed to be hope. Is there any human being who has the time of a machine? If so, let me know if you find them</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One day, out of curiosity, for the sake of comparison, I decided to compare the two metronomes. I set the electronic metronome to 80 BPM, with that bright light flashing. Click, Click, Click. Solid, uncompromising time. Breaking out the mechanical one, winding it up and setting it to 80, it started counting. But instead of Click, Click, Click, it would count Click…click, Click…click, Click…click. That was a big disappointment. My first metronome could not keep a solid beat.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">From that time on, the decision has always been to mirror using reliable sources.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Priorities</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The definition of insanity: maintaining the same habits, expecting different outcomes. Clearly.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am forced to <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/05/perspective-how-do-you-look-at-things-point-of-view/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">rethink</a> what my daily tasks should be. There are the benefits of re-educating myself and embracing new concepts. It’s what I have been doing but now has become streamlined. Each day’s question is – How do I use my limited time in the most efficient way?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One answer is to open my ears and eyes. There is an entire world of people who have gone before us. Focus in on those who have done it before and stand on their shoulders. Read more, listen to podcasts and watch You Tube videos. Absorb the traits being sought by learning from those who have earned respect.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am learning how to empathize. That has taken years to work out, it isn’t a natural part of my personality. I realized that my speech patterns were being interpreted as offensive. It was never my intent to offend anyone. Humor for humor’s sake isn’t always the best path to maintaining working relationships.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I now take time out for experimentation. I do little experiments that are simple, things that involve no risk. As those tests prove practicable, I move on to more complexity and risk. The most simple experiment is to ask someone’s opinion. There is a possibility they might not give opinion, but most people like to put in their two cents.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am working on new concept for Mackncheeze Music. I have shared it with a few people and need to share it with a lot more. So far opinions have been favorable; looks like I might have a green light.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Here’s the deal, If enough chances are taken even rare events can happen.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Forging Ahead</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Come Hell or High Water, you know, you’ve heard it all before:</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sharpen your focus.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Measure what is measurable.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Ignite your passion.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">identify your one thing.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Build your competence.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We win from within.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Convert turning points into learning points.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’ve never given up, I have never stopped dreaming, I have never stopped believing. It’s all about the creative process.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Teddy Roosevelt once said, “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/11/29/the-labor-is-the-reward/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Most importantly, do something</a>!</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Clearing Out Space</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am not referring to cleaning the garage or reorganizing your closet. Do that if you need to, if it helps.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m talking about clearing out the space in your head.</p>
<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img src="https://i1.wp.com/mackncheezemusic.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/clearing-out-head-space.jpg?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="400" width="400" /><figcaption>That’s One Way To Clear Your Head</figcaption></figure></div>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you need to make a to do list, do that. That doesn’t work for me.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Actually reviewing your tasks and priorities may be helpful. If you need to assign yourself goals, do that. The important thing is to keep moving, what ever it takes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Clearing out your head space is much more difficult than removing physical clutter. Life is hard. We have relationships to maintain, bills to pay and most of us have jobs that need to remain secure.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">That’s a lot of stuff that can be in the way of dreams and aspirations. <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/06/11/love-relationships-patience-kindness-foundations/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Your relationships</a> may require the care of kids, parents or impaired loved ones. These are crucial priorities. It’s important to remember to find someplace for yourself. With out you and your strength, folks dependent upon you are lost. There has to be somewhere that you can rally, breathe and rejuvenate. Find it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Another thing to do is to build powerful associations. Friends are important and a life of isolation can be detrimental. It is best to be around as many like minded people as possible. Seeking out mentors and teachers is imperative to moving forward. Environments of education and creativity are super important.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Inner Narcissist</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/11/08/superpower/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">We have the power to create the special person we want to be.</a> It is only natural to desire significance. We want the approval of our friends, those we work with and our family members. These desires are part of being human. There are biochemical triggers in our brains which enhance our inner narcissistic tendencies.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Healthy degrees of narcissism are acceptable standards of behavior. In a healthy family, the adoration and admiration of children is only natural. We carry those desires with us into adulthood. These traits and desires are potential mechanisms for enhanced performance.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Let’s be honest; we all have a predisposition to some form of selfish behavior. I’m alright with that and you should be too. The idea is to work with our natural dispositions. I want to allow those neurotransmitters to do their job and motivate me to excel.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s only natural we want maintain relationships. There is a huge investment in resources to keep friendships alive. We were made to be social. The importance of attaining goals requires time spent on doing tasks. Sometimes, we have to say no.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">No, I can’t get together for drinks. No, I can’t come over and watch the game. I would love to hang out, but if I do, that is three hours of lost time, which I can’t afford. If you are my friend then please understand. You aren’t going to do all I need to do to reach my goals. It rests on me.</p>
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Mackncheeze Music Podcast #33: featuring Chris Hogan
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2021-08-13T18:51:00-07:00
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Mackncheeze Music Podcast #33 with Chris Hogan
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<figcaption><h2><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 250, 0);">Guitarist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Audio Engineer, Recording Engineer, Song Writer</span></h2></figcaption></figure></div>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A super comprehensive interview with <a contents="Chris Hogan" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Chris%20Hogan" target="_blank">Chris Hogan</a>. We discuss musical history, the differences between Eastern and Western Tonality and Theory. Part of the conversation includes the differences between live streaming applications, live and <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/11/27/mackncheeze-music-podcast-16/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">studio audio reproduction</a> and the myriad of projects in which Chris has been involved.</p>
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2021-08-06T00:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:26:36-07:00
Mental Prisons
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some people do not know they are in a mental prison. Their day to day perceptions have become normal. Some folks may not have the tools to break out. Or even be willing to. The more that we can stay in a predictable environment the more comfortable we humans tend to be.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#ef883f">An Example</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Couch lock. There are times I can’t get my body off the couch. It feels like I’m ensnared by <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/09/mental-latency/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">my own laziness.</a> This can happen after a long day, when my mental defenses are down, and, you guessed it, the television is on. Yes, abuse of the flat screen is a mental prison.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My brain thinks it would be a great idea to do something. The only thing I’m motivated to do is graze the fridge. Eating to escape is a mental prison.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The list goes on…</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f2914c">Pattern Recognition</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m not very good predicting the future. Nor am I particularly good at interpreting the past. Life is confusing.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A ball peen hammer to the head, I understand.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">And I comprehend repetition. When repeated events occur with similar outcomes, I start to get it. It doesn’t make me any better at prediction, but solace comes from pretending I can.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Thin-slicing is a term describing the ability to find patterns in events based only on “thin slices,” or narrow windows of information. It is very common in our thought process. This is an ability worth improving.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s obvious that I am not good at being able to tell the difference between good and bad news. Almost any sort comes with elements of both. Part of living in a mental prison: the cause of a challenge may not be the path to the solution. People can be so chained to past pain that their place of incarceration is comfortable. Regret, loss and self-deprecation are cadences that become truth.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In Ancient Greece, on the road to the oracle at Delphi, a sign could be found “Know Thyself”, or “Know Your Limitations”.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Socrates said ‘The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living”.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Mental Prisons are super prevalent. Most of us have had to deal with it from time to time.</p>
<h2 class="has-background" style="background-color:#ef8b44">The Jailer’s Key</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If the keys to freedom are in our possession, why remain incarcerated? Some folks get used to their pattern of thinking. There may be functional problems relating to others. These challenges may keep them from participating in healthy relationships. A person can become entrenched in their belief system and daily routine. They may not even consider a different way to live. I have seen it time and again.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Mental prisons can be like a Merry-Go-Round. One thought fuels another thought which fuels another. This all leads to lack of confidence and inaction.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I understand a mental prison can be like post-traumatic stress disorder. That discussion is way out of my pay grade; I’m not going down that rabbit hole.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some situations that you lived through may have been very frightening. Some things are hard to forget and not easy to move beyond. So, yeah, reliving stuff like that can shackle your mind. And there’s nothing you can do for it, other than try some meds and hope they work.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Searching for meaning requires change and growth. Life doesn’t give us meaning, we have to find it. Every single moment of our lives has meaning.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">No single variable in our circumstance is predictive of a specific out come.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Accuracy and direction are the two most important aspects of self-truth.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The human brain embraces that which it perceives as truth. Because we are social beings, trust is the adhesive which holds us together. We mistrust those who adhere to lies and manufacture inaccuracies.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What is truth? This is what it boils down to.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many times it’s easier for me to understand the behavior of others when I barely understand my own.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am looking to free myself from my fears and find <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/05/28/inspiration-burning-desire/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">what I love. </a></p>
<h2 class="has-background" style="background-color:#ef8b44">Society’s Expectations</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many of the things we do in society is like participating in a team sports mentality.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Cheating on taxes, running red lights, jaywalking, these are normal things we do, right? We often make mistakes and our best response is that other people do similar things. If that’s you, you might be be in a mental prison.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is in our nature to prefer fairness. In life, most of us aren’t on the top of the game. So we seek out fairness. This is an impossible standard because what is fair for you often isn’t right for me. And that’s most situations.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The biggest illusion in life is that it is going to be fair. Is a set of rules going to create equality?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This example is an over simplification – Dennis is athletic and I’m rich. The government is trying to make us equal. How do the authorities do that? They have to make sure I share my wealth in exchange for my friend’s athleticism. It’s a weak argument, but you get the point. I apologize to Dennis for bringing him in to this; sorry, Bro.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is this a way to play fair, be on the same team?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I do not think it is productive arguing about fairness, especially in the realm of creativity. Art can be a great regulator. Those most able are those who forge forward.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Wrong <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/12/the-compelling-reasons-why-we-are-driven-to-do-things-need-vision-accomplishment-ambition-vision-association/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">priorities</a> can create a mental prison. The goal is to develop correct priorities.</p>
<h2 class="has-background" style="background-color:#ef8b44">Work Life</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My father often said he wished that my grandfather had owned a business. That business could have become a family inheritance, passed on as a legacy.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Owning any business involves risk. My father had the option to create a business. That can be a hard decision. Especially with a mortgage, two kids and all the added responsibilities.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there is decision on what sort of business. I’m not my dad, there is no way I would pass judgement on his decisions. But the option was there if he had wanted to choose it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">That was a different time and place. Finish high school, go to college, get married, buy a house and have 2.5 kids, go on vacations, retire…you know the ending. The American Dream, right?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In today’s America, the path isn’t so clear. Do you believe the American Dream still functions under the same parameters? If so, you may be stuck in a mental prison.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have been in the same career for a very long time. There have been rewards and pitfalls, like anything else.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have always wanted more. One basic human desire is the longing for more; enough is not enough. Year in and year out I have stayed in the same thought patterns.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have had music as an avocation for most of my working life. There is enormous love and passion there.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There has always been underlying frustration in its pursuit. Even when I was working full time on the road, there were <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/23/challenges-and-frustration-learning-to-deal-with-circumstances-which-hinder-our-progress/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">frustrations. </a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What I now know, which I hadn’t considered in the past, is that I have been in a mental prison.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#ef8b44">What Am I telling Myself?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If I want to help others, I have to take care of myself first. If I don’t, I won’t be much use to anyone else.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Stories are our interpretation of facts. Stories are powerful. If I tell myself I’m stupid, doesn’t stupid behavior follow? What happens when I tell myself the opposite? Every story we tell ourselves is incomplete in one way or another.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you can not look at both sides of a situation or an argument, you may be in a mental prison. The questions asked should include needed details. Ask also what details are not needed; what do you pay attention to and what do you not.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We live in our own reality. It’s pretty predictable we combine groundless certainty on all kinds situations. This can lead us to incredible error in our assumptions. That’s how we ended up with the society we live in.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We function in the belief that our perspective is the correct perspective. We call in to question those who do not think our way. This is a potential path to narcissism.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I do not think most of us have learned how to compare. What is it like to live someone else’s life? Why is this one person worse than someone else? Do we know all the facts?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We begin our circumstance as two different persons. One is who we are, the other is who we want to be. My eventual goal is that the two meet. I also want to be able look at challenges from unorthodox <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/05/perspective-how-do-you-look-at-things-point-of-view/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">perspectives.</a> It is obvious that my previous thought process has not helped me achieve what is important in my life. This has been a trap.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am guilty of putting invisible restrictions on myself. Those restrictions come with their own biases. The idea is to see around the biases I have created. I need to reconsider the rules. There are self-manufactured boundaries and perceived constraints that need to go away.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#e68d4d">Escaping Prison</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are daily habits I adhere to. I’m not always consistent, but these are practices which move my goals forward.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m grateful.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am grateful for this day given to me. As much as I want to leave my job behind, I am thankful for the opportunity to earn a living. There are my family, friends, spiritual connections, health and pursuit of my talents. I’m grateful for these things.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a need for me to keep moving. If I’m not moving forward, I start to vibrate. Actually vibrate, displaying anxiety. My mind churns, frustration boils over and apprehension ensues.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Physical and <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/19/passion-understanding-comprehension-opinions-intense-enthusiasm-nerds-geeks-weirdo-within/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">creative activity </a>are the two solutions to my anxiety. I need both to maintain balance. Weather permitting, I ride my bicycle 100 miles a week. Weather not permitting, I walk 20 to 30 miles a week. Hitting the gym a few days also provides respite.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Creating takes the Lion’s share of my time. That process includes collating information which facilitates my imagination. There is also time spent honing my skill set. Everyday leads to discovery of some sort of weakness that needs strengthening. I can always improve, whether playing music, producing, recording or writing.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I strive to be authentic. We all carry pain of some sort. Everyday involves trying to somehow tease it out. It took a long time, but I am daily learning not to live someone else’s definition of who I am.</p>
<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#f2fa00;line-height:1.4">The prison break.</p>
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2021-07-29T22:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:28:15-07:00
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Momentum</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The gig went south last night? The next day you keep thinking how things could have been better. Missed cues, lack of focus and the distraction that caused the melt down. It was like a game of dominoes, the mistakes fell from one player to the next.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Crowd response was lousy because the band blew it, which carries over into your personal life.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there is the nagging feeling your own proficiency is lacking. You tell yourself you are not that good.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The next day all you can think about is the previous night’s disaster. The audience response was terrible. You start thinking that its always like this. You have put in all this effort and hard work, for what? The more you think how bad the performance was the more you think it is carrying over into your personal life.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Welcome to the Merry Go Round. I have been there, and you have been there, we have all been there. What are we going to do about it?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Self Talk</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have an internal dialogue. Wandering around the house a person might catch me yammering away to myself. That’s self talk.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The subconscious mind shows its influence and reveals our thought process. Things our self talk shows us includes our beliefs, questions and ideas. All of us deal with the positive and negative.</p>
<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The way we think and talk to ourselves is dependent on our personalities<strong>.</strong></p>
<p class="has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>Question reality.</strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">You are the source of your creative power. Why bring yourself to dark places when you have control?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Often times self doubt and despair are based on our presumed belief of the judgment of others. What is it you think they are judging? If they are judging you, which they are probably not, then they can only assess outward circumstances. There is no way they can understand what the truth of your situation is; they are not living it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Why do we put so much credence on what others think of us?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Faith in yourself gives free reign to your imagination.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Mental real estate can become clogged with the concerns of other people. If we have worry about their needs, desires and preconceptions, there may not be room for you. The goal is to be the person you need to be. By being that person then you can help others.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">OPINION GHETTOS</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One of my good friends, Billy, spent studio time recording his originals. The engineer told him that his tunes were not marketable.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My opinion? First, what business does the recording engineer have voicing his opinion? An unsolicited judgement on his part is not warranted; that’s not what he is being paid for. Second of all, in the long term, aren’t we writing these songs for ourselves? Regardless of the money that will, or will not come, we would still be there, doing it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Billy’s inner soul is his creativity, first and foremost.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Tomorrow, the doubt we experience today may not be there. Listening to the negativity that others heap on us can reinforce our self doubt. The only thing that changes from confidence to lack of confidence is the story we tell ourselves.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One reason people dump their opinions on others is because their own self talk is terrible. They feel better because you are not as good as they want to see themselves. Those people are afraid to face the truth.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f9fa00">Respect</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I catch myself slipping into the habit making fun of folks who do not see things as clearly as I do. I need to be careful and guard myself against that. This sort of presumption is dangerous and can lead to an overblown ego. I am not interested in being condescending and patronizing. Been there before and I don’t like that Bryan.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Respecting others is a better way to live.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there is self-respect. For a lot of people this is fleeting. Some of my friends have had this challenge. The isolation of the pandemic hasn’t helped.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">At times they focus on the negative and ignore their achievements. They start believing others are better than themselves. They become self-critical, don’t accept compliments, feel sad, depressed and ashamed.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I can relate. Been there, done that, stood in line and bought the ticket.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">How did I climb out of it? I don’t know if it ever really goes away. There is always that edge of self-doubt. Is what I’m doing really helping to build my self-esteem?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Self-Esteem</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Part of it may be biological in nature. <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/12/30/depression/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> Depression</a> can be a major component of low self-esteem. Depression runs in my family. I have seen its effects first hand.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Any time I have dealt with being depressed it has always been situational. My solution is the analogy of a cup coffee in a gallon jar. You poor the coffee into the jar and it is dark brown. By adding clear water, little by little, the coffee color becomes more and more translucent. With enough space and time, the evidence of coffee will all but disappear.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The clear water is analogous to activity and association. Who are we hanging around and what are we doing? I hate to say it, birds of a feather flock together.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Time spent getting nothing accomplished is time wasted. That can’t help you feel good about yourself if you are a goal oriented person.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Imposter Syndrome</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Don’t be fooled. You bring more to the table than than you might think. Some of the most talented and able artists I know have these feelings of inadequacy.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s amazing. How can this person, with superlative skill, feel this way about themselves?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It comes down to self-talk. I have been there. To be honest, it still nags me a little. The challenge is to stop comparing ourselves to those who we perceive as being more talented. As an artist, we pursue our own voice. Self-doubt inhabits the validity of our self-image.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Imposter syndrome haunts some of the most successful people you may know.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I know amazing individuals, at attainment’s highest level, who feel this way. Some of those folks use their feelings of being an imposter as a motivator. The inadequacy drives them. The motivator is the insufficiency their self-belief.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I get it. It is an engine of my drive to competency. I know this motivation well.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Friends</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What are your friends telling you? Are they supportive? Are they being honest? None of the nose up your ass bullshit. It is super important that your friends are supportive and forthright.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I trust my friends. I love them. Our friendships go back for years. I am fortunate in that we have myriads of bands and projects under our belts.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What we don’t do is lie to each other. We judge each others strengths and shortcomings with out the influence of ego.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is critical in relationships. The purpose of our friendships is to build one other up. Iron sharpens iron, as the adage goes. We purpose to be there for each other, being a support where weakness prevails. When strength rules, we all succeed.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We all need our friends. Tearing each other down does nothing to strengthen relationships.</p>
<h2 class="has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Gratefulness</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">All I have to do is pull my head out and take a look around. There is a lot to be thankful for. How about the simple fact that <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/12/06/today-was-a-good-day/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">I woke up on this side of green today.</a> That’s pretty basic.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m pretty sure all of us know someone going through some sort of health challenge. For me, so far so good, knock on wood.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The older I become the more it surrounds me. Life and death situations abound. Some of my friends and acquaintances are on the cusp. As much as I want to whine, it’s a good idea to step back and acknowledge there are people who have it a lot tougher.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are friends very close to me, suffering. I mean suffering, real pain. Loss of bodily functions. Close to death experiences. There is no sugar coating any of it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Today is a good day. Thank you.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m not missing many meals. I got that going for me. It’s summer and I average a hundred miles a week on my bicycle. My skills are increasing on a daily basis. My olfactory is pretty tuned in. That’s good; very important for a sommelier.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Let’s not forget, I’m not living on the street.</p>
<h2 class="has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Inspiration</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I try to surround myself with as many <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/09/18/inspiration/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">inspiring people</a> as possible. Right now, as I write, I am listening to Lizst.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m a basic drummer. I’m still learning music theory. That’s why I hang out with people smarter than me.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Franz Joseph Liszt – talk about inspiring. Virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, conductor, organist, as well as a Franciscan Tertiary. Talk about a guy whose discipline was a lifestyle. Woof!!!</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A couple of days ago I put on Moon Flower by Antonio Carlos Jobim. And Miles, Birth of Cool. I am never going to be one of these guys. But I can be the best that I am going to be. I can live with that.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Realize this – Don’t be the best, be the only!</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Narrative</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We want to understand the world around us. It is a basic foundation of our survival instinct. As hunter/gatherers, there was a lot of uncertainty. There had to be reasons why one person survived and another did not. To this day, we need explanations why things happen. If it’s not plainly evident, then we create a story so we can move on. The explanation may not be true, but at least we can understand, then continue.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is a narrative fallacy. Cause and effect details, whether true or made up, help us negotiate life. The world is a random place and we want to make sense of it. An unpredictable future is not a comfort.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Belief in presumptive assertions has roots in uncertainty. As time goes on, the narrative becomes established, and then it becomes part of our truth. It becomes difficult to see around it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m guilty. I am working on it.</p>
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Mackncheeze Music Recipe: Cuisses de Poulet ala Brion
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Chicken Thighs</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The magic part of the <a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/11/22/i-have-a-dream/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">chicken</a>; its probably the fat content. Thighs are so easy to cook, just a little seasoning, let them slowly render, and, BAMM!!! Delicious, juicy cluck. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Marinade</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I like to plan my meals ahead of time. I’m starting with twelve, medium sized chicken thighs. I have a big Tupperware like container, made by Rubbermaid. Line the thighs in the container and pour course salt over. Be generous, unless you don’t like salt. This week I am using <a href="https://alessifoods.com/search?q=all+natural+sea+salt+coarse" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Alessi All Natural Sea Salt. </a></p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">You can use about anything for marinade. Get some liquid to cover the chicken thighs, add seasoning and/or herbs. All you have to do is add time. I prefer overnight. The more hours, the more permeation of your ingredients. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I raided the fridge and came up with my marinade. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">There was a quart of orange juice left from last weeks screwdriver fest. That in to the Rubbermaid container, trying not to wash the salt off the chicken. Then I spooned a bunch of chopped garlic on to each thigh. Remember, there is no such thing as too much garlic. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">I found some <a href="https://spiceworldinc.com/consumer/products/ginger/squeezable-minced-ginger/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Spice World Squeeze Ginger</a> on the fridge rack. Every piece of chicken gets a dollop. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Of course there some unused herbs in the cooler. Rosemary left over from Sundays Chinook Salmon. My pal, Eric, put that recipe together. We are going to put that recipe on the blog at a later time. It has the OMG factor. Serious. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">BTW, Eric is a bad ass bass player, of course.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Back to the rosemary: Rosemary has some serious stem action. I’m too lazy to de-stem the leaves. I break out my trusty <a href="https://www.zwilling.com/us/henckels-international/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Henckel </a>Chopping Knife, cut the rosemary up stems and all. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sprinkle all that chopped rosemary over the chicken thighs. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Balance</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you haven’t figured it out by now, you soon will. I like alcohol. I like wine with food. I like booze as a binder for sauces and basic foundations. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">So I added a can of beer to the marinade. There is that extra touch of roundness, that a bit of je ne sais quo. It is an appealing quality my taste buds recognize.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Not all micro breweries in Washington State are great. I had a German Style Lager laying around in the beer fridge. No one wanted it so the chicken got it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Here’s the deal. <a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/11/15/dont-quit-your-day-job/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">I have spent a life time around food and wine. </a>Here are the components of successful cooking. Fat, salt, bitter, sour and sweet. There is a sixth flavor sense that is Japanese in origin. It’s called Kokumi. I ain’t going into that. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The idea is to affect a balance of those basic components. So the OJ has the sugar component, the bitter is in the herbs. The chicken skin has the fat component and the salt has the salt. Lucky me, there is a lime left over from Eric’s killer Chinook Salmon. Slice it in half and squeeze it in. Sour has been added. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I cover it, put the whole thing in the refrigerator and let the chicken sit over night. </p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The Beauty Of Life Experience</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Life is about totality. That’s how I see it. I have been playing music longer than I have been cooking and pairing wine. I’m not a master chef, but I am a pretty good cook. I am not a master engineer, or producer, but <a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/10/09/learning-to-listen/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">I have a damn good ear. </a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What life has taught me, in this world where I am buried in my senses, is the ability to visualize. When I am creating a mix, I prefer a playback on my near field monitors at 60 DB. That is the decibel level of a normal conversation. When I mix my vocals, I look straight dead center between those speakers and I can actually see the vocals. The only time I can do that is when the entire mix is balanced. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When I see the vocals, that’s when I know I have hit the sweet spot. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">about That Mac and Cheese</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When a person owns a business that is a<a href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> household name,</a> one must have standards. I must admit it was never my intent to be a macaroni and cheese critic. I contacted Kraft Foods to ask permission to use their product name. They pretty much said, “Knock yourself out.” After all, who actually owns the name macaroni and cheese. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">With that statement, I am the self appointed judge of said food group. My first victim is <a href="https://www.frysfood.com/p/home-chef-heat-eat-baked-macaroni-and-cheese/0081207103555" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Home Chef Creamy Macaroni and Cheese</a>, available at your local Kroger’s. It’s a basic microwave cooked product. Like the label says, 3 – 5 minutes. We had it with burgers off the grill and beer. I like beer. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Both my dining companion and I agreed – there wasn’t much to it. It couldn’t keep up with the burger and fell really flat. Kraft does a better job, except you have to prepare it. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The good thing about Home Chef Macaroni and Cheese – It’s the perfect after gig food. Get home at 3 am, half buzzed from after-the-show beverage and hooch. Voila! All that bland fat don’t taste so bad. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a href="https://www.bobevansgrocery.com/products/bob-evans-macaroni-and-cheese/#hero-intro" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Bob Evans Macaroni and Cheese</a> gets my next searing discernment. I thought it was pretty OK. It was an accompaniment to one of my other chicken dishes. That chicken I marinated in a bottle of red wine. A Pinot Noir that was gifted me had gone through a second fermentation in the bottle. That’s sloppy wine making. It tasted like copper but worked great for marinating a chicken. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">From all that wine, the skins of the chicken charred beautifully when grilled. Bob Evans Mac was able to hold up very well with the char. I was not unsatisfied. It is not bad for a microwave product. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My last critique? <a href="https://www.kroger.com/p/buffalo-ranch-mac-and-cheese/0004157305930" data-wpel-link="external" target="_self" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Kroger’s Buffalo Ranch Macaroni and Cheese</a>. Look it, I am not a big fan of Kroger. They are huge supermarket conglomerate which is one of the worlds largest retailers. I have my opinions. With that said, they live right next door to me so they are kind of like my pantry. They also have a large selection of organic produce. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Buffalo Ranch Macaroni and Cheese qualifies as delicious. It’s loaded with real cheese, a little spicy and has the right texture. If you love macaroni and cheese, get it. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Let’s Grill Chicken!</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I used my deck grill to prepare the chicken. It does take a little time to cook. I set the burners to low and placed the thighs on the grill. There was an entire sauce pan of marinade left. As the flames would rise from the dripping fat, I would extinguish those with the marinade. This created an aromatic steam which would envelop the chicken.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you use a thermometer, safe temperature for cooked chicken is 165 degrees. I just eye it out. Cooking at low temperatures maintains tenderness and juiciness. Patience is always a virtue. </p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Dinner Time, Yea!</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"> To accompany the chicken, sauteed mushrooms, cauliflower and broccoli. </p>
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2021-07-23T00:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:32:16-07:00
It’s Very Personal
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Passion</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a burning fire, a flame that is unquenchable. The heat from the blaze pushes me to dig deeper, work harder and yearn for more. My biggest desire is to be able look back on the end of day and say, “I’m one step closer.” I want to feel good about what the day has accomplished. It is the foundation for things that are to come.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The biggest challenges are the obstacles. There are a lot of them. Some of these road blocks are people, some are financial, some involve mindset.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I want to spend as much time as possible in the act of creation. It is what we were all made for, we are authors of <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/19/passion-understanding-comprehension-opinions-intense-enthusiasm-nerds-geeks-weirdo-within/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">creativity. </a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What is it like to continue rediscovering our authentic voice?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is truth that resides in our souls. Connecting to that place, the many tiers and shades, those places that aren’t yet known, that’s is what I search for. Those things that stand in the way are objects of frustration. That frustration is continual.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">These obstacles thwart progress; every morning requires confronting them. The question is, how does today’s creative process help push the barriers aside.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Patience. But patience can seed complacency. That is a path I have travelled over and over again. Good enough is not always good enough. I have allowed it too many times.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Does It Work, Does It Not Work</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We only see and believe our own reality. Disappointment has resulted when my previous goals were not achieved. Now, I strive to let it roll off my back. Sometimes you got to work around it. There are opportunities and choices in every decision. It’s a matter of seeing them.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are a lot experiments that are available for implementation. Trial and error is the canvas of art.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Experimentation is best practiced with a budget in mind. Its cost should be affordable and discarded if unsuccessful. If too many resources are committed there is a risk of cognitive dissidence.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Circumstances change. In fact, one of the few guarantees of life is change. People change. Commitments change. Therein lies the secret – how do does a person recognize change is happening? Again, too many resources committed can lead to blindness. Faith in someone can lead to disappointment.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Let’s not forget about rejection. That stings big time. What have I learned from rejection? You get rejected enough times and your skin becomes thick. I have stopped taking it as a slap in the face.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is part of the risk of collaboration and relationships.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Feed Back</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We humans act upon our intuitions, it’s natural part of our cognitive perceptions. We can perceive intentions of others by the energy they project. People can tell if you have a decent heart, have no intent on harming others, not looking to take advantage of someone.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>The opposite is likewise true. We have all run into someone and known immediately that something was amiss. The person you encounter sets off alarm bells; there are warning signs.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Seeking out people you trust and respect is super important. Especially when you desire the wisdom of their opinions. <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/07/02/influences-and-mentorship/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Who do you seek out for advice? </a> People who are going to be truthful, with objectivity. Ask your fellow artists, mentors, teachers and role models.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">What Are Your Strengths?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Why is it that some of the worlds greatest and most successful artists become addicts. Some of them end up killing themselves. We all live in a world of our own imagination. Does someone go down the dark road because the success is too much to handle? Is there a desire to always feel that high, and if it even ebbs a little, the loss of it is too great?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I wouldn’t know, I have never been there.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some of the best advice I have ever received – Use your knowledge of your craft and create a <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/09/25/finding-my-core-values/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">unique perspective.</a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I love original music. Individuals who decide on collaboration will bring their strengths to the table. Playing cover tunes requires mastering some one else’s performance. This is a good thing. Playing original music requires presenting your strengths.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Peanut Gallery</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are all sorts of<a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/05/07/criticism-and-haters-how-to-deal-with-negative-vitriol/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> people who are super critical.</a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most of these folks are under achievers. Many are self-perceived experts. I hate getting advice and criticism from those who I consider neophytes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Opinions – I’ve said it before. They are like arm pits: everyone has two and they both stink. We have a choice when people voice their opinions. We choose to decide if that person is a mirror, or if they are voicing their own self-doubt. If they are a mirror, then you will most likely agree with their opinion. “Nah, you can’t do that,” or, “That’s a bad idea.” You will believe their opinion.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Using people or circumstances as a mirror, we tell ourselves our ideas are not important. People who think our ideas are bad are telling you that is something they wouldn’t do, so why should you. There is risk in agreeing with them. Let’s not disconnect our link between heart and and mind.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I don’t want to give this power to others. Why would I want to mirror the opinions of the negative and nay saying? The reason I am doing the things I do is because I do not want to function in the boundaries of others.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Leave the Peanut Gallery to themselves. My actions and my decisions are the motivating factors of my journey.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">What Are Your Habits?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/09/18/inspiration/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Creating new works</a> never gets dull. Writing, creating music, producing videos, each one fuels the other two. Pretty remarkable and super exciting, it is.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is no equality in daily routine. Each day presents obstacles and opportunity. It’s all a matter of seeing what is available. How much can I get done? Even the smallest amount of progress is still progress.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Who Is Listening?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Everyone has something valuable to share. Not everyone is going to enjoy the fruits of my creativity. There is an audience out there. There are seven and a half billion people in the world. The only thing needing done is to find one hundred thousandth of a percent of the worlds population. Not so daunting when put that way.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">There is no single definition of <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/08/success/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">success</a>. We can judge our aspirations against the standards of another person’s triumph. We can measure our merits on what we perceive to be someone else’s achievements.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Or, we can measure our success against ourselves. What new things have we learned, what techniques did we expand upon, what part of today fueled our passion?</p>
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2021-07-15T22:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:32:38-07:00
Think Again
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am constantly calling myself in to question. Am I on the right path? Is my work important? Does it matter?</p>
<h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#188e63;line-height:1.4">Humbleness</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We over estimate what we are capable of. Especially when there isn’t adequate information of what it is we are setting out to do.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a natural tendency to create an us versus them mentality. This is the result of black and white thinking without regard for accepting the grey. Most of us believe there are only two options available in given set of circumstances. It is a thought process which expects benefit at the expense of something or someone else. This is often prevalent in group situations. Self-importance becomes equal to identity, self-esteem and a sense of belonging. Pride and egocentricity take precedence.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This kind of thinking severely limits the <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/01/vision/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">possible outcomes </a>of circumstances and relationships.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Learn to accept that you don’t know everything. Value the opinions of others. When ever possible, be available to help others. When you can, put other people first. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Think of the people you know who have achieved the highest levels of success. Do you think they accomplished it by themselves? The high achievers I know have different associations which have facilitated their journey.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have talked to many people at the top of their game. There are many attributes which impress me. They are kind, compassionate, approachable, likeable, grateful and passionate human beings. For the most part they have struggled to be where they are today. These folks know the path they took and know from experience how difficult it was and still may be. They are grateful and understand they haven’t got all the answers.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Remember from whence you came and how far there is still to go.</p>
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<h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#188e63">Curiosity</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">As human beings, we are hard wired to be creative; that is our natural state.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Is there a different way to do things?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/12/the-compelling-reasons-why-we-are-driven-to-do-things-need-vision-accomplishment-ambition-vision-association/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">What are the most important questions of your life? </a></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Probability is the primary factor of our decisions. Even as simple as driving our cars; driving can be pretty dangerous. Chances are pretty slim that we are going to have an accident. Yet there it is.</p>
<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#f9fa00;line-height:1.4">Bigger decisions require more preparation.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It might seem like I’m wandering around here, but stick with me.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is likely you know some one who has a <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/08/success/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">successful career</a> in their art; at least more success than you. Yes, there is luck involved. You might think luck sticks to some people. I agree with you. But here’s the deal – how many different ways did these “Lucky” people prepare for their success.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Did you know the average millionaire has at least seven different revenue streams? That, according to the IRS. That’s a lot of different surfaces exposed to varying degrees of possibility.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most career oriented musicians have several different aspects to their profession. Performance, Instruction, Recording, Writing, Networking, Collaborating… and the list goes on. They have a multifaceted approach to how they negotiate their passion.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are several different surfaces that luck can stick to.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The deal is this, we need to find many passions within our creativity that fire us up. It’s up to each of us to explore the possibilities. Of course there will be walls that will close us in, some doors won’t open and obstacles will stop us. But there is always a way over, around and through these things. We only have to search for them and discover how to maneuver our path.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Curiosity is key to rethinking what we are doing.</p>
<h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#188e63">Fear</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">People seem to need something to fear.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In Paleolithic times, we had to be cautious. There were any number of threats which could kill us. Life as a hunter/gatherer was dangerous. There were many threats that needed navigation. High rates of infant mortality, predators, lack of modern medicine and starvation, to name a few.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There was a lot of stuff to be worried about.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Society has had rapid change in the last ten thousand years. Our brains haven’t evolved fast enough to keep up. Mechanization and automation are part of our modern world. Here we are, still afraid of saber tooth tigers.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Fear can be a motivator. The challenge is to use it as tool.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">What do I fear? I fear lack of autonomy, mastery and purpose. Not living life in the power and simplicity of purpose, that’s what I’m afraid of. I use these as intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">As a creator, I have to remember this:</p>
<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#faed00;line-height:1.4">All that you do begins in yourself; all those ideas and passions flow through you. Once you process it, it flows out to the world.</p>
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<h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#188e63">Full Circle</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One door closes, and another opens. Commitments and possibilities come to an end. Often times another set presents themselves. What was once part of the game plan can become an obstacle. The choice is to climb over it. Sometimes what stands in our way is insurmountable. Then the choice is to go around it. Either way, we end up on the other side.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The worst that can happen is letting what blocks us stop us in our tracks.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For ten years of my life music was not a priority. It was always there, but I had other desires I deemed more important. Love, career, family, you know, some pretty important stuff. I threw myself into the pursuit of those things. Consistency and persistency is pretty much the way I approach life.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">That ten years was spent in frustration. None of it came to fruition. It took <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/06/04/the-right-questions-identity-truth/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">rediscovering myself</a> to get back on track.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Rethinking is a continuous process. What are the priorities motivating me? Is its weight too much for me to bare? Am I carrying animosity, disgust, disdain towards another person? Isn’t life tough enough? Why keep coming back to the things which I can not control.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Put it down and move on. My mental energy is better spent on forging ahead..</p>
<h2 class="has-white-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#188e63">Doubt</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Is that true?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sitting still is one of my biggest challenges. There’s a lot of fidgeting that goes on; listening becomes a low priority.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The challenge has been trusting myself. The road I have traveled is littered with failure and disappointment.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have read, life is a sentence of failures punctuated by successes. Guess what? This week was a perfect example. I won’t go into the details but it involves a very good friend letting me down.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have to own up to my own self doubt. There isn’t time to be second guessing another person’s motives. People over estimate themselves and I’m still learning this.</p>
<p class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">How to conquer doubt?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is the way I see it and what I strive for:</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Essential change is the essence. It can’t be superficial, it has to go to our very core; we need to be authentic and different. The goal is not to change our behavior, that can become artificial. What it comes down to is sorting out the raw truth – What is it that defines me and how can I effect change?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I could live in a world of self doubt. I have quite a track record of failure. Much of that is based on the trust I put into others. I take people at face value.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The path left for me is to keep on <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/04/17/failure/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">failing</a> till I accidentally stop failing. That looks like what’s in the cards.</p>
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2021-07-14T10:34:53-07:00
2021-09-03T05:33:36-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Recipe Poisson Et Legumes
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">Simply – Fish and Vegetables</h2>
<h3 class="has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background">Before I share the recipe, I have this to say…</h3>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My heritage is from Alsace-Lorraine. Throw in a little German and Dutch, with a whole lot of French, and boom, there you have it. The result is my propensity for Gaulic Sensuality.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This encompasses the total experience of the senses. These are Sight, Smell, Hearing, Taste, Touch and Proprioception. Everyone knows the first five, but for most, Proprioception is not a very familiar concept. Also known as Kinesthesia. It is part of our senses through which we perceive position and movement. It is our perception of equilibrium and balance, senses that depend on motion and force.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Athletes and Artists of all types depend on Proprioception as a sixth sense. It is our center of balance, our mental head space, the control we have over our athletic pursuit or our creative command.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">As a drummer, I am constantly searching out new ways to enhance limb independence. A great drummer once said, hands and feet should each be able act independently, with out influencing or depending on the actions of the others. This is an oversimplification, but welcome to my world. What a great analogy of Proprioception.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Any athlete or creative must apply this concept to what they do. At the cornerstone of Kinesthesia is <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/03/19/why-now-you-know-reality-problems-reasons-motivations-mechanisms-question-definitions-purpose-life-family-passion-responsibilty-emotions-mindset-behavior-challenges-maturity-calmness-equilibrium/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Mindfulness</a>. You have to know where you are and what you are doing in performance.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This takes discipline and commitment. And time, it takes time. Time is the most important limited commodity available.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">But a guy has got to eat. And I ain’t missing many meals.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">As my friend Pat said the other day, “Bry, you better take more care of yourself, the wind is about to blow you away.”</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Thanks for your concern, Pat, and the biting sarcasm. It’s good to have friends.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">Discovery</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are no short cuts in art and creativity. When it comes to food prep I have to rely on all available advantages .</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Cruising the freezer aisle at Safeway I discovered Riced Cauliflower, Mediterranean Inspired. With grilled zucchini, fried eggplant, red and yellow peppers and a basil sauce. Wow!!! Instant gold.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Why do I like cauliflower? You can bake it, broil it, saute it, boil it, mash it or just eat it raw.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The best thing about cauliflower – it’s a cruciferous vegetable.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Why is that important? I’m glad you asked.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In my misguided years of seeking social conformity, I pursued network marketing. I sold food supplements in the field of nutraceuticals. The company I represented main ingredients for their products was cruciferous vegetables. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage, and bok choy. Delicious food. Yum.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">They all contain phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, and fiber.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Enough said; delicious and healthy.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The common ancestor of these veggies would be cabbage. Some very smart, creative botanist types manipulated cabbage into these various vegetables. Thank you, creative botanist types!</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then someone else figured out how to rice cauliflower. One of the things I have discovered about riced cauliflower – preparation is key. If it isn’t cooked long enough there won’t be a rice like quality to the flavor.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Remember that.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">The recipe</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This can’t get any more simple. My maxim is minimum ingredients, minimum prep, maximum outcome.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Two packages of the Safeway Riced Cauliflower</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A half pound of fish of your choice ( Cod works exceptionally well )</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Lawry’s Garlic Salt</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some Olive Oil. I’m usually of the mind that there is no such thing as too much olive oil, but in this case, be sparing. Especially if you are using a non-stick pan</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some lemon juice or sliced lemon</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Diced Chive if you want to be fancy</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some sort of pan that can be covered</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Use a little olive oil, maybe two to three tablespoons. Spread evenly in the pan. Turn the heat to high and add the two packages of riced cauliflower. Saute the rice and get it hot. Be sure to stir as you go. Make sure the cauliflower is steaming hot before you turn the heat to low.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It won’t hurt to add a touch of stock of some sort, you choose. You don’t need much.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Add the fish and season. You don’t have to use Lawry’s. Use anything you want.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Again, make sure your heat is on low. Cover the pan and walk away. Ten minutes max.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I chose to use that ten minutes working on paradiddle variations at 113 BPM. Got to keep up the chops.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you like your fish on the rare side, eight minutes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Plate up, add the chives and a little lemon for a some pizzazz. Eat.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">So good, you won’t believe it.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Extra stuff</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A side salad of wild greens, some tomato and red onions, olive oil and white wine vinegar.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For dessert, Black Cherries from Washington State.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Go organic on as many of the ingredients as possible. That delivers the best flavor profile.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">No macaroni and cheese with this dish. There is no point in burying its delicacy with salt and fat.</p>
<h2 class="has-white-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background">My Inner Wine Snob</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Any light white wine will do. I have chosen two.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Being a <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/11/15/dont-quit-your-day-job/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">wine snob, </a>I am rarely going to suggest wines that are not unique. I will always try to keep my selections affordable.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Lenz Moser Gruner Veltliner 2019. Gruner is the most widely planted varietal in Austria. The wine has good acidity and citrus characteristics to its fruit. It pairs perfectly with the swordfish and cauliflower rice dish. It also matches quite well with the salad. A perfect artist wine. It sells for 8 bucks a liter; that’s an extra third of a bottle. You can’t go wrong.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Weingut Geil Gewurztraminer Kabinett 2020. Gewurztraminer is generally a heavier white. Geil has created a delicate beauty in this wine. It has very light acidity, typical floral notes in the nose, and pleasing stone fruit on the palate. I loved it. It was awesome with both the swordfish and cherries.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It could not keep up with the salad. The wine vinegar over powered the wine. 12 bucks, Yahoo!</p>
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2021-07-08T23:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:34:01-07:00
Truth Is Simple?
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">Who and what To trust?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/09/13/its-all-about-the-gravy/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">I know I can trust my cat. </a> He knows exactly what he wants, when he wants it, and has no problem letting me know. I appreciate his forthrightness even though I’m often unable to figure out his motives. I can definitely depend on him and his friends to do cat things. They are cute and adorable and exhibit contented feline behavior. There is nothing better than a full bowl of food, a warm place to sleep and loving family to keep a kitty happy.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I know you can trust your dog. I probably love your dog, even though I have never met your beloved pet.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">I trust that I am going to pay taxes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">I also trust that one day I shall face my demise.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Who are we? Who do we think we are? Can you trust your self? Trust others? Trust the government? Your doctor?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Another thing I know, as I grow older, I embrace process, because it’s better than the alternative. This is a personal truth.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faf400">People Close to You</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I can trust my friends. Each one has a different way of responding to and approaching life. A defining characteristic of musicians is that they tend to have strong powers of imagination. I really appreciate that characteristic.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.6">As far as people are concerned, we know there are people who smarter than we are and also less smart. It’s hard to understand the decisions they make and the actions they take. We know they can have some pretty awful ideas. Which is a good thing; it confirms our opinions about ourselves. We might believe we are smarter than they are. This may not be true, but at least it’s comforting.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.6">Can you trust yourself? Will you be true to yourself? Will you avoid self-deception?</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faed00">Society</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>Do you trust your employer?</strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">How’s that job security?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>Do you trust the government</strong>?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">How is it going in your city? Are they getting a handle on the things important to you.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Do you trust the news networks?</strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Watching an hour of cable news, there will be many references to insurrection, revolution, financial collapse, terrorism, kidnapping, environmental catastrophe, floods, earthquakes, robbery, death and murder. Repeat hourly, ad nauseam.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Side effects may include, but not limited to, negative and poor health, unsettled mental process, anger, disgust and apathy.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there are the commercials, lots of pharmaceutical commercials, for all sorts of ailments. Negative, disheartening, disenchanting…why subject yourself to it? No wonder opiate abuse and depression are major challenges in our society.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Hey, wait a minute, sounds like a conspiracy. Am I right, am I right?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faed00">Thought Process</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Science and self help gurus corroborate. Thoughts we allow in our heads code programs for our minds and bodies. <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/06/18/happiness-creating-joy-contentedness-glee/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Mental state</a> has a huge impact on health. Horrible and frightening thoughts elevate stress and release cortisol .</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Time spent with positive thoughts is time not spent with negative thoughts. Very important to keep that stuff at bay.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/03/12/who-are-the-experts-expertise-validation-critical-criticism-major-blunders-careless-execution-ignorance-negelect-willful-variables-understanding-solutions-opinions-abstract-results-skill-set-mastery-i/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">I used to hate being wrong.</a> My opinions were so sacred that the thought of being wrong held me back from learning new things. This was especially true in my musical tastes. My college days were spent worshiping jazz and funk. Surely those players could play anything, do anything. That’s why I played those styles, to be the best.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faed00">Meet The truth</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then I went on the road with a Country/Rock band, replete with a pedal steel player. The year I spent with that band forced me to realize my inadequacies as a player. And yes, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/18/the-genius-factor/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Willy Nelson and Patsy Cline are geniuses,</a> and I was too proud and inexperienced to acknowledge it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One of the things I’m trying to learn is detaching myself from present and past. The things I am attached to have led me into all sorts of cognitive dissidence. Often times my opinions are totally off the mark. Rethinking is a habit worth developing. The goal is to separate those cherished opinions from my identity. A work in progress.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A teacher once said, “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a reason for that advice. It’s just flat out healthy for our mind, body and spirit. <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/11/mackncheeze-music-podcast-25-featuring-william-kenower/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">A successful author friend of mine </a>declares his true state of being as comfort, enthusiasm and love. I think that is as it should be.</p>
<p class="has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#faed00;line-height:1.4"><strong>What is the value of a fulfilled human life?</strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Can you actually tack a financial price tag on that? So many of the artists I know would be creating regardless whether the money was there or not. The most fulfillment I have ever felt has never come from my experience as an employee.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Each person decides what qualitative aspects define attainment. There is confidence. There is a vision for their life. What they currently see may be different than they want, but they work on closing the gap. There are obstacles, maybe self-doubt, criticism from others, all those challenges which need to be surmounted or bypassed. They know what priorities should be invested in, consistently and over time.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This requires tremendous introspection. A person has to be incredibly honest with themselves.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What is trust? Is trust part of our truth? Is it simply our perspective and the faith we have in our appointed tasks? That path is the accomplishment of our vision.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>To Thine Own Self Be True. Right?</strong></p>
<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#faed00;line-height:1.4">It’s never too late.</p>
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2021-07-01T22:57:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:40:52-07:00
Influences and Mentorship
<p class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A mentor is someone who instills a success oriented mentality in somebody else.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Steve Jobs was Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor. Oprah Winfrey’s – poet and author, Maya Angelou. Woody Guthrie mentored Bob Dylan. American actress, dancer and singer, Chita Rivera was mentored by her former teacher, Doris Jones. And the list goes on</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The concept of mentoring originated in Homer’s Odyssey. There is a great article in the<a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/the-odyssey-mentorship/542676/" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer"> Atlantic</a> about this.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#56b9f2">Four Steps of process</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Successful mentoring is analogous to enlightened guidance. There are generally four parts of these relationships. There is preparation, negotiation, enablement and closure.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Acknowledging that help and guidance is needed to further oneself is a first step of preparation. Part of that is acquiring the tools necessary to allow the guidance to facilitate itself.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The negotiation element is the discussion and agreement to the expectations that each of the parties is willing to commit to.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Enablement allows the one being mentored to develop the skill set and mental acuity in their desired path.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Closure is accomplishing the steps necessary allowing the student to move on. Sometimes, closure isn’t facilitated because the relationship has deepened. Permanent bonding can happen.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#56b9f2">Beginnings</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Influence and Mentoring starts with family and upbringing. It can’t help but be that way.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Next is social influence. Our behavior changes as we become more accepted in our social niche. Things like peer pressure, learning to conform, hanging with our friends and adopting their influences. For me, that came down to musical tastes much more than anything else.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many times it is ourselves who become the motivational influencer. We choose what motivates our decisions and behavior. We love to see ourselves as different from others; that’s definitely part of the American psyche.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#56b9f2">Hunger and Desire</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Mentors are people who have areas of expertise that we do not. They are people who can motivate and guide us. They are role models who can help us in identifying goals, contacts and resources. One of my mentors is my mother, who is also my editor. Thanks Mom for all the years of advice and thanks for the years of holding PHD s accountable to literary standards. You have helped me immeasurably.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>I have had the distinct privilege of having some of the best <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/08/mackncheeze-music-podcast-18-steve-smith-of-the-seattle-drum-school/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">instructors</a> and <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/12/18/the-genius-factor/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">mentors</a> available. There has been great fortune and serendipity in geography. In my teens I had tremendous advantages. I was taught by one the great collegiate classical percussionists in the nation. I had little appreciation for that gift. Hindsight tells me I should have been paying more attention. All I wanted to do was to play music and hit the road. And I did.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In order to <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/03/19/why-now-you-know-reality-problems-reasons-motivations-mechanisms-question-definitions-purpose-life-family-passion-responsibilty-emotions-mindset-behavior-challenges-maturity-calmness-equilibrium/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">facilitate attainment</a>, one must set out on a path. The reason to seek out a mentor is to garner knowledge and draw from the experience of the person who has gone before.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Beyond doubt, if we are in the hunt for<a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/11/13/motivation/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> achievement</a>, mentoring is essential. Those who go before us have greater insight because of their previous success.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6674112
2021-06-29T04:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:41:22-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Chicken Recipe
<h1 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Poulet du Collins</h1>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Low and slow, that’s my secret. Gourmet is always best. I hate <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2019/09/27/breakfast-of-champions/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Bad Food</a>.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When I cook, I need the ability to walk away and focus on something else. Writing, or practicing, or recording, all super important. Lack of time is a huge consideration. Life and creativity are pushing and pulling; the more time I have for priorities, the better.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The fewer steps the better. Minimum ingredients, minimum effort, maximum return. It’s always about the ingredients. The higher the quality, the better the flavor. Mouth watering goodness is key.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Recipe</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I do not believe in recipes. A list of ingredients, yes, recipes, no.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Make sure you have a thermometer.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Start with a pan of some sort which has a lid that will completely cover it. Soup pan, frying pan, braising pan, it doesn’t matter. I use a Cuisinart stainless steel roasting pan. More on that in a later blog.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Bone-in split chicken breasts. Why bone-in? There is more flavor when attached to the bone, as well as retention of moisture. We want our chicken tender, yes?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Olive oil, onions, garlic, salt or a seasoning of your choice. Herbs – dried, fresh, vacuum sealed, who cares, it’s all good. Some chicken stock would be nice. Sun dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts. That’s it.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Coat the bottom of your pan with Olive Oil. Turn the heat up high and sear your chicken breasts skin side down for about 30 to 45 seconds. Remove the chicken and set aside.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Add your garlic and chop that onion any way you want. There is no such thing as too much garlic or olive oil.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Turn the stove up to high and saute till you brown your onions, then turn the heat to low. Throw in a little chicken stock in the bottom of the pan to make sure no area is lacking liquid.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Take your chicken, season as you see fit and place in the pan. Place your herbs, sun dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts over the chicken, cover the pan and walk away.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The idea is not fry or saute the chicken. The idea is to let it slowly cook and let the ingredients permeate one another. Low heat, low heat, low heat. I can’t emphasize it more.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">After 35 minutes, about the time of a decent vocal warm up, grab your thermometer and check your chicken. By now your temperature should be about 115 to 125 degrees, depending on how many breasts you are preparing. When the chicken reaches 165 degrees, turn off the heat and uncover the pan. At this time it is super critical to stop cooking. We want to retain the moisture.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Dried chicken. Bad!!!!!</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Get it on the plate ASAP, best served hot.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Dinner time!</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When serving, make sure all that extra jus in the pan goes over the chicken. Make sure the artichoke hearts and sun dried tomatoes are on top as well.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Pick any sides you want. I keep my freezer stocked with all kinds of frozen veggies. Nuke em’, or heat ’em, any way you want, or what you have time for.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If you are looking for some Mac and Cheese to go accompany it, for that extra touch, I suggest <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.beechershandmadecheese.com/our-recipes/beechers-worlds-best-mac-cheese" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Beecher’s</a>.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Trying to impress someone? Crumbled Chevre over the chicken is a nice touch.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Dare I say Vino?</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Delicious, inexpensive wine suggestions –</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">St. Michelle Dry Riesling. This wine is beautiful, in that it pairs with pork, chicken, seafood, salads…all sorts of food. I like it because it is inexpensive. Serve it chilled, or not. I drink all my whites at room temperature. Champagne, or Sparkling Wines, those are definitely served ice cold cold. The thing about drinking whites at room temperature – you will know pretty quickly if the wine is flawed. Chilling can mask imperfections. 8 to 9 bucks.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Cote Du Rhone, Famille Perrin. Most Cote Du Rhones from Southern Rhone are Grenache based wines. This one has a bit of Syrah blended in. Grenache thrives in Spain and France and the wine can be simple or complex depending the wine maker’s intent. This wine is light enough to not over power the chicken and complex enough to accent the artichoke hearts and sun dried tomatoes. I love wines from the Rhone, both north and south, one of my favorite regions. 10 to 13 bucks.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Those who know me understand what a pretentious wine snob I am.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">With that being said, there only two wines out there – The ones you will drink and the ones you won’t. It’s like music – the stuff you will listen to and the stuff you won’t.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background">Music, Food and wine</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">What do these things share? Proper execution renders<a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/30/balance-what-is-work/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer"> balance</a>. Every aspect has proper positioning. There is not too much of any one component. Each ingredient, or part of the process, balances and supports the whole. That’s the way I see it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Spoken like a hedonist. I want to wallow in it.</p>
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2021-06-24T19:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:41:55-07:00
Process Is Art, Art Is Process
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Life brings enormous challenges, some which might represent the distance between how things are and how we would like them to be.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">By implementing process I have learned to attain my goals. Putting aside distractions allows follow through.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I work to accomplish daily objectives. We can take measures that help develop our attributes and capacities, reaching desired results. If you are like me, that outcome is a sustained relationship with <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/09/mackncheeze-music-podcast-29-interview-with-carrie-akre-intuitive-life-coach-mentor-singer-songwriter-producer/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">music and creativity</a>. These are underlying reasons for writing this blog.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Part of the journey is learning to understand <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/23/challenges-and-frustration-learning-to-deal-with-circumstances-which-hinder-our-progress/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">previous struggles </a>and how that reveals who I am today. There are many things which have shaped me personally and musically.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Building Blocks</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A) Fear: Fear of missing out. Sometimes feeling like an imposter. Lack of respect from peers.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">B) Confidence building: Increasing aptitude in technical skill. Recognition from artists I respect. Associating with a greater diversity of accomplished musicians.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">C) Failed relationships: This is super important. Persons who have burned bridges, bridges I have burned. People who have stolen from me. People who have passed judgment on me. You don’t know who your friends are till the rubber meets the road.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">D) Willfulness: Projecting my desire and vision on others. Lack of balance. Not considering the circumstances of others.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">E) Goals: Completing projects. Putting together a great mix. Meeting deadlines.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">F) Fusion: Taking old ideas and allowing them to intermingle, procreating new purpose.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">G) Questions: The deeper I get into a project, the more inquiries arise. By asking the right questions the right answers show up.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">These and plethora of other experiences have shaped and motivated me personally and musically.</p>
<h2 class="has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="color:#2e2e00">Moving Forward</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Action. You can put together a sequence of steps. Modify your current tasks. Focus your concentration and energy on activities which will improve technical skills.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have discovered dissatisfaction is the first step of the creative process. To be able to participate in art, execution is the primary requisite. No execution, no art.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Rarely do I remain satisfied with my present abilities. I have desired outcomes that are never ending. My personal compulsion expects results. Only through achieving results can I fix a line of sight a towards desired outcomes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/02/11/mackncheeze-music-podcast-25-featuring-william-kenower-author-lecturer-coach/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">William Kenower</a>, in his book, <strong><a data-wpel-link="external" href="http://Fearless%20Writing%20by%20William%20Kenower:%209781440349836" rel="follow external noopener noreferrer">Fearless Writing</a></strong>, copyright © 2017, addresses process in Chapter 15, Fear of Failure, or You Never Stop Learning –</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>“All the business of being an author, from writing book proposals to taking classes to attending conferences to signing books to talking to my agent or editor, takes place when I am not writing. The kind of attention I bring to these tasks affects the immediate trajectory of what I think of as my career.” </strong></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I recommend this book. Bill is a successful author, mentor, public speaker and podcaster. <strong>Fearless Writing’s</strong> concepts are universal and apply to any art form.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Consequences Of Process</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For me, collaboration with others is a huge foundation, an absolutely integral part of my inventiveness.<br>Working with others who are more competent in areas where I am lacking brings tremendous growth.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some of the results of these practices? A greater sense of well being and a much gentler interpretation of the world around me. Mastering control of my circumstances and more day to day discovery. Friendships, collaborations, connections, self expression, none of these being the end result but all part of the journey.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When I’m in <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/01/22/discipline-perseverance-self-control-discipline-leverage-conquer/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">control </a>of my time, there are far fewer distractions. By giving it my best I increase my gratification. All of this comes with inevitable challenges. The outcome of my processes heightens future potential. Belief in self increases. Self alignment comes in to focus. The incentive to forge ahead multiplies, rewarded with heightened performance, efficiency and execution.</p>
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2021-06-22T23:01:00-07:00
2022-05-23T02:10:16-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #32 Featuring Randy Sage
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2021-06-19T13:56:15-07:00
2021-06-19T17:00:12-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 32: Featuring Randy Sage – Film Producer
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2021-06-18T01:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:43:41-07:00
Happiness
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#fffa0f">What Is Your Source of Joy?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When your head is cast in bronze, is that when you will finally be happy?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There is a difference between happiness and contentedness. Happy is a feeling, or a showing of pleasure, or of contentment. Contentment is a state of happiness and/or satisfaction. You don’t need to have the emotion of happiness to feel content. There is a major difference.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A teacher once told me, be content in all things, he did not tell me to be happy in all things.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">It is clear that children laugh far more frequently than adults. Where did all that joy go?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Society beats us down. The day to day grind takes it out of us. There are expectations to be fulfilled, bills to pay and responsibilities that require attendance. It’s no wonder people check out after a long day of work.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f5f10f">What Do the shrinks Think?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">In psychology, there are two concepts of happiness: hedonic and eudaimonic.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Hedonic is hedonism, one of my favorite past times. But hedonism can lead to excess and dissipation, which is time consuming. The clock is ticking; overindulgence is not a priority.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Eudaimonic happiness is participating in experiences of meaning and purpose. This is where I spend the vast majority of my time. Productivity is key and attainment is a huge source of satisfaction.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#f5f514;line-height:1.4">freud said pleasure is our defining drive</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Regardless of their circumstances, people tend to revert to their general state of happiness.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My greatest source of happiness is <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/05/14/gratitude-origins-importance-how-it-helps-practice-influence/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">gratitude</a>; I find pleasure in it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The word ‘gratitude’ comes from the Latin word gratus, meaning pleasing or thankful. Gratitude is a positive emotion, often enhancing appreciation. There are many things a person can be thankful for, which cultivates meaning and health. Gratitude and appreciation go hand in hand, but appreciation goes to a much deeper level. Higher aspects include contentedness, glee and exhilaration.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Gratitude shows that you do not take things for granted. It is a gift of enjoying and valuing what we have.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Expressing gratitude releases dopamine to our brains. I like dopamine, I thrive on it. That might explain my affinity for hedonism.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Cultivating a habit of gratefulness creates a connection between behavior and feeling good. My well being flourishes when my favorite neurotransmitter releases. Happiness ensues.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am person who is grateful; the world does not owe me anything. My friends, likewise, have the same value. They are awesome companions, in that we share like mindedness in our goals and endeavors. Life is not a bowl of cherries; this core value helps propel us through difficulties and challenges.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Gratitude is a positive emotional reaction; the benefactor is me.<br>Gratitude fuels a constant state of wonder and appreciation for the gifts of this life.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#faed00">What Am I Grateful for?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My family and friends sustain my emotional balance. Exchanging <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/06/11/love-relationships-patience-kindness-foundations/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">love</a> with them helps me to better understand my place in this world. This positive emotion follows when another person has intentionally given, or attempted to give, something of value.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f9f914">Music</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Enough said.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f9fa00;line-height:2.1">Creating Brings Me Joy</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Recording, writing music, writing blogs, working on what ever book I am writing and rehearsals. These things bring me joy.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have friends that I work with. We spend time together, recording, creating, bouncing ideas off one another. It is like being kids again, playing in the sand box, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/08/07/dont-forget-to-laugh/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">squealing </a>and wallowing, pushing our Tonka Trucks around.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#f2fa00;line-height:1.4">Production Equals Pleasure</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2020/08/25/mackncheeze-podcast-episode-4/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">Editing podcasts, video and recordings </a>is incredibly satisfying. Learning and practicing, yeah, that does it too.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="background-color:#f9fa00;line-height:1.4">Cooking</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s pretty evident I ain’t missing many meals. I love sharing food and wine. More on that…</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#f9fa00">In Conclusion</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Primarily, be concerned with your own happiness. How can you disseminate joy to others when you are lacking it yourself?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Stupid is as stupid does. Your happiness shouldn’t be limited by another persons stupidity, unless you choose to.</p>
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2021-06-15T09:21:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:44:09-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Video Podcast #12: Featuring Todd Ainsworth
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2021-06-10T22:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:45:08-07:00
Love and Relationships
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We all know what love is. I won’t even pretend to know what is right for another person. I’m not even sure that the general rules of romantic relationships actually work for everyone. Each dynamic has its own set of particulars which may not even apply to another persons circumstance.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">Foundations</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"> </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Both love and relationships are the cornerstone of everything we do. There are certainly many different definitions of love. Love can be one of the most intense emotions we can experience, in addition to the confusion and and uncertainty it can entail.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">With that being said, love can be experienced in many different aspects. The Greeks defined seven differing states of love. No need to go in to that here. Being an integral part of life, we all know what love is and define it in our own terms.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Our relationships define who we are. Regardless of our paths, friends, family and loved ones are part of our very essence. Those connections help us keep our focus clear and elevate our spirits.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Emotions can make relationships complicated. I know I want to feel like I have been heard, understood and validated.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Relationships can bring us comfort and discomfort, at least that has been my experience. There is emotional complexity which can come with this.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Our personal experience forms the way we think of circumstances and others related to those circumstances. Our connections to others helps maintain our emotions and self worth. Connecting at deeper levels with more than just one person can help us understand who we are, as well as maintain our emotional and mental health.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many poets have written many ideas about love. Funny how love and relationships predominate so much of pop music.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Because there are so many variants in the definition of love, there is a balancing act in nurture our relationships and pursuing dreams.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Love</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I just want to stick with the people who love me and not spend a single second on the rest. The relationships I have with those people and the meaningful things I do really are the only thing that matters. Life is better that way.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Emotions can make relationships complicated. I know I want to feel like I have been heard, understood and validated.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Love embraces so many powerful emotions : fear,hope, pity, joy, and anger</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Love is an adventure. To get the right answer as to who you should love requires trying it over and over again. It took me years to figure who the important people in my life should be. Seeking out those relationships, committing to them, being rejected or ignored, then repeating the process.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Rejection is the key to love. In order to be vulnerable we must face the possibility of rejection.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Being vulnerable is like an unexplored frontier. There are mountains and valleys to explore before we reach the serenity of an ocean view. Sometimes that view is fleeting and many times we may have to retrace our footsteps. At other times a flood or an earthquake, or some other sort of catastrophe, has damaged or destroyed love’s foundation. In order to catch that glimpse of the sea can require walking through a alternate path to achieve the vision.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background">Patience and Kindness</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Love is like a house? If there is to be strength it needs a strong foundation. The main components of that foundation are patience and kindness. We all want emotional, physical, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/05/21/spirituality-purpose-meaning-complexities-of-life-belief-boundaries-qusetioning-seeking-light-shadow-fer-love-sound-silence/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">spiritual</a> and mental health. Sometimes those things can be fleeting and not granted us by circumstances out of our control.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Relationships can bring us comfort and discomfort. There is emotional complexity which can come with this. Our personal experience forms the way we think of circumstances and others related to those circumstances. Connecting at deeper levels with more than just one person can help us understand who we are.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many poets have written many ideas about love. Funny how love and relationships predominate so much of pop music. Because there are so many variants in the practice of loving those who are important, there is a balancing act in maintaining our relationships and <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://mackncheezemusic.blog/2021/04/02/attitude-and-belief-emotive-response-mature-thought-process-mind-frame-destination-hope-positive-attitude/" rel="follow noopener noreferrer">pursuing dreams</a>.</p>
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2021-06-04T02:00:00-07:00
2021-09-03T05:45:37-07:00
The Right Questions
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#36eda4">How Do I Know Who I Am?</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Are you searching for your identity?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Curiosity is the key to understanding yourself. Asking questions leads to answers which in turn leads to more questions. The more specific the question, the more specific the answer, at least that’s the hope.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The right questions lead to the right answers.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When I set out to to grasp a subject, I assume that whatever provides answers to my questions is of equal value to others. An incorrect assumption? Probably. It is silly to believe that someone else thinks as I do.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When I become the subject of my study then things get difficult.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Don’t you find it is easier to understand the behavior and motivations of others as compared to yourself?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Why do I do the things I do? Some are productive, some aren’t.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The longer I continue down the path I am on the more clear my identity becomes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It seems I am more focused than ever. As well, I am more forgiving of my shortcomings. Gone are the days of being self critical because of comparing myself to people assumed to be more successful. Brother, that is an unnecessary burden.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#36d49a">How Do I Respond To People?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">One of my mentors told me this – Assume everyone around you is secretly an alien that was sent down to Earth to teach you a lesson or send you on a mission. Thank You, James. This is just one more reason why I listen to you.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Everyone around me was put in my life for a reason. Granted, I do not always respond the way I should. Being human, I have quirks, I react irrationally and can be quite judgmental.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Everyone has a lesson to teach, examples to be garnered from and wisdom to share. And, yes, they have intelligence greater than mine in some area of their life.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:3.3">Learn to listen and pay attention, Bry. The aliens are everywhere.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#36dd9a">How Do I impact Others?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are consequences to our actions. It is unacceptable to ignore negative actions, as well as, continuing to justify them.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My intentions towards others may be based on emotions, personal goals or careless words. Many times I have allowed my selfish interests to predominate a situation. Consequences include alienation of relationships, dismissal of another person’s challenges or out right burning of bridges.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">How about helping others? I think most people, when they do someone a favor, put that act on a reciprocation list. The more favors they put out the more they are owed.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some people always have an agenda; there is an underlying concern that they aren’t going to get theirs unless they take more than they give. Every act of helping another is a debt incurred.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there are people who are like stalk of corn; they take one kernel and give back multiple cobs.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We all decide who we want to be.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#36d69b">Am I Spending Time In Someone Else’s Shoes?</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I want to better understand others. In order to do that, it is important to spend time pondering their lives and what they have experienced. Thinking about things from someone else’s perspective has allowed me to better relate with them.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Conflicts with friends, family and co-workers are inevitable. By trying to appreciate their mindset, and at times, offering help, allows me to be a more effective communicator. I have found empathy, and the ability to sympathize with someone else, starts with getting into their skin.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#09db8e">Am I Learning From My Life?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Are you looking for original ideas and concepts? Have you considered your life as a source of inspiration? We often look to others and wonder why they are able to be so creative. Perhaps they reach into their life experience.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Many of the artists and writers I know do just that. They follow their intuitions on a daily basis. Each day presents another set of circumstances to draw upon. Each day is unique in and of itself; today is not yesterday, nor is it tomorrow. This moment stands alone and by itself, offering a gift waiting to be opened.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The question left is how much of my day will I commit to the thing I have spent my life looking for.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#24e29c">What Is Truth?</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size">Back to the first question – who are you? Looking at yourself in the mirror really doesn’t help. What I want to see is my conception of who I am. I don’t want to be objective because that can hurt too much.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">There all sorts of standards thrown upon us by society, our peers and our institutions. Those standards of measure may not seem fair. Often times they are not.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Am I good looking, rich, creative, healthy or athletic enough? Am I intelligent or spiritual enough? Who set the standard for that?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">How are my technical abilities? Am I able to execute accurately? Will my audience respond positively? Who set the standard for those parameters?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">If we are trying to develop our own voice in what ever our endeavors might be, what is the standard measure of our abilities? Who are we comparing ourselves to?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We are only going to believe what we want to. We are only going to decide to do what we decide to do. I am not going to be so trite as to state, “Seek your own truth.” The fact of the matter is this – you are going to any way. You don’t need my help or affirmation.</p>
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2021-06-02T12:38:50-07:00
2022-03-11T00:40:27-08:00
Mackncheeze Podcast #31: Featuring Erik Owen, Proprietor of Gig Harbor Audio
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2021-06-02T12:19:15-07:00
2021-06-02T16:15:26-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 31
<h1 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Featuring Erik Owen</h1>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background">Owner of Gig Harbor Audio</h2>
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<h3 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#dbb345">Eric Shares A wealth of Technical information regarding Audio Components, The history of high Fidelity and The Why Of Vinyl</h3>
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2021-06-01T20:26:21-07:00
2021-06-01T22:15:14-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 31: Featuring Eric Owen, Proprietor of Gig Harbor Audio
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2021-05-28T02:00:00-07:00
2021-05-28T04:00:20-07:00
Inspiration
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#91c8e8">Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The Greeks considered the Muses, the daughters of Zeus, goddesses of creativity. They were the source of inspiration for multiple artistic undertakings. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is inspiration of divine nature, of mystical origin? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have learned that creating motion, capturing and utilizing process can enhance creativity. Creative inventiveness can be sourced from ideas which may have come about spontaneously or through actual process.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have heard it said today’s culture seems hung-up on weighing the scales on skilled aptitude. I argue that the present state of pop music lends itself to the droll and the uninspired. Are we ignoring the character of inspiration by utilizing a cut and paste mentality? I know I’m guilty. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#98cded;line-height:1.4">Influences</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>What are the attributes that inspire people to enhance their god given and/or desired talents. The Inspired persons I associate with share foundational characteristics. They are trustworthy, brave, and empathetic. They also share love and appreciation.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Being highly paid, having an esteemed reputation and a secure livelihood cannot turn a boring life into an interesting one. I see it all around me. I know people in my sphere of life who have no goals or aspirations. They have no sense of fulfillment. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’m like the kid in that movie who sees dead people. Not actually dead, but metaphorically so. It will make no difference If a person’s circumstances are uninspiring, no matter how much status, money or certainty they have. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Owning the burning desire of aspiration can be just as fulfilling as actual achievement. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Inspiration is part of awakening to a new idea and experience. There might be something better, having a greater paramount. This can affect progress towards a person’s goals and dreams. There is a belief that hard work is more important than inspiration. Not necessarily so. Sometimes the Muses hit you with tremendous blasts of imagination. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Inspiration can be the source of creativity, progress and insight, having a positive affect on someone’s well being.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#91c6e5">Sources</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Being inspired is how I understand myself and my life. There is an entire universe within us waiting to be discovered. Potentially, everyone we interact with can inspire us. They can help us to develop and improve—if only our minds and hearts remain malleable.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Inspiration can occur when I remember something from the past or something I have seen. Shaping those thoughts brings focus on its content.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">This is just me, but classical music helps me to concentrate in writing and reading. I don’t think it makes me more intelligent but it certainly helps to filter the clutter of ideas from clogging my brain. Classical music helps me to keep my thought process compartmentalized. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Research is critical. Another person’s idea or concept can light a flame of ingenuity. I forget who said, “Stealing someone else’s work is theft, but stealing from everybody is called research,” or something to that end. Inspiration it is. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have had experiences on stage and in the studio where I have gone beyond my perceived limitations. This has happened many times in bands I have played in, where improvisation is a foundation to the groups purpose. Many times clarity and awareness of new possibilities, fleeting as the moment could be, would rise.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is important not to forget the inspiration garnered by watching others preform. If it is not experienced how can I draw it out of the well. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#91d0f4">Enthusiasm</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have seen friends, many times, go above and beyond the performance. When asked to repeat that moment, it is beyond present circumstance. Time and place are different, as well as the moment’s passion. Pretty heavy stuff when one thinks about it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When is enough, enough? All you can give is all can give. Enough is when you give it everything. As a writer and performer, enthusiasm, listening and engagement is the cornerstone. Above all, I want to be curious; curiosity is the path to new discovery. Discovery leads to excitement. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there is just flat out having the desire to achieve something important. I think of the time and places I attempted to convey and pass on ideas to others, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. Attempts can seem forced, especially when trying to manifest super intimate concepts and ideas to others. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">All of this revolves around trying to bring inspired ideas into reality. There can be an amazing amount of steps. Anyone who has been involved in creating an album project will attest to that. The process takes hour upon hour, day after day, week after week. Add to that the limitations of life and its responsibilities, which can slow everything down.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A lot of this revolves around just trying to get to the next place. It can be completely experiential. Songs I have carved together seem to have that creative spark in that individual moment, but the question is – does it have potential to stay fresh over the long term. A few, yes, but the rest is just so much drivel.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#97c8e5">What I Expect From Inspiration</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Mastery, oh Lord, it is allusive.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Motivation, reaching in to the depths of my being to attain consistency and persistency.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Openness to new experiences, allowing someone else to share something new with me.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Self esteem, garnered from growing in competence. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Optimism, which facilitates enthusiasm and excitement. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Absorption, which helps my preparation for the tasks at hand. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Excitement, yet accepting of my present circumstances, as frustrating as that is. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Personal meaning, understanding why I do the things I do. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>It’s all personal and we make our own decisions on how we proceed down this path.</p>
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2021-05-21T04:15:16-07:00
Spirituality
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I think most all of us consider ourselves decent by nature. If we are suffering, it is only natural to seek a reason for that experience. Victor Frankl addresses this in his book “Man’s Search For Meaning”. How do we connect to our environment? Why do circumstances happen the way they do? What is the best way to live? I believe these questions are the basic foundations of why we seek spiritual answers. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">As personal as spirituality can be there are immense disparities in belief systems. Be that as it may, matters of the spirit seem to have a huge impact on an individuals perspective and can be a huge factor in self motivation. Putting my personal beliefs aside, I want the reader to understand how this part of our conscience is integral to our nature. Creative process may even defined by our cultures expectations, often a foundation of sacred reliance.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#ba9ed4">Choices</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is up to each one of us to define what boundaries are part of our belief systems. I have found that it is okay that others do not believe the same way I do. Also, there is something to learn from another person’s spiritual perspective. Maybe I’m missing a point that another grasps. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Often, spirituality does not have to be religious in nature. Not all believe in God but I firmly believe everyone has faith of some sort. Even Atheism is faith system. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have encountered folks whose religious acumen is diametrically opposed to mine and yet a decent human spirit prevails.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Doesn’t a search for spiritual connection boil down to a desire of recognizing and understanding the world around us? We are forced to acknowledge there are larger things than ourselves. We have a propensity towards self centered behavior and its results. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The question: is there significance other than life’s daily grind?</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#c7a8e5">The search</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Seeking meaning in life can be associated with the spiritual. Similarly, if a person has concern over the meaning of their life, that would lend itself towards existentialism. To break it down – our desire is to seek peace and balance to our existence; two means to an end. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Purpose and meaning lead me on a path to the sacred and significant. I want to be connected to the moment, especially in performance and in the studio. So much of that experience expresses me to myself. At other times I am connected to the divine. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-text-color has-background" style="background-color:#cdb2e6">THE CREATIVE JOURNEY</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I love to oversimplify things, it appeals to my desire to understand the complexity of life. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are only two forces in creativity: the things we draw near to and the things we push away from. Of course there are compromises between the two. Like I said, the less complex something is, the easier to understand.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A painter, a photographer or someone who shoots video looks for contrast in light and darkness. Musicians and audio producers look for contrast in sound and silence. Bela Bartok states, “In art there are only fast and slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.” Debussy said, “Music is the silence between the notes.” </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Light and shadow, fear and love, sound and silence, these concepts shape who we are as human beings and as artists. We seek our purpose and want to know our destination. Enter spirituality, which seeks the same things. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Truly amazing it is, how various the belief systems. Music, as well, can be derived in multiple and immeasurable interpretations.</p>
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2021-05-14T02:00:00-07:00
2021-05-14T04:45:22-07:00
Gratitude
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have spoken to many people who have great levels of success and one of the most predominate statements they make is of gratitude. They have appreciation for what they have, not necessarily dependent on monetary gain. Also, they speak of the path they have followed, the people in their lives and the circumstances they have encountered. Their success takes second wheel to how fortunate they feel themselves to be by being in the position in which they live. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Where did gratitude come from?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It is an open question as to whether animals know gratitude. Mutual grooming can be interpreted as an act of kindness, or thankfulness, amongst our fellow mammals. Herd animals, primates, predators and our pets will groom one another. This can be argued as a part of the evolutionary process. Reciprocation is key to survival of the species. As well, returning the favor has been key to human survival; all of us have at one time or another. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is this an expression of gratitude? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We all want to believe our pets appreciate us, that their expressions of love are acts of gratefulness. I don’t believe that we can quantify their thoughts. Our animals definitely express pleasure and joy to us, but to name those emotions as thankfulness is a bit of a stretch.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Chimps are known to pay favors ahead, and they remember those who have extended them. Also, they extend hugs to their care takers, but not in an arbitrary way. There is purpose in those acts of affection. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">For humans, gratitude is one of the most important parts of our relationships. A tribe could not survive without reciprocity being part of social function. Within that frame work were the beginnings thankfulness. It is deeply rooted in our internal mechanisms, the basis of mutual cooperation. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">From reciprocation comes gratefulness. There are specific areas of our brain which are involved in experiencing and sharing gratitude. We are wired to expect expressions of appreciation when we share our own. Expressions of gratitude fire our endorphins, giving us pleasure.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I like pleasure.</p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">In Religion and History</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The great world religions view gratitude as a prized behavior.<strong> </strong> The concept of thankfulness dominates teachings, traditions and texts. Worshiping with a glad and grateful spirit is a cornerstone of these belief systems. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My paraphrasing of Adam Smith says that before any thing can be the complete and proper object of gratitude, it must be the cause of pleasure. Sorry, Adam, for my over simplification. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Aristotle said suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Gratitude Matters</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Merriam-Webster defines gratitude as the state of being grateful: Thankfulness. As a positive emotion, it enlarges appreciation. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am always looking for way to channel vision and my creative force; a method to balance life’s realities and the freedom I seek. With that being said, appreciation and gratitude form a natural alliance. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My life path has taken me on a journey of positive outcome after positive outcome. Building strength upon strength, my mind is prepared for today’s rewards. Not only are there expectations of achievement but I am fully prepared to utilize those successes. The sources of those accomplishments are both external and internal, both going hand in hand. These help reinforce gratitude’s distinction. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">As Process</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It takes direct and conscious effort to count blessings. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Gratefulness can be cultivated as a personality trait. Yes, it takes time. Like anything, used as a daily habit, it cultivates a stronger sense of satisfaction with our surrounding world. There is a ton of negativity everywhere, in society and our relationships. Part of human nature includes being resentful and jealous. We need help in shifting our attention away from negative mind sets. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I find myself embracing less than positive attitudes when things aren’t going my way, when being taken advantage of and having time and resources wasted by externalities. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I treasure the times I can be around families and friends. Also, being more appreciative of life and feeling less cynical pushes you into a more thankful frame of mind. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Humor is a way to feel more grateful and I use it regularly. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">At other times, when you are facing a tough choices, seeing gratefulness as a gift is useful. Some people wouldn’t mind having such a decision to make. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">The Job</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most of us work in highly stressful environments. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It takes a tough mental attitude to attempt offsetting the unpleasantness of co-workers and the work environment. Gratefulness is a great way to do that. Still being a working stiff, I do fall into complaining and whining. It’s easy to do. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">If gratitude is a foundation of contentment and joy, how can it hurt to try practicing it as a response. Researchers have shown positive emotions expand our cognitive and social skills. An easier to “smile than to frown” concept.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Being grateful requires being in the present. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Habits are everything. Good or bad, habits reflect the attributes of our personality. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Immediacy, especially in the work environment, fosters a narrower field of thinking, including stress and anxiety. I get it, it’s hard to be grateful when it gets to push and shove time. Being grateful helps switch our brains to focusing on the thing that needs to be done and away from the obstacles blocking us. By getting into the flow of gratitude, you can unlock other creative thoughts.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background">Benefits</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Gratitude can make you more innovative and creative. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Expressing and receiving gratitude releases dopamine and serotonin to our brains. They make us feel good. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">I don’t know about you, but I like that happy place. When I’m happy my mood becomes more relaxed. When I’m more relaxed there is less stress. Less stress, fewer depressing thoughts, leading to more optimism. The more optimism I experience the less susceptible I am to toxic thoughts and emotions. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The mindset of a grateful person is opposite of someone who feels they are owed. We all have family members, friends and acquaintances who behave this way. The destructive behavior destroys their lives and negatively affects those around them. </p>
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2021-05-07T02:00:00-07:00
2021-05-07T06:00:19-07:00
Criticism And Haters
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We all deal with it. Our art is very personal; it is an expression of the depths of our being. Criticism from others has torn me to shreds. Likewise, it has created feelings of inadequacy and anger. Someone else’s disapproval of my abilities impacts my self worth.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Judging involves having an opinion on something, pointing it out to be either good or bad. Criticism, however, is expressing an opinion on something without pinpointing anything good or bad.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">On the positive side, criticism can be an evaluative or corrective exercise.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Who Is Paying Attention To you?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Most people aren’t interested in much else but themselves and their personal interests. Let me put heavy emphasis on self. In addition to that, societal influences are enormous. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have a philosophy. I like to call it the 1/3 rule. It doesn’t matter what you do, who you are or who your audience is. 1/3 will love it, 1/3 will hate it and 1/3 won’t care. Only a very tiny percentage of those who hate you will actually take the time to throw criticism your way. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I truly believe those who disseminate negative vitriol are compensating for their own perceived inadequacies. The fact that they actually have time for such behavior is a great indicator. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is critical behavior a dominating part of your personality? I suggest you step back and work on some hard introspection. I’m willing to bet there is lack fruit in your life. </p>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Opinion Ghettos</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Then there are Opinion Ghettos. People who pass judgment and have hateful opinions live in this slum. An impoverished mind set can become a place where we are overly concerned about the opinions of others. This is a place of squalor.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My personal challenge is to overcome points of view that are destructive. It is super critical to surround yourself with associations that are positive and supportive. I actively pursue relationships that are naturally reciprocal. You never know when you may need to lean on someone for support. In the same way, we can be available for those who need ours.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">And the most prevalent Opinion Ghetto? Ta-da, Social media.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">When your art stands for something, these folks can come out of the woodwork, especially if they don’t agree with or understand you. Worse, they have no risk of personal confrontation. People hide behind Facebook’s invisible wall with no accountability. Hateful posts have destroyed people. Someone posts an emotional trigger and complete strangers jump on the band wagon. Reputations become questionable and ruined.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Count on someone being jealous when you attain success. This can be a sign post that you are doing something right.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Being Humble</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It was important to learn humility.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have learned to be more accepting of others. Practicing thinking as others helps create empathy towards my fellow human beings. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Humbleness can be tough. Listening to the opinions of others can be super frustrating. It is a hard pill to swallow, especially when we are more competent than our critics. Why does it seem those with the strongest criticisms are often the most flawed in practice and execution? Regardless, my response is respectful, measured and introspective. Maybe my detractor has a point.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Dealing With Criticism</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have learned to use criticism to evaluate myself. It is super important to listen to what others have to say. Objective intent can actually teach something. Yet truth hurts if you let it; there is perspective in a haters criticism, you only have to find it.<br>A lot of judgement from others can create anger. Remember, they are not the ones who provoke our emotions. I am the one who gets to choose my response to negative comments.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Our process of creativity involves independent thinking and motivation. Our belief systems and character can come under attack but we can use this to show critics that they are incorrect in their observations. Displaying attainment and accomplishment quiets the doubters and haters.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">So much of our process involves independent thinking and motivation. Personal belief systems and character can come under attack. Our actions can show our critics that they are incorrect in their observations. Move forward, displaying attainment and accomplishments, quieting the doubters and haters.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Conformity is super comfortable. Avoid the pressure of caving into a critic’s observations, together with maintaining your individuality.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Don’t worry about impressing others, most people aren’t even interested in caring. The only person who can stop you is yourself. Take pride in your achievements, succeeding when critics would have you fail. </p>
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2021-05-05T10:47:59-07:00
2022-01-06T22:00:40-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Video Podcast # 10
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2021-04-30T02:00:00-07:00
2021-04-30T03:00:26-07:00
Balance
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I’ve heard of this concept called work/life balance. A friend of mine told me his employer taught the concept at an employee work shop. Turns out the job still required a maximum amount of commitment from the employees with little commitment from the employer. So much for balance, as long as the employer gets the lion’s share. Corporate Crap, ad nauseam. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">What does balance look like?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><strong>Some things I have read about</strong> <strong>balance</strong>:</p>
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<li>Priorities are clear, know what you are doing and why, executing the necessary implementation. </li>
<li>Know when to say no. </li>
<li>Each day requires reckoning what is important.</li>
<li>Get enough sleep. </li>
<li>Does your career have work/life balance. </li>
<li>Exercising several times a week. </li>
<li>Do things you enjoy, daily. </li>
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<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="line-height:2.1">Society</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The biggest coercive influence in society is our culture. Cultural norms dictate how we should behave. The expectation of conforming is so prevalent, if we do not do so, we could get locked up in jail or committed to a mental institution. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">We humans make one irrational decision after another. I have been caught up in desirability bias, hoping that expectations become reality. When that circumstance fails I try to cover my butt by making up reasons for its failure. The illusion created is that my actions were rational when they actually were not. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">It’s important that I understand my nature. Most of us are caught up in confirmation bias; we see what we expect to see and then act on that expectation. I am attempting to question my own rationality. God knows it has lead me down many stray paths; primarily failed relationships, but that’s another story. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Part of life is learning how to balance subjective beliefs with objectivity. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Oh,oh. Let’s not go down the rabbit hole of the consciousness of reality. I try to to keep my blogs light weight. And yet, there it is. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="line-height:2.1">Anxiety</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sustained anger, fear and worry are a huge drain on my resources. I’m not interested in wasting my valuable mental real estate on someone else’s agenda. I have been caught in that trap, and that trap leads to excuses. Sometimes it seemed inescapable. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The trap lies in our relationships. Some form of conflict is inevitable, there is no way around it. How am I going to react and deal with the situations life throws at me? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I play to my strengths and try to understand my weaknesses. I learned the hard way I can’t be everything to everybody; as much as possible my time is my own. Understanding when my focus and energy is most effective is key. Mornings are perfect for writing, late morning to early afternoon for practicing, late afternoon for exercise, evenings are for collating research. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I would love for each day to be this organized, but that is far from reality. By adhering to these priorities as much as possible I alleviate lots of stress. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My work space is a haven. Those tools which are most beneficial to my efficiency and happiness are in my studio. Peace of mind is the reward of my environment.</p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">Our relationships</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I spend a lot of time judging others; it is awfully hard not to. Making judgement calls on our immediate world is what keeps us alive. Our hominid ancestors were wired that way; each day was spent dealing with the challenges of survival. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Life is less hand to mouth now. Most of our challenges revolve around other people. There are patterns we recognize and utilize in our daily interactions. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In order to get through the day we are going to make judgment calls on those we associate with. I try very hard not to focus on people’s lesser transgressions. So much of the way we behave is flat out thoughtless and automatic. I want to judge others the way I want to be judged. </p>
<h2 class="has-black-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background">My Goal</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The goal here at Mackncheeze is to place others front and center. Besides, what other people accomplish is far more interesting than what I personally do. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Richness and complexity resides in human beings; especially those whose creative force dominates their lives. When that force is consciously affirmed, nurtured, and developed, the result becomes the defining factor of their success. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I want to to stand as close to that flame as possible. </p>
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2021-04-23T16:21:36-07:00
2021-04-24T14:15:19-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #30
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2021-04-23T16:01:23-07:00
2021-04-23T19:15:16-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 30: Featuring Christophe Bourdoiseau
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2021-04-23T02:00:00-07:00
2021-04-23T05:00:19-07:00
Challenges And Frustration
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:0.7">It’s part of the deal.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sometimes there is just nothing we can do about it. Situations will arise which are completely beyond control. How we react to the challenge is what sets us apart. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are “tragedies” which happen everyday – I loose my wallet, misplace my keys, the cat refuses to come in, getting stuck in traffic…How I deal with small inconveniences preps me for the big challenges. Yes, I need to work on how I react to life’s little inconveniences. First world challenges, if you will. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Then there are the big tragedies: </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Loss – physical, emotional and financial. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Decay- The inevitable course of entropy, addiction and negligence.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Breakdown – Mental collapse, losing out to stress or the failure of normal function. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">These are frustrations that elicit strong emotional responses. How can they not?</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Frustration is a reaction to resistance. There are going to be barriers opposed to my will and goals. Disappointment is likely to increase when life circumstances aren’t going my way. I can become angry and annoyed when more important objectives are blocked or delayed. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.3">Frustration can come from a sense of unpredictability and self doubt. If our needs and desires are blocked, frustration more easily occurs.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Are you not getting the results you want? Feeling that your outcomes are not commensurate of the effort? Are your actions producing fewer results than you think they should? </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.3">Achieving a goal results in satisfaction, but non attainment can lead to annoyance. The more important the goal, the more annoyed. Frustration will occur whenever your actions are producing less and fewer results than you think they should.</p>
<h2 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="color:#d6e0e7">Origins</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.2"><br>There are two sources of goal frustration – Internal and external. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Not getting what you want? That’s internal frustration. Maybe there are some real deficiencies in your skill set. Perhaps you are perceiving deficiencies, real or imagined such as a lack of confidence or fear of social situations. Another type of internal frustration can result when a person has competing goals that interfere with one another.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">The second type of frustration results from external causes that involve conditions outside the person; life’s physical roadblocks we encounter, including other people and things that get in the way of our goals. One of the biggest sources of frustration in today’s world is caused by the perception of wasting time. When you’re standing in line at a bank, or in traffic, or on the phone, watching your day go by when you have got so much to do.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">External frustration may be unavoidable. We can try to do something about it, like finding a different route if we are stuck in traffic, or choosing a different restaurant if our first choice is closed. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sometimes there is nothing that can be done; it is just the way life is. </p>
<h2 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="color:#dbe5ed">Fall Seven, Rise Eight</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I do not wake up in the morning and say to myself, “Boy, I can’t wait to clean up all this crap in my life!”</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Challenges have a two fold meaning. Someone can call me out for my opinion. Or a challenge can be an invitation or a call to action. There are varying levels of complexity. If a person overcomes a problem, they successfully deal with and control it.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Challenges are similar to leaks in a boat. When you patch one, another pops up, and it’s even bigger. It’s hard to maintain the boat repairs and keep it from sinking. The idea is to overcome the opposition that keeps popping up. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Doesn’t it seem that it is a continual part of life?</p>
<h2 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="color:#dce8f3;line-height:2.4">Process</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">There are two mind sets which daily need addressing: optimism and pessimism. The problem is that they work in tandem. When the negative side wins out I face situations beyond personal control. Where as the positive side fires my endorphins. I like endorphins, I thrive on them. Yet everyday I have to face reality and understand the good comes with the bad. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Is there a problem? Is there a task, question or issue at hand needing resolution? How do I resolve that? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">To complete a goal, what is the approach? Can I find a method or procedure? What is the solution for solving the problem? What are my benchmarks? How do I define them?</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In the path of musical proficiency, many obstacles can raise their heads: available time, accessibility, addictions, social circles and economic circumstances. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">A positive side of frustration – the things creating the challenge are actually indicators of accumulating success.</p>
<h2 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background" style="color:#d9e6eb">More Process</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4"><br>Aren’t we here to help one another? There are tasks that others perform better than myself. Asking for help and helping others is one way to accomplish goals. Just because I am more mature and independent doesn’t mean I know how to do everything. I need assistance from other people in order to achieve results. Most people are willing help out, especially if they can see a reciprocal circumstance. I have learned a great deal about that. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Thoughts are powerful. Thoughts are filled with energy; they stick to our brains. I remind myself not to confuse them for reality but to keep them abstract. That is where they belong. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Negative musings are just that, musings. They have no power unless we allow it. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Isn’t fear unconscious thinking? Can’t I control the thought rather than it controlling me? Why allow the consequence of fearfulness? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am constantly in the process of reclaiming mental real estate, surrendering to the things beyond my control. <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-f162afbb-a6b2-4e69-9e37-efb1662beddb"></mark></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have created excuses to hide failures. The fact of the matter is that I am lying to myself. Some circumstances can’t be changed and the created stress becomes destructive. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have learned that while a situation can be distressing there is a way to limit frustration. Learning to accept circumstances is one of life’s great secrets.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">In the end, realize impressing others is unimportant. Most people aren’t judging you – they are more wrapped up in their own world. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">.The only person who can limit your achievements is yourself. </p>
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2021-04-16T02:00:00-07:00
2021-04-16T05:15:24-07:00
What Is Imposter Syndrome?
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<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80"><p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">So this morning, I’m listening to one of my favorite podcasts, and the podcast host starts talking about Imposter Syndrome. I’m, like, what is he talking about? I had never heard the term. </p></amp-fit-text>
<h2 class="has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background">I Had No Idea</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Evidently, Impostor Syndrome is a thought process where a person seconds guesses and may not even believe their abilities, endeavors and achievements are valid. They may envision themselves as being fake; not worthy of titles and accolades which relate to their success and skill set. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sound familiar? Are you experiencing feelings of inadequacy and self doubt? Impostor feelings are generally accompanied by anxiety and, often, depression. Trust me, I know the feeling. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sometimes I feel like I’m living in other people’s shadows; a gnawing feeling that I’m not worthy, undeserving of the success and goals I am seeking. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Yes, but I’m not the only one. I read about this from perspectives of super famous and highly respected persons. Some folks use it as a motivational factor; a way to focus their mindset on achieving goals. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I think a great deal of us are so concerned about what others think that fear of exposure paralyzes our decisions and activities. </p>
<h2 class="has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background">I Always Wanted To Be The Best</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Perfectionism is one challenge. We perfectionists set super high standards for ourselves; when we fail to hit those standards, thoughts of not measuring up fuels uncertainty in our abilities. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Sometimes we are labeled control freaks. That’s okay, because nobody else is going to do this; that’s how I see it. We are the only people committed to our personal goals.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Something can always be done better. Yes, that can be a subjective judgement call, but it is true. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Times were that I said yes to everything folks asked me to do; anymore, I’m just not able to. It has taken changing my mind set to be less concerned how I am thought of by others. Plus, I have to re-prioritize. I wanted to be superman, but you can’t be everything to everybody. I have a skill set I can offer, yet, there will always be somebody who is better or can offer more. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Gone are the days when I felt I needed to be extremely competent. I have grown tired of beating myself up for my lack of technical prowess. I know with enough attempts I can get things almost correct. Recording has laid bare my abilities and helped me appreciate just how competent others are. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Passing judgment on myself can erode self confidence. I am still learning to give myself slack. I refuse to criticize others this harshly. </p>
<h2 class="has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background">Can’t Hide Behind The facade</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Time was when I felt seeking assistance would reveal how fake I was. These days, collaboration is everything. Everyone brings strengths and weaknesses to the table. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Despite changes I have made in my thought process, I still have this nagging feeling that I’m not measuring up to the expectations of others. Well guess what? They don’t care, they’re not thinking about me. Mostly they are concerned about themselves. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I think a great deal of us actually are caught up in imposter syndrome. </p>
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2021-04-09T08:36:22-07:00
2021-04-10T15:00:09-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #29
<h2 class="has-medium-font-size">Featuring Carrie Akre of Carrie Akre Creative</h2>
<h3>Intuitive Life Coach, Mentor, Educator, Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Global Touring Artist</h3>
<h3>Co-Founder of Hammerbox, Goodness and The Rockfords</h3>
<h3>Carrie’s latest release – Passage </h3>
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2021-04-09T02:00:00-07:00
2021-04-09T05:30:11-07:00
Mental Latency
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Often times I draw a blank while talking. The pause in thought process seems excruciating, including some mild embarrassment. This tendency is annoying. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I am a highly intelligent human, or at least I would like to think so. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">My good friend Jerry explained this phenomenon. </p>
<h2 style="line-height:2.4">Short-Timers</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Short timers is a progressive mental state that blocks memory recall in conversation. The brain cells just are not connecting quickly enough resulting in completely blank lapses in the thought process. This usually results in uncomfortable pauses, snapping of fingers and vacuous stares as the afflicted person tries to remember just what the hell the word was they were thinking of. No cure yet exists for this manifestation. However, it is suggested that a decreased use of alcohol and cannabis may help those who suffer from it. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">And for those who don’t imbibe? Well, you’re out of luck.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">The good news – death is not imminent. </p>
<h2 style="line-height:2.1">Delayed Intelligence</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">Have you ever been in disagreement with someone over some sort of issue? Maybe you were super passionate and your persuasiveness just wasn’t good enough to sway the other person’s opinion. Maybe the deal you were trying to close didn’t work out as planned. Perhaps something you were blamed for was unjustified but in the moment you couldn’t prove otherwise. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">The next day, you know exactly what would have worked in your favor. “I should have said this, or done that.” Bingo…that’s delayed intelligence. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">And yes, it is terminal. It’s going to be that way till the day you die. </p>
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<h2 style="line-height:2.1">Short Attention Span Theater</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">A basic human condition. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Some stats – According to Google, the average web page view is 10 – 20 seconds. For You Tube, a view counts as one second of view time, which is the amount of time it takes to download the video. The average click through rate on Facebook is .89 percent. That means for every hundred people who view a Facebook page, there isn’t one complete human who stuck around to view it. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Makes me wonder how more people weren’t eaten by saber tooth tigers. I guess humans are easily distracted. </p>
<h2 style="line-height:2.1">Flat Screen Zombies</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">Oh my God, they are everywhere. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:1.4">I have heard the way to kill a zombie is to destroy their brain. This method must not work because Flat Screen Zombies are everywhere. They seem pretty alive, however, I can’t argue for the case of higher brain function. </p>
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2021-04-08T13:20:03-07:00
2021-04-08T15:00:23-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #29: Featuring Carrie Akre
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<p>Carrie Akre – Owner of Carrie Akre Creative. Intuitive Life Coach, Mentor, Educator, Singer/Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer and Global Touring Artist. Co-founder of Hammerbox, Goodness and The Rockfords. Check out Carrie’s latest release – Passage. </p>
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2021-04-02T02:00:00-07:00
2021-04-02T06:45:17-07:00
Attitude And Belief
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">To quote a famous teacher, “When I was a child, I thought as a child.” Now that I’m older I want to be mature in my thought process. </p>
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<h2>The reason Why</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Attitude and belief are foundations of purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. Lives have been ruined because of persons exercising their purpose. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The attitudes and beliefs we carry with us often originate from our childhood. How we were raised greatly affects our frame of mind. A well meaning relative, trying to protect a child, can implant a life time of limiting thoughts. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The responsibility of change lies within us. We can control how we react to life’s circumstances. Rejecting self limitation is part of achieving freedom. This process includes understanding our belief systems. </p>
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<h2>What Is Belief?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">That has been the philosopher’s puzzle since time immemorial. In the age of out of control social media, this is becoming ever increasingly more difficult to define. I propose belief in one’s self is paramount. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Belief can be based on both negative and positive thinking. An example: as I grew up, my father told me if a person wasn’t rich by their twenties, they were never going grow rich. I read later most millionaires come in to money in their fifties and sixties. I believed through my thirties that I could never become wealthy because of what I was taught by my father. My actions followed that distorted belief.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Today the sky is the limit.</p>
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<h2>What Is Attitude?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Attitude is reflected in a person’s behavior. It reveals a settled way of thinking, as well as, emotive responses to people, situations and objects. </p>
<h2>Hope</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Hope is an expectation that tomorrow will be better than today. It is a belief in sunnier weather tomorrow, or a smoother path ahead. There is not a burden of responsibility, rather, it is the universe which ought to make things better.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">However, I expect that my own efforts will improve my future. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Suffering I can’t control leads to hopelessness. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Being an optimist, I am always searching for temporary and specific sources of personal setbacks. A pessimistic person assumes blame lies on enduring and extensive causes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">I refuse to allow the opinions of unsuccessful people to hold me back. I think of myself as free from the negative opinions of others; in the long run, expecting a huge pay out. </p>
<h2>Singularity Of Purpose</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Consider the merit of subjective belief. Faith in achieving a destination dictates action. The power of a mind frame affects our behavior and relationships. Thoughts lack the power to decide their own fate.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The mind steers its way through the world using belief as the foundation. We expect our environment to behave in a certain way. We expect our experiences to confirm to our convictions. </p>
<h2 class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2">A Bad Example</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">There are people who blame everyone but their selves for their challenging situations. We all know them. The person refuses to see the only common denominator in their relationships. It is obvious to everyone else the root problem originates from that complainer. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Beliefs are essential to surviving. The whiner participates in a strange mode of self preservation by being unaccountable to their own decisions. They are blind to another path which would allow life to become simpler to negotiate.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">We are constantly attempting to understand our environment. The subconscious mind organizes all the data that bombards us. This allows us, with the help of our beliefs, to become more accurate in determining our goals. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Attitude and belief dictates our aspect, temperament, emotions, situation, decisions, evaluations and predilections.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">My friends are amazing in that they exhibit strength in their convictions. These are my people. They know where they are going and why. Let me embrace what their lives exhibit. </p>
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2021-03-29T11:23:05-07:00
2021-03-29T12:15:23-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #28
<h2 class="has-light-green-cyan-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background">Featuring Adam Puchalski Of Windstudio</h2>
<h4 class="has-light-green-cyan-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background">Bryan and Adam Discuss Noise Challenges In The Home recording Environment</h4>
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2021-03-26T02:00:00-07:00
2021-03-26T04:15:05-07:00
Vision
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">I like the dictionary definition: The ability to think about, or plan the future, with imagination and wisdom. Certainly a major component of the how and why we do this.</p>
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<h2>The World View</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Working for the man, I hear words like mission statements, objectives, purpose, values and vision. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">What is the search engine definition? A bunch of corporate speak on the how, why and variations thereof. It is a parroting of many courses offered by universities. I reject this. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">This post’s subject is not about visualizing world peace, eliminating hunger, eliminating homelessness or any of humanities nobler goals. These are important but I can not directly change them.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">A great teacher once said, “With out vision the people perish.” I agree.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">If there is no dream, how can there be a guide post? Dreams are a vehicle for transforming ideas in into something real, something that is tangible, that will affect others.</p>
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<h2>What About Me?</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Vision is a chance to close my eyes and see the fulfillment of dreams and aspirations. What is my commitment? Why is this meaningful? What is the process? When? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Pretty much end of story, right?</p>
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<h2>Personalized Vision</h2>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">My two to five year plans didn’t work. Did yours? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">If you are like me, you change your mind a lot. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">It doesn’t mean we are flaky or indecisive. Particulars and circumstances are not static; there is wisdom in rearranging thought processes.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The most important vision I can actualize is for myself and for my family. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Who has dictated my vision? My Family, job, church, girl friends, and chums. There are a whole lot of people willing to tell me what my vision should be. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">They believe their vision is more practicable. They wonder how come I’m not smarter. The fact of the matter – it is a vision for their selfish ends. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">With out my personal vision there is no destination to attain. Now is the time to stop ambling along. What am I looking for? Why wait?<mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-0f23fb71-cb90-429f-bbd2-9add9761cc83"></mark></p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Music has always been there. I can’t get way from it. Put it down, sell everything and after season I would be right back at it. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Of course there exists those who are more qualified and far more successful. You may ask, “Why even make the attempt?”</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The thing is, I can’t comprehend giving up.</p>
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<h2>Change</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Seeking perfection is the enemy of new ideas. Many ideas are embarrassingly lame; I know mine are. Embracing and only acting upon the perfect concept is a safeguard. You don’t want to look stupid. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">What I have learned over the years is that what I envision changes. From the heady days of spending month after month on the road to quietly playing in weekend club bands, to writing music, to putting together my own recording studio. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">As I keep searching for ways to improve my situation, there is a better chance of finding them. Furthermore, by discontinuing this habit, it is guaranteed nothing new will be found.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">The vision I had at twentytwo does not belong to today.</p>
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<h2>Being Passionate</h2>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Vision is everything. When I was with out it, or when I lived in the expectations of others, there was no real excitement, no anticipation, just mindless wandering. Now I am able to see past the garbage and work towards that which does not yet exist. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">What I can imagine ties to understanding myself. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">There have been those who have conceptualized their vision as my path to fulfillment. “Do this and that,” they say, “and you will realize the other thing.” “Listen to my words and do as so-and-so did and blah, blah, blah…” I’ve heard it all before. </p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">How much has to put to the side to realize dreams? I am not willing to sacrifice for the vision of another. I once delighted in social expectations and responsibilities. There are no regrets from casting them aside.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">I’m sure that those who have gone before us did not walk down a perfectly straight line; they did not hit very road marker that identified their path, did not celebrate every little victory and achievement, that the course wasn’t always true north. But what they could do was communicate eloquently where they saw themselves going and deal with challenges in their way. They fought, and continue to fight, the good fight.</p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">What we envision, we can bring into reality. I seek to do so consciously, collaboratively, and responsibly. </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size" style="line-height:2.1">Have you seen the mystical place called “There”? </p>
<p class="has-medium-font-size">I have envisioned what it would be like. I do not want miss the pleasure and adventure along the way.</p>
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2021-03-23T20:56:32-07:00
2021-03-24T00:00:18-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #28: Featuring Adam Puchalski
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<p>Adam returns once again to discuss technical issues in home studios. Podcast 28 focuses on noise in recordings. We discuss sources and possible solutions to noise challenges.</p>
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2021-03-19T02:00:00-07:00
2021-03-19T06:15:25-07:00
The Why
<p>What are the reasons and motivations for doing what we do? What mechanisms drive of us? These questions are for each of us to define.</p>
<h2>Let’s Start With Me</h2>
<p>I have a longing for purpose. There are many facets to this existence: livelihood, family, passions and responsibilities. These are things that require understand and definition.</p>
<p>My emotions and mindset support and interact together. I daily encounter circumstances which elicit emotive responses. </p>
<p>A partial list: irritation, exasperation, understanding, forbearance, resentment, desire, shame, ignominy. </p>
<p>Life can dole out some tough challenges. However I choose to behave is a response to my social interactions.</p>
<p>What I want, what I need, is to quench this this fire that burns inside.</p>
<h2>The Aspects Of Why</h2>
<p>Love, of course. </p>
<p>Commitment and responsibility.</p>
<p>Pride and selfishness. </p>
<p>Inner Passion.</p>
<p>Destinies Path.</p>
<p>Reaching for self actualization and fulfillment. </p>
<p>It seems all these can be integrated as a whole, each one sustained by another. These components are elements which feed the flame. </p>
<h2>Maturity</h2>
<p>The more perspective I have allows me to making sense of my life’s foundation. Following through with a course of action begins with understanding core determinations. Those decisions correlate to my goals.</p>
<p>I resolve to have calmness and equilibrium in my life.</p>
<h2>The Path</h2>
<p>An honest and noble journey does not necessarily preclude discovering all of my journey’s questions. I want to be at peace with steps I have taken, whether misguided or not. Thoughts, words and actions I have acted upon, these I hope to understand with crystal clear hind sight.</p>
<p>I hope my aspirations lead to success. Accomplishments that are low level to mid tier constantly change. They change because the path may veer to the right or left but summit to what always lies ahead.</p>
<p>Examining my needs leads to action on feelings, thoughts, habits and impulses. </p>
<p>I think these are a few reasons why we do the things we do.</p>
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2021-03-15T13:25:08-07:00
2021-03-15T17:15:16-07:00
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<h1>The Blog Site Is Under Reconstruction</h1>
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<h2>Thanks For Your Patience. I’m sorry for clogging your social media feeds! </h2>
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2021-03-12T01:00:00-08:00
2021-03-12T03:30:16-08:00
Who Are The Experts?
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<p>Yeah, Sure, I’m an expert. Just ask me. </p>
<h2>Proof Of Expertise</h2>
<p>Correcting the mistakes others validates my self-belief. </p>
<p>You know what I have found: it’s easy to be critical when someone is not around. </p>
<h2>An Analogy</h2>
<p>I have encountered major blunders when correcting the work of others. My favorite mistake is the over use of reverb. Reverb can be a mask; it’s like an over distorted guitar amp. Leads sound so much more legit, hiding the guitarists lack of technical knowledge and ability. That’s really not a lead I’m hearing, it’s sloppy noodling. It only sounds okay because the distortion hides the carelessness of execution. </p>
<p>Drums are critical. Microphone placement is super important, in addition to tuning. How about making sure each drum sounds like it is from the same kit? The challenge arises from ignorance and willful neglect. This from experienced engineers. </p>
<p>As an engineer my job is to identify which combination of variables are effective in a mix. Many musicians don’t understand that it is common for more than one variable to be important at a given time.</p>
<p>One serious problem with today’s recorded music – the expectation that technology will compensate for lack of knowledge. It doesn’t matter the platform, there are no shortcuts. We can get a desired result more quickly, but the understanding of the tool which allows it is essential. Otherwise, we are blindly swatting at a problem with out knowing how to find a solution. </p>
<h2>What About Opinions?</h2>
<p>Remember that you are not your songs and your mixes. Every song is different. What you saw in your imagination translated into the work; vision is part of the process. </p>
<p>When someone loves or hates your mix, they are not loving or hating you. What you have produced and what people hear are always vary. The listener brings a different set of expectations than you. </p>
<p>Being vulnerable is only natural. There is a difference between your work and you. Your work can be dissected, scrutinized, sifted and critiqued. But that’s not you, it is only an abstract result of your endeavors and thought process. Once that is understood we can separate ourselves from opinions of those who are not vested in our efforts. </p>
<p>We create what we create with many intentions: self-actualization, legitimacy, passion, entertainment, to educate… We are not doing this to be analyzed and torn down. </p>
<p>In my case, I want to be accepted and recognized as being legit. </p>
<h2>Advice From The Ignorant</h2>
<p>I’ve written about it before: it really bugs me when someone sits down in my studio and tries to give me advice on how to mix. Especially when they bring very little expertise and trigger time to the table. It’s all a bunch of blather which I immediately reject. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if said person has a skill set I respect, I’m going to listen. </p>
<h2>Musical Preference Is Not A Technique</h2>
<p>I love classical music. Want to talk about some engineering expertise? Holy cow! With the right monitoring source I can hear pages turn, valves flutter and bows scrape. In my recordings, those would be called audio artifacts. Audio artifacts are not allowed. </p>
<p>But in classical music, it’s part of the performance. The fact those engineers are able to keep the excess orchestra noise to such minimal levels is astounding. It helps to work with seasoned professionals, but still… </p>
<h2>The Rabbit Hole</h2>
<p>I’m not a fan of most EDM; it doesn’t do it for me. As far as I’m concerned it’s a genre locked into the audio sources and sounds of the late 80’s and early 90’s. Nothing new there. But along comes Skrillet’s mastery. Far be it from me to be overly critical of his expertise. The way he manipulates stock samples and sounds is incredible. I wouldn’t even pretend to undertake such a process. </p>
<p>I have friends who integrate live audio, loops and samples flawlessly, or so it seems. Imagining the crushing hours spent integrating those tracks leaves me astounded. I have done some of that but haven’t had the desire to go head first. </p>
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2021-03-10T21:38:59-08:00
2021-03-10T23:15:11-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 27
<h1>Featuring Mickey LaRosa</h1>
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<h4>Mickey Shares his insights and Influences in the Film Industry </h4>
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2021-03-05T01:00:00-08:00
2021-03-05T02:00:36-08:00
Opportunity
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<p>I look back in to my past and realize the mistakes I have made. Perhaps chances for our personal success are available to us more than we think. Many of us are caught up in our expectations, not being able to see opportunities that are obtainable. It is a, “Not seeing the forest for the trees,” sort of thing. </p>
<p>Are we ready for those favorable circumstances when they arrive? Often times we are not willing to put out the effort to reach out and grab the moment because what we see isn’t anticipated.</p>
<h2>Fact of The Matter</h2>
<p>The truth is that the things we get from life is what matches our mind set. There are no angels showing up to ‘Miracle’ our success in to existence. To grab what we are looking for requires extending our hands to get it. <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-19c4f812-e190-4a6c-8291-dcdf55259c8f"></mark></p>
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<h2>Are You Ready?</h2>
<p>Success is when preparedness and opportunity meet.</p>
<p>Opportunity can become hard work. It is a chance to recover from failure in addition to other difficulties. When we become clear as to our direction, we can take the steps to walk towards it. Stepping and reaching out is a way to show we believe our chance is showing up. Be ready for it by confidently doing whatever it takes. There may be limited options available but find a way to come closer to the things you love.</p>
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<h2>Find People Who Are On The Same Path</h2>
<p>It’s tough to be the lone wolf. A pack is more likely to succeed than the individual. Associating with like minded persons will bolster your confidence, including sharpening your focus. There is truth in the adage, “Iron sharpens iron.” </p>
<p>Your associations may find their opportunities sooner than you. This applies to me. Some of my friends have been working harder and longer at their craft; of course they will have more options. </p>
<p>Close relationships with successful friends creates an opportunity oriented mindset. I hold those people close to my chest; they are valuable resources. </p>
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2021-02-26T01:00:00-08:00
2021-02-26T01:45:08-08:00
Haters and Critics
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<p>We all deal with it. Our art is very personal; it is an expression of the depths of our being. </p>
<p>Criticism from others has torn me to shreds. Likewise, it has created feelings of inadequacy and anger. Someone else’s disapproval of my abilities impacts my self worth. </p>
<h2>Opinions Are Like Armpits,</h2>
<h3>Everybody Has Two And They Both Stink </h3>
<p>Judging involves having an opinion on something, pointing it out to be either good or bad. Criticism, however, is expressing an opinion on something without pinpointing anything good or bad.</p>
<p>On the positive side, criticism can be an evaluative or corrective exercise. </p>
<h2>Opinion Ghettos</h2>
<p>People who pass judgment and have hateful opinions live in this slum. </p>
<p>An impoverished mind set can become a place where we are overly concerned about the opinions of others. This is a place of squalor. </p>
<p>My personal challenge is to overcome points of view that are destructive. It is super critical to surround yourself with associations that are positive and supportive. I actively pursue relationships that are naturally reciprocal. You never know when you may need to lean on someone for support. In the same way, we can be available for those who need ours. </p>
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<h2>The Winner Is?</h2>
<p>And the most prevalent Opinion Ghetto? Social media. </p>
<p>When your art stands for something these folks can come out of the woodwork. Especially if they don’t agree with or understand you. Worse, they have no risk of personal confrontation. People hide behind Facebook’s invisible wall with no accountability. </p>
<p>Hateful posts have destroyed people. Someone posts an emotional trigger and complete strangers jump on the band wagon. Reputations become questionable and ruined. </p>
<p>Count on someone being jealous when you attain success. This can be a sign post that you are doing something right.</p>
<h2>Humility</h2>
<p>I have learned to be more accepting of others. Practicing thinking as others helps create empathy towards my fellow human beings. </p>
<p>Humbleness can be tough. Listening to the opinions of others can be super frustrating. It is a hard pill to swallow, especially when we are more competent than our critics. Why does it seem those with the strongest criticisms are often the most flawed in their execution? Regardless, my response is respectful, measured and introspective. Maybe my detractor has a point.</p>
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<p>I have learned to use criticism to evaluate myself. It is super important to listen to what others have to say. Objective intent can actually teach something. Yet truth hurts if you let it; there is perspective in a haters criticism, you only have to find it. </p>
<p>A lot of judgement from others can create anger. Remember, they are not the ones who provoke our emotions. I am the one who gets to choose my response to negative comments. </p>
<h2>Application</h2>
<p>Negativity is everywhere, you can’t to get away from it. Everyone will not embrace your art. Use that as motivation; have appreciation for where you are right now.</p>
<p>Conformity is super comfortable. Avoid the pressure of caving into a critic’s observations together with maintaining your individuality.</p>
<p>Our process of creativity involves independent thinking and motivation. Our belief systems and character can come under attack but we can use this to show critics that they are incorrect in their observations. Displaying attainment and accomplishment quiets the doubters and haters.</p>
<p>Take pride in your achievement, succeeding when critics would have you fail.</p>
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2021-02-23T20:28:43-08:00
2021-02-23T22:45:26-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 26
<h1>Featuring Dylan Hughes</h1>
<h2>Bassist, Composer, Singer, Arranger, Engineer, Video Host</h2>
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2021-02-19T01:00:00-08:00
2021-02-19T04:00:07-08:00
Passion
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<h2>Damn The Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead</h2>
<p>Why do we care what other people think? </p>
<p>I have good friends who are super prolific in their craft, but can’t write a song good enough to climb out of paper bag. They are always happy to share their music with out even a thought. Their songs outright suck. They just don’t care. You know what? There is amazing freedom in that. </p>
<h2>Everything In The World Comes From Something That Already Exists</h2>
<p>My friends who write songs of prolific drudgery, they can not be accused of not creating with flow, because it flows, like, down hill. </p>
<p>Passion is a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or a compelling desire for someone or something. In the case of this blog, it is music. </p>
<p>The zeal for music can range from interest or admiration, to a burning obsession.</p>
<p>I have another set of friends who have bi weekly jam sessions. Never mind they jam on the same set of tunes year in and year out. There is usually a healthy mix of alcohol and weed. You know, they love it. I haven’t noticed significant improvement in their skill set. I’m not sure that is important, rather, the significance lies in the camaraderie. </p>
<h2>Desire</h2>
<p>It’s been written: a desire fueled by passion will bring about the greatest results in life.</p>
<p>Passion can push us through challenging situations. <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-40471880-a566-4628-87c8-e3e8be9762e7"></mark><mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-08ced507-f04e-4b28-bff8-4d0bfba0cf97"></mark><mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-38f19f72-c5cf-4a6d-9e8d-c57b6f39fe08"></mark> Because of desire to live our dreams, passion fuels our actions. Funny, often we have no idea how much can be accomplished until we push ourselves.</p>
<p>Passion can propel us through challenging situations, not concerning ourselves with the commitment to action. If we want to live our dreams, there is a willingness to push through to what ever we decide. </p>
<p>For me, passion for music started as a child. I remember often times being by myself and writing songs. Our parents had given us a cassette recorder/player, with a microphone. I would spend hours pretending to run a radio station, singing, making my own playlist.</p>
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<p>Is passion the province of nerds and geeks? What once were hobbies became obsession; I would do this even if I had never made a dime. After all this time spent working towards and desiring greater outcome, here I am, Geek it is.</p>
<p>The world does not understand why I should devote my life to the pursuit of elevating my skill set, more over, comprehend my reasons to only be around others who appreciate this endeavor. I have to shut out almost everything else to achieve my self appointed tasks. If the world doesn’t understand, I really don’t care.</p>
<h2>The Weirdo Within</h2>
<p>I have gone in to full nerd mode. Even when I had put down music for years, it still led to obsession. The thought would never leave me. </p>
<p>The question has always been, what if? The desire has never left my mind.</p>
<p>I think the things we could all agree upon is what passion represents – Drive, enthusiasm, limitless energy, motivation, the thrill of hourly achievement. Zealousness drives me to study, practice and embrace process. Raw excitement propels itself into ambition. Some might consider it a curse. </p>
<p>Yeah, self imposed. Who knows better than I?</p>
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2021-02-12T01:00:00-08:00
2021-02-12T03:00:29-08:00
The Compelling Reasons
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<p>Why are we driven to do the things we do? I can only speak for myself. </p>
<h2>Need</h2>
<p><mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-eb49347b-a709-4db7-9072-c4c2a1953fd9"></mark>I have to play music, record and associate with like minded people. There is no choice. How do I know? I have tried not to, and by the same token, have been left completely disenfranchised. </p>
<p>I wanted this at seven. As I grew older, the importance coalesced more and more into my thought process. I wanted to play music, be immersed with people who thought the same way, deep in those relationships. </p>
<p>I choose to do this yet it feels like it chose me. </p>
<p>Call it compulsion, if you will. </p>
<h2>Love</h2>
<p>I love to, I love to, I love to. Sitting in front of the flat screen, editing away into the night, wood shedding hour after hour, playing out. Does it get any better? </p>
<p>Which leads to a calling. Anything I have done has never been as satisfying; love, jobs, sports and business ownership. Anything worth doing needs to involve music, right down to my spiritual life. <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-4fc1b4de-e0ad-451e-ab4f-9a42fc4ed8d2"></mark>Emotional trouble and <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-4855750b-9293-4aec-8482-cea8993891b2"></mark>anxiety ensue if there is no focus on musicality.</p>
<p>As I am more and more entrenched I have more belief. Each action is faith in motion, each act reinforces the direction I am pining for. </p>
<h2>Excitement</h2>
<p>At times prospects of what can be achieved seem limitless. It’s an eyes wide open, marveling at the possibilities, sort of thing. Opportunity is everywhere and alternate paths to my destination abound. </p>
<p>Why not be excited? It’s akin to being a kid in a candy shop, in addition to Christmas Morning. What is today’s gift? I can’t wait to unwrap it. </p>
<h2>Association</h2>
<p>Artistically driven people understand me. There is commonality among us. In this area of life there are no meaningless coincidences; my path seems clear. </p>
<p>One of my podcast guests brought up the sacredness of our habits and mind sets. It really is a correlation of practice, creation and performance which verges on the religious. It is analogous to being in a constant state of prayer, participating with a musical illuminati, the enlightened ones. </p>
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<p>I hang with people I like, people who inspire me, who make me laugh. I try to stay away from people who spout negativity, who are close minded and toxic.</p>
<p>Happiness is a choice. </p>
<h2>Vision</h2>
<p>There’s no definition to certain success. To do so almost surely predicts failure. Keeping an eye on the prize doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to win it. Yet the focus on attainment can deliver unsuspected rewards. Maybe that release date has been delayed, but what did you learn in the process. Did you come out smarter and more resilient? Perhaps that sets the stage for the next level of achievement. </p>
<p>Nothing is going to change tomorrow. Because nothing is going to change, I give myself permission to improve and to fail, making the slightest change today, tomorrow and everyday after. I move closer to my objectives while at the same time keeping my line of sight clear and focused. </p>
<p>Momentum, Baby, is everything.</p>
<h2>Ambition</h2>
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<p>If something exists, then it must be possible.</p>
<p>Every day matters. Aspiration accomplished is the result of compounded daily tasks. Reaching inside of ourselves, moving forward, taking on the inconvenience and sacrifice of time, panting after our hopes; these things move us forward. </p>
<p>Things we have set our eyes upon won’t come to us in one day. Throw goals out the window. There is only process and habit. What ever you are aspiring to achieve – practice, practice, practice. </p>
<h2>Accomplishment</h2>
<p>Learning something new can take time. If it is worth having, worth mastering, there is nothing that negates the task. It’s in those daily victories which express who I am. </p>
<p>Understanding musical notation does not make you a musician. It is through years of practice, developing your subconscious automatic response to performance, which makes you a performer. </p>
<p>The world rewards energy and motion. It favors action over inaction, even if the results seem uncertain. I adhere strongly to this principle, regarding it as a positive approach to life.</p>
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2021-02-11T09:38:06-08:00
2021-02-11T13:30:05-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 25
<h1>Featuring William Kenower</h1>
<h2>Author, Lecturer, Coach</h2>
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2021-02-05T01:00:00-08:00
2021-02-05T02:45:21-08:00
Yelling At My Devices
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<p>It’s kind of like a ritual. First thing in the morning, my Mac or Mac Book Pro, the internet, my iPhone or iPad, something will be amiss. </p>
<p>My iCloud won’t be transferring something. My email will load on the desk top but won’t load on my phone. We Transfer won’t complete a download, or what ever. Zoom chokes again. You can always count on Zoom to choke. </p>
<p>I know I should be more patient, they are only inanimate objects, but come on, just work. </p>
<h2>Welcome To The 21st Century</h2>
<p>Frustration seems to be amplifying. I’m pissed off that I don’t have an Areocar. Isn’t that the promise of the Jetson’s? A 2001 Space Odessey foretold moon bases and space station hotels and the like. Where are those things that simplify our lives? </p>
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<p>I tried to set up Logic Pro to record my Zoom Meetings. Where are the commands and links? I can’t find them. Standard operational procedure requires at least five failed repetition of instructions before I get it. </p>
<p>Just this morning I yelled at my iPhone. Apparently there was no internet connection. Odd, lap top and iPad were working. </p>
<p>Patience, little One, patience. Don’t let those little annoyances bother you.</p>
<p>My P.C. lap top ended up on the wall.</p>
<p>“That will be the last unauthorized down load you’ll ever make!” </p>
<p>Ever seen a lap top crushed by impact?</p>
<p>Funny, the store where I bought my Mac took it as a trade in. What’s that tell you? </p>
<p>Years ago I was driving through the city on an icy December morning. So much ice that the pick up truck next to me started careening into other lanes. I calmly sped up and moved to the right shoulder. The pick up smashed into a car next to me. My heart rate didn’t budge and I was as calm as can be. Facing death, I had no reaction, but when it comes to these blasted flat screens, profanity can fly. </p>
<p>Perhaps the complications of an unbalanced personality. </p>
<h2>Oh Yeah, The Software Learning Curve</h2>
<p>Oh vacuous stare. I gaze listlessly into the flat screen. How come I can’t figure out the next command? The instructions were very explicit; this procedure leads to the next alternate. Right? </p>
<p>Wrong!</p>
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<p>Not only am I challenged by software, but by a new piece of hardware, as well. </p>
<p>Case in point – My Alesis ML-9600. It is a great piece of mastering hardware. When I was using a Digi 002 and Command 8 control surface, I would use the Alesis as a summing mixer. That thing sat in the box for a year and a half before I broke it out. I may go back to using it; the digital to analog conversion on it is pretty awesome. </p>
<p>You know, I think they tried harder in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. I really do. The competition amongst rival companies led to some pretty outstanding Hard Drive Recorders and Digital Workstations. </p>
<p>Case in point – Melodyne. I first encountered Melodyne when I downloaded Pro Tools 7. I thought it must be pretty cool because it was endorsed by Peter Gabriel. Good enough for Pete? Good enough for me. </p>
<p> Oh Lord, the learning curve. </p>
<p>Even with helpful instructional videos, I would stare dazedly into my monitor. Flat screens were too expensive back then. </p>
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<p>The eternal void filled my brain, unable to comprehend commands necessary for execution. After much yelling at the computer screen, I decided to ignore the program. The thought was, “One day I will understand.” </p>
<p>After several years of upgrades, I finally got it. Melodyne is now pretty darn intuitive. Thank you; I now dance in my captains chair as opposed to cursing the programmer’s mom. That’s not a way to behave; she is probably a pretty nice person. </p>
<h2>Oh Internet, Let Me Bow Before You</h2>
<p>You know it’s bad when your supposedly high band width connection bogs down because every household in your neighborhood uses the same provider. That connection is lightning fast at midnight, forget about daytime. </p>
<p>Looks like it’s time to use my Personal Hotspot. I’m not sure this internet service thing has much life left. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, let’s not forget some of those free cloud transfer services. Talk about lack of reliability. </p>
<p>They want me to pay for an upgrade? </p>
<p>I may have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night. </p>
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2021-02-02T22:10:15-08:00
2021-02-03T00:45:02-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 24
<h1>Arami Walker</h1>
<h2>Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Educator and Recording Artist</h2>
<h3>Arami Share Her Journey From Los Angeles To Seattle, Her Influences and Philosophy</h3>
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2021-01-29T01:00:00-08:00
2021-01-29T02:30:20-08:00
Folksy Wisdom
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<h2>Wisdom</h2>
<p>Where there is a will there is a way. Sometimes I’m just operating on pure faith. </p>
<p>Build it and they will come. A wise Chinese person said, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”</p>
<p>Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. I’ve got great expectations. The only thing I can control is process. I’m not able to control outcome. </p>
<p>Don’t let the cat out of the bag. How does this apply? Maybe if I’m planning a surprise party or trying to bury the nefarious shadow part of my soul. I am happy to share anything I know or can do. I know there are secrets.<mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-84f60b3e-bd22-49bf-9559-ced5d2317c26"></mark> Where do I find them? <mark class="annotation-text annotation-text-yoast" id="annotation-text-6440a326-efba-46de-807a-c92d6758b40a"></mark> How to do stuff, DIY, instructional You Tube videos, all of it is out there to grab. </p>
<p>A stitch in times saves nine. I’m not much on mending. I understand the concept. This applies to relationships. Many times my foot ends up in my mouth. I try to be as sincerely apologetic as possible; my intent is not to be cruel, just funny. </p>
<p>Sometimes I can’t see the forest for the trees. Do you get caught up in details which often times distract from the process and goal? Often I have to re-examine priorities; deadlines are important. Accountability to quality and accuracy supersedes timeliness. Sometimes not. </p>
<h2>More Wisdom</h2>
<p>A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Super important to be content with what I have. After completing a task go to the next.</p>
<p>Try walking in my shoes. Or even worse, try getting into my head. I try to see things from the perspective of others. </p>
<p>The early bird gets the worm. How about those campers getting in line for those concert tickets? </p>
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<p>Birds of a feather, flock together. I love hanging around people who think like I do. My People, my people, these are my people. </p>
<p>You can’t change the past. Nothing lasts forever, and it never does. </p>
<p>There’s always another fish in the sea. My girlfriend left me and Dad tried to help. Awe, the hopes and dreams of youth. </p>
<p>Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. The joy and pain of love. </p>
<p>Any port in a storm. That didn’t work either. Enough about girl friends. </p>
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<h2>You Getting Smart Yet?</h2>
<p>It’s all water under the bridge. Those things that divided us, that’s not important anymore.</p>
<p>No pain, no gain. Why, if I had a dollar for every time…yep, driving a Lamborghini. </p>
<p>Out of sight, out of mind. Buried under my desk’s clutter are many important tasks. They need tending to. Or do they?</p>
<p>It is more blessed to give than receive.</p>
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2021-01-25T17:58:06-08:00
2021-01-25T21:15:22-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 23
<h1>Featuring Robert Brewer</h1>
<h2>Rob Shares Music Industry Insight</h2>
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2021-01-22T01:00:00-08:00
2021-01-22T03:15:27-08:00
Discipline and Perseverance
<p>Most of us have average intelligence and mind sets. Discipline and perseverance can allow us to reap the full capacity of our brains.</p>
<h2>Some Thoughts</h2>
<p>“He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” An Icelandic Proverb</p>
<p>“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.” Thucydides</p>
<p>“The first and greatest victory is to conquer self.” Plato</p>
<p>“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.” Friedrich Nietzsche</p>
<p>Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. – Seneca</p>
<h2>Develop Your Abilities</h2>
<p>There are only two results of our decisions: the discomfort and inconvenience of discipline or the outcomes of dismay and remorse for our life choices. It’s not enough that we have talent; the key is to manage and develop our abilities . Understanding our reasons for process and implementing consistent habits will help us achieve our desired outcomes. I understand outcomes can verge on the miraculous; an expectation I live by.</p>
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<p>My view of discipline isn’t a form of punishment or reprimand (there aren’t any five year olds in my house). I choose to act upon learning, training and study. </p>
<p>My discipline requires action regulated to be in accordance with my own self-governance. I have learned that to excel I have had to become victorious over me. Doing tasks others won’t even consider gives me leverage over my personal desires and outcomes. </p>
<h2>Discipline Is What We Do For Ourselves</h2>
<p>Discipline comes from myself; it does not come from another person’s standards, yet can be inspired by their example. On my path, I apply discipline to learning and application to see results in personal objectives.</p>
<p>It is a personal dynamic which originates within us. I do my work for it’s own sake, not for appreciation of others, their attention or financial gain. Yet, to be honest, those things are in the back of my mind. </p>
<h2>Habits</h2>
<p>Understanding and religiously practicing the habits I have put in to place are showing up as daily successes. Discipline and perseverance can be used as mechanisms for seeking out the how and why. It is important to have better choices, more options, more flexibility and more time for endeavors that are crucial.</p>
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<p>The first thing about perseverance? Not giving up. </p>
<p>The idea is to keep going and achieve results. Sticking with it may be the best way we can measure success. </p>
<p>Most of us aren’t geniuses. Believe me, I hang our around a lot of geniuses. I have to keep plugging away, focus and work as hard as I am capable to even follow in their wake.</p>
<h2>Defeating The Reptile Within</h2>
<p>I am learning how to conquer my lizard brain; it just wants to set in front of the TV and wait for my next meal. They say perseverance is representative of courage. I’m not out defeating lions, tigers and bears or overcoming dependence. I’m not exactly sure what sort of courage “they” are talking about. All I know is that my higher brain wants to breakthrough and accomplish goals. </p>
<p>In the course of a day, we can engage in several activities which spur on learning. Perfect practice makes perfect. I will continue engaging in the processes I have decided upon. The results will be revealed.</p>
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2021-01-16T21:41:40-08:00
2021-01-17T01:00:15-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 22
<h1>Chris C. D. Littlefield</h1>
<h2>Producer, Bandleader, Composer, </h2>
<h2>Educator, National Touring Artist</h2>
<h3>Chris shares his observations of Seattle Music History, Influences and Recording Techniques</h3>
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2021-01-15T01:00:00-08:00
2021-01-15T03:30:22-08:00
Music As History
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<p>Looking into the past, encountering person, place and timeline; these things help me to develop a better understanding of where I have come from, present circumstances, my future destination. </p>
<p>History impels me to consider matters which reveal the challenges of great artists, their successes and flat out grit. Their narrative helps me grasp influences which have contributed to who they are. This will help answer questions I may have and expedite personal trials.</p>
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<p>I hope to understand my place in music culture by observing those who have come before me, giving serious consideration to their learned experience. There is credence to these view points because I seek multi-dimensional understanding and appreciation, inclining to know the how and why.</p>
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<p>One of the things I hope to avoid, as much as possible, is western ethnocentricity. My challenge has been to seek out musical context from multinational sources. So much of today’s international music is influenced by western ideals and process; there in lies the challenge. Hats off to Bollywood for embracing almost 20 percent of the world’s musical heritage, and yet…</p>
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<p>A lot of my search is biographical in nature. The references I seek and embrace are racial, societal and gender related; including technical and theoretical view points. Observing and denoting these personal accounts allows me to strip down my misunderstandings of perspective. I have carried many prejudices and misconceptions since the arrival of life’s first flames of musical passion. </p>
<p>Alternatives are limitless in today’s choices of influence.</p>
<p>All music has roots representing different aspects of geography, religion, ethnicity, and civics. What truly amazes me is how much diversity constitutes different styles in contrasting cultural regions. </p>
<p>Yet there remain similarities. </p>
<p>Much of that is attributed to basic fundamentals of melody and rhythm. Our individual nature extends in to the deepest levels of human psyche and therefore we can’t help but be influenced by primary attributes. Cultures and societies might embrace their music as indigenous to their shared experience when in fact those influences have been absorbed from cross pollination of varying narratives.</p>
<p>What are possible variables of musical influence? As aforementioned, technical ability, religious influences, access to technology, corporate belief systems, climate and geography. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, a culture’s attitude toward musicians, vary between regions and periods. </p>
<p>Music must have been present in every society from the foundations of human existence. I believe the first music was created in Africa, or where ever we can trace the origin of our species. </p>
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<p>Thoughts on this include the origin of instrumentation. </p>
<p> Simply picking up a couple of large rocks and smacking them together rhythmically (the original Rock Music), or beating on a fallen log. It probably didn’t take long to develop a desire for melody. In the end, melody is far more fascinating than pounding out a percussive structure of twos and threes. Yet those twos and threes are foundational of harmony.</p>
<p>Amazing that it can all be traced back to the simplest forms of structure.</p>
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2021-01-10T09:20:45-08:00
2021-01-10T10:15:19-08:00
Brewing Is Art
<h2>Video Interview with Award Winning Brewer, Dan Haff</h2>
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2021-01-08T08:15:19-08:00
2021-01-08T12:30:14-08:00
Success
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<h2>Seven Considerations of Success, Maybe More</h2>
<p>Do we say to ourselves, “I’m gonna bust ass and make it to the top?” If we love what we’re doing, if we’re passionate, does it matter how far we go? Sometimes, just getting that one cut which you have been struggling with will make your day and build confidence. </p>
<p>Success can have many different interpretations. There are all sorts of aspirations: from hanging with friends, doing some jamming, drinking and smoking, to the highest levels of accomplishment.</p>
<p>The world, especially here in the United States, defines success in financial terms. Can it have a broader definition? I have heard that financial acquisition just alleviates worry about money. What’s left is everything else.</p>
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<p>Here are some challenges I have encountered. </p>
<p>Complacency – Often it lies in tandem with being content where we are. Is the concept of accomplishment thrilling and exciting? Is there passion in the cause? Does it fire you up to see what’s next and what further progress lies in your future?</p>
<p>Fearfulness – There are lots of great ideas out there. I know, because I think of them all the time. Putting that great idea into action is another game altogether. What if this objective takes me away from my comfort zone?</p>
<p>Uncertainty – The reality is summed up readily: what if I don’t triumph in my efforts? Well, you might not end up at the place you had envisioned. There may be that gnawing feeling that you aren’t capable enough or even deserving the reward. Perseverance is everything. I have heard it said over and over, again and again, this is not sprint but a marathon. Is it a matter of how fast we run 42 kilometers, or is it the accomplishment of just crossing the finish line? That, by itself, is a huge deal.</p>
<p>Inactivity – To make that great idea come to fruition requires massive effort. Isn’t it easier to watch a flat screen, observing others achieving destiny, than to act upon it one’s self.</p>
<p>Diversion – Friends, family and social life; these are tenets of our societal contract. Yet attainment is usually done in isolation. Great sculpture usually isn’t created watching a football game with our buddies and beer. It’s a challenge to provoke yourself to action, knowing full well that associations need to be limited.</p>
<p>Connectivity – Are you around people who are an inspiration? Who are you hanging with? Do you have a coach, a mentor, a person who has gone before you who knows the ropes? Like minded people who are on a path similar to yours can be found almost anywhere. God made the internet; use it.</p>
<p>Hyperbole – It’s everywhere. Fake it till you make it, a premise of many network marketing concepts of which I have been involved. Self aggrandizement is prevalent on tons of social media. Deception often has a way of coming back around to haunt you. Keeping promises to others and yourself is super important; say what you do, do what you say. A great teacher once said, “Let your yes be yes, and your no be no…”</p>
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<p>Ungratefulness – Do you remember from where you have come? Who helped you along the way? What gifts were you given? What events have brought you to this point? Who is on your team? Who loves you? What circumstances have made today a good day? Is it good to just breathe? What compulsions influenced your venture into the foray? These are some examples which deserve thankfulness. </p>
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2021-01-02T20:05:53-08:00
2021-01-02T23:00:10-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 21
<h1>Featuring Ed Maloney</h1>
<h2>Club Owner, Music Promoter and Producer</h2>
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<h3>Ed Maloney </h3>
<h3>Former Owner of the </h3>
<h3>Seattle Landmark Highway 99 Blues Club</h3>
<h4>Ed shares his music business insight</h4>
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2021-01-01T09:18:30-08:00
2021-01-01T10:00:30-08:00
Vision
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<p>Working for the man, I hear terms like mission statements, objectives, purpose, values and vision. What do I get when I utilize search engines for a definition of vision? A bunch of corporate speak on the how, why and variations on said subject. Seems to me it’s a parroting of various courses offered by universities. </p>
<p>Does this define my consideration of vision?</p>
<p>Practicing vision gives me the chance to close my eyes and see the fulfillment of my dreams and aspirations. If I were where I wanted to be, how would that appear? It’s been said a person should visualize the end point of the journey and work backwards; what contributed to the trek and how did it look? </p>
<p>I’m not talking about visualizing world peace, eliminating hunger, solving homelessness or any of humanities nobler goals. I recognize vision for these virtuous ends as super important, but it seems like a crazy hallucination. There is so much I can not change.</p>
<h3>My Vision Is Personalized</h3>
<p>Any of my two to five year plans didn’t work; did they for you? Besides, if you are like me you change your mind a lot. It doesn’t mean a person is a flake or indecisive. Particulars and circumstances are not static; perhaps therein lies a bit of wisdom in rearranging my thought process.</p>
<p>The most important vision I can actualize is for myself and for my family. </p>
<p>In the past I have floundered along with out being able to see my destination. At most times my line of sight was directed towards what others thought I should be looking for. Family, corporation, church, girl friends, chums…Funny thing, there are a whole lot of people out there who are willing to tell me what my vision should be, but who are actualizing their line of sight as if it were mine. </p>
<h3>And They Wonder How Come I’m Not Smarter</h3>
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<p>Always, in the front and back of my mind, I have had to be involved in music. I can’t, nor do I want to, leave it behind. Put music down, sell all my gear and after season I would be right back at it.</p>
<p>There are tons of people more qualified and far more successful, so why pursue it? The thing is, I can’t comprehend giving up.</p>
<p>Over the years what I have seen in my future changes. From the heady days of spending month after month on the road, quietly playing in weekend club bands, working in original acts, writing music, to putting together my own recording studio. The vision I had at twenty two is not the vision I have today.</p>
<p>Vision ties in with things I’m passionate about. When there was no line of sight, or when I lived in the expectations of others, there was no real excitement, no anticipation, just mindless wandering. I am now able to see past the garbage and work towards that which does not yet exist. What I imagine is an out come tied to my understanding of myself, my thoughts, my situation.</p>
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<p>Those who have thought and conceptualized their vision for me also have directed me on a path of fulfillment. “Do this and that,” they say, “and you will realize the other thing. Listen to my words and do as so-and-so did and blah, blah, blah…” </p>
<p>We are not often told how much a person needs to put aside to realize their dreams. I am not willing to sacrifice for someone else’s vision. What once delighted me as far as social expectations and responsibilities are now sidelined with not a single regret.</p>
<p>I’m sure that those who have gone before us did not walk down a perfectly straight line; they did not hit every road marker that identified their highway, did not celebrate every little victory and achievement, their plotted course wasn’t always true north. But what they could do was communicate eloquently where they saw themselves headed and deal with challenges in the way. They fought, and continue to fight, the good fight.</p>
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2020-12-25T01:00:00-08:00
2020-12-25T03:15:23-08:00
In Process
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<p>I consider my ego a tool, as opposed as to reflection of who I am. The sweet spot of my self confidence is strongly correlated within the function of my belief that I can do more than facts suggest. I’m waiting to see how this all turns out.</p>
<p>Of course this applies to music, the studio and related various projects. </p>
<p>Am I putting up a facade and hoping you buy it? Maybe. Inflating a version of my true self allows me to relax and play the style of my projected character. </p>
<p>I got that going for me, which is nice. </p>
<p>Does this make me a lot like you?</p>
<p>In the Wizard of Oz, did you notice the only person who knew the wizard was bluffing was Toto? </p>
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<p>Because of his projection of confidence and power, all of Oz thought he was more than he was. </p>
<p>We are all deeply flawed. Pretending that it is otherwise would be silly. How many times have I been wrong in a situation where I thought I was dead to rights in my beliefs?</p>
<p>I’m really bad at predicting the future. That’s why we have experts and they, also, are usually wrong. </p>
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<p>I have found asking a lot of questions lends to the appearance of having control of a situation. In this process, I think of things I’m good at, which is a reminder of my determination and abilities. </p>
<p>I truly enjoy people and their successes. The way I look at it, if you succeed in an endeavor, I win, because I can look at you and take notes. </p>
<p>Getting back to ego…as an artist it is super hard to separate myself from the implications of my craft. I want to hear that all my ideas are amazing, when they probably aren’t. I certainly don’t want my ego making decisions for me. That’s not practicable. </p>
<p>So I will continue this practice of dialing my ego up and down as the situation warrants. Sometimes people want to hear how good I think I am, but most times not. They want me to hear how good they think they are. </p>
<p>Blaze on warrior, and I’ll follow. Maybe you will have the giant’s shoulders I’ll stand upon. </p>
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2020-12-23T10:10:12-08:00
2020-12-23T14:30:13-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 20
<h1>Featuring Darnell Scott</h1>
<h2>Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist</h2>
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2020-12-18T01:00:00-08:00
2020-12-18T01:15:22-08:00
The Genius Factor
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<p>Genius is an absolutely important component of creativity; not necessarily an Einsteinian genius. Most of us are not revolutionizing scientific theory. </p>
<p>How about actionable design which translates to a ton of effort and process. </p>
<p>Some folks are great song writers. I realize that the process can be perfected by constantly composing. I have one friend who can throw together lyrics, chord progression, melody and arrangement in such a brief time it will make your head spin. I mean, ready for production, done. Wow, prolific would be an under statement. </p>
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<p>I have another friend who says you can’t teach good song writing. A person can be guided on a path, but time always reveals whether the direction holds true. Analogous to a person with good character: a child can be taught good examples, but it takes living life to see whether those traits hold true. </p>
<p>And yet another friend who says most song writers can’t write their way out of a paper bag. God, truth hurts. </p>
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<p>The fact of the matter, I have many, many friends and associates in music who are indeed genius. Intelligence seems to to be the dominate characteristic of all art forms. </p>
<p>Truly, the concept is mind blowing. I can’t think of a single musician I know, regardless of skill level, who, at the very least, is not an amazingly insightful and deeply thoughtful human being. It’s almost scary stuff. </p>
<p>In art, intellect of some form or degree is the most important trait. Maybe that is a blanket statement; nothing I have experienced would disprove my belief. </p>
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2020-12-17T10:16:13-08:00
2020-12-17T11:30:19-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 19
<h1>Featuring Danny Godinez</h1>
<h2>Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer</h2>
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2020-12-11T01:23:00-08:00
2020-12-11T03:45:08-08:00
These Boots Were Made For Walking
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<p>We were doing some gigs as a jazz quintet. We had only been together for a couple of months, still trying to feel one another out. As we went along, the realization came: Harry, our lead singer, liked to imbibe; a lot. </p>
<p>Harry didn’t play an instrument, but had an amazing ability to stay in tune regardless of how much alcohol he consumed. Quantities could be copious; every solo, Harry was at the bar slamming another round. </p>
<p>A Saturday night at the club, and Harry had his game on. For some strange reason, as usual, intoxicated, he decided that he would shut down Robert, our guitar player. He spent the first two sets completely ignoring Robert, showing complete disdain. During the break between set two and three, with out a word, Bob broke down his gear and split. We finished the night as a four piece, and, after getting paid, the bass player and I quit. The keyboard player and Larry only lasted a couple of more gigs.</p>
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<p>In another band, Melissa, the lead singer and guitarist, thought pretty highly of herself. We had been together almost five years. The band was an original act, with horn section, and we had three rehearsals a week. Gigs were few and far in between but the act seemed to have a ton of potential. </p>
<p>Lots of blood, sweat and tears went into this one. Half the band had to drive 30 to 40 miles each way for rehearsals, so there was an incredible time spent driving to and from. Melissa offered no reciprocation for those of us who had to commute two hour transit times on urban freeways.</p>
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<p>One day, after years of being prepared and accountable, I missed returning a phone call in regards to some sort of band business. Two days later Melissa read me the riot act. After years of dedication, this is the reciprocation I receive? Besides being furious, I walked out of that one. </p>
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<p>At this level, there is no such thing as circumstances not being personal. It’s all personal, every single bit of it. We spend hours, day in, day out, week in, week out, month in, month out… </p>
<p>Bob and I took these situations as an affront to our persons, character and effort. </p>
<p>I work way too hard to have my ethic called in to question. Sure, I make mistakes, but those who know me well would never even think of such recourse. </p>
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2020-12-09T13:01:47-08:00
2020-12-09T15:00:17-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 18
<h1 class="has-text-align-center">Steve Smith, Percussionist, Music Professional, Engineer, Producer and Author, Shares his Musical Expertise</h1>
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2020-12-04T01:00:00-08:00
2020-12-04T03:30:21-08:00
Perspective Is A Super Power
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<p>What if I could just go back and do it over? The age old concept of being smarter at a younger age.</p>
<p>I guess that brings up being regretful for previous actions and decisions. Some of the undertakings and determinations I have made require contriteness. Feelings of guilt and self recrimination have literally haunted my thoughts for years, affecting self-esteem and confidence. Sometimes there have been fears of an imagined confrontation from those I have wronged.</p>
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<p>Instead of continuing this cycle of mild paranoia, I have decided to embrace the concept of Pronoia. What is Pronoia, you may ask? It is the delusional belief that people are plotting my well being and saying nice things about me behind my back. It might be my own little world but at least they know me there. </p>
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<p>So what have I learned? </p>
<p>To not be concerned with how I am perceived by others. </p>
<p>Understanding that speaking insulting words or practicing actions of even casual malice are things that usually can not be taken back. </p>
<p>Clear and defined convictions give me dividing lines and direction that keep me focused on goals. </p>
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2020-12-02T11:39:15-08:00
2020-12-02T15:15:21-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 17
<h1>Featuring Daniel Haff</h1>
<h1>Award Winning Brewer and Owner of Crooked Label Brewing Company</h1>
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2020-11-27T01:00:00-08:00
2020-11-27T03:30:14-08:00
This Tool Ain’t Getting Any Sharper
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<p>I have serious management potential. I believe I care enough to actually affect change.</p>
<p>Yep, Sharp as a marble.</p>
<p>A few bricks shy of a load.</p>
<p>Not the brightest spoon in the drawer nor sharpest tool in the shed.</p>
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<p>I have spent a life time pursuing my dreams. Of course there have been interruptions and distractions: Love, financial attainment, work commitments, family, you know. A long life’s path are many decisions, good and bad. </p>
<p>I have made a daily habit of searching for new ideas. This been an extremely interesting process. First rule: there is no such thing as a good or bad idea. It’s just an idea. The most important thing is to get the idea out. </p>
<p>I have read that turning over ideas and writing them down actually increases brain strength; approach the brain as a muscle that needs to be exercised. Idea crunches? I don’t know.</p>
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<p>Like I said, there are no bad ideas, they are just ideas. I started by just throwing cocepts out there. Example: Go back to school, great thought, right? But is it practicable? For me, no; for some one else, maybe. Ideas are just ideas – be a garbage man, start a deli, walk pets, be a bicycle mechanic, drive an ice cream truck, buy a dry cleaner, work as a grocery clerk…</p>
<p>Here’s the kicker…for me, only one in a thousand ideas is even worth acting upon. So, ten ideas a day times 365 days = 3,650 ideas. If I am lucky, that’s 3 ideas a year that are worthy of follow up. Actually, I think my average is lower. </p>
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<p>For an idea to be worth acting upon, it needs to meet criterion, like, is it feasible? Also, is it simple? Does the idea actually resonate with my inner core values? It has to be something that is in line with my passions and goals; if it’s not, I’m not going to be very interested in follow through. Consistency and persistency is the concept I embrace in everything. </p>
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<p>I’m not yet a dazzling financial success, but I have embraced the process of growth. I’m blessed in that I have my health and a good, solid foundation in many areas of my life. Everyday I fire my endorphins with different areas of achievement, constantly improving some small area of my life, which will show exponentially at the end of a years practice. </p>
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2020-11-26T19:53:53-08:00
2020-11-26T23:00:24-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 16
<h1>Featuring Adam Puchalski </h1>
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<h2>Deciding Instrumentation and Voicings </h2>
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2020-11-20T01:00:00-08:00
2020-11-20T02:45:21-08:00
How To Herd Cats
<h2>This Is A Bit Of A Stretch…</h2>
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<h3>Definition Of A Cat:</h3>
<p>Evidently Cab Calloway coined the term in the 30’s. Back in 1938, he published<strong><em> Cab Calloway’s Cat-ologue: A “Hepster’s” Dictionary.</em></strong> Wikipedia has a great page on the origins of Jive; vastly entertaining. </p>
<p>A “Cat” could have been a jazz musician in a New Orleans whore house. Or simply the demeanor of players as they strutted on to stage or into their solos; stretching it out, like a cat. </p>
<p>So, yeah, I’m sort of using a double entendre here. Herding cats is a metaphor which emphasizes herding that which is incapable of being herded. Cats, i.e., musicians. </p>
<p>I have utmost respect for my friends who have been capable of keeping their bands together year in and year out with super low turn over of personnel. </p>
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<p>My experience is contrary. I have run bands, with mediocre outcomes. I have experienced lack of interest, motivation and dedication coupled with politicizing. Let’s not forget about flat out prima donnas. </p>
<p>The same challenge has risen its head in the studio. Trying to keep folks focused, even on their own projects, can become totally frustrating. Scheduled day of recording, not even a phone call to cancel. Sure hope you ain’t hurt or in trouble. A text takes, what, 10 seconds, max? </p>
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<p>How about all the times I have been asked to attend meetings in various projects in which I’m involved . Sometimes not even the person who called the meeting shows up. </p>
<p>The flip side; I’m trying to help others hook up with people who might be able to support and help. Ah, the beautiful Seattle passive / aggressive. “Yes, I will be there.” Not even a peep when the person doesn’t show. </p>
<p>My favorite: “Would you be interested in an interview?” </p>
<p>“Sure, how much you paying me?” </p>
<p>Only time will tell if you are that great. </p>
<p>Will a carrot and a stick work? How about a day timer and a whip? I suppose that’s not too practicable. </p>
<p>Last thought – A good friend offered me the chance to record my podcasts at his world class studio. </p>
<p><strong>Instant scheduling nightmare. </strong></p>
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<p>Don’t you know, “I float like a butterfly and sting like bee.” I’m stealing quotes from Mohammad Ali.</p>
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2020-11-18T12:06:13-08:00
2020-11-18T14:15:54-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 15
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<h1> Sarah Pinzon, L.A. Recording and Session Artist, Lead Singer of Hell’s Belles </h1>
<h4>Think you got what it takes to make it in the L.A. studio scene? Sarah Pinzon works as a session player and artist. Check out Mackncheeze Podcast # 15 and find out if you have the grit to do likewise.</h4>
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2020-11-13T01:00:00-08:00
2020-11-13T05:00:26-08:00
Motivation
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<p>Actually, that was my entire reason for getting involved in music, oh, and besides the fact that music constantly runs through my head. I think I was hoping for side benefits. Those benefits did materialize, whether that is a good thing was decided later. </p>
<p>Defining success: confidence, proficiency, articulation, enjoyment. Those are nnderlying factors in the journey of motivation. </p>
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<p>I have been on fire for music many times in my life. Usually, the passion for it rekindles after the dissolution of the last failed romantic relationship. It took long years to understand, for me, music and relationships do not intermix. As much commitment and effort that goes in to sustaining a successful relationship, there is always a part of my brain nagging me to not put down my passion. The two just never have mixed. Is it the music that is the adulterous, or the woman in my life? </p>
<p>Maybe I’m extremely selfish?</p>
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<p>Throwing the amalgam of all my side projects into play, the goal is clear and succinct. I just want to record and play music. It is the engine that drives the machine. </p>
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2020-11-10T19:54:11-08:00
2020-11-10T21:30:24-08:00
M.O.B. Studios’ Evan Kolpak
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2020-11-06T01:00:00-08:00
2020-11-06T02:00:44-08:00
Seven Examples Of Counting The Cost
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<p>What are you willing to give up to chase your dreams? If we want it badly, we have got to sacrifice. </p>
<p>Obsession, it’s what we do regardless what is happening. First thing in the morning pounding it out. Last thing at night, getting the final two cents in. </p>
<p>Priorities:</p>
<p><strong>Woody Allen</strong>: “80 percent of the game is showing up.”</p>
<p><strong>Warren Buffett: “</strong>Really Successful People Say No To Almost Everything”</p>
<p>I have read that I should think like my prey; it’s an old concept. Not that I’m trying to sell anybody anything, or eat anyone, except that there might be a possibility we could help one another. </p>
<p>That’s what my podcasts are all about. As well as my You Tube Channel. </p>
<p>Life is a big process of negotiation, ask any parent. I’m not a parent, but I know lots of parents. </p>
<p>Toxic relationships will not facilitate progress, inspiration or direction.</p>
<p>Health is an underlying factor, if I am not well, how am I going to able to move forward.</p>
<p>A band I was in, years ago, was a dedicated bunch. Three rehearsals a week, staging, PA, light show and a big semi-trailer to haul it. It was all about the show. </p>
<p>We would do gigs in 24 hour stints. Load in at 5:30 am, hit the road for two to four hours, load out, play the gig, load the truck, drive home, unload by 6 am the next morning. That’s commitment, a shared devotion to a cause, each person involved having reason for being there, from the musicians to the road crew. </p>
<p>I’m not afraid to work and collaborate, as long as my vision crosses path with someone else’s, consider me in. </p>
<p>Is there way we can help?</p>
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2020-11-04T10:44:16-08:00
2020-11-04T13:00:15-08:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast #13: Sean Farchild
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Freedom
<p>Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Or so the song goes.</p>
<p>I chose to define freedom as this: I personally make more decisions for myself than my boss , my family, my government and my friends.</p>
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<p>Henry Thoreau said, A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to say “no” to.</p>
<p>Junior once said, “Free your mind and your ass will follow .”- Oliver Stone</p>
<p>If you have not read Humble The Poet , I highly suggest you do. He says, “True freedom only exists in discipline.” </p>
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Mackncheeze Podcast # 12
<h2>Interview with Todd Ainsworth AKA Murl Hartwood of Seattle Country Band, Hartwood </h2>
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2020-10-23T02:00:00-07:00
2020-10-26T15:30:27-07:00
K.I.S.S.
<h2>Keep It Simple Stupid</h2>
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<p>I first learned of the K.I.S.S. concept in college jazz lab band. The professor, a horn player by the name of Bart, introduced the notion to soloists. I loved Bart; he was awesome.</p>
<p>Evidently there are two ways to interpret K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid, or, Keep It Simple, Stupid. I always considered the latter as proper interpretation. Evidently, the U.S. Navy, who by the way, coined the acronym, identifies with the former. Just keeping things stupid simple, or simple stupid, alleviates greater frequency of errors. </p>
<p>I’ve always thought in terms of, “Hey Stupid, keep it simple.” But that’s me and my sarcastic mind set. </p>
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<p>I think it is a perfect way to interpret a mix, especially when starting with a foundation. Simplify, keeping the concept stupid simple, identify your substructure: drums, vocals, melody, rhythm tracks, use your own judgment, then base your mix on that. </p>
<p>I constantly cross reference mixes from the big boys, using compromised sound sources ( iPhone speakers, bluetooth speakers, crappy head phones, extremely low volume near-field play back, listening from another room, car stereos while driving…) </p>
<p>For me, the ultimate foundational K.I.S.S. mixing technique: Isolate the kick and the lead vocals. Make those two voices as musical as possible, then move on. That’s what I do. E.Q. and compress the kick drum and vocals and blend them the best I am able; everything else follows. </p>
<p>K.I.S.S. can also be applied to personal rehearsal. Being a drummer, I imagine the concept is much less complex. I break down rhythmic passages into 2’s and 3’s and slow the metronome to excrutiatingly slow BPM, requiring painful concentration, actually making my brain hurt. </p>
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<p>When practicing like this, I can actually feel new neural paths carving different channels through my brain. I have told this can delay Alzheimer’s but does nothing to alleviate Some Timers or Delayed Intelligence. </p>
<p>In all my endeavors, I try to start with as basic as an idea as possible. It’s overthinking that complicates matters.</p>
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2020-10-21T01:58:00-07:00
2020-10-22T00:00:29-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast 11
<h2>An Interview with Knuckles Front Man Dan Manier and Guitarist Sean Hudson</h2>
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Fat Fingers
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<p>Chubby digits, that’s what I got. What I mean is – I make a lot of mistakes. I blame my mistakes on my five thumbs which are attached to both of my hands. Generally, fat fingers applies to any editing program I might be working with: photo, video, audio, text… all of them. </p>
<p>The wrong command is pressed, Fat Fingers. Forgot to save the project, Fat Fingers. Turn off the lap top by accident, fat fingers. </p>
<p>It’s important to remember to concentrate on the moment. I find myself so easily distracted, bouncing around from concept to concept, action to action, in a huge hurry to get to my next destination. My chubby digits hit the wrong command, and bam, there I go again, off to another error.</p>
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<p>That’s one of the reasons I avoid flat screen control devices. I don’t know how many times I have been mixing with an iPad app, and one careless brush of my little finger, kapow, I turn off an entire sub mix. Makes for very interesting performances. </p>
<p>Chubby digits, that’s what I got.</p>
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2020-10-13T17:41:29-07:00
2020-10-13T20:30:19-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 10:
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2020-10-09T02:44:00-07:00
2020-10-09T05:00:32-07:00
Learning To Listen
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<p>When I was in Junior High school band, our music instructor hammered in a basic musical concept over and over and over. He always said, “Listen to what is going on around you.” I think that is a basic fundamental of performance. </p>
<p>If one of the members of the band plays louder than everyone else, it is probably because they aren’t even bothering to listen. It’s especially important in dynamics.</p>
<p>One of the basics I had to learn to master was how to lead the band in to the next section of a tune. That was a struggle; learning how to play underneath the vocalist, allowing them to hear themselves, coming down at the beginning of solos, all the while not losing intensity in my performance. </p>
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<p>How many times have I played with a guitar player or bass player who are always too loud, drowning out other players. I haven’t got time for it; I do not have a six hundred watt Class D amp driving my drum kit. </p>
<p>Not every stage has a monitor system. Lower decibels equates to a greater ability to hear one another. </p>
<p>I also believe that folks who are struggling with tempo haven’t learned to really hear what is being articulated from other performances. I used to be so concerned about which note was coming next and concentrating on the moment, I would lose focus of overall context. A big no, no. </p>
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<p>I have a bass player friend, who, whenever we gig together, we lock in to one another and work dynamics for each song. It is totally compelling, working as a team, supporting the other band members. Everyone has got to be on board with this. It doesn’t help if the rhythm section is working its butt off and some guitarist or trumpet player, or who ever, is obliviously playing, ignoring dynamics. </p>
<p>Is music a conversation? Listen. Is there a melodic question? Listen. Do you want to answer? Listen. Do you want to make a statement? Listen. Do you want to help others sound better? Listen</p>
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2020-10-06T10:58:37-07:00
2020-10-06T11:00:18-07:00
Mackncheeze Podcast # 9
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Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 8
<h2>How To Sustain Your Bands Longevity</h2>
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2020-09-25T02:00:00-07:00
2020-09-25T03:00:24-07:00
Finding My Core Values
<p>I have been on a path of discovery. Since I have started blogging I have had to do a lot of inner searching. I understand that I need to be who I am and not try to fake my way through this process. Friends who read my blog have told me that that they can actually hear my voice when they read it. </p>
<p>That is good news. I really desire that I focus on others and get their stories out. The way I see it, we are all in this together, and if we can have our paths converge on different parts of our journeys, more power to all of us. </p>
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<p>I’ll scratch your back and you can scratch mine, so to speak. </p>
<p>It seems almost all my projects require collaboration with others. If I had a budget and I could afford to hire musicians out, I would. But funds are limited, knowledge is limited and I can use all the help I can get. I’m not a one person show, nor do I want to be. </p>
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<p>I thrive on social interaction. What better way to be sociable than to work and share my passion for music and creativity. </p>
<p>In the midst of trying to achieving these things, what is really needed is a fundamental change in my attitude toward life. I have to learn who I am and that it does not really matter what my expectations may be, but rather what life expects from me. In that, I desire to help as many others as I am able. </p>
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2020-09-22T20:56:36-07:00
2020-09-23T00:00:19-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast # 7
<h2>What To Do With That Extra Gear</h2>
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Inspiration
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<p>I choose to hang with folks who are smarter, more talented and more driven than myself. </p>
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<p>Daily, I take time to read and garner other peoples ideas, checking to see if their concepts and practices are adaptable to my circumstance. I think I have applied maybe 1 out of 1000 suggestions. You might think it takes a lot of time to do this. I ain’t going to lie, it does. This habit is actually an extension of personal rehearsal and reading habits. I understand the results of constantly applying myself, seeing no immediate return on my efforts. It’s a cumulative effect; more fuel creates a bigger flame. </p>
<p>As you can imagine, 1 out of 1000 ideas acted upon isn’t a huge return. Face it, most concepts I look at aren’t that great and most are just flat out stupid. That’s okay, I can live with it. </p>
<p>The biggest result is increase of process. My process is far greater now than when I first started churning out ideas. I spent the first months of idea gathering just thinking of anything and writing it down. Any concept is worth writing down, no matter how dumb or inaccessible. </p>
<p>Still, the biggest purveyor of new ideas acted upon is personal rehearsal. Music is a limitless world of possibilities. Virtuosity is achievable in so many different genres, it is truly mind blowing. I believe that music has direct connection to elements of the universe; I see and understand this more and more. </p>
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<p>Back to my first statement: I can’t over emphasize how important friends are for inspirational growth. Because they are who they are, just being around them is a form of collaboration. For me, innocuous collusion is cool. It is truly awesome to sit in front of the console and flat screen, together, piecing out arrangements, parts and voicings. </p>
<p>In my world, friendship is everything. </p>
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Mackncheeze Music Podcast 6
<h2>Finding High Quality Guitars On A Budget</h2>
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2020-09-11T02:00:00-07:00
2020-09-11T03:00:30-07:00
Seven Considerations For Working With A Band
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<p>Is there respect? Am I receiving the accreditation I deserve?</p>
<p>Is there reciprocation?</p>
<p>Level of commitment? What are the goals? Is the band a social club, which is fine, if that’s the definition of the band. Does it match my expectations?</p>
<p>Environment. Do you feel comfortable? Are you welcome or are you a door mat?</p>
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<p>Politics. Is there an underlying power struggle going within the group? Finding it hard to work with folks? Is flow happening? </p>
<p>Would I spend my free time with the band members? If I am in it for the long haul, I am going to hang in there, thick or thin. </p>
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<p>Trust. Would I want my Mother to know these people? Would she except them, enjoy them, love them? </p>
<p>These are things I consider and priorities I set when working with others.</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
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2020-09-04T02:12:00-07:00
2020-09-04T04:15:15-07:00
Goals
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<p>My absolute, top priority is to become a better player. Honestly, I believe I require practice four hours per day to actually achieve needed results. I know this is true; when I can consistently commit time day in, day out, week in, week out, I rise above plateaus and keep pressing on. </p>
<p>I have spent years reading self help books, sometimes so formulaic I feel like I’m just absorbing drivel. The usual recipe: write down my goals, visualize, journal, associate with people smarter than me, identify what I want, consistency, persistency, embrace passion. Yep all that. </p>
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<p>The biggest take away from all of it? There is no guarantee of outcome. Life is fragile and so much of our journey depends upon good relationships, health, both physical and mental, willingness to work with others and to be able to give of ourselves. </p>
<p>Having done this, maybe I haven’t done enough. What I have learned is that my success is the process; I have not become who I am today without it. Any of my abilities has been developed through patience and humble recognition that there is always more to be done. I can see where I want to go, what I want to do, be it tomorrow, next week, next month, next year. Since I can’t control the outcome, all I can do is control the process. </p>
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<p>I have come to a place of acceptance and gratitude. I know, no matter what, I would be driven to improve musically. I have walked away from pursuing music for extended periods of years and perspective has shown me I was immensely unsettled, discontent, facing turmoil, confused and seeking after things which I was not made for. </p>
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2020-09-01T12:08:53-07:00
2020-09-01T14:30:06-07:00
Mackncheeze Music Podcast Episode 5
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<h1>Crazy Things Can Happen At Gigs!</h1>
<p>An interview with Eric Ritts (Marco Bass Guitars) and Sean Hudson (Guitarist for Knuckles and The Disco Cowboys).</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
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2020-08-28T02:00:00-07:00
2020-08-28T02:30:32-07:00
Embarrassment
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<p>We all have been there. Forgetting our vocal line, missing the cue, blowing the arrangement; one domino falls over and the entire band goes with it. As uncomfortable as it can be, revealing our disappointment on stage, telling the audience how badly its been blown with body language and comments to one another, should never occur.</p>
<p>I, for one, take mistakes very personally. I believe I can perform at a higher standard, never comparing myself to others, but comparing myself to myself. My personal standards are much too high and that’s not right to lay on someone else. </p>
<p>They, who ever they are, say that public speaking is considered one the most fearful experiences a person can have. How about botching parts on stage and throwing everyone off? Particularly annoying is working with sequences and not playing the proper arrangement: oops, that was the chorus but here we all are at a verse. </p>
<p>How do you fake your way out of that? Well, you just do. Sometimes you stop; it can’t be taken back. </p>
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<p>How about most of the band being half in the bag by first down beat? Don’t worry, by the third set they will all be fully in; that’s when the fun starts. </p>
<p>One of the things I love about all of this is how thick my skin has become; it is becoming ever more difficult to shame myself. I used to become mortified at mistakes but now I recognize blunders as Standard Operating Procedure. I attribute my complacency to error as part of a humans ability to adapt. My personal evolution has gone from being disconcerted by failure to owning the mistake. Let’s just see if I can consciously repeat the flub next measure. Call it technique. </p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
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2020-08-25T02:00:00-07:00
2020-08-25T04:00:23-07:00
Mackncheeze Podcast Episode 4
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2020-08-21T02:00:33-07:00
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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<p>Yep, lent a drum throne to a one my drummer friends. Never saw it again. Hey man, that ain’t a book, it’s a drum throne; it has importance and a purpose.</p>
<p>Drove the band across state, did any one offer to help with gas?</p>
<p>Booked the gig, provided the P.A., set up the equipment and the vocalists arrive five minutes before down beat. </p>
<p>Provided the rehearsal space but still got fired from the band, “Hey Man, can we still rehearse here?”</p>
<p>Gave the client a pre mix, they used it for their project, never paid me. </p>
<p>Lent out a powered speaker to a friend, had to go get it at someone else’s house.</p>
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<p>To quote The Bard himself, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.”</p>
<p>Can we help you in any way? Worry not, we are sincere.</p>
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2020-08-14T02:00:00-07:00
2020-08-14T06:00:31-07:00
Where Was I ?
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<p>My brain constantly fires on all cylinders; I can’t keep up. The distractions are endless. </p>
<p>Like walking through the front door and leaving a trail of keys, wallet, phone and whatever else my hands happened to be clutching. It’s like a slug trail, except it’s not slime, but an ephemeral path I will retrace sometime within an hour, trying to remember where I left stuff. </p>
<p>A big joke around my house: I’m watching television, maybe I was drinking, maybe, looking for chow de dow in the fridge, and suddenly I can’t find the remote. Scouring high and low, frustrated on the misplacement of the channel changer, looking for a new beer…AHA! I find the controller in the Frigidaire next to the cheese. Makes sense. </p>
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<p>I’m not ADA, but I’m always somewhere else, or so it seems. Ever since I was a small child, I have had this endless stream of music running through my brain. My coworkers know that I always have a song to sing to them. One of my friends has told me that everyone I know gets a theme song. It’s not everyone, only the people I like. Sorry everyone else. No theme song, uhh, not sure how to say this… </p>
<p>How about mixing a track? When I’m getting close to the end of a mix, I throw a track into my near fields and turn up the volume as loud as possible. I wander around home pretending I’m, like, doing house work, or something domestic. What I’m actually doing is listening with my subconscious, letting my brain hear things that previous concentration has missed. And there is a lot I miss because I’m constantly distracted. </p>
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<p>Setting down to woodshed; concentration is a key element. I get about twenty minutes in to an exercise and then I say to myself, “Bry, what if you simplify this in such a way?”</p>
<p>Oops, turns out I’m borderline incompetent in the simplification of said exercise. Great…turn the metronome BPMs way down and learn how to play it slow. Plug away for twenty minutes and realize there is another way to fail another variation of the exercise. </p>
<p>Maybe I got something better to do, like, something not as challenging, or cleaning the bathroom, or cooking dinner, or finding my keys. </p>
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2020-08-12T20:41:46-07:00
2020-08-12T21:15:15-07:00
Brain Damaged
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<p>I’m not sure what I did. Rumor has it, as an infant, I was dropped on my head. I don’t know, I can’t remember. Perhaps my amygdala smashed in to my hippocampus, resulting in memory loss. Could have been the drugs or maybe my continuing love of alcohol. Or that last bicycle accident; was that a traffic divider, or a guard rail? </p>
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<p>How many times must I make the same mistakes before I figure it out? There must be something amiss in my grey matter’s neural pathways. How many times am I going to blame my circumstance before figuring out I am my circumstance? </p>
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<p>Personal accountability is the key. </p>
<p> Why do I do what I do? </p>
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<p>Is there any way we can help you?</p>
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2020-08-11T19:30:19-07:00
2020-08-12T07:00:27-07:00
Mackncheeze Podcast Episode 3 Part Two
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2020-08-07T12:07:26-07:00
2020-08-07T16:00:51-07:00
Mackncheeze Podcast Episode 3
<h2>A Conversation with Master Guitarist Dave Tieman</h2>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6404376
2020-08-07T02:00:00-07:00
2020-08-07T06:45:16-07:00
Don’t Forget To Laugh
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<p>One of my nicknames is Chuckles; I snigger a lot. There’s too much that could make me cry, so I choose to counter with a grin and a snort, embracing absurdity. Yeah, man, life is too short and difficult. </p>
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<p>Another nickname is Pelon. My Latin friends gave me that name but usually there is a preface that I won’t mention. It’s quite amusing in Spanish but the English equivalent translates in very harsh terms. The first time I heard it I almost cried I thought it was so funny. </p>
<p>My journey along this path has been littered with countless failures and disappointments; I could dwell on those ad nauseam but what’s the point. I choose to find humor in life’s challenges because of the monumental ironies which preclude its course. </p>
<p>Those I choose as my friends need to have thick skins, big smiles and the ability to shrug off the inevitable shortcomings of this existence. </p>
<p>Laughter is the best medicine, so they say. </p>
<p>Is there any way we can help you?</p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6398284
2020-07-31T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-31T06:00:28-07:00
Red Light Fever
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<p>We have all had moments of epiphany: a moment when a veil uncovers our eyes, blindfolds are removed, an ‘Aha’ moment. </p>
<p>Mine came many years ago in a recording session. We had a 10 song project with plans to finish taping in three weeks. Everyone had full time jobs so we were only able to record in the evenings, three times a week. </p>
<p>I made it through four tunes. By the fifth, I was so over wrought, over thinking my playing, I could not continue. A ringer was hired to finish drum parts for the project. </p>
<p>That experience was the deciding move to home recording. I figured I better get used to that red light which represented active recording enabled. </p>
<p>I work with some folks who have the same challenge. Playing live is not a problem, but putting on a pair of headphones and really hearing every note they play raises blood pressure and handicaps performance. I relate, I get it. Even in today’s recording environment, we still undo our flies and let it hang out. A recording experience can leave a person feeling quite vulnerable, especially second guessing each note that we play. </p>
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<p>I have full recording capabilities; my home recording studio is literally a home that is a recording studio. Full keyboard set up by the fire place; the entry way can be used as the vocal booth, with isolation. Upstairs, drums fully miced, a full array of tube and analog preamps, more inputs than I need. A hundred foot snake allows me to utilize each room of my house as a tracking room; complete with independent head phone mixes and talk back capability. </p>
<p>Now it’s a turn around from performance anxiety to idea anxiety. I invited some friends over the other day to lay down ideas at the studio. Call it cavalier confidence; “Hey, if we all get together and lay down some ideas we could get some keeper tracks.” Yeah, right. We breezed through my ideas, afterwards sitting down down to discuss chord structure and arrangements. Then we had dinner. </p>
<p>It’s great being a drummer; a person who hangs out with musicians. </p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6395277
2020-07-28T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-28T03:15:07-07:00
Mackncheeze Podcast: Episode 2
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<p>We are podcasting on Itunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Breaker, Pocket Casts and Radio Public. Just key in Bryan at Mackncheeze or click on the link below. Enjoy and keep kicking hard. </p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6391877
2020-07-24T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-24T05:45:16-07:00
Darnell Scott
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<h2>Blues Artist, Guitarist and Singer/Songwriter</h2>
<h3>Part 2</h3>
<p>Where to start…</p>
<p>I was attending a wedding in Wenachee, Washington and happened to drop off a business card at a local music store. My friend called me to do a series of gigs; that’s how we hooked up. </p>
<p>Darnell is an absolute joy. We are currently working on an album project. I have shot promotional video and occasionally gig with him. The folks that he closely works with have been a great pleasure to meet. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: When you were living in Australia were you playing guitar?</p>
<p>Darnell: I wasn’t even thinking of it. I came back in about 1997. I was down there for five or six years and came back to the States. </p>
<p>In Australia I fit right in; Australia and I, we got along just great. When I came back I decided this is not going to be the rest of my life. I think we all have something within us that tells us there is a better way. Certain things happen to us which help get us on track and lead us on to a different road. </p>
<p>I needed to seek a better way of living. Some of that came from my grandparents. They said, “You need help, Darnell, you need to get yourself together.” I started changing my direction from what I was thinking and doing. </p>
<p>At that time I had moved to a small town. I thought that would be a great opportunity. I didn’t have any friends in that place; there was nobody around that I knew from my old influences. This was a suitable time for me to make a fresh start; I took it. </p>
<p>At first I didn’t start playing. I sat in that town for an entire year being what you would call a dry drunk. I was literally having a hard time thinking. I felt like I was mentally challenged; things were happening to me, I was in a fog.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You must have been a hardcore drunk.</p>
<p>Darnell: I had been starting to lose jobs. I would drink so much on the weekends that I couldn’t make it to work on Monday. I did not want that to be the rest of my life.</p>
<p>That’s when I started making a change and again started playing. I was sitting around one day and this guy asked me, “Hey Darnell, you used to play guitar, right?” </p>
<p>I replied, “Yeah, a long time ago.” </p>
<p>“You should start getting back into it.” </p>
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<p>I said to myself, “You know what? I haven’t got anything else to do, I might as well.” </p>
<p>A friend of mine at the local music store gave me a great deal on a guitar and I took it home. My playing started progressing. About a year later I enrolled in college. </p>
<p>I wanted to do something with my life by helping people and giving back. I was sitting in a class one day and this younger guy sitting next to me, we got to talking. He asked if I knew anybody that played guitar because he wanted to take lessons. I said, “Well, I play. I won’t charge you or anything, we’ll just kind of jam together.” He was happy with that. He had a wife and young kids so he came over to my place and we practiced. </p>
<p>One day he asked me if I was playing in a band? I said, “No, no.”</p>
<p> He said, “You’re pretty good. Do you sing?” </p>
<p>“No, I don’t sing.” </p>
<p>This went on for weeks and he kept saying, “Man, you should be playing in a band.” He asked me to sing. After he heard me he said, “You’re a little rough, but if you practice some you would be alright.” Believe it or not, that guy got me back into it and that was something I liked to do anyway. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: When you took all that time off did you miss it?</p>
<p>Darnell: I didn’t even think about it because that was not my world; it wasn’t even on my radar. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Was that about 10 years?</p>
<p>Darnell: Yeah, I started playing guitar again about 2003. It came back to me pretty easily and I’m still learning even to this day. This is the year 2020 and Covid-19 has allowed me time to focus on my instrument. I’ve gotten better; I’ve invested my time into becoming a better player and learning new styles. I’m very grateful.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: How did you get the airplay that you have gotten? </p>
<p>Darnell: I figured that I had some pretty great songs and I wanted people to hear them. I had heard about these streaming service radio stations and I wanted to see how people would respond to my music. When I had heard other stuff and compared my material, I realized I had a unique style. My sound is not average or run of the mill, by any means. It’s not an assembly line, cookie cutter sound which is the formula of most of today’s pop music; I feel it is unique and refreshing. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Here’s the big question, what do you want people to know?</p>
<p>Darnell: You know what, I want people to know hope and good people are still out there. The world is not as divided as some think; that would be an agenda of those trying to splinter us. A house divided cannot stand. There’s a lot more good going on than bad. These are things that I want people to know. </p>
<p>I’ve seen it personally, and, I would say, don’t let anybody pull you apart or push hate, division, anger or anguish into your heart. That’s them; let them go on their path and you go on a path that is right to you. We’re still united, we are still great; things come and things go, but love is forever. That’s what I want people to know. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Great interview, Thank You, Darnell</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6388964
2020-07-21T02:00:35-07:00
2020-07-21T16:15:07-07:00
Darnell Scott
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<h2>Blues Artist, Guitarist and Singer/Songwriter</h2>
<h3>Part 1</h3>
<p>Where to start…</p>
<p>I was attending a wedding in Wenachee, Washington and happened to drop off a business card at a local music store. My friend called me to do a series of gigs; that’s how we hooked up. </p>
<p>Darnell is an absolute joy. We are currently working on an album project. I have shot promotional video and occasionally gig with him. The folks that he closely works with have been a great pleasure to meet. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: This interview is all about you. What is it you want to say? I’ll just prod you along and we’ll just kind of wander about. </p>
<p>Darnell: I remember Terence Trent D’Arby; that guy, when he first came out, he was the biggest thing since sliced bread. I bought a CD because he has an extraordinary voice. A guy with that much talent, you might think, would have been around for a long time; the next ‘Michael Jackson’ kind of thing. He had the look, he had dance moves and he could sing very well. </p>
<p>I remember the performance he did on Saturday Night Live. I thought he was going to be as popular as hell, and for a little while, he was. Right after that he put out a second CD. </p>
<p>After a while you didn’t hear anything from him; he never reached that big status. What I had heard in an interview, he had spoken badly about another artist and that was it. He was done; it’s a shame, too, because he had mountains of talent.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: That’s like a personal approach of yours, right? Just don’t dwell on controversy and negativity.</p>
<p>Darnell: You don’t, you don’t want to do that. Artists, in my opinion, if they’re smart, are not going to be embroiled in controversy. </p>
<p>I have a lot of Navy buddies from the old days who want to be friends on Facebook. It’s fun to check out their lives and see what they’ve been doing for the last several decades. I’ve been following many of my friend’s Facebook feeds and it comes up on their sites how great somebody is. I’m saying to myself, “I don’t know, man, I don’t know. How did you get into this person? You actually believe what they represent?” They have strong beliefs about something and they ask me, “Darnell, what do you think?” </p>
<p>I’ll reply, “You know that I’m not into all that kind of stuff; in the end it doesn’t matter to me.” Whatever happens with whatever political party is in charge does not dictate what I do: how I’m going to run my life, how I’m going to accomplish my goals. This is not going to be in my way.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is your inner source and what motivates you?</p>
<p>Darnell: You know what, everybody has their source; my source is within me. God is my source, God is my power, God is my breath. At night, that’s who I go to when I commune upon my bed. Things I’m thinking about, what I want to accomplish and manifest into my life; my source within. </p>
<p>A lot of people think that their source is outside of themselves; I believe the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. That’s where my source is and that’s what I believe. When I’m aware of it, I think from within and that’s where it’s coming from. I Didn’t learn that in a church. I already knew it and I felt it; it’s something that is, and was, a realization for me. A lot of people have that source as well.</p>
<p>I hear and understand a lot from people when they speak; a person needs to have confidence in themselves. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: How do you build that?</p>
<p>Darnell: Building confidence is all intertwined; it is coming from within, and to me, it’s both an annoyance and an assurance. I’m into a positive mental state, positive thinking, positive thoughts. When you have confidence in yourself then you believe in yourself. If you can’t believe in yourself then you don’t have self assurance; if you don’t have that then you don’t know where your source is. It is all intertwined and all works together. That’s what I found out, that’s how it works for me, how it relates to music and all the things that I do in life.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: In your journey, what have been some of your biggest struggles?</p>
<p>Darnell: You know what, I try not to dwell on that kind of stuff, but struggles do come to everybody. A lot of the struggles that I have encountered have come from the way I was thinking. A person can self-sabotage themselves because of the way they think. Some of my struggles were from negative thinking: Envy, jealousy, lack of growth and overcoming, those were some of the things that I struggled with. Believing I wasn’t good enough and thinking that I wasn’t complete enough, but now I know better. </p>
<p>I’m a human just like everybody else. Until I became aware of my thought process, I didn’t have a solution for why I was thinking the way I was. A time can come, once a person does become aware, that’s when they can really start doing something about it. I’m still a work in progress, but I’m not where I used to be.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What’s the most important question that drives you? </p>
<p>Darnell: Am I going to have what I want to have, am I going to be who I want to be and what is it I want to do. Those are three things that I think everybody asks. Those are questions a lot of people ask themselves: am I having what I want to have, am I doing what I want to do, am I being the person that I want to be. Those are the things I ask myself and the answer to those questions is, yes. </p>
<p>My personal manifesto is seeing myself doing what I want to do, seeing myself having what I want to have, and seeing myself being who and what I want to be. </p>
<p>You’ve got to have a vision. God says the people perish where there is no vision. If you don’t have a vision you’re not going anywhere. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: How do you work your life experience into your songwriting?</p>
<p>Darnell: That is an excellent question. The songs that I have written and that I’m working on are all about real life experiences. Those verses, where I sing, “Where was my father?” That song was written about my mother being there and what she was doing. In my songs the people are real, the experiences are real; a lot of people relate to these kinds of things. A lot of the subject matter has come from within me, and it shows, and it’s out there now. I’m really proud of this material. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Your first instrument? What did you start playing?</p>
<p>Darnell: When I was in the fourth grade, we had an assembly at school and they called everybody into the gym. This day they had an orchestra that came through. When they started playing I was fascinated by the persons playing the cellos. and I said to myself, “Wow, look at that thing.” It was beautiful and it was shiny and I really loved the sound. I wanted to touch it and feel it and hold it. At the end of the concert they asked the kids to come up. It was a recruitment; we were all being recruited and we didn’t even know it. I went over and stood by the person playing the cello, that person invited me to sit down. I was shown fingering, how to pull the bow and what notes the strings were. </p>
<p>For the next five years I played cello in the school orchestra. I learned how to read music, dynamics, notation and how to count. I have forgotten most of that stuff but that’s where it all came from. </p>
<p>Then I discovered that playing cello wasn’t cool like playing guitar; I figured I could get more girls playing guitar. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Did it work?</p>
<p>Darnell: I didn’t date much in high school, but I wanted to be cool. I figured learning guitar I would have the girls; that didn’t happen. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: That came later, right?</p>
<p>Darnell: I’m taking the fifth; I can neither confirm nor deny that those things happened. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: When did you start playing guitar?</p>
<p>Darnell: I think it was the 10th grade. I remember a buddy of mine, he had just started playing, as well, and I would go over to his house. He was playing some of the cooler music that was going on during those days. He started to pick up a lot of those tunes; he lent me one of his guitars that he was not using. So I took it home and started banging around on it. I didn’t know what I was doing. I basically learned guitar by watching other people and hearing things back. </p>
<p>Then I got cassette tapes and a cassette player. I would listen to a song and then I would have to rewind it; a lot of starting and stopping. That’s how I learned chords. No one really taught me how to play guitar; I learned it on my own. These days there are guitar lessons on YouTube which makes things a lot easier.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Tell me about your first band…</p>
<p>Darnell: There were four of us, we were some high school guys who just got together. We played a couple places around town, nothing big, I don’t remember getting paid for anything. That was the beginning and I played for a couple years. </p>
<p>One time, we warmed up for a band called Rail. I think that was about 1981, somewhere around there. They were up and coming and had won some sort of a MTV award. They were in Moses Lake, Washington, and needed a warm-up band. That was at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. </p>
<p>After that I didn’t play for a long time; I joined the Navy. Right after boot camp I was stationed on the USS Camden. One day, I was walking around the ship and heard bass and drums playing. I asked myself, “Wow, where is that music coming from.” I lifted up a hatch and there were two guys down in the hull. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: They were able to bring their bass and drums on board?</p>
<p>Darnell: They were set up in a tiny little compartment down in the hull.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I can’t believe they allowed that.</p>
<p>Darnell: Yeah, they did. They allowed a lot of stuff on that ship, you’d be surprised at what the crew would get away with. We were fortunate, though, we were on a pretty good sized vessel. The Camden was a supply carrier so there was a lot of room. </p>
<p>So I found these two guys playing and I went down and listened to them. I didn’t say anything while I was being entertained and I thought they were pretty good. I am friends with them even to this day. When they were done playing they asked me, “Hey, you know anybody who plays guitar?” I replied, “I play guitar,” though I didn’t have one. </p>
<p>I was very good friends with another guy, his name was Bart, he and I were very close. He just recently passed away and that was really hard. He ended up buying a guitar which he was trying to learn how to play; I told him I would give him lessons. Come to find out, Bart could sing, so we formed a band; we were the ship’s band. We performed a couple times on the fantail. After that I did not pick up the guitar for many years. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: After the Navy, what got you back into playing guitar?</p>
<p>Darnell: After a long time of chasing my tail, I had developed a problem. One of the things me and my Navy buddies liked to do was drink. I was in party mode and I continued to be in party mode even after I got out. For a long time, like I said, I chased my tail; I was drinking a lot.</p>
<h2>End Of Part 1</h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6385368
2020-07-14T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-14T02:45:43-07:00
My Cocoon
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<p>As much as possible, I try super hard to shield myself from negativity. Well meaning friends and relatives, seeking sympathy or empathy for their less than positive situations, inadvertently drop their experiences into my refuse pile. </p>
<p>Which brings me to Negativity Bias: negative situations have greater impact on one’s state of mind than a positive situation of similar intensity. Perhaps this explains some of this Covid mass hysteria thing. Hey folks, last I looked there were flowers and grass growing, birds singing, a beautiful sunrise and sunset ( somewhere, anyways ). </p>
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<p>Since I have a brain, I prefer to wile away the hours, sniffing at the flowers. </p>
<p>If I am an average of the five people I most closely associate with, then those folks are the average of the five people they most closely associate with, meaning those folks are the average of those five people: exponential ad nauseam. Results: mediocrity, negativity, fear, unmotivation paired with demotivation, lack of expectations; these can become symptomatic to my head space.</p>
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<p>Welcome to my cocoon. I am a the expectant caterpillar, metamorphosing into a beautiful butterfly ( I have an aptitude for triteness ). It can only done in a protective sheathe.</p>
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2020-07-10T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-10T05:15:40-07:00
The Good Old Days
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<p>Does any one remember rotary phones? My biggest challenge with those phones was lack of privacy. There was no solitude when conversing; who ever was in the kitchen or living room became an audience to conversations with girl friends. I hated that.</p>
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<p>I remember my first debit card. It felt like The Beast was taking over civilization, creating minions of mindless citizens who no longer had to count out cash. Now there is currency based on algorithms; who knew. </p>
<p>I finally started talking to Siri. My Iphone face plate needs replacing and I discovered I could open apps by commanding Siri. She is the only person I’m comfortable with not thanking, but still catch myself. </p>
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<p>The ultimate good old days: using analog and digital drums for decades before going back to acoustic. </p>
<p>If I’m using a loop or sample, I make my own. It’s first generation and hasn’t had its 2nd and 3rd harmonics erased and then manipulated back. The weird thing – my samples actually punch through the mix with out having to depend on much filtering. </p>
<p>Me, author and perfecter, so to speak. </p>
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2020-07-07T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-07T02:15:33-07:00
Excuses
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<p>Excuses are like armpits: everyone has two and they both stink. Doesn’t matter the subject or the situation.</p>
<p>Social media, brother, what a rabbit hole. How many times a day do I check my phone? Leave it up to a former smoker to fidget, having an intense need to have something at my finger tips; a great way to waste time. </p>
<p>Delloitte, a multinational professional services network, conducted a study on smart phone usage. They found out of 270 million smart phone users, each looks at their phone 52 times a day. That is a total of over 14 billion times each day. What a waste of time. How did we survive pre-cell phone? </p>
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<p>How about getting lost on the internet? When I first discovered online I would be just ‘Gone’ for hours; lost in front of the screen. </p>
<p>The simple reason I’m not getting anything done – I’m not getting anything done. I allow constant distractions. There isn’t actionable motion; progress is only accomplished one step at a time. Spending my life away on a smart phone isn’t helping. </p>
<p>I started writing a blues tune called Flat Screen Zombies but never finished it. My Facebook feed blew up and, well, you know. </p>
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2020-07-05T13:19:59-07:00
2020-07-05T17:15:39-07:00
Mackncheeze Is Now Podcasting
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<p>We are now podcasting on seven different platforms: ITunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Breaker and Radio Public. Just key in Bryan at Mackncheeze on of these podcast stations. </p>
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2020-07-04T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-04T03:30:31-07:00
Mackncheeze Music is now Podcasting
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2020-07-02T02:00:00-07:00
2020-07-02T13:30:38-07:00
Happy Independence Day
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<h2>The Reason Times Are Strange</h2>
<p>Yep, I’ve figured it out; the ultimate conspiracy theory resolved. I’m staking my reputation on this and those who know me understand the bar isn’t really set that high. </p>
<p>The reason why there is so much confusion and uncertainty in this time Covid 19 is because the aliens have invaded us. Some people will expect me to prove that the aliens are actually here. My response is – </p>
<p> <strong><em>Prove to me they are not</em></strong>!</p>
<p>Can you? </p>
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<p>It’s the only logical conclusion. </p>
<p>I’ve been around for a while and have seen some things. I remember when I was little, year after year my Mom would put water in Ball Mason canning jars. I would ask, “Mommy, why are you canning water?” And Mom, in her motherly wisdom would tell me, “Well, Honey, in case the Russians drop the atomic bomb on us we need to have enough water.” Oh, that makes sense. Being five years old, and having watched a war movie or two with Dad, I understood the implications of being blown up. Back then it was the Russians, they were the problem, because I couldn’t prove that the Russians were not going to blow us up. </p>
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<p>There is confusion at all levels of society, especially in national, state and local government. As humans, we don’t operate well in shades of grey and unknowing. Well, there is no need to be uncertain. </p>
<p> <strong>It has to be the aliens. I hope Will Smith can save us again. </strong> </p>
<p>There you go, one less thing to worry about. You’re welcome!</p>
<p> <strong> Happy Fourth Of July</strong></p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6369845
2020-06-29T02:00:00-07:00
2020-06-29T03:45:28-07:00
Adam Puchalski
<h2><strong>Artist Focus</strong></h2>
<h3>Part Two</h3>
<h4>Guitar, Song Writer, Recording and Mastering Engineer</h4>
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<p>Adam: My first experience with digital audio was Voyetra. It was basically a MIDI orchestral arranger. Before Voyetra I was using Cakewalk for its MIDI capabilities. Do you remember how you discovered MIDI?</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Yeah.</p>
<p>Adam: A buddy of mine had a Yamaha drum machine. I had a Casio CZ-101; I still have one.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: We did an album with a CZ-101.</p>
<p>Adam: The sounds that you can get out of that thing, it’s the only place where you can get those sounds. We did so much with that thing, so much. </p>
<p>How I figured out MIDI was that the drum machine had MIDI in and out and I had a set of MIDI cables. The very first thing I did was use the drum machine controlling the keyboard. From there it was like, “What else can I do?” </p>
<p>From that point on digital audio workstations would combine both the digital element and the MIDI element. </p>
<p>I was already at the point where I was editing MIDI with Cakewalk, that was before audio was integrated. I was using every component of MIDI, I learned everything that it could do. If the performance wasn’t doing what I wanted I would look at another control to see how I could manipulate the response; that would get me closer to what I was hearing in my head, basically just playing around with numbers. You have the value 0 to 127 in about a thousand different places. What am I going to do, what are the combinations of 0 to 127 going to be? At the time the possibilities were endless. </p>
<p>Me: Do you manipulate audio transfer with MIDI?</p>
<p>Adam: Sometimes. One of my songs I took the vocals, I turned it into a MIDI file. I’ve got that file playing strings in unison with the vocals; and it’s dead on. </p>
<p>Now I consider using MIDI like ketchup; it’s an accoutrement. I don’t like ketchup; I don’t put ketchup on anything but meatloaf. Sometimes I need to make a choice of which is the more direct route to accomplishing my goal. Sometimes using MIDI is faster, sometimes manipulating the audio is faster. Mostly what I’m doing with MIDI these days is globally tweaking the velocities. I don’t do the surgical shit I used to. </p>
<p>I’m glad I know the surgical process because every now and then I’ve got to go in and just change one note. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I’ve never had the patience to go to that level. What made you make the transition to multi-track recording? </p>
<p>Adam: It just kind of happened; probably very slowly. It was one of those things where I just looked back and said, “Ten years ago I was doing that and now I’m doing this.” It wasn’t a conscious process; my abilities would outgrow the equipment that I was using. I’m like, “Okay, I’ve got to get more money to get more equipment.”</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Awe, so you’re a gear slut. Tell me about your guitar processor. </p>
<p>Adam: It’s a DigiTech GSP 2101 which I bought in 1992. It was really ahead of its time.</p>
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<p>This thing is not a modeling preamp, it’s a tube preamp. Every effect that is available is in there; wah to resonance to everything in between. If I could get it done with a tube amp I would use that. The DigiTech has tube distortion so if I need that crunch it’s there, there is no solid state processing. It sounds like an amp. </p>
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<p>Me: What are your philosophies on recording?</p>
<p>Adam: You have to capture the mood as early as possible; without losing the mood. Get the best sound that you possibly can; get the idea down while the mood is there. The first impression is always the most important. Whatever made you want to record that idea in the first place, you’ve got to capture that, if you can capture that on tape you can recreate it. </p>
<p>You can learn that mood. If you can make it feel the same way, you’ve nailed it. I don’t know if I can actually do that but at least I can capture the mood, the groove and tone that inspired me in the first place. Then I get the euphoria when I do something great, now I’ve got something to build on. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is your songwriting process?</p>
<p>Adam: Pretty much what I just explained; it’s never planned. Usually I’ll be getting ready to practice, I’ll turn on the amp, I’ll put on a drum loop, drag the loop out for about a hundred measures, and I just start jamming. As I’m playing along something inspires me, I will stop and press record. Most of the songs that I write, if I write a song and finish it, it’s usually right then and there. From beginning to end I have about 90% of it, the whole concept is there. Every single song is different. </p>
<p>I have no habits when it comes to songwriting. I could sit and just jam on rhythms for hours; work with a drum loop and just go. Why? Because it feels good and that’s it. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are your current projects?</p>
<p>Adam: I’m working with John Wright, a great friend and great guy. We first met when he came over to just to do a quick 3 to 4 singer-songwriter type demo. That turned into the Stone Lantern CD. Nothing that I have written is on that CD. We took the project up to Paradise Sound in Index and had Paul Higgins lay down drums. I did all the mixing and mastering here. </p>
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<p>Videos that Joe O’Hearn and I are working on for the Wicked Snake Bite project. </p>
<p>I’m working with Amy Turner. </p>
<p>Working with other musicians, it needs to be instinctive. Practice is everything; if you don’t practice you don’t see the results. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Some challenges you face?</p>
<p>These days everything takes time. The other day I was getting mad because I was thinking, “I have to work today but I have no errands to do.” I was thinking I was going to get 3 to 4 hours of practice in. It was 8:30 before I could sit down to do anything; I barely had enough time to warm up. I was too tired and not in the mood anymore. No one’s fault, it’s just the way life is. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Where do you see yourself headed? What are your motivations?</p>
<p>Adam: My motivation is the same that it has always been; it is to make me happy first. I don’t think of money. The ultimate goal is to just have some fun and do it. If I’m in a situation where it’s not fun anymore, if it’s getting too political, or people in the band or arguing the difference between an F or an F#, as far as I’m concerned, pick one or the other, we’re not cutting a Yes album. I refuse to argue about music; it’s not worth it, nor am I interested. I can’t motivate myself for something I’m not interested in. </p>
<p>If there’s decent money on the table then I might be interested other than just doing it for fun. Money can be as much a motivator as a cool voicing you’ve never played before. “Triads, you want to pay me for triads? What kind of triads do you want?”</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: So you’re running Sound Forge and Cakewalk? Is that a new version of Cakewalk?</p>
<p>Adam: It’s the new version; it’s the one that Bandlab took over. Bandlab bought Cakewalk from Gibson after Gibson pretty much abandoned it; they just stop developing it. I had paid a lifetime licensing fee for it and then Gibson dumped it. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: What is it you want to say?</p>
<p>Adam: Music is just for everyone to enjoy, it’s not a competition, it’s not a statement, it’s not a protest. I hate protest music, some great stuff has come from it but I’m not interested in messages. I’m not against messages, obviously that would be very stupid. I just don’t need a message in the music. I grew up on Van Halen, Rush, AC DC, Judas Priest; I like instrumentals, I like jazz , there’s a lot of country I enjoy, I love the early days of rap. I can listen to some old Judas Priest and say to myself, “That was pretty Neanderthal wasn’t it?” Did they do a good job of it? Damn right they did; not a lot of deep messages there. </p>
<p>Good lyrics? I don’t really hear the words as much as I do the syllables; it’s like I’m color-blind in that way. I hear the syllable with the notes and if they flow that’s great. I could listen to a song my whole life and not know the words. </p>
<p>I don’t care what the words are, I just want the music to flow. Someone could ask me what the words to a specific Zeppelin tune are and I’d have to say, I don’t know. If someone starts singing it and I’ll say, “Oh yeah, I know that song.” If they speak the words I’ll have no idea what the song is. Music is about feeling good, I don’t care about the message. </p>
<p>As far as my own playing? I’m probably like every other musician, I am my own worst critic. I very rarely like my playing or what I do. If I capture the moment, I like what I did right there, something I can listen back to a lot. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Thanks Adam, that was good stuff.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6367065
2020-06-26T02:00:00-07:00
2020-06-26T04:01:08-07:00
Adam Puchalski
<h2><strong>Artist Focus</strong></h2>
<h3>Part One</h3>
<h4>Guitar, Song Writer, Recording and Mastering Engineer</h4>
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<p>Mackncheeze: My very first question, who are you?</p>
<p>Adam: I love music. I do what I say I’m going to do and that nails it. If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it; I’m not going to tell you otherwise or act otherwise. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What got you started in all this?</p>
<p>Adam: Weed and Kiss. Seriously. </p>
<p>A friend of mine had an old Sears guitar and a Vox AC 30 amp. We didn’t know what we had. Before we knew how to make it work we would just turn up the amp feedback on the reverb and throw out obscenities. We didn’t sound any better than my six-year-old nephew who’s right now trying to learn guitar. We were having a ball; we destroyed the amp and the guitar.</p>
<p>We were sitting in my friend’s bedroom, listening to Kiss and I had the guitar in my hand. I played seven notes, and you know that feeling you get when the music you’re performing is just perfect, you get that high, it was like, “Hey, these things actually work.” From then on it was like, “Hey, that’s it!” The magic was there. </p>
<p>It’s like being addicted to a drug. Sometimes it happens in the studio, sometimes it happens on stage, sometimes it happens just thinking of an idea. I’ll be in bed thinking about something and telling myself I’ve got to record this thing.</p>
<p>For the rest of my life I’ve always been searching for that feeling. Ultimately, when you are playing music, you’re trying to please yourself. You hope everybody else likes it but if you please yourself then there is success. That’s what it’s all about for me. It’s such a rare occurrence and I’m trying to get back to that point again. I know it’s only going to last a minute or so, and then I spend the next three months trying to make it happen. </p>
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<p>The best thing that ever happened was Facebook because the people that really mattered in my life, we are now all back together again. Most of us stayed involved with music one way or another. We loved every minute of it and still do. We share our projects with one another with a little more expertise than we had when we were younger. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: So your high school band experience…</p>
<p>Adam: We had different bands; we weren’t actually doing the high school dance scene or anything. There was a group of us and we knew we were good; we were having fun playing and we knew we could play. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: So tell me about your dad…</p>
<p>Adam: My dad is amazing. Growing up we used to hear him every single day just playing scales on piano; all scales and exercises everyday, four hours at a time. We grew up listening to virtuoso practice everyday. It was the way it was and that’s how my father lived.</p>
<p>We would go into Manhattan regularly and my dad would be working on some Off Broadway show. There were always good musicians and good music around the house: classical, jazz, Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach. He would be listening to this stuff and then just rip it at practice. </p>
<p>I had to know where I stood on the guitar before I realized how astronomically good my father was. There was nothing he couldn’t do. Give him any tune and he could play it stylistically perfect in any interpretation: Fugue, jazz, classical, whatever he felt like doing. That’s how he played all the time, it was amazing.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Did your dad teach you? Did you go to school?</p>
<p> Adam: No.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Where did you learn all your theory? You know theory backwards and forwards. </p>
<p>Adam: We were sick of Reno and my friend Bob Knight, who is an amazing bass player, we both moved to Washington. My dad was already here and said there was a pretty good music scene going on.</p>
<p>After we moved to Washington from Nevada, I went to Bellevue Community College for a year. I had been playing guitar for four years and playing in bands for regularly three.</p>
<p> Mackncheeze: What casino was your dad working at in Lake Tahoe?</p>
<p>Adam: His regular gig was playing dinner piano at the top of Harrah’s, but he would also get side gigs at other casinos. Before that he was the piano player and arranger for my grandfather’s band, The Al Tronti Orchestra, at the Sahara Tahoe. My dad played with Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny and Cher, The Jackson 5, Frank Gorshin, The Carpenters, Phyllis Diller, with whoever. Think of the major acts of that era and he played with them. </p>
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<p>After that my dad had to hustle. He came to Seattle in about 1982 or 1983 and did a 20-year stint at the SeaTac Holiday Inn playing the main dining room.</p>
<p>I came up in late ’84. When I had first moved to Seattle I took Bob with me to an audition for this band called The Earl White Review. Bob was getting ready to audition for the band and I was talking to Earl and he found out I was a guitar player. He asked me to bring my guitar and amp to his hotel the next night and I sat down and played with some tapes. </p>
<p>I was playing along with a bunch of tunes he had and he asked me if I wanted to play in the band. I said, “Oh yeah, this will be kind of interesting.” I’d only been playing for four years; I wasn’t a seasoned pro by any means. I had been playing mostly 80’s pop metal, and now all of the sudden I’m playing covers like Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, a huge amount of Motown, some goofy hits from the 40s to the mid-80s. </p>
<p>That was a Tuesday that I took Bob to the audition, it was a Wednesday that I sat in the hotel room and played to the cassette. Thursday I showed up for rehearsal and by Friday the guitar player and the keyboard player were gone. </p>
<p>I didn’t know any songs on the set list and we opened on Friday at the Cotton Club on Martin Luther King way. We were booked for a week. My plan was to follow along discreetly with the set and try to stay out of everybody’s way until I learned the music. But now I was told I had to carry the whole thing and I didn’t know any of the tunes. That night we played a lot of Blues. </p>
<p>I worked with Earl for about a year and then that ended because of extenuating circumstances. After my tenure with Earl I went to Bellevue Community College. </p>
<p>That’s where I learned theory. Because I was living with my dad at the time, if I had questions about something that didn’t sound right, he would direct me into the way I needed to go. My dad was an arranger and he was used to writing out music for an entire orchestra. He would do all the copying for each part for each instrument; every bit of it was second nature. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How did you get involved with recording?</p>
<p>Adam: Before I even knew how to play I would plug my guitar into my dad’s stereo quarter inch input. I didn’t have an amp at the time. It sounded like garbage. I recorded onto a little Radio Shack cassette thing. I was farting around with the cassette player, I would play something through my dad’s stereo and record it and then I would jam along with the playback. I decided it would be cool if I could record me trying to play along with those cassette recordings; I bought another cassette player. </p>
<p>I had this cheap little mic, I had my little practice amp, I would play back the cassette recording and jam to it and record it onto the other cassette player via the little mic. </p>
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<p>I realized the cassette player had outputs, so I was able to accomplish a multi-track recording by recording one track into the right Channel and another track into the Left Channel. I was 15 years old and I realized I needed to do something else. I utilized that for a while before I got a 4-track cassette recorder. It was a Tascam Ministudio Porta One, which I still have. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You never got rid of it?</p>
<p>Adam: I keep it because I still have old recordings that I can play back. </p>
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<p>We recorded my dad at Kearney Barton Studios in Lake Forest Park. His Studio was immaculate. He had a full size grand piano. Hendrix had recorded there a few times, among others, a veritable whose who. </p>
<p>I mastered my dad’s recordings on Cool Edit Pro which was freeware. I paid 10 or 20 bucks for the pro version in about 1994, 1995. I didn’t know what I was doing; I just winged it and it turned out okay.</p>
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<p>That was my first mastering experience. For that time, it was basically a light version of sound Forge. That was my introduction to a stereo digital audio processing workstation; strictly working with stereo files. That’s when I when I made a distinction between recording and mastering. I was using DOS 2.0; this was before Windows even existed. </p>
<h2><strong>End Of Part One </strong></h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6358906
2020-06-19T02:00:42-07:00
2020-06-19T05:15:21-07:00
Technical Difficulties
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2020-06-16T13:00:00-07:00
2020-06-16T15:45:32-07:00
I Want To Sound Like Garth Brooks
<h2>The Thunder Rolls</h2>
<p>Some vocalists have super powerful abilities; lots of line in their voices, tremendous breath control and two to three octave ranges. </p>
<p>This vocalist has great pitch control but is a super quiet singer. Certainly great in laying down tracks quickly and efficiently, but, he ain’t Garth Brooks. </p>
<p> And I get asked to do this? </p>
<p>It’s kind of like a bald guy asking the barber to make him look like Jason Momoa. </p>
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<p>Okay, I’m guessing he wants more depth. </p>
<p>Vocal tracks were cut with a Neumann TLM 102 through an LA 610.</p>
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<p>I duplicated the original tracks four times and routed the tracks into a sub mix. I did a high and low shelf Eq on the sub mix, cutting off those frequencies which did not effect the tonality of the vocal track, reduced or flattened nasty ones. Track 1 had no plug in assignment with volume set higher than the others. Track 2, set at lower volume, had no plug in assignment but I put a little sub mix of delay. I used a two millisecond slap delay with a Waves H Delay plug in. On tracks 3 and 4 a I put two more delays of varying time delay, panned hard right and left. When those tracks were auditioned as solo, they sounded like a big gobbilty goop of delay bouncing all over the place. Putting them way down in the mix, almost to the point of inaudibility, thickened the overall vocal landscape. </p>
<p><em>(Side note, I really suggest watching Funkscribe’s break down video of Stevie Wonders Superstition. What Stevie did with delay is awe inspiring.) </em></p>
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<p> I then added a vocal plate with a low pass filter, cutting off most of the verb frequency at 2 k, boosted the vocal eq sub mix with a bit of 100 hertz, and, surprise, not Garth Brooks, but one happy singer. </p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6350897
2020-06-12T02:00:00-07:00
2020-06-12T03:15:57-07:00
Sarcasm: Just Another Service I Offer
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<p>I just love hearing about people doing stupid things. It appeals to my twisted, satirical humor. When I heard about people drinking lysol I laughed hysterically. Yep, more candidates for the Darwin Awards. And high school kids eating soap pods, are you kidding? When I was in high school, I had more sense, I just got stoned and took drugs and drove drunk and … but eat laundry detergent? Yeah, I was a lot smarter. </p>
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<p>Mockery, yeah, like a contact sport, I love to scoff. </p>
<p>Taunting, sneering, vocalizing derision for my fellow humans. </p>
<p>I love the word Trenchancy. It implies my behavior is incisive, keen, suggesting I am unusually caustic. Purveying effective, energetic sarcasm. I like it. I am clear cut and distinct in my level of sardonicism. </p>
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<p>All for self amusement. </p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6347260
2020-06-09T02:00:00-07:00
2020-06-09T04:45:23-07:00
When Bryan Was In Pharaoh’s Land
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<h2>Let My People Go</h2>
<p>My People, My People, these are My People. </p>
<p>I discovered a long time ago that I flourish around folks who are less inhibited. Folks willing to expose their talents on stage have a warped, fun loving relish for life; and incredibly thick skins. Oh Lord, and an endless stream of being novel and extraordinary. </p>
<p>It started in high school when I hung out with the theater folks. My best friend and I worked as stage hands for the thespian group. We painted props and staging, acted as stage hands, and had great times with much laughter. They were people who understood the twist in my brain that determines my behavior. </p>
<p>And I learned. </p>
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<p>These are my people- </p>
<p>People I feel joy being around; being comfortable with one another.</p>
<p>Non argumentative people, who have opinions different than my own, open to the opinions of others.</p>
<p>People who don’t put down others.</p>
<p>Shared interests.</p>
<p>People open to opportunities, mine and theirs.</p>
<p>People who enjoy the company of my friends and family.</p>
<p>Those who are not envious and jealous.</p>
<p>Folks who listen.</p>
<p>No drama. Please, God, no.</p>
<p>Folks who do not drag down my time, whose bad choices do not affect my choices and decisions.</p>
<p>No such thing as perfect friends but everyone I choose to be my friend hangs in these categories. </p>
<p>My Chosen Ones. </p>
<p>Is there any thing we can help you with?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6343949
2020-06-05T12:58:36-07:00
2020-06-05T16:01:04-07:00
Sean Fairchild
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h3>Bass, Producer, Engineer, Recording Artist, Singer/Songwriter</h3>
<h4>Part Three</h4>
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<p>Mackncheeze: How do you describe your musical approach?</p>
<p>Sean: My biggest influence aside from a Rock sensibility is Funk. Growing up around Seattle and being a stringed instrumentalist in the early to mid 90s, I was definitely heavily influenced by the Grunge movement. Those sounds really stuck with me in terms of the tones I really like and the way I like to approach things. As I grew up and got into other kinds of music my stylistic sensibilities changed. </p>
<p>I’m really interested in the instrument itself. I can’t lie, I have an agenda, I want the bass guitar pushed further. I’m into music, but there is that old thing about doing what the song calls for and stuff like that. There is a real fine line there between truth and placation and bullshit. </p>
<p>I don’t want to do what everybody has done before. I have this big thing about people looking in the rear view mirror; it’s an analogy or thought in my mind. There are all these standard-bearers. I think there are so many people that are doing that, those standards are safe; we don’t need another standard-bearer. </p>
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<p>I want to be more of an explorer. That’s a big thing for me. I like exploring sonic pallets. There is a guy named Squarepusher who is a huge influence on me, kind of an idol. If you have never heard of him, he is a world class drummer, a world class bassist, a one man shot electronic producer. He is absolutely incredible.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Tell me about your band…</p>
<p>Sean: My band, Combinator, started as a power trio with two really good friends. Both have found their present day lives to be incredibly different. The drummer, to this day, is one of my closest friends. So many of the bands that I have been in have been with him. </p>
<p>Since both of those guys have departed from the project I have looked at reforming it with other musicians. Over time I have just ended up doing everything myself. In places where I need to, I hire people to do it. I’m composing, producing, engineering, performing and mastering. </p>
<p>I’ll play you a song called Juggernaut where I contracted out two really good players, Josh Kossak on drums and Morgan Wick on guitar. </p>
<p>Morgan and I have played in the tribute band circuit for years and we play with Miller Campbell. That’s where I met Morgan; he’s like this crazy, incredible Prog Metal shred guy, with a full on music education and I know him from a country band. </p>
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<p>In my life, through my experience as a sideman, I have been really lucky to play with some of the best. For a number of years we have all done the same gigs together so we have become friends; we are willing to work on each others stuff. </p>
<p>The reason for me to bring someone in instead of doing it myself is that they are an expert at something that I am not. I recognize when it’s time to let somebody do something the way they are apt to do it, but I still direct the goal.</p>
<p>I fell out of touch with the more progressive and aggressive music that I was into when I was younger. I’m having a really fun time exploring that and getting back to my roots. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How do you integrate the digital and acoustic/analog realm with one another? </p>
<p>Sean: It is a great challenge. There are so many ways to attack that question. There are no rules. In general I find electronic sounds, sonically and texturally, have more of an extreme bookend quality. They go lower and they go higher. I will use sub bass stuff, and deep hits, that sound overtly electronic. I’m not trying to pass them off as acoustic. </p>
<p>There are a lot of times when I want electronic percussion and a drum kit won’t work. There are other times when I want a drum kit sound. I really like mixing them together and exploring what they both do best. Mixing those two elements is something that really appeals to me. I really like to utilize and explore the benefit of both of those textures on top of each other. </p>
<p>I’m really into mixing organic and non-organic things. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: When you are integrating this stuff into your music, are you using automation or are you drag and dropping the components? </p>
<p>Sean: I drag and drop it in to be present, at first, then I always use some sort of automation, in terms of volume envelopes and filters. I’m not a big midi person, but it makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways because it is so exacting. I’m not very adept at using tools that work natively with midi. I’m also not a great keyboardist, I tend to build keyboard parts, implementing two and three notes at a time. </p>
<p>Drums are horrible for me. If I try to program stuff in, I would rather have a drummer do that because I don’t think like a drummer. I’m not very good with sticks but I have thought about getting an SPD SX, having a midi output for that. I tend to use audio clips of things that started life as midi. There is a clip inventory in Ableton; I have a bunch of expansion packs that are licensed to be used. I try not to use things that are off the shelf; I like a lot of the sounds that sound definitely non-real. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How do you find that unique Loop that you are not afraid of someone else utilizing?</p>
<p>Sean: That’s a good question. I guess I always have a little bit of fear that someone will. </p>
<p>The way in which music production is occurring now is different than it used to be; I have to remind myself that it is not a negative thing. Hip Hop culture has really instilled new values in fans of music, it’s actually kind of fun now to use things that are recognizable. It’s a call back, a quotation to some extent; it’s like playing the Amen Break, like playing The Lick. </p>
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<p>A little minor scale 1 2 3 4 2 7 1 </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I’ve been hearing that lick since I was in college band.</p>
<p>Sean: It’s analogous to the Wilhelm Scream. There was a western out of the 50s called The Charge At Feather River. That’s where the scream came from, it’s been used in hundreds of films. It’s named after a person called Wilhelm who was shot with an arrow and fell off his horse. The guy’s scream was so ridiculous people liked it. George Lucas is somebody who specifically used The Wilhelm Scream in many of his movies. A lot of times when Storm Troopers get killed he would used that scream. It’s like a running joke. </p>
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<p>I’m mainly concerned with two different elements, sort of landscapes, of mixing when there are similar frequencies. I’m looking at separation of octaves, as I mentioned, I like to use a lot of really deep electronic stuff and a lot of really high electronic stuff. I want it to sit under the drums and above other instruments. The other thing I’m aware of is stereo image. You can get away with mixing a lot of stuff if you pan it correctly. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You have an example?</p>
<p>Sean: Recently I was confronted with that. I performed at the last NAMM Show, using my computer, and a lot of tracks; a lot of electronic and a lot of acoustic elements. </p>
<p>I was kind of naive; I wasn’t aware when you do live performance almost everybody mixes it to mono. I had to figure out how to get all the stuff I had separated to work well when it’s all stacked vertically. </p>
<p>I discovered that about three days before the performance; I had to remix like a mad dash. In order to get a proper sounding mix in a mono environment I had to filter the individual instruments and loops by cutting off where something starts and where something ends. Psychoacoustics plays into this, a field I am interested in but don’t know enough about. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Could you explain the concept to me? </p>
<p>Sean: Psychoacoustics has to do with the brain’s perception of sound. The analogy is – when you are talking to someone on the phone you know whether they have a bass voice or a shrill voice even though the phone speaker only reproduces sounds down to 600 Hertz. A person hears the specific key outline of a voice of someone who has a very low centered voice. If it’s very low it has harmonics that happen at predictable places. You can hear the sound and can tell that this person has a really deep voice, even if you hear it through a tin can speaker. You know he does because of the timbre; your brain fills in the empty places. </p>
<p>When you’re talking on the phone your brain doesn’t fill in the sound as if you’re talking to somebody on a sub woofer, but in a musical mix it can work that way. As a bass player that is really important because what we have to do all the time is to cut off all the frequencies we really like for the drummers. </p>
<p>The way that I typically produce, the lowest frequencies in my mix belong to the kick; bass guitar has to be out of the way. I will end up high passing the bass up to a hundred hertz. I’m a five and six string bassist and we are really proud of the fact that our instruments can go down to 30 Hertz. That stuff doesn’t translate as well. If you cut it out and listen by soloing it, sometimes it doesn’t sound great. In context, it becomes all of what mixing is. The mind fills that in, especially if you have a particularly resonant bass drum, with a long decay on the track. The bass drum is a pitched instrument even though it normally is not thought of that way. It is pitch and it will fill in a lot of sonic information in the range you cut out from the bass guitar. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I understand what you’re talking about. I hadn’t connected the dots.</p>
<p>Sean: Every instrument has its zone where it speaks the loudest. You don’t have to cut the other zones out but you do have to make way for everything to set together.</p>
<p>I’m lucky that the stuff that I do does not happen to be so harmonically dense that I really have to worry. I use a lot of percussion so it is not as hard. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you in the deepest sense? Who are you and what is the major question of your life?</p>
<p>Sean: There are a lot of different facets, a lot of different ways someone can describe themselves. Deep down I am somebody that wants to be involved with creating something new. I’m somebody who isn’t satisfied with status quo or with living a life that doesn’t result in anything tangible or appreciable. I suppose I’m afraid of being gone without a trace, someone who is afraid of mortality; we all have to face that. </p>
<p>Cassia and I have a daughter that is 9 months old, we call her Nugget and her nickname is DJ Nugs. Through her I feel a little bit safer in that part of me will live on. Before her, even now, I have this drive to produce something of note; I want to leave something noteworthy. </p>
<p>Aside from that I got a lot of stuff to say. I have a lot of strong opinions. </p>
<p>I have this strong rebellious streak; it always directed me to go against what my peer group thinks. </p>
<p>The rebelliousness I have is a major driving force, simultaneously part of the conscious question, and also subconsciously, a facet of my personality. It’s something in me. It’s kind of like a Punk attitude. I was never super into Punk but I had a punk phase and I love punk rock. It makes me who I am. </p>
<p>There is a process in myself that makes me fight against the dominant paradigm that surrounds me. Musically that comes out in a number of ways. Through the eclectic approach I like to take, I play Flamenco Rasgueados on bass and I really like a mixture of electronic and acoustic elements. I want to move the ball down the field from what is acceptable and what is being done.</p>
<p>I always want to prod people. It’s what I like to do musically. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Thanks, Sean. Wow, that was some incredible stuff. </p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help you?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6340375
2020-06-03T00:00:00-07:00
2020-06-03T02:45:38-07:00
Sean Fairchild
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h3>Bass, Producer, Engineer, Recording Artist, Singer/Songwriter</h3>
<h4>Part Two</h4>
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<p>Sean: As a bassist, I’ve been playing for 25 years. </p>
<p>I fell in love with the instrument. I quit middle school band. There wasn’t a spot in the school band for an electric bass player. The band director was upset with me because he was a saxophone player. I had been performing in early morning classical quartets with him, and he was grooming me to follow his footsteps. </p>
<p>At that time I became a really, really rebellious teenager. I basically said fuck you to everything, dropped out of band and found my own way. </p>
<p>My high school musical experience was completely different and was totally wonderful. The band director was a very forward thinking technological guy. His name was Duane Duxbury. He ended up developing a curriculum using digital technology. This was at Jackson High School in Mill Creek.</p>
<p>At the time it was incredible, totally valuable and I didn’t realize it. I started building first hand experience with multi track digital recording. We were recording on High 8 tapes. It was a digital format that looked like little cassette tapes used for VHS recording. The unit was a Tascam DA 88 which could record 8 tracks; we also had a DAT Master recorder. The school got a number of the very first CDR drives. I remember being so excited to use it and buying my first blank CD for like 20 bucks in 1997 dollars. It would take 30 minutes to burn 40 minutes of content. </p>
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<p>I got involved with Jazz choir. That was another very serendipitous thing. The Jazz choir director was an opera singer. She was a live stage person but really had no background in jazz. She was unrestrained and was a free spirit. Her name was Janet Hitt. </p>
<p>At one point I decided I wanted to make my living as a session musician. After high school I directed my studies to ready for that course of action. I planned to move to LA. I studied under Steve Kim; he got me ready for the move. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How was that move to LA?</p>
<p>Sean: ( Laughs ) That’s a whole another long story. In the end it didn’t work. It was the early days of the internet and I had done apartment shopping online. I found a place but had never seen a picture of what I was getting into. </p>
<p>I freaked out when I saw the place I was supposed to live. It did not have a kitchen. It was one of the few freak-outs I’ve ever had in my life. I decided LA kind of sucked. I was there for 2 weeks.</p>
<p>I came back and finished school, graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in linguistics and a Minor in music. </p>
<p>The whole experience did not stop me from playing professionally. I’m a hired side man and a recording artist. Now my focus is doing my own solo stuff. </p>
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<p>I have worked hard and I’m starting to get notoriety for the work that I’m doing. My focus now is in composition and recordings. </p>
<p>I had a recent revelation. My time is normally playing with a bunch of different bands. It’s not music that I have a personal stake in. I’m a hired player. It pays a lot of the bills. The realization is that I’m ready to make a pivot away from that. I convinced myself for so long that was the way to legitimately make money. </p>
<p>Perhaps I’m still in the process of rediscovering that teenage excitement. For me it’s about having ownership, not playing other people’s parts, not just being a hired player. </p>
<p>What I’ve learned is that when I’m playing I always speak with my own voice. My favorite players are the ones who come up with their own statements and their own voice. </p>
<p>In a total sense, I really like a lot of chime and attack. I love players like Geddy Lee and Chris Squire and Les Claypool and Flea. I love guys who play with picks; I love present, harmonically rich sound. </p>
<p>I have always been a band leader, a singer and a front person. As a bass player that is not a commonality. It’s the way that I express myself in music. </p>
<p>Mackncheze: Who are you touring and working with. </p>
<p>Sean: I have a company by the name of Fairchild Sound. It does a number of things, it is my umbrella company for working as a contract player to create videos for a brand. I’m a consultant. I use it for any sort of business endeavor. It’s really not a lot of what I do. Most of what I do these days is teach and record. </p>
<p>Recently I have been working with Miller Campbell. She is a second cousin of Glen Campbell. I do a lot of regional shows with a Billy Joel and an Elton John tribute band. I play on remote recordings which is the majority of my session work.</p>
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<p>I worked for Behringer for a short time. This was 7 years ago. When I was working for them at NAMM, we were doing a series where I was interviewing artists all day long. I got to interview Don Randi who is the keyboardist for The Wrecking Crew. He owns The Baked Potato jazz club in Studio City, California. Still playing. Wonderful guy, great guy. Lots of really great stories. For some stupid reason he seemed to to like me. </p>
<p>In my time with Behringer I was also on the team that did product reviews for salespeople. We were doing feature walk throughs, like what Sweetwater does. We were doing this on the equivalent of what, eight years ago, would now be Zoom technology. The stuff was available to the public most of the time and we would put it out on YouTube. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How did you get the gig with Bass Gear magazine. </p>
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<p>As a bass specialist I had been writing reviews because I am incredibly nerdy. I was always into technical aspects of music and gear. I had been writing reviews on Talkbass.com for a long time. I believe the editor saw what I was doing with one of the bass products at NAMM. I received an email from him and he asked, “If you ever want to do that stuff for us we would love to have you involved.” I was hugely impressed. I was like, “Oh my God this is great.” </p>
<p>It’s a great publication; they care a lot about bass gear. It’s all very technical. It’s the former Bass Player Magazine. They were recently bought out by the UK’s Bass Guitar Magazine. </p>
<p>It used to be in print. By the time I got my first piece published it was the last print edition. I’m excited that I got to see that but also bummed that the print format is gone. At one time the distribution on that was 300,000. That’s globally. </p>
<p>Things definitely changed when we went online only. One of the things we struggled with is creating a format that makes it feel like a periodical publication. We publish a couple of issues a year. It’s a big collection of reviews, interviews, editorial pieces and stuff like that. It’s graphically laid out to look like an issue of a magazine, which is very cool. </p>
<p>I go to NAMM every year with those guys. </p>
<h2>End of Part Two</h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6337806
2020-06-01T00:00:00-07:00
2020-06-01T03:30:40-07:00
Sean Fairchild
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h3>Bass, Producer, Engineer, Recording Artist, Singer/Songwriter</h3>
<h4>Part One</h4>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Tell me about yourself.</p>
<p>Sean: My parents were in the Foreign Service. I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There is an economic and racial disparity there. The good thing about Malaysia is that it is culturally pluralist. It has a high number of Indian Hindus, a high number of ethnic Malays, a lot of which are Muslim, and a proportion of Chinese people. The Chinese people are the minority but they are the wealthy people; they own everything. They are by and large Buddhist with some Christians. </p>
<p>It’s a really interesting place. As far as that part of the world is concerned all these different cultures are able to get along remarkably well. It could serve as a template for a lot of places. </p>
<p>After that we lived in Guangzhou, which is in southern China. I had a Chinese nanny who was part of the intelligence service of the Communist Party. My parents were aware that I had a spy nanny. The apartment was bugged. My parents tell interesting stories of me telling them stories of her taking me to the home office because she still had to do the job of a nanny. My parents learned that all the other nannies called her the Major. Apparently she was a ranking official in the intelligence service. </p>
<p>After China, my sister was born in Colorado. She is 3 and 1/2 years younger than me. We did not live in Colorado for long. We then moved to France. </p>
<p>We moved back to the U.S. and I had absolutely no common ground or frame of reference with people my age. I felt completely alienated. It really led to a pretty easy transition into this disenfranchised rock and roll, early 90s Grunge thing that was going on. It was a long time living in the States before I started to feel like I had enough stuff behind me to have common ground. </p>
<p>When I got into Middle School I remember there being a preliminary sort of hype for the upcoming music program. It was a way to get kids thinking about what it is they wanted to play. </p>
<p>I really wanted to play saxophone. When I was living in Paris I had this poster of a neon saxophone in my room. I never wanted to be a bass player or guitarist or anything like that. They wanted me to play clarinet first because that’s what they tell kids who want to play saxophone. I said nope, it’s sax or nothing. </p>
<p>They gave me a saxophone. For a long time I thought I was going to be a successful Jazz player. I figured, “That’s how my life is going to go from this point on.” </p>
<p>My parents split up; my dad kept his job and his next posting was in Tokyo. My sister and I would spend six weeks at a time with him. She had befriended this Australian cover band and they were doing pretty well. Their bass player, Kerry Dunne, had an extra bass that somebody had found in a dumpster. He had decent instruments and he had no use for it. One day he asked, “Would you like this bass?” I asked, “What’s a bass?” I have a picture of the moment he gave it to me. It’s the coolest thing ever. </p>
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<p>This was a monumental thing that happened in my life. </p>
<p>I went home after that trip to Japan, which was in July, and by December I remember thinking that this is going to be the course of my life. I was 13. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What did you experience as you were traveling around the world?</p>
<p>I have studied five languages: English, Portuguese, Indonesian and Malay, for the most part the same language, French and German.</p>
<p>I went to International Schools, stuff like that.</p>
<p>It was a cool way to grow up. </p>
<p>I remember being very bitter about it by the time we left France. I remember coming to the States and being happy to forget French, happy to forget the previous life. Most of my friends were kids of military families. Being a kid in a Foreign Service family is not that common. </p>
<p>I missed out a lot. I did not have a common cultural base with people that were my age. I remember when I moved back here everybody knew this dog by the name of Spuds Mackenzie. I was like, “What the hell is that.” I never learned how to play baseball. I didn’t learn sports. </p>
<p>I still don’t realize how unusual it is until someone gets me talking about it. I know that it’s different when I hear the words come out of my mouth. I value it a lot. </p>
<p>Most of the time it was very uncomfortable and I was not happy about it. That’s probably why after I started playing music I used to spend seven hours a day playing. I was going to school and I was too young to work so all I did outside of that was play music. </p>
<p>After 25 years I recently reconnected with Kerry Dunne. Because of social media I was able to find him. I hadn’t had any contact with him since the last time I was in Japan. We have become really good friends. </p>
<h2>End of Part One</h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6334466
2020-05-29T02:00:00-07:00
2020-05-29T04:16:30-07:00
Irony
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<p>Besides folks walking down the street having animate conversations on their phones, looking every bit like crazy people did 20 years ago, here are a few ironic circumstances I have encountered:</p>
<p>Being a drummer yet carrying batteries, picks and extra chords for guitar players who forget such.</p>
<p>Lead vocalists who don’t own a microphone, let alone an XLR cable.</p>
<p>Showing up at the gig forgetting my foot pedal and drum sticks. </p>
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<p>Guitar players who can’t stay in tune. </p>
<p>Playing in bands with married couples; trying to ignore their petty squabbles.</p>
<p>Band members sleeping with each other.</p>
<p>Bass players who play too loud.</p>
<p>Deaf sound techs.</p>
<p>The cat who asks, “What key is this?” even thought they have played the same set list for fifteen years. </p>
<p>Club owners who expect you to play for beer and a burger. </p>
<p>The band member who tries to mix the track or edit the video on the first cut.</p>
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<p>Ain’t it the truth?</p>
<p>Can we help you?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6325859
2020-05-21T19:00:00-07:00
2020-05-21T21:15:38-07:00
Social Capital
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<p>What is the price of our relationships? I often joke that I do not have the emotional, intellectual, spiritual and financial capital for another girl friend. </p>
<p>I ask myself: what am I willing to spend to consummate my musical relationships? </p>
<p>The answer is simple yet surprisingly complex. </p>
<p>First: I haven’t got time to work with folks who are unpleasant. A good criteria – is this some one I would break bread with? Do they have a good heart? Is their conversation engaging? Do they like animals? Are they funny? </p>
<p>Second: Is there proficiency in their playing? Is there commitment? Are they able to back up words with action? </p>
<p>Third: Are they worth my friendship? I used to be altruistic in my musical relationships. No more. </p>
<h2>Posture</h2>
<p>Has any one you have worked with ever committed to a rehearsal and then not shown up? Did they even contact you? </p>
<p>I get that there exist extenuating circumstances. </p>
<p>Did you reschedule with them and have the same result? Those actions are an indication self importance. It is happened to me many times. I no longer give people power over me. </p>
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<p>Maybe I appreciate the one trick pony. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. </p>
<p>In my network and associations, I have experienced superficiality among many players; they just won’t get back to me. But the moment they want something……</p>
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<p>Anymore, I’m not jumping through hoops. Done with that circus. </p>
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Mack-n-Cheeze Music
tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6323381
2020-05-20T01:00:00-07:00
2020-05-20T02:45:31-07:00
Robert Brewer
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h4>Singer, DJ, Songwriter, Producer and Guitarist</h4>
<h2>Part Two</h2>
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<p>Mackncheeze: When you were at the Art Institute, did you study vocals? How did you learn to sing the way you do?</p>
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<p>Rob: A mixture of church, singing by myself with my quarter inch reel to reel and some vocal training. At the Art Institute there was a lot of recording. At that period of my life I wasn’t really into doing music. I wanted to be a producer and make albums. I had no interest in being an artist. There was no intent.</p>
<p>The first time I ever started singing was at a karaoke bar when I was stationed in Japan. At that time most karaoke bars in Japan would have Elvis songs, some Beatles songs and Johnny Mathis. This is like 1988. At that time, in Japan, karaoke was cool because everything was on a LaserDisc. They all had videos.</p>
<p>Some of the most amazing bands I have seen were in Japan. This one band was a Zeppelin cover band. This Japanese dude looked just like Robert Plant, his hair and the whole nine yards. He was blind and he sang just like Plant. His pronunciation was spot-on. There was a part of me that was asking, “Is he really blind?” I’m just like, wow. A high energy, amazing show. I’ll never forget them.</p>
<p>So the cool thing was my Aunt Dee Dee knew Jay King who was the head guy of Club Nouveau. He was in the Army and he was stationed up in Anchorage. I was working at Miramar ( Abraxas Pool, The Storm, Steve Lukather ). I was doing a few projects for him that we’re not related to Miramar. It was more R&B and rap stuff and we hooked up a few times. The initial connection was through Japan. I was off and on in Japan for two years.</p>
<p>I was given the opportunity to go back into broadcast journalism and be a writer for the Stars and Stripes. The catch was that I needed to re-up for 2 years. This was right before the Gulf War. I didn’t go that route.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Please give me a history of being a DJ.</p>
<p>Rob: I started when I was in the Marine Corps. When I wasn’t in Japan, I was in Pohon Korea. That was a cold weather training, and I was also a part of the operation Team Spirit. North Korea’s leader Kim il-sung was firing missiles in protest of the American and South Korean training operations. </p>
<p>So the club DJ did not show up.</p>
<p>Everybody knew I was a broadcast journalist and so they said, “Hey Brewer, you have to DJ.” I crawled up in this really small square cube glass enclosure. I’m sitting cross legged, the club is packed and all the heat is rising to the ceiling. I was in this tiny little room in my own world, just getting down , throwing down all the cuts, and keeping everyone happy. I did not know it at the time, but being a DJ would be something I would end up doing. </p>
<p>It was all turntables back then. I was having a good old time. That was back in the day and my first real experience with turntables. I got paid a bunch of free beer. I was happy. Everybody else was happy.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I find it very interesting that you sing in two different bands, doing a DJ Act as well.</p>
<p>Rob: Being a DJ, I am my own entity. I control my own destiny, I don’t have to pay anybody else at the end of the night, I make my own decisions. Being in a band you can not instantly take a gig. When a gig is offered you have to call everyone up and ask who is available. Many times booking agents and club Owners need to know right away.</p>
<p>As a DJ I’ve never had that problem; it’s just me. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You carry a light show?</p>
<p>Rob: Yes. I think ambience is important. Not only do I carry lights, I carry video as well. I have a philosophy that most people are pretty much wallflowers. I think they need an icebreaker to engage them. If I can nostalgically take you to a period, or mentally put you in a happy place, have you visually see something that makes you think of someone else, makes you think of another time, it might engage you to want to dance.</p>
<p>Macknceeze: Have you thought about writing books on psychology?</p>
<p>Rob: I think it’s important to be a good DJ but I think you have to do a little bit more in order to get people to buy into what you are doing. Being a DJ, you definitely control the mood and the tempo of the Dance Floor. Technically, I’m not the greatest DJ ever, but I know what I need to do to make it work.</p>
<p>I do a little scratching, but I’m more into blending and overdubbing, I’m not trying to be a turntablist.</p>
<p>If you’re a turntablist, people are only going to your show to see you perform. If you’re a club DJ, people are going to a club to dance. It would be selfish of me to practice turntable technique to a packed dance floor of people trying to get their groove on. It’s good to show a level of skill, whether it’s taking a song and mashing it into another song, or recreating some songs. To me what’s important is creating my own brand and originality of style.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: A technical question: if you were a DJ with a live band, could you take your discs, sans CDs, using correct tempo and scratch tracks into the band’s performance?</p>
<p>Rob: Oh yeah.<br>Mackncheeze: There are not many DJ s that can do that.</p>
<p>Rob: That’s where some of my time at the Art Institute came into this. During that time I was producing and engineering. Knowing how to lay tracks properly, knowing how to piece together songs and how to orchestrate and collaborate, that was a very important part of my education. It’s one thing to know how to play an instrument but it’s another thing to know how to work as a team and work together.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Tell me about the two bands you are working with…</p>
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<p>Rob: Midnight Radio Revival, that’s a band I’ve been with for a while. I took over the lead vocal position around 11 years ago. We’ve mainly been doing psychedelic rock from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. We call it Golden Age Heavy Rock. We cover about 80 or 90 songs.</p>
<p>Over the past year, Doug, our lead guitarist, has written some amazing stuff. We could continue playing covers, but our new focus now is to take some of this music that’s been written, and do it in a classic rock style. We want to record it and get it out. Certain clubs do not want a cover band; they want bands with original content. There are radio shows and TV shows that love to have a bands like that. They can’t do it with bands doing covers because of licensing agreements.</p>
<p>I think for a lot of the people who come to the shows, they’re like saying okay, what’s next? You can only do so many covers. Our next step is to record about seven or eight original songs. We will still do covers and blend in original material. That’s our next big step.</p>
<p>Bands are like sports teams. At the end of the day, after piecing all the music together, it becomes a collaborative effort. In order to have success it has to be a team effort. It’s funny because music is kind of oxymoronic; a lot of it is based on self oriented concepts where there is no team.</p>
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<p>The other band is Cold As Ice. We’re a foreigner tribute band. We have only been doing Foreigner covers. Foreigner is a 7 piece band. We have been covering all the parts as a four-piece. We have some amazing folks. We did a show together last year on the 4th of July. That was the last gig we did. We got together before this whole corona virus thing happened. We pieced together a song list of what we were going to work on. All this came about and that’s where we are now.</p>
<p>I almost had the opportunity to play in an Earth, Wind and Fire tribute band called Kalimba. The manager approached me and during the interview I was told they do about 70 shows a year. Most of the shows are out of state. As a cover band they’re probably doing better than most national Acts. It was good; I was practicing all of that Philip Bailey stuff. It helped increase my range. To me, any opportunity is always a fun challenge. To be acknowledged or even thought of as being a part of that is kind of cool.</p>
<p>I pretty much enjoy all aspects of music. I’m always keeping my ear to the ground. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: So Rob, what do you personally want to say?</p>
<p>Rob: Rob Brewer, aka, DJ Forrest Gump, still has a lot of music in front of him. I have a lot of things yet to accomplish. I’m looking forward to doing those things. </p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6320690
2020-05-18T00:00:00-07:00
2020-05-18T03:45:40-07:00
Robert Brewer
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h4>Singer, DJ, Songwriter, Producer and Guitarist</h4>
<h2>Part One</h2>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who Are you?</p>
<p>I am Robert Brewer, son of Shirley Brewer, grandson of Lula Bell Brewer, from Seattle.</p>
<p>I come from a family where music was a very important part of our lives. My older sister, Kathy, her father, was a local music icon in radio; his name was Burl Barer. He was on KJR for a long time. He is not my dad.</p>
<p>My life has jumped through a lot of hoops. I have been a radio DJ, on and off, for 25 years. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Really, what stations?</p>
<p>Rob: KCMU 90.3, which later became KEXP, and KLSY 92.5. My first internship was at KFOX 1250 AM. That was when I was in college. Bob Wickstrom was president of Bailey’s School of Broadcasting. He asked me if I would like to intern at KFOX. I would run from The Art Institute to KFOX to do it. I stayed there until the station went off the air.</p>
<p>Some of the first records I ever had were from my mom and my dad. When I was three, I remember my mom playing Sly and the Family Stone. One of my first vivid memories is hearing the song, Stand.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: That’s a cool memory man. I love Sly Stone.</p>
<p>Rob: Stand, I Want To Take You Higher, those are really the first memories of my life. As I grew older I would listen to more and more of my mom’s and my aunt’s music. </p>
<p>My grandma loved Hee Haw. So I watched Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk, and a little bit of the Grand Ole Opry. The folks from my mom’s side are from Little Rock Arkansas and St. Louis Missouri, as well as the Mississippi Delta area. In my back ground there is some Creole, Native American, and a little bit of Haitian.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: You got the turntables, you got the vinyl, that’s awesome, man.</p>
<p>Rob: My mom had these records which I have kept till today. My mom and my dad wrote on the album sleeves. I cherish those albums because I really feel like I have a connection with them. Through these pieces of vinyl, to me, that’s really the only true connection I have with my dad.</p>
<p>As a child my grandma always used to record me singing Michael Jackson songs; ABC, I Want You Back, stuff like that. I pray those recordings have been destroyed.</p>
<p>In recording, if you don’t get used to you the sound of your voice, you are going to have to either accept it or forget about it.</p>
<p>My aunt Catherine was the music collagist of our family. She was an amazing woman. In a weird, chronological way her life and music went along with the albums she collected. I have all these older Fats Waller albums. I have a Quincy Jones 78 disc. It is a recording of Quincy’s band when he was stationed at Fort Lewis. My aunt would not only give me vinyl but tell me stories that went along with each one, how they were purchased, how each artist inspired her and why she liked them. My mom was into The Supremes, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: What influence started you performing?</p>
<p>Rob: I was the only boy at home. I grew up in a house full of women; me, my mom, my grandma and my sister. If I wanted to hang out in the house I either had to be in my bedroom or I would be doing chores. My other choices were going to the gym or down to the park playing. </p>
<p>My mom gave me all of her vinyl. Some days, Seattle being drenched with rain, I would spend part my day at the gym and spend afternoons and evenings listening to albums.</p>
<p>One day, my mom got me a quarter inch reel to reel tape deck. I started experimenting with recording. I would take my record player and record sounds and just goof around. Those were my early recordings. </p>
<p>Through a buddy of mine I got a body of a Gibson SG. There was a record record shop called Zobrist. Zobrist is the first place Jimi Hendrix got a guitar. I bought all my guitar components there. When I was 13 or 14 years old I built my first guitar, a copy of a Gibson SG.</p>
<p>When I started going to High School I saved up some money, my mom helped me and I took guitar lessons. I took lessons at a place called The Rosewood Guitar. That was in the U District. After school and in between playing basketball I would go there and learn guitar. </p>
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<p>I was a decent athlete and I wanted to play basketball at Roosevelt. In the early and mid eighties Roosevelt was the number one team in the state. I had been going to private school most of my life; I wasn’t part of the Seattle public school system. That gave me an option to go wherever I wanted to go. </p>
<p>I would get out of class at 2 and basketball practice would be at 5:30. A lot of times I would go to a place on the Ave called Kennelly Keys. The Rainbow was across the street. I would go and jam out on different guitars. After practice I would go back to the Rainbow and listen to bands play. The one band I enjoyed and listened to a lot was Robert Cray.</p>
<p>After High school I played basketball at Shoreline Community College. We were really bad; we went 8 and 20 or 7 and 21 something like that. That was the first time in my life I had ever played on a losing team. It was unfortunate we had some really, really good players who got caught up partying too hard.</p>
<p>I went into the Marine Corps which really was not my first choice. When I first started at Shoreline I had applied into the Army ROTC. I felt the process was taking too long . I remember one day I went across the hall to the Marine Corps and signed up. That was in 1988. The day after my mom’s birthday I shipped off to boot camp. Believe me that was an experience and a half. </p>
<p>I was in the Marine Corps for four years.</p>
<p>I had decent scores so my original job was a broadcast journalist. The Marine Corps School of Journalism is at Syracuse University. Towards the end of boot camp I had to take my School of Journalism tests. I was just trying to finish boot camp and I wasn’t ready to take all these tests. In the middle of physical training I was not able to focus; there was no chance to study. The only thing I was brushing up on was cleaning my M16.</p>
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<p>They decided to send me to Wire and Comm School At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. </p>
<p>Part of Comm School is that you spend three or four weeks climbing telephone poles. Most of those poles are 40 or 50 feet off the ground. The pole yard had tons of wood chips spread across the ground so if we fell 40 feet down we wouldn’t break a neck.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Did you ever fall?</p>
<p>Rob: Hell, yeah, I fell down many times. We were provided boots and climbing gaffs; it was never a hundred percent free fall. Poles can be really slippery especially in the rain, especially with a lot of humidity. Where I lived in North Carolina there could be days of 90% humidity. Five, ten feet off the ground you’re drenched in sweat.</p>
<p>Towards the end of my time in the military a really good buddy of mine used to worked The Improv. The Improv was a comedy club that is now the Showbox.</p>
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<p>I started doing security there on one of the last times I was home on leave. Larry Harris, the owner of the Improv, he used to own a couple of recording labels named Buddha and Oasis. Larry and his first cousin created a record label called Casablanca. He used to manage Kiss. Two of his other bands were Parliament and Funkadelic.</p>
<p>I started going to the Art Institute when I first got back. I was studying music and video production. I was inspired by one of my good friends, Russ, a super great guitar player. His group was called Bitter End. They were a heavy metal band. They were one of the last pre Grunge heavy metal bands in Seattle. I remember seeing them on MTV when I was stationed in North Carolina. It was really cool to see my friend on National Television.</p>
<p>The Art Institute was one of those organizations where people would come to the school because they were infatuated with Grunge Music; people seeking a musical education for not all the right reasons. For me going into it was for all the right reasons. I knew my limits; in order to advance I knew I needed a higher level of musical education. A combination of me going to the Art Institute, working with my friend Russ in Bitter End, working at The Improv and having a mentor like Larry Harris really helped me connect all the dots of entertainment. Working with Larry was not just about the whole business of music, but included the whole business of comedy and the whole business of dining.</p>
<h2>End of Part One</h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6317470
2020-05-15T02:00:00-07:00
2020-05-15T05:30:36-07:00
I Have No Children
<h2>The Gene Pool Stops Here</h2>
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<p>Times were when I used to envy my married friends. But enough about my thirties. When I hit forty it was like, “What was I thinking?” </p>
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<p>I’ve been told I would be a good father. Yeah, maybe when I cared. Now I’m selfish and jealous with my time. Life’s priorities have moved from, “I want to make time for someone,” to, “How much time is left?” </p>
<p>I do not live by a honey do list. It’s the, “If I don’t do it now, it won’t get done,” list. </p>
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<p>I’m not complaining. Life is good. Life is exciting. I marvel at the timing of all going in my little world. What a blessing. Truly, my head spins at the possibilities. </p>
<p>Can we help you in any way?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6308908
2020-05-08T02:00:00-07:00
2020-05-08T04:45:35-07:00
Impatience
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<p>Pardon me, but I sometimes forget an ordinary human being is not interested in sitting down for hour upon hour trying to perfect an imperfection. Basic nature of artistic endeavor of any sort requires lots of time spent by one’s self, working out a path of accomplishment. Social Distancing. </p>
<p>Wood Shedding, the old timers called it, spending hours in the back wood shed, away from the house, practicing. For me, its like, duh. </p>
<p>I had to learn how to conquer impatience. I always wanted to be really great but I wanted it right now. Repetitive failure inspired me to make a perpetual habit of practicing. Perfect practice makes perfect, as the adage goes; a great truth. </p>
<p>I have a friend who is actually a real engineer. Unlike me, he knows the inside and out of all his gear. He will unassemble a piece of equipment, replace necessary components, and reassemble. Add the fact that he is an accomplished musician, song writer and producer. The real deal.</p>
<p>How many times has he rotated the ten thousand hour rule?</p>
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<p>The average person isn’t interested in these kind of commitments. I identify this as a quest for perfection. That perfect song, perfect mix, perfect rhythm section, perfect performance. All it takes is patience. </p>
<p>Yes, I want it right now. Why do I have to wait? Why must I fail? Why is it so hard? </p>
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<p>Hey, Bucko, life ain’t a drive thru. </p>
<p>Can we help you in any way?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6306522
2020-05-06T02:58:00-07:00
2020-05-06T06:01:39-07:00
Tom Glase
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h2>Part Two</h2>
<h2>Wine Maker, Owner Of Beresan and Balboa Wineries</h2>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you?</p>
<p>In my entire life, my kids are the best thing that’s ever happened. My kids are centered and focused and on their way and they are artists. I told them if you’re not ready to go to college, don’t go to college. Their college is paid for, they don’t have to worry about it. My son said he didn’t want to go, he hates school. I said don’t go. Right now he is making wine with me. He is going to Europe with his sister and when he gets back he’ll be working harvest.</p>
<p>I’m a kid who grew up in the state of Washington. I’ve lived here my entire life. I have walked into pretty much all of my opportunities. I’m someone who wants to be the best human who I can possibly be. I have been able to chose from opportunities that have presented themselves. I am so lucky, so lucky.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Everyone that I talk to, who are at the top of their game, says the same thing.</p>
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<p>Tom: We don’t make a lot of wine. It’s amazing to pull it off at 4,500 cases. We have three full-time employees. I love my staff, I have the best staff ever. They are beautiful people. They love their job.</p>
<p>I love all the moving parts. I get to do everything. I get to manage people, I get to work on the financial side and the marketing side. </p>
<p>I get up every day and get to work by 7:45 or 8. I take my dog for 45 minutes and we walk the orchards and vineyards. It’s so beautiful. I might see a four-wheeler or a tractor but there won’t be any people or cars.</p>
<p>I love the people I work with, the people I deal with, it’s especially about managing relationships. Life, when you throw in wine, is so much more fun. Everywhere I go I take wine and make new friends; not always but most times.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How do you draw the line between science and Alchemy?</p>
<p>Tom: Humans are 90% sensory-based. As winemakers, if it doesn’t smell good or taste good, people are not going to want to drink it. I just don’t pay attention to what numbers say. I have never been a proponent of scores.</p>
<p>I tasted wines the other day and I said to myself, it’s just not a good day to be tasting. It’s like playing music, sometimes your guitar sounds out of tune when it’s not. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Back to the science thing: What part of your career did you embrace the science of making wine?</p>
<p>Tom: The whole time. At this point I don’t use as much science. I’ve dialed it down to – what is it do we need to know. </p>
<p>Before we make a picking decision, as far as longevity of the wine goes, we are looking at the balances of our sugars and PH s. It changes every year. That’s pretty much what we look at before we pick grapes. After we pick grapes, we use chemical analysis to see if we need to make any changes. We test, we cross-flow everything, test before and after filtering. We have gotten away from using commercial yeast. We will let things ferment on their own.</p>
<p>We call our wines uninoculated, that’s the fairest way to state it. Most natural yeast cannot finish a fermentation of wine that is over 22 brix, the alcohol will be too high. Most natural yeast cannot handle that much alcohol. </p>
<p>We use an outside source for testing. We run tests at the beginning and end of fermentation. It’s nuts, every year the results come back differently. Two years ago our Merlot fermented dry with a white wine yeast. Last year we had a wine that fermented dry with a yeast we have never used before, it had never even been in the winery. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Wow.</p>
<p>Tom : That’s technology and the applications we use.</p>
<p>When it comes down to picking decisions, walking in vineyards, I know what the numbers are. We’re just walking through and asking ourselves, how does the fruit taste? What are the chemical constituents of the skins and seeds? That’s the art part of what we do.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Hypothetical question: You’re a Roman winemaker two thousand years ago, with your vineyards, how would you approach wine making?</p>
<p>Tom: I’d have to see what kind of equipment they had. I think criterion would be the same: Does it smell good? Does it taste good? I guess I wouldn’t be worried so much about cost.</p>
<p>Mackncheze: You understand the history of what you’re doing.<br>Tom: Where did Syrah come from?<br>Mackncheeze: It would have been Persia?<br>Tom: Legend has it the Phoenicians brought Syrah to Europe from around present day Syria.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: As an entrepreneur, as an artist winemaker, what is it you would like to say?</p>
<p>Tom: The main thing is, I wish people were more aware of what was the last wine that they were drinking. I think about it all the time, I really do. I want wines that I make to taste like the person who made them loves their job. I see so many people in this industry, to them, it’s just a business. I want people to understand that there’s a difference between my $25 of Cabernet and my competitors $20 bottle of cab; there’s a huge difference. We truly care about what we do. We take every step to make sure that the wines are true to what they are. A customer will know where our wines are from and know how they’re produced. I saw an ad for the sale of 75,000 gallons of Cabernet. No consumer is going to know its source. That’s wine manufacturing.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Lot of that going on.</p>
<p>Tom: I want people to know we make our own wine. Only three people touch it. What we do is our testimony. We Care.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: This has been great.</p>
<p>Tom: Yeah, this has been fun. I always tell people I like answering questions because it helps me to remember what I know.</p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6304025
2020-05-04T02:00:00-07:00
2020-05-04T02:30:32-07:00
Tom Glace
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
<h2>Part One</h2>
<h2>Wine Maker, Owner Of Beresan and Balboa Wineries</h2>
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<p><em>This interview involved sharing a bottle of 1998 St. Innocent Pinot</em> <em>Noir from Oregon’s Willamette Valley.</em></p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Tell me about the kids and playing music?</p>
<p>Tom: They both grew up playing instruments. My son played trumpet for a year and didn’t really like it. My daughter, Emilia, played Cello. She had her great-grandmother’s Cello. She played cello for a couple of years and is pretty good.</p>
<p>A couple of years ago I thought, I’m going to buy Winston drums. I bought him a drum set for graduation; he loved them.</p>
<p>It was really strange because my buddy Jared, I was out to dinner with him one night, and he asked me, do you know anyone who wants to buy a bass? I said I would. Two hundred bucks and a case of wine later, I got a bass.</p>
<p>I already had a Stratocaster and acoustic guitar. So we have electric guitar, bass and drums. Winston and I would start playing a little, and my daughter started playing bass. It’s one of the most awesome things in the world to come home after work and have my children be there. I walk into the basement and I say, oh my God, I love my children. They love it. </p>
<p>I bought Amelia her own bass. I didn’t know what to get her for her 18th birthday, I just didn’t know. I was perplexed; I was in Spokane and I went to the guitar store, and said, “Hey, I’m getting her a bass.” </p>
<p>I figured she would like a black one, it would be cool for her. When I gave it to her it was the best thing in the world. She was so happy and so excited. I gave her a bass amp. She can practice at home and also play at my house. It’s one of my favorite things in the whole world. I love it</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: For you, what sparked your interest in playing music?</p>
<p>Tom: I started playing piano when I was in second grade. I really didn’t like it but at the same time I liked it. In sixth grade I started playing trumpet. I liked trumpet a lot but then my music teacher quit. Then I did shop and pottery.</p>
<p>My former music teacher came back and he asked me why I quit band. I said, “Because you left and I didn’t like the other guy.” He asked, “Will you come back? I don’t need a trumpet player but I do need a baritone player.” I said okay and I went back to band class.</p>
<p>When I went to high school I didn’t see any baritone players in jazz band. So the band instructor told me he would buy me a valve trombone. In my freshman year of high school I played valve trombone. The next year he told me I needed to play regular trombone. So my sophomore year I played regular trombone and my junior year he bought a bass trombone. By my senior year I said, I’m just going to smoke weed and play Hacky Sack.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: ( Gut Laugh ) How did you become intrigued with wine?</p>
<p>Tom: I got married in 1995 and moved to Walla Walla seven days later, no job. I started working at the Walla Walla Country Club. Mornings I mowed Greens, afternoons worked the pro shop (this is pre children) and I worked the clubhouse at night. Finally the golf pro asked me to work full time. I passed my players test and entered the PGA as a Club Professional.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Really?</p>
<p>Tom: And then he got fired. I said to myself, I don’t want to work for anyone else and I don’t want to do this anymore. So I got a job as a commercial loan officer at Banner Bank. In that time I met Eric Dunham. He was living on the top floor of L’Ecole 41. It was a small world thing because I gave Marty and Megan Clubb and their daughter golf lessons. I also gave Megan’s parents golf lessons, so I knew them all. When I was in between jobs, Eric called up and asked me if I could help out at L’Ecole. Eric was beginning to open Dunham Cellars.</p>
<p>When I worked at the Country Club, part of my job was to act as the host part of the winemakers golf tournament. There were only eight wineries at that time. I started at L’Ecole in 1998. Rick Small, Chris Doucet and John Abbott would come out and play golf. Jean Francois played as well, so this got pretty big.</p>
<p>I was helping out at L’Ecole and Marty asked if I knew anyone who would want to work there and I said I would. </p>
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<p>I hooked up with Mike Corliss. We started talking and he said if I ever wanted to do a winery let him know. That was a great opportunity . That was in 2001 that I started with Mike. In the process of ordering fruit, I contacted Tom Waliser, he has a vineyard in the Rocks. Andrew Will had to back out of a fruit purchase, so I called Tom and he said, “Come down and pick up some fruit.” He then asked if I would be interested working for him making wine.</p>
<p>For two full harvests I was making wine for both Tom Walesir and Mike Corliss. There wasn’t a production facility for either winery. The first vintage of Corliss and Beresan were made at L’Ecole 41, which was great because I was helping Marty out and simultaneously making my own wine. We did that in 2001 and 2002. In 2003 I left Corliss and started with Ash Hollow; that was a short-lived brand.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I’ve never even heard of it</p>
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<p>Tom: I got to manage 50 acres of vineyards so that was good. I learned a lot about growing grapes and vineyard management.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: So you just fell into this?</p>
<p>Tom: Yeah the whole thing.<br>When I worked at L’Ecole they sent me to school at UC Davis. When I first got there I had no idea what they were talking about. When I went back the next year it kind of made sense. Year three, I got it; between schooling and practical application is what set it straight.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze : So you have no degree? Practical experience is the whole thing?</p>
<p>Tom: Yep, at that time, most people in Walla Walla learned how to make wine by making wine.</p>
<p>I was at Ash Hollow in 2003 to 2004. In 2004 my dad passed and I said to myself, I’ve got to do my own thing. I was tired of working for other people. So I quit and found an investor who helped me start my winery. I was just about ready to pull the trigger on that deal and my buddy Mike Sharon, who was the winemaker at L’Ecole 41 said, “Why don’t I help you out.”</p>
<p>In 2005 we started Balboa Winery with $40,000. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Really, that’s nothing.</p>
<p>Tom: Tom Waliser helped a lot. He created space for me so that I could vinify wine. We were the first people to use screw caps in Walla Walla.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Really? I haven’t seen any of your wines with screw caps.</p>
<p>Tom: I have four wines with screw caps.</p>
<p>I like the concept. I think it’s a much better capsule. The wines age fine. That’s the big thing, before it goes in the bottle, you have to make wine correctly.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: That’s what you’re all about, making wine correctly.</p>
<p>Tom: Two and a half years ago we merged Beresan Wines and Balboa Wines. </p>
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<p>I was thinking about this earlier. I love my job now more than I ever. I get to hang out with really great folks. I love playing golf, I love playing guitar, I love making wine, these are things which will never be perfect. I can always try to be better. </p>
<p>This is my 22nd year of wine making. I love walking through Vineyards and tasting grapes and running the numbers. I love the group of people who go through a harvest together, it’s seven days a week, 12 hour days, you become extremely close with that group of people. Some of my closest friends are people I have worked with during harvest. </p>
<p>I could go on for days. </p>
<p>The whole relationship between sunshine and dirt and plants and temperature, I mean, it’s different every single year. You have to be able to adapt. You can’t make wine the same way every year. That’s what I love about wine, we are always trying to capture wine at its peak regardless of vintage. Last year was tricky. It was a cooler; the fruit was ripe but sugar levels were low. Physically, the grapes were ready to go, so we picked. A lot of wineries did not.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: The wine was more complex?</p>
<p>Tom: Yeah it was. I like cooler vintages. The 2011 vintage wines are still great. They will be great longer than the wines from 2015. I would never say one vintage is necessarily better than the rest, it’s always a reflection of what that year was. That’s why we make wine the way we do. Our wines reflect vintage; this is what we were given.</p>
<p>Scores are very challenging. How are you supposed to score wine if you haven’t been part of the process? You weren’t there, how do you know? You don’t know the soils, you don’t know the harvest, you don’t know the vineyards. There could have been six 100-point wines in that release because that’s the best you could have done with both grapes and vintage. It’s extremely difficult to judge a great wine unless you know how it was made. </p>
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<p>You want to talk about the art side of what I do? It truly is an art; I mean, we’ve decided to use as few of commercial products as possible. That decision we made because we feel our wine is more like a wine should be. A lot of wine making is just a job; some winemakers make a wine because its profile is predetermined.</p>
<p>As a young winemaker, I was geared towards younger wines, but now I think it’s much more fun to drink older wines. I have wines I made in 98 and 99, it’s so fun to try them.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How you feeling about them?</p>
<p>My office is in a wine library. In that room I’m surrounded by every bottle of wine I’ve made for Beresan. I remember the sense of all the work, this is where I was, this is what went on that year. It’s great, I love it.</p>
<h2>End Of Part One</h2>
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2020-05-01T02:00:00-07:00
2020-05-01T04:01:38-07:00
Wasting Time
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<p>I haven’t really talked about the Corona Virus outbreak. I thought maybe folks might be able to identify with a few of Memes. </p>
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<p>For the truly idle, there is danger from from Covid 15; fifteen pounds from a shuttered lifestyle. </p>
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<p>One of my friends, in two and a half weeks, has gone from ignoring Facebook to becoming an expert. I still stare vacuously at the Facebook menu. </p>
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<p>I have not been paying much attention to media coverage. Thank God my Mom is; she keeps me informed on everyday current events. She has a much larger tolerance to angst; I’ll just get pissed off. </p>
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<p>I’m with the dog. I’m spending my shuttered time marking my territory. </p>
<p>Can we help you in anyway?</p>
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2020-04-24T02:00:00-07:00
2020-04-24T03:30:23-07:00
Consummate Optimism
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<p>Why not? I believe people on our paths have been put here to help us navigate life.</p>
<p>Aren’t I the driver of this car? I get to drive with who and where I want. </p>
<p>I will put aside envy. My grass is green enough; I will keep fertilizing my own lawn.</p>
<p>I will not internalize someone else’s bad energy. I have enough of my own challenges and haven’t got time for negativity. </p>
<p>Isn’t positive thinking a habit of acknowledging that our circumstance is on course?</p>
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<p>Have there ever been any wrong turns in our lives? That’s for each individual to decide. I have made bad decisions, but maybe they have purpose. </p>
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<p>Are my road blocks self imposed?</p>
<p>Isn’t it me who decides to whom I get to show love? Who I associate with? Who I help and, in turn, except help from?</p>
<p>Nothing worthwhile is easy, if it was, everyone would be doing it. </p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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2020-04-20T02:00:00-07:00
2020-04-20T03:01:00-07:00
Marco Cortes
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who is Marco Cortes?</p>
<p>Marco: ( Laughs ) Somebody crazy ( More Laughter ).</p>
<p>Why was Jesus a carpenter? When God had the ark of the covenant built, He made it from wood, covered with gold. I believe wood represents mankind and gold represents God’s purity covering mankind.</p>
<p>Why did He do that; wood covered with gold? Jesus was a carpenter. He is the gold that covers us.</p>
<p>I tell people, misery is a good teacher; you learn things you can’t imagine. </p>
<p>I come from a very rural part of Brazil. There wasn’t a lot of money. I started to make instruments because I was playing in my church.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How old were you when you started?</p>
<p>Marco: Fourteen. I started to play guitar. The church I played at had one really bad bass . I would take it home and bring it back before service. I tried to buy a bass with credit but didn’t have enough income. I decided I wanted to make my own. </p>
<p>I could not afford the instrument so out of necessity I started building basses. At that time all the good instruments were coming from other countries. Good instruments were the equivalent of buying a decent car. I had no tools, it was crazy, but I had a drill. I drew out the body on a piece of wood and then drilled out the body like a stamp. I would use a file to file out the shape. </p>
<p>I said to myself, “If Fender can build a bass, why not me? I’m a man just like he is? Why not?” My friends told me I was crazy, “You’re never going to make a bass better than Fender.”</p>
<p>So I started building one; I had no information. At that time there was no internet. I tried to figure it out.</p>
<p>The first basic idea is to have a truss rod. Because I had no information I had to figure out how to do things. </p>
<p>As a musician, if you don’t have information about music in the world, you still have the heart of a musician. You create your own music, you develop your own style.</p>
<p>By the time I was able to collect information on how others were doing it I had established my own style.</p>
<p>Hendrix played left handed on a right handed guitar. He had his own style. He had the drive to be a player; he had to figure out how to do it. A player can play exactly like another.</p>
<p>I used to make my pickups in Brazil. I did not have good materials. I had to push myself to make something good. I had a lot of wood but no magnets or wire.</p>
<p>I had to work with materials that were inferior in quality, coming up with results that worked, finding my own way to do it. By the time I moved to the USA I had established my techniques and now had materials available. With quality materials I could apply my own style. </p>
<p>In Brazil, I did not have tools. I had to learn to make my own tools; everything form scratch, even down to paints and lacquers.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You made your own lacquers? My Lord!</p>
<p>I started living in West Seattle. I could not find a job because my English wasn’t good. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How is you’re Portuguese? You’re Portuguese Good?</p>
<p>Marco: So, so ( Laughs ).</p>
<p>I ended up working construction. Very heavy outdoor work. One day one of my co-workers asked why I was so happy.</p>
<p>Let me explain: in Brazil work is much harder, much heavier. Here, work is much lighter. Misery is a good teacher. </p>
<p>Bass is a weird instrument. Bass is an instrument working with other voices in music. Look at music as a graphic. You have the four voices of basic theory. The primary job of the bass is to play the root. In a trio bass has much more freedom, but in a four piece, you have to content yourself not to overplay.</p>
<p>Music is about the moment.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is it that drives you?</p>
<p>Marco: Being a Luthier; it’s a little crazy. For an example: you’re a drummer, what motivates you? You spend an hour after a show tearing down gear, there’s no money in that, but it’s the passion and love, that’s why you do it. Its not logical. </p>
<p>Building an instrument is the same because it is difficult business wise. I’m not going get rich off of this. </p>
<p>Working with the musicians I do, some of the ones I endorse, this is very good. Whats good is because they are real players. They are in love with what they do.</p>
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<p>As a successful musician, to make money, generally you have to play music that other people like. It’s the same for me. First I made instruments for me. That’s where I started. Now I make instruments for others and end up tweaking the process as I go along. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are some of your struggles?</p>
<p>Marco: Being a luthier is hard because being a luthier is not very different from being a musician. It’s how I divide what I’m doing for myself and what I’m doing for my clients. Basically it becomes what people can pay me. I have to down grade some guitars in order to make them approachable. The instruments I make for myself are too good. </p>
<p>Playing music is very complex and most people do not understand what a musician does. That’s one thing I tell my customers; they don’t understand what I do. We sell ourselves, our time, our skins, to do our job. That’s part of life. It’s part of the struggle between art and the real world. I make instruments for what people are asking for. </p>
<p>But every bass I make is for me. It’s hard to find the balance. That’s the difficult thing, because I want to do more. </p>
<p>Part of the challenge is that most amps on the market are made to work with Fenders. That’s part of the standard. I had to downgrade the quality of my pickups to adapt to the Fender standard. I can’t be too creative. But still, this is fun. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: What has been the most exciting thing in your life? </p>
<p>Marco: Watching good musicians who play my instruments, who enjoy my work. It’s like enjoying cooking, making food for someone, food that they enjoy. They understand why you did it. It’s like serving the best wine in the world. </p>
<p>I kept getting better and better and better. I probably had built about fifty basses before I got it. At that point, I figured it was something I could do. People started to ask, “Could you make one for me?”</p>
<p>The instruments are a very complex. People have no idea because they think it is normal wood working. The basses are almost alive. Every bass is different. The one thing is-they basically communicate with the musician, the sound of the instrument, musicians feel the instrument, they kind of interface while playing. They just play different. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are your sources of wood?</p>
<p>Marco: I try to be as local as possible. I have tried hundreds of different woods; woods from Brazil. Musicians are very traditional. Most guitars are expected to be made from ash or alder. I use a lot of alder. I don’t like to use ash a lot. </p>
<p>Leo Fender is a genius because he found a way to make a good guitar a less expensive way, what Henry Ford was to cars. Fender made a production line. He chose ash because it was easy to work.</p>
<p>Sometimes I use pine. For fretless basses pine sounds good. I haven’t yet made a fretted bass with pine. Pine is pretty knotty so we have a lot of waste. But it sounds good. </p>
<p>I have used Douglas fir and it works well. One of my favorite woods is cedar. It sounds really good. </p>
<p>When I moved to the United States I started working construction. I had no money but making instruments was still my hobby. I had some extra Douglas fir beams and I cut those and made some guitars. They sounded amazing.</p>
<p>People buy things with their eyes. </p>
<p>I judge a piece of wood by its feel. Musicians taste the instrument like people taste food. People don’t understand why we are so absolutely in to that because that can’t feel what we feel. We taste the sound with our ears and with our hands we feel the touch of the instrument. There is dimensionality to it. </p>
<p>It’s hard for me to understand a luthier who doesn’t play. I ask people, would you ask a blind guy to paint your house? </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What do you want to tell people?</p>
<p>Marco: It’s about our relationships. Every customer becomes a friend. I make instruments but I collect friends. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: This has been great. Thank you, Marco. </p>
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2020-04-17T01:00:00-07:00
2020-04-17T02:15:49-07:00
Failure
<h2>It’s not A Choice But A Life Style</h2>
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<p>I remember when I dumped a cup of coffee over a hard drive recorder, AAARG! Thank God it was creamless. One week under a blow dryer cured that potential disaster. Hats off to the manufacturer for apparent musician proof design.</p>
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<p>When on stage as a warm up band for national and international acts, my stomach would come up my throat. Problem is, it’s not fair to be comparing yourself with someone else’s success, misunderstanding the travails they are going through.</p>
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<p>Lets not talk about relationships. Enough said.</p>
<p>I have spent decades failing in many endeavors. If failure is the building block of character, I should now be incredible and unshakable.</p>
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<p>C’est La Vi.</p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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2020-04-13T02:00:00-07:00
2020-04-13T02:45:24-07:00
Things We’ve Lost
<h2><strong>But Not Forever</strong></h2>
<h4>Guest Blog By Todd Ainsworth</h4>
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<p>When I first started contributing to the Mackncheeze Music Blog, I thought I’d just give a few stories from the front lines of Seattle’s early 90’s heyday, or give a personal story of how music has affected my life. What I didn’t expect was that our lives would be turned upside-down in a matter of weeks, nor witness a health and economic disaster, a scale not seen in my lifetime of nearly 52 years.</p>
<p>While the health of ourselves, family and those around us should be first priority, we are losing much more. Because of our Governor’s mandated shut down orders, unemployment has risen sharply due to so many businesses being affected, either directly, or indirectly. For weeks to come, performances of live music, plays, musicals, ballet, art galleries, movie theaters and much more, have been cancelled.</p>
<p>Art and music obviously are considered “non-essential.” I’m not going to sit here and try to argue the point when people are dying by the thousands. We all need to do our part to stop the spread of this virus. However, we must remember, for our souls, art IS essential.</p>
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<p><br>Many years ago, in the late 1980’s, I was working full time and going to school at night. On weekdays, I didn’t get home until 10 p.m. and was back to work mornings before 8 a.m. There was a show coming and I was a fan of this new band – Jane’s Addiction. On a week night, it was going to have Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone opening. I seriously thought about going, but decided I would just be too tired; I’d catch them next time around. You can probably guess…something like that didn’t come around again. Soundgarden went on to superstardom, Jane’s Addiction got huge and started Lollapalooza, Andrew Wood passed away and in the ashes of Mother Love Bone rose a little band you may have heard of…Pearl Jam. </p>
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<p>Likewise, about a year or so later, a good friend had an extra weeknight ticket to see Stevie Ray Vaughn. My excuse was the same…work, school, tired, catch him next time. Three months later, Stevie died in a helicopter crash.</p>
<p><br>I decided my new mantra was going to be – “If I want to see a show, I’m going to – no excuses.” From that point on, I decided that music was too important to take for granted. It’s important to me; it is important, period!</p>
<p><br>When we come out the other side of this crisis, when clubs open up again, theaters raise curtains, touring bands start up buses and art galleries start letting you in, remember what its been like for the last month. Think on of what we’ve been missing out. Don’t take it for granted because you never know what the future holds. You could be about to witness something that happens once-in-a-lifetime, or the artist may not be around “next time” – so make your choice (only you know what is important to you). Make it with a new awareness for how fleeting our opportunities truly are. Tell the people you love, you love them. Pet your dog.</p>
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<p><br>Stay safe out there and maybe I’ll see you at a show soon…when again we can share the experience together. Thanks for reading!</p>
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2020-04-10T01:00:00-07:00
2020-04-10T01:45:43-07:00
Drama, Don’t Leave Home Without It
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<p>I’m astounded at what a comfort zone drama can be. Personally, I try to minimize conditions which allow for its growth. </p>
<p>Politics, avoid politics. Some folks crave ongoing bad news and having vitriol for public figures. Yes, it is deserved, but there are more interesting subjects that get my panties tied into a knot. I have no presence of mind for stupid words coming from mouths of politicos who never deserved my energy or attention.</p>
<p>Media is also prone to drama. From both left and right, there is constant complaining about how bad things are. I choose not ingest their “news” or commentary. </p>
<p>Ongoing bitching seems to abound in profusion. “So and so did this”, or, “What’s His Name is such a creep,” over and over again. For God’s sake, get away from those people; stop thinking about them. </p>
<p>What are the motives behind this behavior?</p>
<p>Why have that sort of association? </p>
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<p>I haven’t resources for ongoing bad attitudes. My clock is ticking fast; ongoing theater is not a luxury. </p>
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<p>A question: is First World whining a fear of unfamiliar territory and not having a willingness to escape it? </p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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2020-04-06T02:11:00-07:00
2020-04-06T06:30:27-07:00
John Passarelli
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
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<h2>John Passerelli Has Been Local Force In The Seattle Area For Decades</h2>
<p>Mackncheeze: My first question-who are you?</p>
<p>John: I have some cute answers. I consider myself to be, how do I put this, a positively charged rhythmic and melodic confluence of heart and mind. That’s my musical self, which is most of it. It’s what I have been doing my whole life. There isn’t much else except motorcycles and dogs and women and alcohol. </p>
<p>I’m very simple, I don’t need a lot to get by. </p>
<p>The last couple of years I’ve been living a bachelors life. Myself and two other room mates, musicians; they’re both bass players.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Wow, two bass players in one house.</p>
<p>John: I know, as long as I get the girls.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I’m glad that’s working for you. What kind of dreams or aspirations are you focused on?</p>
<p>John: When I was young I had very big dreams. Especially with music. When you’re good at it, and you’re in a decent band, people take notice. You would like to think you could take it to the next level. I know a lot of people who aspired to that and never achieved it and a lot of them just don’t play any longer. I could never do that.</p>
<p>My aspiration is not necessarily success oriented but to keep enjoying music. It pacifies me when I’m angry or down. Music, you know, is more than something to just listen to. I stick with music and I just want to keep doing it as long as I can and to keep playing with people I like; having fun, not taking it too seriously. </p>
<p>I’m primarily a stage performer. I’ve got a couple of albums under my belt with other bands, but my home is on stage. I feel a little less comfortable with studio work. The problem with studios is the pressure of time constraints. </p>
<p>As long as I can connect with people at a venue, if somebody appreciates what I’m doing, when I play I can see it in their faces. After a show, when they come to talk to me, that is some of the best payment I can get. I’m done with trying to get money from it even though I earn more now than I ever have. It keeps me from working too hard at a day job. </p>
<p>Its a good plan; I have always wanted to be part time employed and part time music. Life isn’t worth working yourself to the bone unless it makes you happy.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You were at the top of the Seattle Grunge scene?</p>
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<p>John: Yeah, we were called Paisley Sin. We weren’t Grunge enough. We were a little more pop oriented, we could play different styles in one show. There were a lot of bands that made it, per se, that were more one dimensional. </p>
<p>We had our moment. We went down to L.A. a couple of times and met some lawyers at Capitol Records. It didn’t work out; they signed Blind Melon instead. Look it where that got ’em. Their lead singer, Shannon Hoon, overdosed on a tour bus. Everyone from Paisley Sin is still alive.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: There’s a lot to be said for that. </p>
<p>John: Paisley Sin’s lead singer Gerry Smith and I have worked together for thirty years. I’m working with him in Sweet Emotion.</p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Our friend, Eric Ritts, just did NAMM as an exhibitor for Marco Bass Guitars. You’ve been to NAMM?</p>
<p>John: Eric’s great, I went to high school with Eric. </p>
<p>Yeah, it was a work thing, it was still a lot of fun. I was with THD Electronics. Andy Marshall, he’s a friend of mine, I’ve known him 30 years; I was one of his first clients. </p>
<p>NAMM was a lot of work. We brought our own isolation booth; they won’t let you play very loud without one. If people wanted to test one of our amps, we had a room for them. It was pretty cool; it had its own air conditioner and everything.</p>
<p>We shared a booth with O’Donnell Custom Guitars from Australia. Craig is a great guy. He didn’t give me a guitar, though.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You digging that Marco Telecaster? </p>
<p>John: I love that thing, man. There’s something I want to say about Marco Guitars. The reason I like that Telecaster so much is because there is a connection between the player and the instrument; there has to be. If it’s natural right off the bat you are ahead of the game. You’re going to be inspired by not fighting it. When I picked up that guitar, it fit me, I knew I was going to enjoy it for a long time. That’s the greatest thing. Those axes are something special and they should make more. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you currently working with? </p>
<p><a href="https://www.theaerosmithtribute.com" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">https://www.theaerosmithtribute.com</a></p>
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<p>John: Sweet Emotion. We’re an Aerosmith Tribute Band. We had all kinds of shows booked from March on out. </p>
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<p>A side project I have going on is called ZZ/DC. Its pretty self explanatory. We’re not doing stylistic interpretations like Hayseed Dixie; a little bit of ZZ Top and a little bit of AC/DC.</p>
<p>There was Guilty Pleasure; we worked hard on that band. We had two female singers and a different collection of songs; a lot of stuff I had never heard. I learned all this stuff I had never played before and it was fun. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What have been some of your biggest struggles?</p>
<p>John: Wow, yeah, interpersonal band member things. A band is like a relationship with four other girl friends, or what ever. I have learned not to carry grudges. Its too easy and humans are really good at it. People leave the band to start their own thing and its like, “Wait a minute, we had a good thing.” I can’t hold it against them. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Not holding a grudge is super important. </p>
<p>John: It takes a while to learn. Some people never learn it. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is it that you personally want people to know?</p>
<p>John: That’s a rough one, man, because I really do this for myself. I just want people to know that I will do it if they will appreciate it. That’s my reason for doing it, someone getting off on it. </p>
<p>You got to take the negative criticism as well. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Whats your musical education?</p>
<p>John: I started playing trumpet in third grade. I played trumpet for eight years ending up on the Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble. We took first place in Reno two years in a row. There was a transition, there at the end, where I started playing guitar, and I let go of trumpet. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: By the time you reached high school you probably had put in your first ten thousand hours?</p>
<p>John: Yeah. When I was 8, 9, 10 ,11, 12 and 13, I was playing in concert bands and symphony. Jazz band made it clear it would be a lot more fun. The band director told me I was one of the best sight readers he had ever seen.</p>
<p>When I picked up guitar, all my reading skills were put aside. I became completely ear trained. </p>
<p>I was sucked in by Rock n Roll: Robin Trower, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Rush; anything with good guitar work. I started out playing covers before moving to originals. </p>
<p>At first I absorbed a lot of really good styles and all that has coalesced in to a style of my own.</p>
<p>After High School, I briefly went to college. Pre Engineering, at Western and the University of Washington. I just wasn’t that into it. That didn’t work out, so I took some time off, and then I went to Shoreline and studied music for two years. It was fun, but I was already ahead of most people. I was a working professionally, having recorded in big time studios, had done some studio engineering. I was like the Golden boy. I knew my shit. But what I really came away with was two years of theory. I already knew what it was, I used it all the time, I could recognize all these things I was already doing. </p>
<p>I’m always looking to break the rules. These days I don’t take theory too seriously. I’m not very modal. I’m a Blues Guy. If it sounds good I’ll make it work. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You sing very well; did you have vocal training?</p>
<p> John: Nope. In fact, I played guitar for fifteen years before I started singing. It started coming easier, because I was working on original music. I didn’t have to be some one else. I’ve been working with Gerry and we are connected well. I know his nuances.</p>
<p>I think there is much more magic in original music, whether or not a person is a very good song writer, its something to believe in and to be more attached. The magic is when you can get four people to make a song happen on the fly. It’s inspirational. That one idea makes me do something , then the bass player joins in, then drums, pretty soon you have written a pretty cool song with out even trying. That is the magic.</p>
<p>Sometimes the process is not collaborative. Sometimes someone brings in a great idea and wants to try it and we do it. </p>
<p>The other part of magic is the spontaneous combustion. Everybody should want to do both; bring in an idea to bounce it off one another or to go off in the moment. That’s the fun; that’s when you’ve found the right people. It’s whether or not they are your friends. </p>
<p>I’ve gone back to just playing with my friends. </p>
<p>We are going to release our music, we’re just going to give it away, it doesn’t matter, we’ll put it out there and hopefully somebody likes it, ’cause that’s what its about. You’re playing music to connect; there are far too many people that play great music and nobody hears it. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Do you consider yourself a prolific song writer?</p>
<p>John: I haven’t written a lot of lyrics in my life, but yes, as for music, I have unused ideas from years back. There is stuff floating around that I want to do something with. Then there’s the fact that I can just noodle something into existence. </p>
<p>Used to be I would get my best ideas from just watching TV. You’re just so disconnected.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You’re subconscious just zeros in….</p>
<p>John: You’re not contrived, hardly paying attention to what you’re doing. But then you have to go, oh, wait a minute, that was cool. Then you repeat it and hold on to it and keep it. I have lost so many of those things in my life by not remembering them, not recording them. </p>
<p>There are some that are still there, that are awesome, and all I can say is, one of these days. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What’s another part of the song writing process?</p>
<p>John: I trust my ear and the theory I learned in college. Things I listen to, things that influence me. Sometimes things that are new enter me. I would never change my style but new ideas infiltrate my writing process. It’s an intuitiveness that I have. </p>
<p>I really just go with the flow. Some days I write, some days not; some days I feel inspired, some days not. Though I never quit. Some of my best recorded work has been in inspirational, improvised solos. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are some of the most influential shows you have ever seen?</p>
<p>John: Getting back to that Blues thing, in my youth, I was really in to Southern Rock. Back in the old days I saw ZZ Top, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, The Allman Brothers; I cut my teeth on that. It was fun; there was a lot of guitar work . Sometimes there were three guitars, a lot of bands with two drummers. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What would you like to say?</p>
<p>I want to write a book someday. It’s going to be called, Why Am I Still Here? </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: John, this has been a great interview, man. This was really a lot of fun. Thank you. </p>
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2020-04-05T12:28:06-07:00
2021-04-21T13:03:03-07:00
On Bullshit
<h2>Book Review</h2>
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<p>It might seem odd that I would do a book review on a subject that we all are familiar with. I couldn’t resist. Shopping at the local bookstore, title screaming at me, I had to pick it up. </p>
<p>Turns out Harry G Frankfurt is a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His resume is filled with a Who’s Who list of schools including Rockefeller University and Yale. I had no idea this fellow was such a heavy weight. Imagine my surprise when I discovered On Bullshit had been a best seller and Professor Frankfurt had appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. I thought it was just going to be a cheeky expose on a fairly common subject.</p>
<p>On first examination, there are 67 very small pages. Having no understanding of the author, my first impression was that this was light weight material. I flipped through some pages just to get a feel for it’s subject matter and found my self chuckling, then laughing uproariously. </p>
<p>Quotations from St. Augustine, Max Black and Ludwig Wittenstein are interesting. Evidently, B.S. has been a foundation of culture through the ages. </p>
<p>That, my friends, is known as an “Aha” moment. </p>
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<p>On page 57, a great observation is made: “The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false………..( continuing )………..He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.” That perfectly describes some relatives as well as musicians I’ve worked with. Well said Frank. </p>
<p>The last page is best, of which I will not reveal, but maybe we do all of us share complicity On Bullshit.</p>
<p>Definitely pick this one up. </p>
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2020-04-03T01:00:00-07:00
2020-04-03T04:45:45-07:00
Revelation
<p>My first real understanding of digital recording actually occurred when I purchased a Roland VS 1680.</p>
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<p>I didn’t understand crap; having spent weeks in front of my old PC, scratching my head, staring at a Cakewalk Software program I had down loaded from CD-Rom. I would execute commands and sigh in disbelief as nothing would happen. I could not wrap my head around the technology. </p>
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<p>I broke down and visited my good and trusted friends at Seattle’s American Music. </p>
<p><a href="https://americanmusic.com" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">https://americanmusic.com</a></p>
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<p>I explained my challenges and it was suggested to me to purchase a hard drive recorder; not necessarily for ease of use, but for it’s functionality. I was warned there would be a lot of squinting involved, but with persistence would come the reward of fathoming the recording process. No truer words spoken.</p>
<p>I applied myself and made innumerable horrible to mediocre tracks. Thank God for my mentors, who had had decades of recording experience. I asked questions, asked them to review and critique my work, took all their suggestions to heart. After a year and a half of of diligence, eating a lot of humble pie, I started to grasp concepts and applications needed to create some decent work. </p>
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<p>Then on to Protools. Utilizing all the previous months education, with some help from tech support, I was up and running, relatively fluent in six weeks. </p>
<p>I held on to that VS 1680 for many, many years. It never failed, drove like a Mack Truck, and took huge abuse. It traveled well, recorded many rehearsals and did live shows, with amazing results. It is one piece of equipment I look back on with nostalgia. </p>
<p>Is there any thing we can do to help?</p>
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2020-03-27T01:00:00-07:00
2020-03-27T02:01:17-07:00
Remix
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<p>“Hey Bro’, I’ve got these tracks laid down. The song is finished, just need to pull it all together and do post-production. Can you help me?”</p>
<p>I cough up the usual excuses; not interested in working on someone else’s recording, not enough time for myself, too many irons in the fire…</p>
<p>“It’s all done, shouldn’t take much time at all.”</p>
<p>Alright, send me the tracks. I’ll take a listen. God, I cave easily. </p>
<p>The Master mix is dull, lifeless, spread with too much reverb. The individual performance tracks are clean and well recorded, others are ponged with multiple instruments. Then there are the vocals; good performance but super thin.</p>
<p>I’m hanging here with kind of a mess.</p>
<p>Recut vocals with a Neumann, using an UA LA 610 as pre amp, layering the vocals with two delays way back and a little plate verb. </p>
<p>Separate the ponged tracks to individual tracks; assigned a bass amp plug-in to the bass, compress and limit the track, squeezed tight and centered; EQ and compress guitar tracks; EQ keyboard tracks; Listen to each track individually, searching for audio artifacts, and, of course, finding a bunch of stuff that needed to be eliminated; assign sub mixes to everything, panning in place…</p>
<p>Drums, crap…great performance, but sub standard punch. Three great rim shot snares in the whole track. I created a sample of one the rim shots, cut and paste it across the mix. I replaced the kick track with my own sample cut with a vintage Bellari tube pre. Sub mixed the drums with SMACK, my favorite compressor plug-in, and light plate reverb. </p>
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<p>Remix, remix, remix…weeks later, ready for mastering, and then we’re done. </p>
<p>Nope, shouldn’t take much time at all. </p>
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2020-03-22T22:33:00-07:00
2020-03-23T04:08:26-07:00
Picking Low Fruit
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<p>Some days I find it hard to be inspired. When I reach a point of nothing, which can be alcohol induced, I usually plop down in front of the TV and enter a state of, “Since it’s TV time I should be eating.” </p>
<p>This condition usually shows up about midnight. </p>
<p>My basic understanding of Circadian Rhythm is quite limited. But the part I get the most is when mindlessness enters in to my brain. Which, frankly, is about midnight. If I’ve played a gig, mindlessness occurs about three in the morning. </p>
<p>For some reason, we humans are hard wired to be our most vacuous around bed time. Maybe its a precursor to sleepy time; maybe its precursor to sex, of which, these days, I have very little knowledge. </p>
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<p>Mindlessness plus TV? Oh God, could I please sit here forever?</p>
<p>Karl Marx once said, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”</p>
<p>Sorry Karl, it’s a flat screen and a pizza. </p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6255915
2020-03-19T23:30:00-07:00
2020-03-20T05:45:41-07:00
Get A Clue
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<p>As a drummer, my most important function is to keep time. In the 80’s I learned how to play live with sequences, time delay, arpeggiators and click tracks.</p>
<p>In another band, we were recording an album, with out click, and I could not get past the fourth song. I was second guessing every beat and drum stroke and psyched myself into failure. Red Light Fever, I call it; a fear of failure so intense that I was paralyzed. A Ringer had to be hired to play my parts. To overcome Red Light Fever, I began investing in recording equipment.</p>
<p>I needed to learn to hear incorrect intonation. At the outset, I assumed people who performed often knew what they were doing. Years of performing does not preclude correct technique. Bad habits can be reinforced by constant repetition. Thank God for auto tune, Melodyne, or what ever piece of software we might use to overcome incorrect performances. </p>
<p>Questioning the inaccuracies of my playing through years of lessons and association with better players. </p>
<p>Reading wave files of recording sessions and discovering my kick drum leads the rest of my limbs by 6 to 10 milliseconds. Still working on this one. </p>
<p>Learning to hear audio artifacts whether from editing or from recording performances. People stomp feet, click their tongues and teeth, leave strings open when they shouldn’t, grunt and create all sorts noise while they record. Some of it so subtle that it won’t be heard until Mastering. </p>
<p>Be it as it may, just a short, non complete list of things I needed to address to achieve competency.</p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6247726
2020-03-12T23:32:00-07:00
2020-03-13T06:04:09-07:00
The Third Place
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<p>There’s your family, there’s your job. In your life, where is the Third place you derive your sense of community?</p>
<p>It used to be church, or civic clubs, some sort of lodge, maybe the library. Nowadays, Starbucks has laid claim to being a place of gathering. All I see there are people with coffee and laptop, getting some work done; social interaction is minimal.</p>
<p>Social media may have some claim, but I see it as being a superficial outlet. I do not consider the internet as a sane or rational forum for discussion. For me, community is derived from face to face interaction and shared interest. </p>
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<p>For those who are musically minded, may I suggest various jam sessions and song writing groups provide A Third Place. In my own experience, I have seen close friendships develop within those “communities”. In this age of Tweets and Instagram, I believe this is super healthy association. </p>
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<p>Aren’t most of our successes realized with the help of others? </p>
<p>Can we help you?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6239463
2020-03-06T00:00:00-08:00
2020-03-06T03:30:47-08:00
Getting The Mix
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<p>Getting a great mix can be very tough. Recording well requires quality inputs, correct performance, and extreme listening skills. The adage, “It’s not the gear, it’s in the ear” holds some truth. Better listening begets qualitative judgement, which enhances desire for equipment that that can satisfy ever expanding qualitative judgement, which creates gear sluts, people who always need some better gear. That’s me.</p>
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<p>Of course subjectivity is involved, but its more satisfying to be objectively subjective (oxymoron, maybe) when proper equipment is utilized. </p>
<p>My first real studio experience was when I was 19. Our band was terrible but we didn’t know it. We spent three hours recording four cover tunes on traditional two inch tape and some big console. The engineers mixed it out for us in about a half hour. Those big old JBL studio monitors sounded great at full tilt. You know, loud is best. We were super excited when they presented us with a cassette tape of our session. </p>
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<p>Feeling like rock stars, disappointment was huge when we compared our three hour session to cassettes produced by big labels, not understanding that those projects could take weeks and months of ten to twelve hour days before mastering would be under taken. Mastering?</p>
<p>We understood nothing. Sometimes it still feels that way. </p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6235561
2020-03-03T00:58:00-08:00
2020-03-03T02:30:24-08:00
Steve Smith and The Seattle Drum School: Part Three
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
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<p><em>Steve is an intellectual heavy weight; a modern renaissance individual. </em></p>
<p>Look for Steve’s upcoming book, Keys To The City. </p>
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<h2>Part 3 of 3</h2>
<p>Mackncheeze: What inspired you to become an audio engineer?</p>
<p>Steve: I love listening to music, that’s what got it started. When I was going to Central I didn’t have a lot of money, I always had to work, going home on weekends to teach lessons. I also had bands; to have a band you need a P.A. I had worked at Hanford, I saved my money, and so I bought a P.A. </p>
<p>My mom would freak out because I was always bringing home some piece of new gear……</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Oh, it started early?</p>
<p>Steve: Very early. My mom would tell me that I could not afford another piece of gear. My response was, “It’s worth it. It’s going to help me.” She didn’t believe it. She wanted me to have a job with a health insurer. </p>
<p>It got to the point where I bought a bigger Yamaha Mixing Console and put it right in the middle of the family room. “Here Mom, look what I got.” </p>
<p>We also needed transport so I bought a van.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: This is sounding familiar.</p>
<p>Steve: We needed a place to rehearse so I would get the house with a basement. We would have to have a demo.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: How many band houses were you in?</p>
<p>Steve: 4 or 5, 6 or 10, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I bought a stereo tape deck, we would set up in the rehearsal space and then I would try to record. I had two mics, trying constantly to get the demos to sound like an album; constantly experimenting with placement. Then I bought a four track and the possibilities blew my mind. I just got hooked.</p>
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<p>I graduated to an 8 track cassette recorder, a Tascam 688. That thing was killer; ended up recording a demo of Kristy’s and my band, Billy Moon. My former student, Bill Rieflin, drummer for R.E.M., heard a copy of that session and he thought it sounded really good. I ended up using that demo for a Disc Makers unsigned band contest. Out of 508 bands in five states we scored the highest, made it to the finals. </p>
<p>I love recording, love learning from it.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: When did you buy your first outboard processor?</p>
<p>Steve: That was in 1996. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: That’s 20 years of recording before you bought a compressor. </p>
<p>Steve: With the recording contract we had after the Disc Makers contest, I picked up 2 ADATs, and two Empirical Labs Distressors, we recorded tracks off my 16 channel Studio Master Console. The record label brought in Don Gilmore to mix the single at Stepping Stone studios, on an SSL 4000 G Plus. He spent ten and a half hours remixing our single. On play back I asked him a lot of questions, then we put up the original track and everyone was blown out. Don thought there was no reason to remix the tune. </p>
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<p>We took that original track and remixed it in our studio, using my recently acquired knowledge from Don, two days later presenting it to our A and R person. I said to him, ” If I had a few choice pieces of gear I would be really good at this.” He told me to make a list and they would tack it on to the producers advance. That financed a lot of the really good gear I own. The mics, pre-amps and what not, including a Crane Song STC8. A lot of that gear is now on loan to Robert Lang Studios.</p>
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<p>I am so blessed. I have put together another studio here at the Drum School. I get to record my wife, Kristy, who is an amazing singer/song writer, my band The 350’s, which are unreal, Danny Godinez and the stuff we have worked up with him. So blessed to be able to work with this caliber of people.</p>
<h2>End of Part Three</h2>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6233280
2020-02-29T23:49:00-08:00
2020-03-01T03:02:34-08:00
Steve Smith and The Seattle Drum School: Part Two
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
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<p><em>Steve is an intellectual heavy weight; a modern renaissance individual. </em></p>
<p>Look for Steve’s upcoming book, Keys To The City. </p>
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<h2>Part 2 of 3</h2>
<p>Mackncheeze: With all that background, how did you come up with your Physics Analogies applied to your teaching methods?</p>
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<p>Steve: It’s more of an intuitive understanding that I represent through music and rhythm. Frequencies and vibrations; everything is vibrating. There are no real particles; there are only particles when they are observed. Everything comes from waves and waves are basically constant frequencies.</p>
<p>In terms of music, you make rhythms that intersect with each other and create patterns. Like a 3/4 measure against a 4/4 measure. What is interpreted as a particle isn’t actually a particle until it is measured. You can measure 2 against 3, or 3 against 4, and those patterns become drum parts. They both come from the intersection of points. The concept is metaphoric, its poetry.</p>
<p>I read stuff about quantum physics, which I will reread 30 times. I’ll sit down to practice and I consider how form and matter relate to music. It can be argued that the same mathematical ratios that constitute music are the same ratios that constitute form and matter. It’s how things fit together.</p>
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<p>There are certain things people say about music, if you think about it literally, people would say it is odd. “That drummer is solid.” Yeah, right. If you touch that person you can’t penetrate their skin. “The arrangement is solid.” What does that mean? To me that means the way the song is structured, the length of the verse and the chorus, the amplitude of each part and how it relates to the other parts, and the bridge, how all this fits together mathematically is how this all comes together as a pattern, or patterns, that all have order, with a magical musical contour that makes them work. </p>
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<p>It’s like reading a great book; how much tension is there, when, how much conflict is there, and at what part of the story.</p>
<p>Two notes that are an octave apart; for every vibration of the bottom of the octave, the top is vibrating twice. That’s a two to one ratio, that’s the most harmonic interval in music. In matter, what is the most abundant compound on the planet? Water: H2O, two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom. What’s the most abundant compound gas on the planet? Carbon Dioxide: CO2, one part carbon to two parts oxygen. In molecules, the most common have the lowest ratios. </p>
<p>In music, the next most harmonic ratio is the perfect fifth. That’s a 2 against 3 ratio. The next is a perfect fourth, that’s a 4 against 3 ratio. In music, there are two kinds of meter: compound meter, which are groups of threes, and simple meter based on twos and fours and eights. Odd time signatures are combinations of both. These are defined by vibrating objects. Rhythm, drum set, everything I play, I can reduce down to these patterns.</p>
<p>The wave form that started the whole concept for my upcoming book, Keys To The City, I play 5 against 4 against 3 against 2 simultaneously, and it creates a chord. At 59 plus BPM, the chord is an A minor 7 , 2nd inversion, 8 octaves below middle C. When you slow down chords they become rhythms. These references are to mathematical frequencies. Rhythm turns into pitch. </p>
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<p>My system of teaching drums is to show people how to understand time as hearing rhythm in tune. The most common thing people do when trying to get their time together is to tense up and rush. Basically what they are doing is playing sharp.</p>
<p>As well, I introduce the concept of singing these rhythms with their voice.</p>
<p>I have people play and sing in a continuum, as in a wave form. Similar to tuning a guitar with out a tuner. The strings are in tune when the wobbliness goes away; the strings are vibrating in sympathy with one another because they are in tune. With drums; playing rhythms that are in sympathy with one another. I teach people how to understand, from every point of view, what it is they are doing, all based on repetition.</p>
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<h2>End of Part Two</h2>
<p>Can we help you in any way?</p>
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2020-02-27T23:00:00-08:00
2020-02-28T00:06:21-08:00
Steve Smith and The Seattle Drum School: Part One
<h2>Artist Focus</h2>
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<h2>Part 1 of 3</h2>
<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you?</p>
<p>Steve: I’m Steve Smith. My lot in life is that 34 years ago I started the Seattle Drum School. Most people know me by that achievement and I have had a lot of help building it, including my wife, Kristy, and this amazing staff. I play the drums, I also teach drums.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What was your education?</p>
<p>Steve: I earned a Bachelor of Music degree and a Master of Music degree. I have studied with the best people possible. Just had a lesson with Will Kennedy of the Yellow Jackets. Soon to be having a lesson with Peter Erskine from Weather Report.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is your impetus for the Drum School?</p>
<p>Steve: I started formally teaching drums at 14. It seems to be an instinct and a passion. I like to see people grow and be excited about learning. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: When did you get your first drum set?</p>
<p>Steve: My first drum set was my brother’s, of which he grew tired. It was a 1939 Gretsch kit, a 26 inch bass drum, with calf skin heads, cigarette burns and alcohol stains. I wish I still had that kit. </p>
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<p>I was twelve and my brother was a couple of years younger. At seven I was actually playing Hawaiian lap steel guitar. I wanted to play regular guitar but my fingers weren’t big enough. After 2 years I graduated to Spanish Guitar, which was a Lyle Electric. I played that for a couple of years.</p>
<p>I joined the Tri Cities Drum and Bugle Corps in 1970. I fell in love with that. They put me on tenor drum, the ninth tenor drummer out of nine. I think they wanted to get rid of me because I was so bad. The drum was super heavy and I couldn’t play.</p>
<p>I taught myself how to read drum music, asking the snare drummers to teach the first lines of drum cadences. I would just analyze it. I’m good at math so I was able to deduce what meant what. </p>
<p>I didn’t really start to play drum kit till I was 18. I had some technique because I had drum corp training but I couldn’t swing. I learned how to play everything through pure determination, commitment and drive, not understanding proper technique or metronomic time. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: The Hanford story is great; could you share that?</p>
<p>Steve: I’ve always been intrigued by science, my senior year in high school I got involved with one class. Only eight people could get in to it. You had to work to qualify. Go to school in the morning, study science and math, government and international relations, do studies and research projects, design experiments and run them.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You were 17?</p>
<p>Steve: We took one other class beside the curriculum; I took grammar, composition and revue. I’m grateful for the instructor because she taught me how to write.</p>
<p>In the afternoon we would go out and work at Hanford’s Nuclear Research Facility. I would hang out with really smart people in Nuclear Engineering. We did fast reactor dosimetry, materials testing and analysis for parts being used in experimental breeder reactors. One of the people I worked with had taught at Purdue, I could talk to him, he actually sounded like a human, he helped explain things to me. </p>
<p>They hired me full time during summer. That might have continued but a cover band hired me because I was the only drummer they could find. They were very ambitious and went on a hotel tour playing lounges 6 nights a week, paying me 200 to 250 bucks a week plus room and a meal a day. That was more fun than working at Hanford.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: That was a great gig back then. Today, those gigs barely exist.</p>
<p>Steve: My Mom and my teachers were extremely disappointed in me, fearing I was going to change into an alcoholic lounge lizard. I managed to save $700 a month for one year with the intention of going to college.</p>
<p>I started at Columbia Basin College, trying to play in the jazz band, but better drummers were there that actually swung, so they were nice to me and let me sing in the jazz choir. That was a blessing because I actually learned ear training and how to sing. It’s funny how circumstances can change; where you feel you are being tortured and you end up being grateful.</p>
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<p>The next year I went to Central Washington University. It has a very strong music program. I was a music major and took math and science courses to fulfill my requirements. I remember taking a college algebra advanced course and getting 100% on all my tests. The instructor told me to not bother with the final exam because even if I had a zero score, I would still pass with an A plus. I like math, being able to figure something out to the absolute, exact, definitive answer.</p>
<h2>End of Part One</h2>
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2020-02-21T09:30:04-08:00
2020-02-21T12:01:46-08:00
Absurdity
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<p>The times are changing. It seems so much moves so quickly that is getting harder to keep up. Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s my look of perceptive skills, probably, it’s the alcohol. </p>
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<p>Looking for my sunglasses while I’m wearing them.</p>
<p>Another pointless meeting at the job.</p>
<p>One more cancelled studio date because people don’t block out their schedule. </p>
<p>Fellow band members not prioritizing – anything!!!!!</p>
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<p>How many times you gonna edit this track?</p>
<p>For me, how many times must I repeat the same dumb habits that hold me back before I get a clue?</p>
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<p>Stop monkeying around.</p>
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2020-02-13T20:00:00-08:00
2020-02-13T22:45:59-08:00
Happy Valentine's Day
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<p>My girl friend and I had broken up at the beginning of February. As The 14 th. approached, I grew ever more nostalgic of our relationship. I suppose I missed close proximity with a woman I had spent a couple of years with. Having Einstein like qualities in my thought process, I decided I would begin the reconciliation of our love on Valentine’s Day.</p>
<p>Chocolates, flowers and a Teddy Bear; a perfect way to convey my true sentiments. </p>
<p>On my way over to her house, my cell phone notifies me of a text. I pull over before looking at my phone. Eric, my bass player friend: “Dude, our drummer crapped out on our gig tonight. You available?”</p>
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<p>What the Hell was I thinking. I threw Teddy, candy and flowers out the window, drove off, chasing my dream. </p>
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2020-02-11T12:24:00-08:00
2020-02-11T15:15:28-08:00
Driving By Braille
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<p>Why not drive without head lights? Isn’t that what curbs and side walks were made for? Just kind of feel your way down the street risking flat tires. For a time it seemed to partially work. </p>
<p>Example Number One: I spent a year traveling with a band that disregarded our booking agents parameters. The only reason we weren’t fired sooner was because the rooms we played liked us. I had a nagging concern that we were not fitting to the standards adhered to by the other acts they managed. Too much pot, not enough focus. I walked away from that one. </p>
<p>Example Number Two: For the longest time, without knowing my destination, I desired success in my ventures. Early twenties, on the road, missing part of my grey matter, as clueless as can be, thinking I had arrived, not understanding how lacking my associations were. </p>
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<p>Today I see the destination; lots of water under the bridge. I now understand what I sight in the cross hairs can morph, letting the target evolve, discarding previous conceptions…Making sure whatever I seek aligns with my passion.</p>
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2020-02-06T22:15:09-08:00
2020-02-07T00:45:25-08:00
Life Is Precious
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<p>Back in the day, when gigs were booked by the week, we played a one month stint in small coastal town. Four live music venues, tons of bars, and some pretty good restaurants. The local industry survived on fishing. Quite a prosperous place. </p>
<p>In a town such as this, it was quite natural to develop close friendships with said citizens. I, and others in the band, would be invited to people’s homes, met families, shared meals; amazing hospitality. </p>
<p>One February night, gale force winds were pummeling the coast line; because of weather, the club was deserted. Halfway through our third set, one of the locals came in and announced that 13 men had perished that evening. Three boats had gone down. </p>
<p>Locals took news like this badly; a sense of sorrow and loss pervaded for weeks. I would have never been impacted as greatly on news such as this should the event have occurred in my home town. </p>
<p>That night has stuck with me my whole life. Life is precious, family is precious, friends are precious. I try not to forget and not take life for granted.</p>
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2020-01-30T21:28:00-08:00
2020-01-31T02:15:53-08:00
Hula Hoops
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<p>I can control only one area in my life. It’s diameter is that of a Hula Hoop. When Life is annoying, which is about every hour, I remind myself of the simple fact, MY LIFE CIRCLE IS A HULA HOOP! </p>
<p>Don’t forget it, Meat. </p>
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<p>Hey! Back off! You’re in my Hula Hoop! No, No, No! You see that circumference? That’s my Hula Hoop; Back off, Jack. Thats my space. Stay out of it. It’s my Promised Land. It conveniently goes where I go. I can always depend on it. A comfort to my peace of mind. </p>
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<p>That’s right! My Force. If you only knew the Power of the Round Side……..( My best James Earl Jones ).</p>
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<p>There is not much I can do about most things. But there is my Hula Hoop. At least I have that.</p>
<p>Can we help you find the Round Side?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6194135
2020-01-28T12:05:47-08:00
2020-01-28T14:30:45-08:00
Terry Jones
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<h2>Guest Blog By Todd Ainsworth</h2>
<p>I’m not dead yet!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that’s not quite true anymore for Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.</p>
<p>We, who “got” the Monty Python humor ( and I remember many of my friends when I was younger didn’t ) were saddened on January 21st. by the news of his passing. Now, with Graham Chapman, two of the six geniuses who were Monty Python’s Flying Circus, are gone. </p>
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<p>One of the final scenes in “The Meaning Of Life” has Burt Bacharach singing, “It’s Christmas In Heaven”, and I hope Terry and Graham are hanging out together again, if that’s “wha’ it’s all about.”</p>
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<p>My introduction to Monty Python changed my life. </p>
<p>I didn’t know I needed it, but when I found it, I realized I wasn’t alone with my weirdness and “strange” sense of humor. I had already found Benny Hill, but it wasn’t the same; Hill was more vaudeville and had less biting satire.</p>
<p>As the show’s run on American TV was ending, there was a marathon on PBS that I stumbled upon and I must have watched for hours – laughing uncontrollably as a piano player got his arm ripped off and a fountain of blood spewed from the socket! Good times.</p>
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<p>The unflinching look in the mirror the Circus took led me to realize that we have to laugh at ourselves and our society in general. That may be the only way to make progress…to point out how ridiculous we really all are, coming together in agreeing…”We’re all crazy.”</p>
<p>This isn’t as funny as it should be, but I didn’t expect some sort of Spanish Inquisition!</p>
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<p>RIP, Terry…and now for something completely different.</p>
<p>Can we help you in any way?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6171969
2020-01-24T08:23:00-08:00
2020-01-24T19:30:41-08:00
Cognitive Dissonance
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<p>I’m stressed out. I believe I am the Cat’s Meow of players but the best of the best are not flocking to play with me. I don’t want to believe I am an average player but perhaps the proof lies in the pudding. Evidently I have an area of my brain that wants to avoid adversive outcomes. </p>
<p>Sounds like I’m taking an easy way out of my circumstances and rationalizing information that does not agree with my perceptions. </p>
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<p>The fact of the matter is, if the work is not put in the outcome desired probably is not happening. Also, my associations may not be in line with my life goals. If nothing changes, nothing changes. You can’t expect different results by doing the same process over and over again; a definition of insanity.</p>
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<p>Here’s to altering my behavior to fit my expectations. </p>
<p>Cheers, have another glass of Kool-Aid, Mr. Jones. </p>
<p>Can we help you?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6140353
2020-01-21T10:48:58-08:00
2020-01-21T14:15:44-08:00
With The Sea On The Horizon
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<h2>And The Future In My Hands….</h2>
<p>I’m not sure about you, but for me, I love looking out upon the ocean shores, looking at the expanse of the sea, peering into the horizon. My God, regardless of the weather, its so beautiful. And peaceful. </p>
<p>I could just sit and watch and write and let it pull me in, inspiring me. </p>
<p>The pounding of the waves, the smell of salt in my nostrils, the cawing of the gulls. </p>
<p>An escape from the city, the pressures, the BS, the people, the expectations.</p>
<p>Memories of driftwood fires on the beach, building driftwood forts and crab pots off the pier. </p>
<p>I wish I had time for a pooch. I would love to release said dog on the beach, watching Fido reign in birds that will never be caught. I almost cry, it tugs my heart so hard. </p>
<p>My God, I love this place. </p>
<p>Can we help find your place?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6117716
2020-01-17T00:44:00-08:00
2020-01-17T03:15:50-08:00
Bad Gig
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<p>Outdoor venue, great PA, big stage, no covering on stage; open to the elements.</p>
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<p>Its the 80’s. Our keyboard players are running Roland and Oberheim gear. </p>
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<p>I’m running a hybrid: acoustic snare, Paiste cymbals, Pearl DRX 1 Analog Drum Kit with an Emulator sample package for the kick drum, and Roland 707 Drum Machine.</p>
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<p>We carried our own monitor system because most venues at that time were not set up for all the electronics and our stage reinforcement needs. Lots of sequencing, arpeggiation and digital delay timing.</p>
<p>Half way through the show the sky opens up and drenches us. The sickening feeling of pouring water out of the Pearl Drum Pads and watching one of the keyboard players drain water from his OB-8. I can’t even imagine how the sound company felt. </p>
<p>Total garbage and crap. Shame on the promoter for lack of attention to detail; shame on us for taking the gig. Stupidity. </p>
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<p>Fast forward 17 years. Outdoor festival in the desert, middle of August. I’m playing a Roland TD-10 kit, the keyboard player is using Yamaha and Korg gear. One hundred and six degrees on stage, no canvas or protection over the stage, open to the elements. Our LCD displays turn to liquid, not able to read programs. My rubber cymbals melt. Total garbage and crap. Shame on the promoter; shame on us for taking the gig. My Mama always said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”</p>
<p>Keep your eyes open. It’s not always about the next gig.</p>
<p>Can we help you in anyway?</p>
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2020-01-13T00:05:13-08:00
2021-04-28T18:06:12-07:00
Artist Focus – Jonny Durango
<h2>Audio Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Arranger</h2>
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you?</p>
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<p>Jonny: Oh, Man. I’m a human man. I’m a person who has always just loved music, it’s one of the things in this world that has made sense to me. As I grow older, I’m starting to see other things that are contributing to my existence. </p>
<p>I was more cynical as a kid; it was about the money and the system and the Man, man. As I grew up I realized it’s actually not so bad. For me, as a teenager, music was really the only thing that held it together. It was pure and made sense and gave me this emotional rush and vibe. Songs would pop into my head. Dreams would come up a lot. </p>
<p>When I was a kid I wanted to be an inventor or a scientist. I was one of those geeky kids studying lasers, magnets and holograms; taking stuff apart. It’s in my blood. My Grandpa was that way. He was the old man equivalent to me, representing part of the industrial revolution. His shop full of old Model T parts, wood working vices and all this crazy stuff. I got this bug from him.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Where did you learn all that you know about vintage equipment?</p>
<p>Jonny: It started as a kid. You have to have a pretty decent foundation in science, in general, and a foundation in how things work. I had a book called How Things Work. I would go through the book to see how gears and pulleys would work and all this different stuff. That really helps when you start layering those abstractions to higher levels, like electrons and stuff like that. A lot of You Tube videos. Lots of trial and error and fucking stuff up. When the magic smoke appears, I conclude my understanding wasn’t correct. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You’re not joking about the magic smoke?</p>
<p>Jonny: In the world of electroninics: you can think you understand it, but there is no subjectivity, it’s not like politics or social media. When there is magic smoke, you have been proved that you are wrong, and when you are wrong , you have to go back and figure it out. You have to figure out what electrons want to do, where they want to go.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: The level you are at, there are absolutes….</p>
<p>Jonny: Yeah, definitely. If you got something blowing up, or you get zapped, or your circuit doesn’t work, that’s that. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Is that a comforting place? </p>
<p>Jonny: Yeah. I like the world of logic and rationality. That world has intrinsic beauty. Like mathmatics. It’s counter intuitive to the music thing.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What is your educational background?</p>
<p>Jonny: Basic High School. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You studied music, didn’t you?</p>
<p>Jonny: Not really. I literally stayed at home and played guitar for six to eight hours a day; obsessed, laser vision. I was sixteen and this was the time before You Tube tutorials. The best you could hope for would be finding some tablature, most of it inaccurate. </p>
<p>I had a CD player boom box. I would put on Stevie Ray Vaughn or B.B. King. It had a rewind feature with play/pause, one note at a time, learn it, move to the next note. For a while, I also took Flamenco Guitar lessons. </p>
<p>When I went to school for digital audio engineering, they made us take pretty basic keyboard theory which was really helpful, especially with writing. Afterward, I started thinking about taking it a lot deeper and almost went to Berklee in Boston. That involved a lot of money and a lot of debt. I saw the trap coming down the horizon. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: The Fat Kids have been a big part of your life and you have toured with them.</p>
<p>Jonny: Yep. Its been seven or eight years ago. We decided to go on tour, no recording contract, just mainly for fun. </p>
<p>Our drummer is a pilot. We flew down to Portland looking for a bus, ended up buying one from a Mega Church in Kirkland. We put a lot of work in, creating sleeping quarters, bathroom and kitchen. </p>
<p>We did two and half tours with that thing, it finally broke down in Weed, California. </p>
<p>The Fat Kids is a great band, but I’m really pumped on a concept that could play all genres, from Rap to Heavy Metal to Flamenco to Surf Music to Gospel, you name it. There is merit to almost every style of music.</p>
<p>The way I write songs, they just pop in to my head, full verse, chorus, bridge, lyrics, melody, harmony, it’s all there. With the Fat Kids I couldn’t do old schoool country or old school gospel or hard rock songs. </p>
<p>With this base , I want to get the studio up and running. A real legit studio with digital and analog, with a lot of different rooms, video capabilities, different audio capabilities. One day I might be doing a modern pop song and the next doing a vintage thirties style jazz recording. </p>
<p>You’ll notice with the studio’s gear, I have modern designed gear as well as vintage old school counter parts.</p>
<p>Really looking forward to working more with the studio and getting away from the touring , as much as I like it. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Whats the vision for the MOB?</p>
<p>Jonny: First and foremost, we really want to have cool stuff coming out. We have a good team; paying the bills, staying in the black. The dream would be to have a Motown style of thing, recording, writing, creating hits. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are the top sites you hit.</p>
<p>Jonny: A lot of time on You Tube, geeking out on electrical videos, applied science, prototyping stuff, how to build different things, philosophy, random podcasts.</p>
<p>Mackncheze: Is that firing you up?</p>
<p>Jonny: Yeah, a lot of audio books. Going through some pretty cool stuff.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What books and authors do you recommend?</p>
<p>Jonny: Hunter S. Thompson; David Goggins’ book, You Can’t Hurt Me, great stuff; a huge fan of Ayn Rand; The 50th Law; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people has some useful stuff in it; Jordan Peterson’s The 12 Rules For Life; The Greater Courses; a lot of geeky stuff.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What’s your biggest struggle?</p>
<p>Jonny: Overcoming the results of depression. Since I was a kid I have been manic depressive. I went to a shrink for a while and tried Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Prozac. That shit would make me way worse; I would go from a two week cycle to a one hour cycle. It’s what got me into philosophy; trying to make sense of the world without completely changing my psychology with pills.</p>
<p>It’s quite a challenge to overcome: Going to the gym and being healthy, using philosophy, taking on as much personal responsibilty as I can and not making excuses for anything. The David Goggins’ book helped a whole lot. </p>
<p>Exercise is essential; one single factor that will change your outlook. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Whats the most exciting thing you have ever encountered?</p>
<p>Jonny: The first tour we did with the band. It was like so many great things wrapped into one. A little miniature Jack Kerouac adventure, but you’re with your friends, playing music, travelling, seeing new cities, that was awesome.</p>
<p>If there is a junky high in music that I’m trying to chase, that’s it. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What’s your greatest association?</p>
<p>Jonny: In some ways its like apples and oranges. My Dad, Zech Valette, Josh Menache. I have spent the last 10 to 20 years weeding out those who are not compatible with me. The folks who are in my circle of friends are good people who I actually connect with. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: The most important thing you want to say?</p>
<p>Jonny: The world is very divided. I wish people could genuinely put themselves in other’s shoes. Most people in the world do not wake up in the morning and say to themselves, “I am going to be as shitty as I can today.” Most people are trying to get by and do a good job and put food on their table and not be dirt bags. If people could put themselves in other’s shoes with that in mind, it would lead to much better things coming out of the world. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: I concur. Thanks!</p>
<p>Jonny: Sweet. </p>
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2020-01-09T20:30:00-08:00
2020-01-09T22:13:08-08:00
Toxic People
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<p>We all know them. We all run in to them. They are everywhere. I say, “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”</p>
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<p>The socio-political landscape is full of them.</p>
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<p>My neighborhood is full of them.</p>
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<p>The grocery store is full of them.</p>
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<p>The streets are full of them. </p>
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<p>Then there is your job. </p>
<p>The best solution: distant yourself as much and as far away as possible. If the toxic person is a good friend then perhaps a later time to re-associate yourself with them will work out. Your survival and sanity is paramount. </p>
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2020-01-07T14:10:57-08:00
2020-01-07T17:15:41-08:00
Rhythmic Harmony Part 2
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<h2>Music Geek Stuff</h2>
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<p>Today we will look at one of my favorite tools. The Baiou’ rhythm and its modes. Baiou’ is pronounced <em>Bayonne </em>(The spelling? Someone kept yelling ” I’ld like a vowel, Vanna”). </p>
<p> You’ll need paper and pencil for this one. This is <em>Linear Harmony</em> as opposed to <em>Vertical Harmony</em>. </p>
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<p>Draw a square and divide it into 64 symmetrical parts. Number them down the left side 1 thru 8. Number the top this way: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, because we will be working with, you guessed it, eighth notes. The top line will be marked with dots in square 1; 2 and a half (+ of 2) and 4.</p>
<p>If you go to line 2 (down one), you can make the same spacing but to the right one box: + 1; 3 and + of 4. Follow this idea on lines 3 thru 8 and you will have the <em>The Modes of Baiou’, </em>each time moving each dot by one box. It should look like connect-the-dots. </p>
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<p>I recently used mode number 3 as a Hi-hat pattern for the first measure of a two measure phrase, putting beat 1 at the beginning of measure two. </p>
<p>Feel free to make a copy of what you have drawn to take advantage of the two measure phrase. Or make a four measure model and you will be glad you did once you see the possibilities. </p>
<p>But lets start by making two measure examples.</p>
<p>Think of the odd numbered lines as resolution and the even ones as tension. </p>
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<p>Line 6 is interresting because the two off beats would tend to make it a tension line, but it has a nice big fat 1 that makes it usable as a resolution line if you combine it with any other tension line (I tried using a pie chart but I think you can guess how that ended up).</p>
<p>Write a ton of your own examples. </p>
<p>Just for kicks, take three lines of a tension line and make the fourth a resolution line.</p>
<p>Take any line and make it a mirror image of itself.</p>
<p>Take line one and a pair of scissors and group the beats in reverse.</p>
<p>Anything that is musically useful goes. </p>
<p>Have fun! But keep a straight jacket handy…</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6057359
2020-01-02T22:35:00-08:00
2020-01-02T23:15:31-08:00
Rythmic Harmony
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<p>Lets use the example of a bass drum and a kick drum part. Lets say I decide to match each note of the bass and the kick drum. This would be an example of <em>Rhythmic Unison.</em></p>
<p>Now lets say I decide to add kick drum only to those bass notes that need extra weight (anchoring) or extra movement (momentum). This would be an example of <em>Rhythmic Harmony.</em></p>
<p>The point is that unison can be useful at times, but in my work, <em>Rhythmic Harmony </em>usually gives me more bang for the buck.</p>
<p>If I overdo it, a bad harmony is created; the notes do not complement each other. If I use too few notes, it may lack energy. </p>
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<h2>Must The Kick Drum Notes Always Be Married To The Bass?</h2>
<p>If my bass line covers only a measure and a half of a two bar phrase, does that mean the bass drum has to stop?</p>
<p>All of this is very simple , but it is best to start from a place of total clarirty if the concept is to work.</p>
<p>I recently finished a composition that uses a two measure kick drum pattern like this: 1; ‘and’ of 2; 4; ‘and’ of 1, and 3 (some of you may recognize this polyrythm). The ‘feel’ or through-line of the piece was a hi-hat of eighth notes accenting downbeats 1, 2, 3, and 4. So, how did I get these patterns, hi-hat and kick drum, to connect with each other?</p>
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<p>After trying many ideas, I noticed that opening the hat on ‘and’ of 2 and closing on beat 3 gave me what I needed. The kick drum was already giving me all the beats in question; it was just a question of a balanced connection between the two. </p>
<p>I could have accented those beats on the hat, but the feel I wanted would have been compromised. Better in this case to use other instruments, including the bass, to create harmony. For me, the kick drum by itself did not do it. By putting the ‘and’ of 2 on the open hi-hat, the first measure was now connecting on 1; ‘and’ of 2, and 4, thus creating enough of a <em>Rhythmic Harmony </em>to connect the two patterns.</p>
<p>It comes down to avoiding two things: overstatement and understatement, and this varies from one harmony to the next.</p>
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2019-12-30T13:33:38-08:00
2019-12-30T16:04:27-08:00
Depression
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<p>The grim truth; many of my artist type friends have depression running in their gene pool. It is in my family as well; seemingly prevalent in the families of creative types. One study shows entrepreneur start up founders, who are extremely creative people, revealing 50% with mental conditions and a 30 % depression rate. </p>
<p>The challenge with depression is that there are hundreds of markers that vary from individual to individual. With all the variables in persons affected there is incongruity in overall consensus regarding identification, diagnosis and treatment. </p>
<p>Many of my friends tell me that they needed to be more aware of their mental space and to keep pills and sharp objects out of reach. It’s not a joke. Those close to me have taken years to figure out triggers, medications and therapies. The path to ‘normalcy’ can be long and arduous. </p>
<p>Interestingly, everyone I know with Depression Symptoms are amazingly talented and brilliant people. I scratch my head in wonder. Why this curse? </p>
<p>The best course is to be there for them, listen with empathy, and give them a hand when they need the help. I would hope I would heed my own words. </p>
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2019-12-27T07:45:08-08:00
2019-12-27T08:30:41-08:00
Happy Holidays
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<h2>Wishing all a great Holiday Season and a Big Shout Out for all Those Supporting Mackncheeze Music.</h2>
<h2>Thank You!!!!</h2>
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<h2>What to Expect in the Coming Year. </h2>
<p>We are going to be focusing on creative folks of all types in a large variety of different endeavors; Photography, Filmography, Custom Instruments, Writers and, of course, Musicians. </p>
<p>Super excited about the up coming year’s possibilities. </p>
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2019-12-22T15:16:18-08:00
2019-12-22T17:30:38-08:00
Drama
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<p>Got that right; I love the whiners who whine about the whiners. How about taking a few seconds and listening to what it is you are actually whining about. I have found that those who complain the most are usually on the weaker part of the chain. The weakest link; Right?</p>
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<p>I get to decide how much of my life is tragedy or comedy. No one else controls me. </p>
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<p>I have no time for this. All of you who are whining who think I’m listening, I’m actually not. I smile, nod my head, maybe agree with you to get you to shut up, and move on. </p>
<p>I don’t have time for you’re drama.</p>
<p>Can we seriously help you?</p>
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2019-12-22T14:13:26-08:00
2019-12-22T17:30:38-08:00
Michael Clune and Moondance
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<p>Mackncheeze: Who are you?</p>
<p>Michael: I am my friendships and relationships. I am very blessed that my friendships are from all over the world. My glass of water, I can honestly say, is half full or close to full. I work hard to keep it that way. </p>
<p>Its music, or what I do to motivate myself, or sitting practicing scales, or whatever I want to accomplish. </p>
<p>I am well supported on the planet.</p>
<p>Musically, I have always been drawn to very good vocalists, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Michael McDonald. Motivationally, great jazz players. I’m like every other player; I need inspiration. </p>
<p>I really enjoy a great melody coupled with great vocals. I’ve always been partial to Black Music and Swing. Classic Rock, I would call a squared off sort of rhythmic structure. I have experienced those, and they really don’t do a whole lot for me. I’ve always had swing in my music, one way or another. I was born with a quarter note triplet in my blood. </p>
<p>I have been thinking about the bands I have been with through the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and Millennials and how much they have really defined what I was doing and accomplishing. The last twenty years I have been trying to focus more on being a singer/songwriter, more of a front line approach. </p>
<p>I am focused on producing videos for my first album, Easy Street, and for current musical projects. Its really the task at hand. </p>
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<p>Mackncheeze: What is Moondance?</p>
<p>Michael: A Van Morrison Tribute band, comprised of five really solid musicians who really enjoy Van Morrison’s music. We have great respect for Van who has been recording since the 60’s and even today is doing it at a very high level of success, which is really amazing. </p>
<p>Moondance captures the essence of the really great vibe of Morrison’s poetic ballads and pop tunes. We are not an orthodox tribute band; we don’t play note for note, but we certainly capture the essence, intros and hooks. We also inject solos within the arrangements, because we have accomplished people who know how to improvise.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are your passions?</p>
<p>Michael: As a Berklee drummer, I would like to be playing drums in some sort of intelligent ensemble. I grew up being a drummer and vocalist, for me, those usually went hand in hand. </p>
<p>I just wrote a song called, Say Goodbye, looking forward to recording that. I’ve also recently written a more modern, hip-hop kind of song. </p>
<p>Presently I’m feeling very creative. This year, after taking a trip to Europe and visiting friends in Germany, Poland and Iceland, I had a switch come on. I can be inspired to write music by walking down the street. I’m learning how to make it tangible. Its the combination of things; the video perspective of capturing an image, learning how to listen better, conversations inspiring a lyric or a feeling, something I can visually see. </p>
<p>I love singing. Talk about passion. These ballads, when I sing these songs, I sing them to the bone, I feel them and I think about my own life and how the songs interact with the lyrics. </p>
<p>Presently, it’s an exciting, creative time. Considering the lack of sun in the Northwest, this is a good thing. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: You are your sun. Whats the most exciting thing you have ever encountered ?</p>
<p>Michael: Helping deliver my daughter. She was born in the back seat of Volkswagen Bug. I was in the backseat with a midwife, as we were on the way to a hospital after forty two hours of labor. </p>
<p>My passion list would actually be long; things that actually changed my life. Moving from the east coast in ’74, ’75. Playing in front of 85,000 people at Seattle’s Bumbershoot when it was in Pioneer Square. In 1986, playing at the World Expo in Vancouver, British Columbia . Bake’s Place, Moondance, August 2019, the only band to sell out the club on a Friday night. Being debt free and a home owner; anomolous for most musicians. There are alot of successes.</p>
<p>My health and my music are somewhat intertwined. Right now it’s about being in the trenches and disciplining myself everyday, everyday. I’m learning that more and more. </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: What are your struggles?</p>
<p>Michael: Writer’s block, that’s been a struggle. I’m trying to write down everything: documenting, documenting, documenting.</p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Anything else?</p>
<p>Michael: I’m really thankful for all my friends. And Jasper, my Maine Coon Cat. What would we do without our cats? </p>
<p>Mackncheeze: Alright, Buddy. Thankyou.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6034152
2019-12-19T22:56:00-08:00
2019-12-20T00:09:04-08:00
Practice Safe Sound
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<p>Yeah, Baby. I want to keep my hearing. Entropy has decided to work against me, so I fight back. </p>
<p>Every practice session, every rehearsal; ear plugs. Reviewing tracks; I listen at extremely low volumes, often times in mono, mixing off my IPhone, mixing off head phones set across the room, referencing Blue Tooth speakers in close proximity. </p>
<p>At 10 to 15 db, I make sure I can hear every instrument, placed in proper perspective, panning in place. </p>
<p>Here’s an important note: at very low decimal volume, inaccuracies in performance jump out. Not only must the mix sit well at high volume, it must sit well low. High volume playback easily punches, not so much low volume. </p>
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<p>Keeping my hearing is crucial.</p>
<p>Depending on the gig I may, or may not, where ear protection. At extremely high volume, yes, definitely. At lower volumes, depends. </p>
<p>A snare hit, even with a bundled stick, can register at 140 db., so it is best to be careful.</p>
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<p>For two years I played next to a Marshall Stack. The result was an eardrum which would pop at the slightest high frequency sound. That took years to heal. </p>
<p>I marvel at my fellow players who never even consider protecting their hearing. Those cymbal crashes certainly can’t be fun, especially from the high frequency sizzle. Yikes! </p>
<p>I have great friends who espouse custom fit ear plugs. The cost can be prohibitive. My challenge with those kind of ear plugs is the same as reading glasses, they are easily misplaced. The cheapest hearing protection is toilet paper wadded into my ear canal. Good enough for George Jones, good enough for me.</p>
<p>Is there anything we can do to help?</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/6007825
2019-12-12T23:34:00-08:00
2019-12-13T05:14:03-08:00
Island Time
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<p>Have you ever lived on an Island? Is “Laid Back” a term you would use for island life? </p>
<p>This mind set actually exists, having lived on an island and experiencing it myself. For many, regardless of ability, attainment, and professional accolades, this pattern is endemic. </p>
<p>Why? I don’t get it. I can’t be late for my job. Isn’t the pursuit of musical endeavors a commitment to work with others? Aren’t others expecting realiablity from their fellow collaborators?</p>
<p>I used to take it personally. No more. Its not a judgement on me. I am not responsible for my peer’s behavior. </p>
<p>In my experience, this challenge exists on every level of musical success. I just shrug my shoulders. How does anything get done? How do these businesses succeed? Why am I not able to take a person’s word at face value? Perhaps these are rhetorical questions.</p>
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<p>What I have learned is to take my fellow musicians with a grain of salt. Creatives can pulled in so many different directions in so many different ways that their mind’s focus on the most important tasks at hand regardless of prior commitments or ideas. </p>
<p>The issue at hand is not my fellow musicians actions, its my relationship to those actions. </p>
<p>My favorite situations are when I have comfirmed place, date and time and no one shows up. Passive Aggressive behavior? In most circumstances, no. I chalk it up to habits of distraction and inattentiveness.</p>
<p>My survival is dependent on planning; always having plan B, C and D in place. Options make the difference. When so and so doesn’t show up or is late, what task is at hand in which I can make some progress in lieu of said players nonappearance?</p>
<p>Besides, my vision of success lies in my mind, not anyone else’s. I am totally dependent upon me.</p>
<p>Anyone along for the ride? </p>
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2019-12-05T23:12:00-08:00
2019-12-06T01:45:25-08:00
Today Was A Good day
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<p> I, for one, am happy to be alive. I have my health, my mind is somewhat right ( my friends may differ ), friends, a loving family, I am well fed, have a warm bed to sleep in, income ………the list goes on. </p>
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<p>I do suffer from a slough of first world problems. These challenges mean very little in the big scheme of things. </p>
<p>The person in the grocery line holding us up because they forgot an item or have fouled up the payment method. Stuck in rush hour. A fellow coworker who whines incessantly while in the habit of under performing. Prima Dona Players. Politicians, AAAAAAAARG!!! </p>
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<p>Hey, another day this side of green; doesn’t sound that bad.</p>
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2019-11-28T23:35:00-08:00
2019-11-28T23:45:32-08:00
The Labor Is The Reward
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<p>Yeah, you got that right. It is the love of music which sustains me. The love of the people, the process and the execution. What God given talents I have been blessed with have only been the starting point; a flame that kindled. Continually feeding that fire is the process. More accomplishment, greater love, more desire for accomplishment; and the wheel turns. </p>
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<p>What is wealth when all is said and done? What is accomplishment? That is for each one of us to decide. </p>
<p>I believe the money thing relates to our physical well being, with out it we don’t eat, Baby. </p>
<p>The accomplishment thing relates to my mental well being; when things aren’t in motion I start to vibrate. </p>
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<p>Amen and Amen. </p>
<p>When I was seven I failed as a pianist. I now blame that on my instructor because kids need to be able to be kids, and he was a kid too. He was forced by his mother to teach me, and being seventeen, he had better things to do on Saturday mornings than teach the brat next door how to play piano. He hated teaching and I absorbed the hate. </p>
<p>I still fiddle with the piano.</p>
<p>Then at twelve my mates wanted to be drummers. Television taught me that girls really dig musicians. There you have it. Guilty of creating the affectations of my environment. The lessons began. </p>
<p>Let the humiliations continue. </p>
<p>By the way, the women did not care about me being a musician till I was in my twenties. Then they cared, greatly. </p>
<p>But that’s another story. </p>
<p>Till this day, all I want to be is better at my craft. The more accomplished I become, the more passion reigns in my heart. The more passion, the more desire for attainment. More turns of the wheel. </p>
<p> Keep on keepin’ on.</p>
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2019-11-24T20:43:09-08:00
2019-11-25T00:03:50-08:00
The Seasons Of My Life
<h2>Guest Blog by Marvin Manning ( My Uncle )</h2>
<h2>Written at age 94</h2>
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<p>As I move through the seasons of my life and summer turns to fall, I find that the Golden Years are not so golden after all. </p>
<p>The junk food that I loved so much has been replaced with lettuce, celery, carrots and such, and the steaks I thought so fine now taste like old sawdust seasoned well with pine.</p>
<p>The golf balls I could hit with ease now fade from sight as I approach the tees, and the fly line that I could cast so neat now falls in a pile near my wobbly feet.</p>
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<p>The rides that I would so joyfully take about the countryside has been replaced with trips to offices where doctors, dentists and chiropractors preside, and the strolls around the neighborhood with a dog along are just a memory of days so quickly gone.</p>
<p>The best clothes that I could afford to buy are hanging in a closet shrinking down in size, and my feet which good leather would adorn now hosts calluses, bunions and corns.</p>
<p>My hands which could tie flys so nice sometimes feel like chunks of ice, and the grip which I could apply force now drop spoons, knives and forks. As they are not steady and shake while I eat, I need to wear a bib just to keep myself clean and neat, when a meal is over and I can eat no more, you can safely bet there will be a mess upon the floor.</p>
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<p>My ancient ears miss many sounds such as the doorbell ringing when company comes around, and my voice once clear and strong now loses power when I talk too long.</p>
<p>Things falling to the floor are an irritation beyond compare simply because I cannot bend down to pick them up from there, and trying to get an item from the cabinet shelf up high is frustrating and just not woth the try.</p>
<p>Good penmanship is not a forte of mine, but what happens when I sit down to write is purely asinine. Sentences wander aimlessly about the sheet and words bunch together like a flock of frightened sheep. But while lined paper solves the sentence problem, and a detailed and tedious approach to keeping words apart help matters much, I can’t help but think when I review my work that it sure looks a lot like chicken scratches in the dirt.</p>
<p>Sleep I much adore and will try nearly anything for more. But when bedtime comes about and my body responds to discomfort caused by bursitus, arthrits and gout, I lose good sleep just spreading gels, liniments and ointments about. Then just as I think I have control, my dear old bladder signals it is full and to the bathroom we must go.</p>
<p>As my balance is not too good and my legs don’t function the way they should, I use grab bars, walkers and canes to avoid falling about the house. And being equally cautious, I avoid certain recliners, rockers and couches, for if I get too close, they may entice me to sit down and then keep me there until help comes around.</p>
<p>My days start early in the morning when there is little doubt I can complete the tasks of my personal care while no one else is up and wandering about. These are many and include only a few of the more common, such as bathing, shaving and flossing, which I assume most male people do. When these are finished I sit down with a cup of coffee freshly perked and check to see how much time was spent in performing what was once thirty minutes of work.</p>
<p>Since my early childhood I have been dressing myself with ease, wearing whatever, whenever I pleased. But back then I was blessed with being flexible and didn’t realize that anything could be so difficult as putting on my clothes – that fabric sticks together like it has been painted on with glue, that buttons don’t always align with opposing buttonholes, that what I need to grip is beyond my fingertips, and that clothes can be snagged by my bigger toes. And then, when I am trying to dress and not accomplishing much, I often wonder why industry has not built a robot that can do this kind of stuff</p>
<p>My eyesight is not as good as I expected it to be, but what I didn’t expect was double vision and just how entertaining it can be. For if I place an object on a surface that is flat, I can play my version of the old shell game by trying to determine precisely where it is at. But I am being facetious here, for I find in this particular ailment that getting two for one is not really all that fun.</p>
<p>This I have saved for last as it involves my wife who has shared a great portion of my past and who now has dementia, requiring constant care and attention. As part-time caregivers deal with the most critical and difficult of these, the leftovers are the responsibilty of untrained me. While this particular phase of my life has been somewhat devestating, the results achieved for coping with it have been more than somewhat satisfying, which causes me too truly feel that I am succesfully performing the most important job with which I have ever had to deal.</p>
<p>The changes mentioned here have mostly happened over many years and now reflect one thing quite clear: the downsides of getting old and being old will prevent them from ever having a glitter equal to that of shiny gold.</p>
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2019-11-21T22:17:00-08:00
2019-11-21T22:30:27-08:00
I Have A Dream
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<p>I once dreamt I was a chicken. I am not sure what the underlying psychology of chicken dreams means in relationship to reality; but there it is. </p>
<p>Cocking my head and eyeing the gravel, looking for that kernel of corn. Thrusting my beak towards that tidbit of seed, grabbing it and swallowing it down my gullet. Feeling it reside in my crop, my stomach turns to acid. Seems the previous evenings pizza turned my belly, ensuing to chicken perceptions of existence. </p>
<h2>What Are Your Dreams?</h2>
<p>My dreams are not as all encompassing as those who dream of the betterment of Human kind. My dreams are self centered aspirations for the betterment of Bryan Kind. Call me selfish and self centered. Ain’t no one taking care of me when I’m 95 except the hired help. </p>
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<h2>I Want To Reach For the stars</h2>
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<p>All kidding aside, hope and aspiration drive me. After all these years I can honestly say, “When I’m not at the job I am living the dream.” </p>
<p>Interspersed with the dream is a constant reminder of how much further I need to go. </p>
<h2>Fat Fingers</h2>
<p>Last weekend I had plans to do a three camera live video and audio shoot of a gig I was playing. My audio interface has the possiblility of recording 24 tracks simutaneously. Thursday evening was spent linking ADAT light pipe to the Focusrite and laptop. I get to the gig and spend two hours preparing for the shoot. Ten tracks to audio, two cameras runninng independently and one video cam off the Mac. Plug everything in, and, viola, no audio to Logic Pro. Spending another hour trying to figure out what command I Fat Fingered, I gave up. Better to keep my cool and play well than to end an evening of joy in pure frustration. </p>
<p>The path to success is littered with failure. There’s a lot of litter on my path.</p>
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2019-11-14T22:00:00-08:00
2019-11-15T00:16:39-08:00
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
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<p>I love to play music, I love to record, and, to the best of my abilities, I love to produce music. But what I also love is a super cool job, health insurance and stability. Call me double minded. </p>
<p>I have been a Sommelier with a restaurant group for the last 29 years, the last 16 spent at The Metropolitan Grill in Seattle. We are one of 91 restaurants in the world which have been recognized by the Wine Spectator as a Grand Award Winning Wine List. </p>
<p>Yes, my friend, I am blessed with a super cool and exciting life and feel so incredibly grateful for the opportunities given me. </p>
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<p>I have always juggled my love of music with my love of food and wine. They seem to be inextricably linked. Both are expressions of my inner most passions. Maybe I have hedonistic tendencies………ok, I have hedonistic tendencies; passion reigns in my interests. </p>
<p>The biggest challenge is juggling a job, requiring working evenings, week ends and holidays, with music, which usually requires gigging evenings, week ends and holidays. The days are pretty free, however, and I am not strapped with a teaching gig. Working around all this is super challenging and frustrating. My heart is in the music; my belly pays the bills. </p>
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2019-11-07T22:31:00-08:00
2019-11-08T03:45:24-08:00
Superpower
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<p>I have been reading a lot about tapping in to my super power. Most people who know me know that I am not super powerful, which is disappointing to myself since my own self expectations are so high. </p>
<p>I wish I wasn’t prone to error. I wish I would not forget arrangements. I wish that a fellow musician’s bad meter would not affect me. </p>
<p>Shouldn’t I be able to transcend bad meter? If I could have just one super power that would be it. </p>
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<p>Another super power I wish I had – I wish that I would not suffer from Delayed Intelligence; also known as CRS syndrome. I have heard it’s terminal. I don’t know how many times I have thought back on a situation and said to myself, ” I wish I had said that!”</p>
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<p>What are your super powers? </p>
<p>I can’t control elements, don’t have Telepathy, Telekinesis is out (for sure), nope on time travel, Super Speed is not my specialty ( yet I’m still working on those paradiddles ), Invulnerability ( just ask my last girlfriend about that ), Super Strength ( Hah ), Teleportation ( I’m still stuck here ).</p>
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<p>The best super power I can actually think of is Association. Yeah, if I have one super power, that’s it. Association: My family, my friends, my mentors. </p>
<p>After all, maybe thats the best super power there is. </p>
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2019-11-07T10:28:26-08:00
2019-11-07T14:45:23-08:00
Ice-T At The RKCNDY, 1992
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<h2>Guest Blog By Todd Ainsworth</h2>
<p>By the time I heard that Ice-T was going to play the RKCNDY, I had been listening to him since “Power”, which came out in 1989; along with Public Enemy, NWA and others. Some of my “Rock Only” friends looked at me sideways and wondered why. I knew I was going to see Ice-Motherfucking-T!</p>
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<p>You might remember the uproar over “Cop Killer” and the attention it got from then president, George Bush. Not “Mission Accomplished” George, but, “Read My Lips”, George. The chain of events that led to that song being banned and deleted from future copies of the Body Count Album are worth revisiting, if you are interested in how business, politics, religious groups and the First Amendment are thrown into a blender. The record company removed the CD from the shelves until they re-released it with out the “offending” song. </p>
<p>I still have my original pressing copy of the CD, complete with “Cop Killer” on it. </p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
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<p>I had 2 tickets and as the day of the show came around, I was reaching out to my list of usual suspects until I talked to my good friend, partner in crime and guitarist for several metal bands ( more on that in a future article ), Russ, and told him, “Your’e coming with me tonight to see Ice-T.</p>
<p>There were 2 shows and our tickets were for the late show. We showed up and got in line along the sidewalk. As the early show got out people were streaming out, chanting “Fuck the police!”. </p>
<p>Russ and I looked at each other with shit eating-grins and said to ourselves, “This is going to be awesome!”</p>
<p>It wasn’t long before some guy ( lets call him “Douche” ) pulls around the corner in his newer Corvette, blasting out “Cop Killer”, with the convertible top down…right down the street in front of the club where we were standing…dropping the hammer and roasting the tires in a smoky haze…when he had to suddenly stop because of traffic waiting for the red light. That’s when a bicycle cop pedals up to him and makes him pull over to write him up. All of us on the street had a great laugh. The doors opened and we made our way in. It was perfectly ironic.</p>
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<p>Ice-T opened up the show with “regular” stuff from his albums. The crowd was packed tight against the raised stage. RKCNDY’s stage was probably just under four feet tall and some of the band’s posse – including some women in very short skirts – were standing off to the side. Apparently, they didn’t realize that at that height, it was pretty easy for us on the floor to see that there was no underwear under those miniskirts!</p>
<p>After the first set was over, and an intermission, they came back on stage – with some variation in musicians – as Body Count. The room was sweaty and ready for Ice-T’s brand of Metal and we were moshing around to the point of Ice just looking like he wasn’t expecting this kind of reaction! </p>
<p>One chick got herself on stage and went back by the drums. Ice was just standing aside at this point and looking on, speechless. She swipes her feet a couple of times on the ground – like a bull getting ready to charge – and gets a running start to the edge, and just flies out into the crowd, who dutifully stood by to catch her. She took 3-4 guys down with her. Ice-T was laughing his ass off and just looked dazed…he stopped to say Seattle has the ” Craziest Motherfuckers I ever seen!” The show went on with some more stage diving, including yours truly; we exited the club chanting “Fuck The Police!”</p>
<p>Now, more than 27 years later, the RKCNDY is long gone, Ice-T has had a great acting career and reality series. I’m pretty sure that night was my last real stage dive. I still drive by there fairly often and can’t help but smile, thinking about all the great times we shared ( not just at RKCNDY ) now only existent in our memories. </p>
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2019-11-01T11:41:59-07:00
2019-11-01T15:45:33-07:00
Distractions
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<h2>A Normal Morning In My House</h2>
<p>Get out of bed, wander down to the coffee maker, get some Joe brewing, wander over to the lap top, fire it up, oops, my feet are cold, wander back up stairs, put on some socks. I got to pee, wander in to the bathroom, pick up the tooth brush, oh, coffee is ready, never mind, wander down stairs. Oh, that load of clothes needs to be dried, throw those in the dryer, wander back to the lap top, sit down, pull up my daily habit check list, itemized in degrees of importance, oh, some one’s texting me, return the text, back to the check list, coffee cup drained, wander over to the coffee maker, sit back down …How in the heck do I get anything done? Check my daily habit list. </p>
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<p>My friend Pete wrote a poem ( thanks for the contribution, Pete )</p>
<p>Roses are Red , </p>
<p> Violets are Blue,</p>
<p> Let’s ride bicycles!</p>
<p> Can I mow your lawn?</p>
<p>No, I’m not ADHD; some times I just can’t focus. Wait a minute, I got to check Facebook, maybe some one’s gonna mention me.</p>
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<p>Its intersting, despite the slow warm up to the day, oh wait, just got a text, it says, Hey, what do you think about compressing the crap out of that guitar solo? Thats a good idea, maybe it will hang in the mix better.</p>
<p>Got to let the cat in, Master of the realm. Anyway…Yea, I got the set list…What was I talking about? Oh yea, focus, yea, focus. Thats the ticket. </p>
<p>The surest way to focus is to turn off my I Phone and I Pad, oh, the blasted message app went off on the Mac Book, who is that?</p>
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<p>Never mind, I’m turning off today’s Blog. </p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/5938426
2019-10-24T23:52:00-07:00
2019-10-25T01:02:51-07:00
The Phantom
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<p>“Someone’s talking in the guitar solo.”</p>
<p>“What?”</p>
<p>“There is someone talking in the guitar solo.”</p>
<p>I listened to the track over and over and could not hear the voice. I went through every single track. Nothing. During the guitar solo I muted every track that was inactive. Nothing.</p>
<p>“Dude, the voice is still there.”</p>
<p>“What? It can’t be.”</p>
<p>“I guess we we’ll just live with it. There is still someone talking in guitar solo.”</p>
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<p>Mix down; listening over and over again, until one pass, I heard it. There was a voice in the guitar solo. Some one was talking. How could that be? The amp was in isolation. Not possible. But there was the voice.</p>
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<h2>Getting to the bottom of it </h2>
<p>I scrutinized every track. No voice was recorded any where, yet the talking continued. Then, paying close attention to the panning, I figured it out. The rhythm guitar track. The EQ was too concentrated in the 1.5 to 2 k range. I dropped those frequencies and, behold, the talking voice disappeared. </p>
<p>Wow! Who would have thought? Guitar solo saved.</p>
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2019-10-17T23:34:00-07:00
2019-10-18T03:15:24-07:00
Hyberbole, Standard Operating Procedure
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Aggrandize</strong>, to increase the power or reputation of something.</p>
<p>For me, it implies some sort of exaggeration. It is endemic in the world of music. Please understand, I am as guilty as the next person when it comes to past pretence. </p>
<p>I see it in Facebook adds. I see it in band names. How many times have you heard that this group of individuals has recording contracts, management, connections and it all turns out to be drivvle?</p>
<p>How about going on tour? What exactly is a tour?</p>
<p>I have friends that travel hundreds of miles every weekend for a single gig, and never once have they claimed they are on tour. I have spent month after month after month on the road and the bands I played with never called it a tour.</p>
<p>In an original act I was once with, we did three nights in a another state. Sure, the semi hauled the staging and lighting out a week before. Yes we flew out to the gigs. The band leader told us we were on tour. I’m like, what are you smoking? </p>
<p>Sounds like a long weekend to me. It was. </p>
<p>Are we really the next greatest thing? Are we really on the cusp of whatever it is we pretend to be on the cusp of? </p>
<p>I get that we want to be more important than we appear. I do think its possible to put aside the BS and be honest about what really is going on in our little worlds.</p>
<p>Lets stop being wannabees. Only true success attracts true success. Be real; lets quit pretending to be something we’re not and go out and kick some ass.</p>
<p>Cheers, Go Getters.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/5923088
2019-10-10T23:34:00-07:00
2019-10-11T02:15:38-07:00
Habits
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<p>I have read the books. I have stood in front of the mirror yelling at myself. I have gone to the conferences. I have read the blogs. I have reaffirmed my affirmations. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.</p>
<p>I have found out what habit is – its habit.</p>
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<p>The daily routine is what moves me forward. No matter what my day entails, two hours minimum on the drum kit, period. I wish I had more time but its the best I can do. Drums are my passion. Drums are the foundation of everything; my recording studio, my bands, this blog, performance, recording, production, song writing -everything.</p>
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tag:www.mackncheeze.com,2005:Post/5918735
2019-10-07T12:31:05-07:00
2019-10-07T16:15:22-07:00
Somewhere, In The Very Early 90’s
<p>By Todd Ainsworth</p>
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<p>Writing for a music blog hasn’t been on my radar, but music is one of my passions and an important part of my life. As my generation gets a little older ( I never expected to live to 50 when I was 18 ) and I start to look a little more inward to try to figure out exactly how I got here, I find myself thinking back to that great time in Seattle I was able to experience and be a small part of-the late 80’s and early 90’s</p>
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<p>The media called it Grunge and I’m not refusing to call it that ( even though we didn’t call it that as it was happening ) – but I’ll probably get some push back from those who were there ( maybe even at the same shows! ).</p>
<p>It was a hell of a time to be young and freshly able to drink in bars. Plenty has been written who had more to do with what was going on in the Seattle music scene in those days and who actually write for a living ( you can watch “Singles” in your well worn flannel to see Cameron Crowe’s take ), but for what its worth, I’m going to try give you one man’s perspective who spent many a night loitering around Pioner Square and licking fresh hand stamps to get friends in the Off Ramp if they bought a beer.</p>
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2019-10-04T00:45:00-07:00
2019-10-05T12:30:37-07:00
Prodigy
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<p>So I’m hanging in the lobby waiting for my lesson, listening to what I perceive as a high school student laying down a super congruent groove. I’m saying to myself, ‘Man, I wish I could have played like that when I was 17’. This goes on for another 5 minutes till the groove stops. Super impressive. Wow!!!</p>
<p>My instructor comes out of the lesson room all smiles and excited. In tow ( my jaw hits the floor ) a three year old toddles out, hands clutching drum sticks, all smiles and excited. </p>
<p>My stomach churns and spirit collapses. Bryan, what am I doing? Wasting time, fooling myself, pretending to be something I’m not? Those questions flooding my mind. </p>
<p>Hey, wait a second……I don’t care who you are, there is always someone out there who is more dialed in than yourself. Always! Deal with it, accept it, respond to it with gratefulness. </p>
<p>As for me, I’ll drink some more Cool Aid.</p>
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2019-09-27T00:45:00-07:00
2019-09-27T02:03:48-07:00
Breakfast of Champions
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<p>Rehearsal, 10 am. Hey I got time for breakfast. I’m heading over to the closest breakfast chain anticipating some great morning grub.</p>
<p>Man, I can taste those hash browns with my over easy eggs and some wheat toast with strawberry jelly. Lotsa coffee. I’m in Baby.</p>
<p>8:30 am, I’ve got plenty of time before we get serious. I put in my order. Wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. 9:15, and wait, I can’t get any coffee, and wait.</p>
<p>It figures. This chain, which has been around all of my life, keeps compromising on quality. </p>
<p>Finally breakfast comes and the portions are skimpy. The check reflects a price that deserved more generosity. </p>
<p>My stomach turns to acid because the food is crap. In my endeavors, if I deliver a compromised product I deserve the little return I receive. </p>
<p>My stomach churned at rehearsal. Lesson learned.</p>
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2019-09-19T18:20:00-07:00
2019-09-19T19:03:00-07:00
Ground Hog Day
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<ul><li>I played my first Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge in 1977. There is a definite vibe and personification of this organization. Lots of great people adding amazing contributions to our communities. The same goes for the Moose, Lions, Masons and VFW organizations. Great organizations making incredible contributions. </li></ul>
<p>Every 5 to 6 years I end up at a gig for one of these organizations.</p>
<p>Heres the thing. I’m not sure if its endemic to the organizations or the culture of contribution. It seems to me the same folks I played for in 1977 follow me from decade to decade; like ghosts. My own personal Jacob Marleys; apparitions of gigs past. The exact same people!!!!!! </p>
<p>Am I in a time warp? What the?……..Am I sane?………Am I actually seeing what I think I’m seeing? Why do these people follow me around? Are those voices in my head? Should I seek help? </p>
<p>Shall I Save the Last Dance For You? Is it really Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town? Am I really playing Proud Mary, left a good job in the city? Can anyone in my audience relate to this situation?</p>
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<p>Why I have allowed this to happen? Am I so desperate to have a gig that I actually agreed to this? </p>
<p>I do not need the money. I do not need to spend time rehearsing these songs. Has it really been this long between gigs?</p>
<p>I just want to play, thats all. Is it worth it? All I want to do is play out!!!!!!</p>
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<p>…..campers, rise and shine! – and don’t forget your booties ’cause its cold out there ………..</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
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2019-09-18T00:49:46-07:00
2019-09-18T04:30:27-07:00
Randy Hansen at The MOB Studios
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<p>Hey All, a quick shout out. This afternoon at 4:30 my friends at the MOB Recording studio are partnering with KOMO News featuring Randy Hansen. </p>
<p>This is an invite to all my friends and readers. The KOMO News shoot goes down at 4:30 pm. All are invited to participate. Just contact the MOB at </p>
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<p>RSVP your spot. Liquor provided. </p>
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