I just listened to a seminar on how to earn six figures in the music industry. I am not going to name the guru but it was the typical strategy of getting people onto a free webinar and then trying to sell an expensive system to them. I like to listen to those things because […]
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I own an office/warehouse a few miles from my house. I had that building built for Vitabase about ten years ago and leased it out after I sold Vitabase. One of the tenants in that space is leaving in a few months so yesterday, I went into the building again for the first time in a […]
Earlier in the week, I gave you a challenge to arrange “A Shelter in the Time of Storm” with me. Several of you have let me know you are on board with that. Make sure you have printed off the rough sketch of the harmony I provided in that last blog post. Then, here is […]
Today I am kicking off a new little series that will be of interest to many of you. I am going to walk through the building of an arrangement from start to finish. Ideally I would like many of you to work on this along with me and we will see what comes from it. The […]
When I left college, I started my career as a software engineer. I was good at software and quickly won the respect of my peers and management. Within a few years, I was informally running the entire department from a technical perspective and my managers made a fateful mistake: they made me a manager. I lasted less than […]
Read Part 1 here. I recently finished the edits on a book of arrangements and my editor was asking me about a title. He was trying to figure out something that described my style and one of the ways he described my style was extended intros and improvisation on the melodies. I have never really […]
Four years ago, I wrote a post here on this blog that I still think about from time to time. It is a post about debt in business and is my personal story about business debt. Read it here: https://greghowlett.com/blog/thoughts/083012.aspx Since I wrote that post, the company (Vitabase) that I was talking about sold. It was a […]
I posted a challenge to you guys to name a particular chord in my free arrangement from the other day. This is a big music nerd alert but I am going to talk about that chord today. Here it is (last beat in bar 17) Several people posted their thoughts on this page and by […]
In the world of harmony, there is a basic rule that two chords with the same function can substitute for each other. I don’t want to elaborate on that too much today but I will say that in my mind, I have three general pools of chords and if a chord belongs to one pool, […]
First of all, congratulations to James Burton for winning the free copy of The Emyth Revisited that I mentioned in my last business post. James, send me your address to [email protected]. One other bit of housekeeping: I was glad to see that the new season of Shark Tank has started. If you want an entertaining […]
I got to tell you: I am having to really discipline myself not to talk politics these days. I have so much I want to say and none of it is good. I absolutely despise everything I see and in a lot of ways, this election cycle feels surreal. Is this really happening to us? OK, enough […]