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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Write a song in your head. Let it live there. Don’t force it to leave. Check in on it every once and again. Let your relationship grow.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“If you’re making music, silence is your canvas” - Keith Richards

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Try performing a slow song as a fast song. Or a fast song as a slow song. Or a loud song as a quiet song, and vice versa. Songs and lyrics can take on a new meaning when they’re performed in a fresh context.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Creative euphoria is a thrill at any age. Never stop digging for fresh ideas and inspiration.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you go deaf, you can’t hear music anymore! Earplugs. Nice ones.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The mood of the recording session entirely influences the temperature and quality of the performances captured. The wind of the session should blow at the back of the artist, not work against them.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

When you give a thoughtful compliment to a musician, there’s a chance they’ll carry it with them for the rest of their life and reference to it in difficult moments. Supporting an artist can be as easy as acknowledging their work.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Performing artists should remember and respect that each person in the audience is offering up their time, which is the most irreplaceable resource that any of us have to give.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Appreciate and support the venues and spaces that allow you the opportunity to share your music. No venue lasts forever, so thank them while they’re here.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

DIY venues only exist if you do them yourself. Build your own universe.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Never forget that Black Sabbath goes as hard as it does because Bill Ward swings the drums. #BlackSabbath

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

1. Compose a song for only yourself. 2. Compose a song for the world. How are they different? How are they similar? Should they be different? Should they be similar?

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Music can alter your mood. Your attitude. Your thoughts and opinions. Your point of view. Your relationships. Your memories. Your grieving process. Your energy levels. Your blood pressure. Your sleep/wake cycle. Your morning. Your day. Your year. Your life. What an unsuspectingly powerful catalyst!

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Music is as essential to a well balanced life as sunlight, love, or medicine.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The same chords or lyrics will inspire you differently at different times. If it doesn’t work today, try it again tomorrow.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Picking any song on Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and focusing on the bass guitar is a great reminder to never underestimate the versatility of the bass. #TheBeatles #PaulMcCartney

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Your brain tells their hands which notes and rhythm to play. As your ears hear this, your heart and head work together to determine what note to play next, and send that new request back to your hands. Take a moment to appreciate how much effort your body puts forth to help you create music.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Each musician’s performance is a single ingredient in the recipe. The end result is determined by balance, chemistry, and quality. Everything matters. One bad egg can spoil it all.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Once you hear a song, you can’t unhear it. You can’t rewind to the moment before you heard the music. Even if you eventually forget the performance, it still altered the timeline of your existence, if only for a moment. Just as every minute of our lives matter, every song we hear does too.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Quickly write a bad song. Then write two bad songs. Heck- write 10 bad songs! Make simple recordings of yourself playing all 10 bad songs, send the recordings to a trusted friend, and ask which song is their favorite. You may be surprised to learn that you, in fact, did not write 10 “bad” songs.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Creativity tends to strike when it’s not under interrogation.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The larger your risk of failure is, the more likely it is that you are creating something particularly special.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A melody is a family of notes strung together on a feeling.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Trust your gut. Often times, your gut realizes what you enjoy and don’t enjoy more quickly and accurately than your head does.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Live music is entertainment, but live music can also change your life.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Creating something unique will always be polarizing. Don’t let that deter you.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

When members of a band are excited to collaborate or perform together, their energy can be felt in the music. Surround yourself with other artists that excite you.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The exact same song written in 50 different states by 50 different artists has the potential to sound like 50 different songs.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Write down or record your ideas as quickly as they come to you. Don’t let them escape, especially the good ones.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Allow yourself to make mistakes. It’s how you recover from the mistake that matters.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Far and away, the most important and impressive contributions to American culture and history have been made by black people.

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“There is no best musician… The creative arts are subjective and they reach people at a point in their lives when they need it the most.” -Jon Batiste

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.” –Roberta Flack

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“There's no such thing as a bad tune.” -Louis Armstrong

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy.” -Jon Batiste #JonBatiste

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.” -Jimi Hendrix

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“I always knew I couldn’t sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn’t heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.” -Lil Wayne on appreciating the value of uniqueness #LilWayne #Tunechi

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.” -Dr Dre #DrDre

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“If you don't feel it, don't play it.” - James Jamerson, bassist of Motown’s Wrecking Crew #Motown

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” -Lauren Hill #LaurenHill

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff".  -Quincy Jones #QuincyJones

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“Whenever success comes it is a stranger. When it knocks, it is something you hope for, but the form it takes on when it comes, and sometimes the moment it comes in, is so odd and so obscure.” -Donna Summer #DonnaSummer

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.” -Smokey Robinson #SmokeyRobinson

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity” -Alicia Keys #AliciaKeys

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“Think...it ain't illegal...yet.” -George Clinton #Parliament #funkadelic

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

“You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.” -Diana Ross #DianaRoss

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“Again, trust your ideas, be your biggest cheerleader and be smart about it because fuck em” -Tyler the Creator #TylerTheCreator

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.” -Kelly Rowland #DestinysChild

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✨ Music Lessons ✨ @musiclessons.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.” -Little Richard #LittleRichard

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