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Music Makes The World Go 'round

by Tom Hays

Music Makes The World Go 'round

My first memory of music was of sensing the steady, rhythmic thump, thump, thump of my mother’s heartbeat, as I snuggled warmly and safely in her womb. 

Later, she cradled me in her arms, held me to her breast and I heard the same familiar rhythm.  As we swayed back and forth she murmured soft sounds that added melody and lyrics and it became a lullaby, comforting me to sleep.

And, while you might not remember back quite that far, surely you feel that same, familiar rhythm pulsing through your own veins, pushing life through your body, animating your every move.

Yes, music is as old as human life, and the appreciation, enjoyment, and creation of it continues to bring joy, understanding, and emotional release to our lives.

Whether you write music, perform it, dance to it, study it, or just like to hum along, Platinum Pearls® has something for you on these web pages.  Click around.

As to Mom’s heart . . . it had a good beat, I gave it an 85.

If I Had a Dollar For Every Time I Have Used This Book, I Would Be Writing This in Napa Valley. 

Writing Better Lyrics

Pat Pattison is a professor of music and songwriting at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he developed the curriculum for their degree in songwriting--the first of its kind anywhere. He was a regular contributor to Home and Studio Recording Magazine. He lives in North Hampton, New Hampshire.

I first met Pat in Nashville.  I was living and writing there for awhile, and Pat would come down from the Boston area and spend his summers in Nashville, working with some of the great songwriters in the area, as well as teaching seminars.  We had mutual friends, and soon I was visiting his summer house on a weekly basis, at the foot of the master.  He is a joy to work with. 

In this book, Pat presents a unique, in-depth approach to the process of lyric writing. Apprentice songwriters will examine 17 extraordinary songs and learn the distinct elements that make them so effective. Pattison then presents more than 30 lyric-writing exercises designed to help them achieve the same results. From generating lyric ideas and managing repetition to developing verses, it's all here. Songwriters will:

* find warm-up exercises that revolutionize songwriting imagery
* use a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus to generate ideas and find snappy rhymes
* create meaningful metaphors and similes while avoiding clichés
* develop verses by using or by breaking conventional rules
* experiment with point of view in every lyric to make a song stand out.  Buy Now - Writing Better Lyrics
 

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The Artist's Way

 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
 by Julia Cameron, Mark Bryan (Contributor)


When I met Julia Cameron, we both thought we had surely met before somewhere.  On some other cosmic plane perhaps?  A past life?  I'm still wondering.  

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.  Yes, you can free yourself to be more creative, in whatever direction your interests take you.   order book

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