The seen on the unseen

In weaving there is a warp and a weft thread. The warp thread when you weave appears to disappear but of course it does not, it is not lost, it is the unseen that is draped the seen. It is the lesson for every day that the seen is woven on the unseen.  Stephen Jenkinson
 
This is the mystery of music the fact that contained in the music that we listen to is an unseen or unheard structure that holds the music. I often refer to this as the operating system as many of my pupils can understand this dealing as they do with computers every day both are good metaphors for the deep structure of music.
Behind the notes there are chords and rhythm, that in Jenkinson’s words are the warp but I would say there is something behind that, the intention of the artist and this is the power that gives music and art gravitas.
It is the power that makes Muddy Waters’ Mannish Boy work, the repeat riff of five notes does not change but just builds in power as it repeats. The two chord vamp in Le Freak that just continues to drive forward and make you want to dance is another good example. Another good example of this deep structure bestowing a hypnotic power are the icaros of the South American Shaman.
In mainstream teaching this is never covered, the whole of the music teaching is in the reading of the dots on the page this is like looking at the tapestry which is great for the onlooker but if you want to make the tapestry you need to know how.
Answer the awkward questions like, why is it that the most brilliant of musicians often could not read music and many were illiterate? For these it was a case of going straight to the deep structure, the ‘unseen’, getting to the magic and weaving it from there.
Vic
 
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Gove, you twat!

The results for the educational tests make the British education system fall down the world ranking in maths, science and literacy. Gove's immediate response is 'It's not me governor it is the other bloke, my changes have not happened yet'. What!

Step back and look at this from a historical perspective and ask a simple question, how did we get to being in a prominent position in the world in the first place? We are a small island race who over a few hundred years went from being eyed with envy by the Romans then by the Saxons then the Vikings and finally by the Normans.

The Saxons had created a stable prosperous nation with effective laws that was the envy of many countries in Europe. We could hold our own and trade with the rest of Europe we were very capable and when the Normans took control after a number of years of turbulence we were then dealing with one of the most powerful countries in Europe France and doing very well.

With the advent of Henry VIII we stopped following the rest of the world and did our own thing (which we had done before, pre Roman and pre Norman). We told the Pope to get lost; in fact we pronounced him as the anti-Christ and struck out on our own and over the next few hundred years. We fought our way with much cunning to the top and like it or not started to throw our weight around.

I am interested in how we did this and in my short conclusion we did it by alliances, trade and clever thought and this thought was unconventional, outside the box, reinventing the wheel.

We did not do this by following the others but by changing the rules by creative thinking.

I do not find anything creative in the way that education is heading, so let the teachers get on with teaching stop trying to follow the Chinese; let’s be ourselves.  

 

Vic

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Trading with the exchange of energy

I live near Lewes in East Sussex and Lewes is a transition town, it has its own currency, the Lewes pound which can be traded just like pound sterling. Now you do not have to create your own currency but trading your skill with someone else without changing money is a good idea.
If we look at who we deal with there are many who have very useful skills and there are others who  would like to learn the guitar but they cannot afford it until you look at what they have to offer and then their skills become something that you trade with. Also you are honouring them either with what they have as a physical object or ability, this I find a very powerful bond between people.
So artists can trade their work, trades people their trade, skilled service people their services. As long as you have money to pay the bills you can expand your income indirectly by tapping into this way of thinking. I find this very important as it develops others self-esteem and what do you need to develop someone’s musical and artistic skills? You need to raise their self-esteem.
Have a look at the types of things that you need and see who you can bring into learning the instrument but trading their skills with you
Try it, it works!

Vic

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The Small School

‘Mainstream education has utterly lost sight of the child. It was hard to maintain any joy in teaching, and the feeling that you could change the world through education was lost to the stress and anxiety of Ofsted inspections and ever growing class sizes’ Louise Hopkinson of ‘The Small School’ 

I have been involved in education as a peripatetic music teacher for over thirty years and I enjoy the work that I do going in schools and teaching music. Not only am I teaching music but I am also, for those interested enough, am teaching creative thinking through music that they can apply to other areas of their life.

There has always been a debate around education to whether it is to train someone to a do a task or for it to broaden the mind, and currently the mainstream of education is to funnel them into a skill so that that they can get a job; unfortunately it is organised (and I use this term very loosely) by the government and therefore I believe this idea to be flawed.

Historically governments have been proven to be unable to organise a piss up in a brewery and the idea that governments can make the decisions about the education of your child is equally fallacious and that goes for either side of the political spectrum.

On the right we have a bunch of misfits that did not go to a state school so they have no idea what they are doing and as for the left the ideology gets in the way. By the time the Brown administration left office there was so much legislation in the pipeline that the skilled artist and teacher would have to have spent hundreds of pounds to license themselves as independent teachers, insane!

Fortunately because of the balls up in the economy the incoming shower saw fit to dump the proposed legislation to save money.

The education system in this country is failing most of the children unless they are so intelligent they learn in spite of the regulations and stress put on teachers in this country.

If we look at the idea that education is about broadening the mind then we can equip the young to think and be creative and this is what we need for the future. Unless the political puppet masters have a crystal ball to tell us what will exist as a job in the future the ONLY thing that we can do is enable our children to think and be creative and to communicate, be that with other humans or by computer code; every other skill may fall by the wayside as obsolete.

When a child finds learning fun, which most children do before they go to school otherwise they would not have learnt to speak, they have an insatiable appetite for learning but once they go to school it can so easily be snuffed out because of the ‘experts’ knowing was is good for them.

So let us foster that love of learning and discovery and stop thinking of education based on the style of the factory. This may have suited the ruling classes in the past but because of connectivity amongst the ordinary people that will not do anymore; it is time to take our learning power back.

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Advertisers use magic... Now it is your turn

At the moment the people who are using shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers rather than try to wake people up. Their shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilise people to make people more malleable – Alan Moore



Language is power and the power contained in words is overlooked by us as simple communication but they are the tools of the marketer, the confidence trickster as well as the great orator and the artist.

Words have power because of the associations and memories that we lock into them and the dictators past and present understand that; but we have forgotten.

When teaching song writing I often get people to walk around the room saying words that are uplifting and happy and get others to watch their body language and then to do the same thing with distressing words and the effect is instant and very noticeable. Not only that the people doing the walking and talking will feel very different in the contrasting states.

It is possible to talk yourself into a depression because for you to process these words the brain will create the chemistry to do so, and likewise you make yourself feel euphoric.

Moore’s analogy of magic and the art of the advertiser was to draw ones attention to how far we have gone to allow ourselves to be enchanted by the sellers of objects  and also by the organisers of things such as education, the health ‘service’ or should that say the pharmaceutical companies. My point is that for you to open people up to be creative they need to see what has closed them down in the first place; then in order to take their power back they need to know how and who from. The how is by using language in your work and in your music and from whom? From all of those that have told you that you are not good enough or from those that said you cannot do this or have that because they are the ones who have it and own it.

Now go and listen to the political speeches from the parties left and right and feel out what it does to you. Does it liberate you? I think it is time to write a song and use the great skill and tool of the Bards; satire.

Vic

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Reggie Leach.

One little pastime I have is foraging and various bush craft stuff like lighting fires by friction, for those of you who have not tried this it is bloody hard work.

This is such a great metaphor for the amount of work that you have to put in to do anything meaningful, just having the right material is not enough, essential but not enough, the missing ingredient is your hard work and consistent hard work as well.

In today’s world most people do not have that in them because they have been made lazy and been made to believe that they do not have natural talent. That is rubbish everyone has talent but that is only the basic materials the added ingredient is your sweat.

I have spent many years learning to play and teaching others to play the guitar and I can safely say that you can never learn it all there is too much. This realisation comes after you think that you are the best and you know it all (the teenage years) and then as each year goes by you realise you know less and less; that is wisdom.

To succeed you need to put in the hours and keep going and then keep going some more, till the flames come out of your fingers, smoke is not enough.

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Just do it

Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk, it was a fool’s leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value in our lives whether that be a career, a work of art, a relationship will always start with such a leap and in order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely, purely without fear, without desire, because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions that we shall ever take. - Alan Moore
Ah this might be the answer to many things. This is something crops up again and again in the lives of the successful, that they do it because that is what they do, not because they are searching for fame or wealth but because they are doing it, period.
Like the journey in a myth or saga, the hero sets out doing what is needed in the moment and in many cases they do not heed the warnings of the wise, taking them to places that are unique to their development. The use of guile and cunning, and this is particularly important in the Irish myths, often plays a part in their success. You see this in the Tolkien stories of Middle Earth where riddles need to be solved in order to progress or survive.
The aspect of doing something for the love of it not the lust of the result, being purely in the moment; which in itself is what great artists like Lou Reed, Picasso, Hendrix are doing.
The idea of doing something artistic for the doing of it seems rather odd today because some accountant somewhere needs to measure what you do, that seems to be the nature of accountability that we have entranced ourselves with, but maybe we need a dose of Alan Moore’s anarchy to get the creative juices moving.
Vic

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Grief and music

The work now is the willingness to propose grief as a radicle political alertness to life, that is not a drag, is not sad, that the power of grief deepens the capacity of being alive. It is the realisation that it is not going to last. Steven Jenkinson.
 

This guy is one of the most profound speakers that I have ever heard and he is dealing with the idea of grief. He worked with hundreds of people in the last days of their life dealing with their fears and thoughts and I find hear something very powerful.

Music is a way of exploring emotions that we would rather keep at a distance. However keeping emotions unrealised can lead to problems. This is an area that for some of us can be a good way of developing your work; people exploring their own ideas musically with some prospect of self-healing. The idea of music therapy is not new but I think that it is something worth considering even as a stress buster for professional people who would rather not go to a therapist.

I have always found music a potent force for dealing with life’s twists and turns and I know of a number of people who sight playing a musical instrument helping them not having another breakdown (their words not mine). The idea of exploring grief and maybe writing something of an experience and making something artistic and beautiful out of it is a positive way of transforming shadows into something very powerful. Think Leonard Cohen.

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"There’s a plague of sameness that is killing human joy." Zita Cobb

I have been reading Marx recently, as you do, and I have found his ideas deeply interesting. Some aspects are deeply flawed but there are many ideas that we should be thankful for.

He was most definitely someone who lived what he believed and wrote about; spending most of his adult life in totally poverty and because of his writings he was exiled from Germany and France and ended up here.

He and Engels formulated a way of understanding capitalism and  proposed an answer to it which led us in many ways to the national health system, a shorter working day and all of the things that the unions fought for and won in the 60’s and 70’s and he should be applauded for this.

It is easy for commentators to ridicule Marxism but without his ideas many of the great musical ideas would not have happened. He was an important source of inspiration for artists here and America in the 50’s and 60’s and the Americans had to run the gauntlet of the McCarthy witch hunts for their beliefs.

I am always inspired by people who are passionate in what they believe, those who make their beliefs become their lives; something that sadly  the majority do not do anymore.

Marx was not cut from the same cloth as of those around him, he was truly different. The irony was that his ideas through Stalinism made people have to all become the same but that was not Marx’s intention, but the corrupting influence of Stalin and the Bolsheviks.

For us, both in art and the teaching of it, the worst thing is to be like everyone else, it is the kiss of death, you must be different, you must find something that you believe in and then live it. Maybe this is the lesson of someone like Karl Marx; make your life become what you believe. 

Vic

 

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Zen and the art of cheese making

I learn to make cheese the other day. It is like alchemy, you take these ingredients and they become something else; true magic.

I do these things because I am always exploring the nature of creativity; it gives me insights into the magic of music and the human spirit. This I have always believed has given me a different perspective to the other teachers around me and when I watch some of my past pupils play, whether it is with local bands or famous artists I can see that they have found the magic, the holy grail of their creativity.

I cannot however  teach that stuff, they have to find it for themselves but I can help them to find where to look and that is something that all the crazy things that I have done has helped me to understand.

All of the things that we do as humans expresses what we are as beings and the Zen masters understood this hence you can as a spiritual practice sweep the floor, prepare food, do the washing, play a musical instrument or make cheese. 

So let me suggest that the next time that you teach someone to play the guitar you are setting them on a road to liberation. No pressure then.

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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx

Maybe this could be said of musicians because great music and art often comes from those that are hungry, angry and driven by a passionate belief. Very rarely does great art come from one looking to make lots of money.
I have been preparing for a couple of projects that are coming up, one of these is the course making money from music and the other is a gig that I am doing with two good friends and great musicians which is mostly improvised.
In the first of these I am looking to help those musicians to get the balance between the money making and the creating and making the crossover, the twilight zone where both can happen. For me it is all about the attitude that you need to make money, get the attitude right and it functions as a successful business and that puts food on the table, BUT to make great art and music you need to be driven by desire and passion and not by money therefore you also need projects that are not focused on the money but on the creativity. That is not to say that these projects will not eventually lead to financial reward but that is not the driver and I do have a couple of interesting techniques to make things happen (you will need to come along for those).
The second of these is playing with musicians who can read one another and that is pure magic but of course you need to sell tickets to pay everyone. The focus then is on the experience of the crowd, the fact that they will see something very special, people who will take a song and create something different and because the musicians are on the very edge and pushing that edge the members of the audience if they are learning music get the chance to study this and bring that into their own experience of playing. However the players are doing it for the fun of the playing and the danger of it all going wrong and going right!
Vic

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I often get my pupils to sit and listen to Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters, and as the riff repeats and the crowd get whipped up into a frenzy I ask them one simple question ‘Why does something so simple work like this?’ if they can answer this question they have an insight to what makes music tick.

I think this is one of the truths of art that it is an emotive power and not an intellectual one. Yet we chew the cud over the scales,  chords and structure and all of that stuff, but at the end of the day a piece of music has to comes out and either grab you by the throat, heart or somewhere lower to have you in its power.

Teaching is more like taking people on a journey that enables them to discover this for themselves, when discovered you then realise it has been staring you in the face all of the time and now it seems so obvious but before it eluded you.

So have a listen to the music that really grabs you that is simple and feel why it works then use that information in your playing.

 

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Make Money from Music course

On the 20^th October I am running a course about making money from music and it will look at building a business involving playing and teaching and creating streams of income that support one another.
The whole idea of this is an extension to the teaching that I do and that many of my pupils go on to play and teach, and like all things you can fall into the same traps that we all do trying to run a small business.
Many errors that are made are due to the fundamental attitude of running a business. You might not fail because you are a bad musician but you will fail because you are bad at business or bad at communicating.
I think the reason that I have lasted so long is that I am quite good at building a rapport with pupils and this does give me an advantage over a number of other teachers that I know, none of whom are guitarists I hasten to add.
If you are interested in attending contact me on vichyland@msn.com  the cost is only £50 for the day and this will repay itself many times over.
Vic

Discovery using old technology

I like to spend time watching and talking to musicians who play music unfamiliar to me, I find their music inspiring and on many occasions incredible and gives me new ideas about my music and my teaching practices.
Stepping outside ones comfort zone is very important for the process of learning and yet it is the very thing that we are not doing and as a society it is becoming endemic that we are ring fencing what we know. This is happening in a way that you may not spot because it is happening all around you; I will sum up it in two words, Google and Amazon.
As a kid I spent lots of time in the library and one of my favourite books as a child was an encyclopaedia. I had and still do have a fascination for new ‘facts’ and ideas and I have always made a point of looking at things in circles. I looked at circles that touched the circle of what I knew and then moved into a circle that touched that, so as an example I might look up the Roman empire which would take me to the Greeks and then to the myths and then to Hindu myths and then meditation and then to Ayurveda and so on.
Also you would stumble by ‘accident’ on something you really did not know so you might in a library see a book that was put back in the wrong place etc. this does not happen if you follow the rules of Amazon because they suggest books to you based on what you have browsed or have bought so it reinforces what you already think. Now if you throw dice to determine what you did well that would really open up the possibilities of learning!
Google gives you things that are chronological common in your searches so you get the stuff that others are searching, now for someone who is rather weird like me that is not what one wants. I know that raising your profile through traffic on twitter and Facebook makes it possible for you to compete in the traffic online easier (!) but not for discovery in something old which brings me back to the book found in a second hand shop or in the library. Let us face it that was the old World Wide Web maybe it could help you to discover things and be creative in ways that may in the near future be different from the crowd.
Vic

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Someone is controlling your life and guess what, it isn’t you….. at the moment.

I was preparing for a course that I am running next week which explores creative techniques of playing music and within that I wanted to show how much we are controlled by the outside world.
Richard Bandler says that it is not a case of ‘can I be put into a trance but more a case of what trance am I in?’ We move from one trance state to another and the trick is to be able to choose your trance and it not to be dictated by someone else.
As an experiment I used a technique which I have used before, but speeded up, where my partner managed to make her memory of the colour of the front door of a previous home disappear, in fact the door in her memory vanished so as she thought of the house it had no front door. This took about three minutes to achieve.
Music is such a great way of exploring the unconscious and to be great artists we need to develop that muscle of creativity. One of the first things that we need is to get out of the straight jacket that society has put us in. Start by dreaming what you want and then present it as already happened, this puts it into our unconscious, and then let it fly. Strangely being detached from this emotionally at this point works a bit like buying something online, the emotion is there before the purchase, once you have confirmed the sale forget about it; it is going to be posted anyway.
What the unconscious does is spot opportunity, because you have not 'forgotten the colour of the front door' and therefore you can 'see' opportunity because you are empowered, remember the whole system of society is wrapped up in disempowerment; education, health, wealth creation, getting old, everything.
When you realise the doctors look sicker than you and the teachers who are teaching your children are not the sort of people that you would let plan your life based on their wisdom as many are fresh out of university so why are they the fonts of knowledge for you most precious thing, your child? And why are the politicians who make the decisions such bunch of self-opinionated ego obsessed twits? Because we supposedly are not clever enough to be in control ourselves so we have given it to some asshole from Eton. How did we get there? Well when we build people to be aware of their genius and use all the resources to honour that then we will build great societies of creative people, people who will make decisions about what they are good at not being manipulated into doing science because 'we need more scientists or engineers' who are the 'we' anyway?
Back to the creative musicians, put to one side the stuff that you have programmed that limits you and start with a new belief, not that you need to be saved by a beneficent god or saviour that is all part of the control. Ancient people did not believe this, they believed that they worked in harmony with their gods and in many cases their gods where fallible and had weakness like us in fact we could become gods in their eyes. That to me sounds a great idea and maybe for all of us to become rock gods, goddesses and guitar deities; sounds like a good place to start dreaming.
Vic


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Which came first the chicken or the egg? Answer, the dinosaur.

Often we get into a state of circular thinking where one situation is linked to another and vice versa, one perpetuating another or even precluding another; you are unable to move on without breaking the circle.
In such situations the answer lies outside of that loop as in the case of the chicken and the egg, whose answer if you go back far enough was the dinosaur but it is also a lateral thinking answer as well.
An example of one of these loops is the belief that someone is not musical and therefore they are not able to develop their abilities because they are not musical. How do you get good at playing a musical instrument if you first do not believe that you are able to become good enough? The fact is that EVERYOONE is musical and when I say musical and do not mean being able to play the guitar like someone else because that is mimicry. We can all speak but we do not all impersonate other people like a Rory Bremner or a John Sessions.
The deeper that one studies thought the stranger it becomes especially when you factor in hypnotic language patterns in the media which are influencing you, as well as the strange effect played by food and drink on your mind; the research into funguses and bacteria really make you wonder who is doing the thinking (I will return to this another time).
Breaking circular thinking requires us to hold an idea outside of the loop which is why lateral thinking can be effective as we are made to stand outside of the circle and look in.
There is a Buddhist quote about thoughts being clouds floating across the sky of the mind. If you take that analogy further clouds are formed by things that are not clouds, sea, wind, thermal currents, water vapour, heat etc. SO, our thoughts might be ‘created’ by forces outside of our own minds? When you change your belief patterning you become open to other influences creating new thermals and weather patterns to create new clouds of consciousness. For us the trick is to nudge these in the direction of travel that we desire.
Pattern breaking is what makes a great artist, Picasso, Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paganini where not great because they copied others they were great because they were different, something not encouraged in education where conformity is the pattern.
Be yourself. Break circular patterns that do not help you and remember that music in one form or another was here before the dinosaurs. Oh very deep.
Vic

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You are only a few steps away….

At Bluescampuk this year we had a number of guests visit and jam with the campers
Chas Hodges came down on the Friday as did a good friend and session bass player Chis Dagger.
Chas played through lots of old rock and roll material with the attendees and also played through some of his hits finishing with London Girls. Chris Dagger came down so he could jam with Chas as he has been a fan of Chas and Dave for years.
Chris is currently working with Lianne La Havas and had just returned from a tour of America before playing at Glastonbury. After Bluescampuk Chris went home and we received a text saying ‘got in and Lianne is on the phone to Prince as he is in town.’
One of the things that we like to get across to the campers is that you are so close to what you believe is impossible you just have to change your beliefs and the world will change. By getting close to others and then making connections we then bring their connections closer, this is the principle of the Six degrees of separation that Milgram proposed back in the 60’s where you are only six connections away from anyone.
Maybe this is due to the choices we make or maybe because we have different filters set up we then see new opportunities to achieve what we now believe is possible just by changing your ideas and then asking and making contacts.
Later in the evening Chris sent another text saying ‘Just borrowed and jacket and shoes from a stranger and managed to get into a private club. Just chillin with Prince.’ So maybe borrowing clothing may be good as well.
Vic

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Making money from teaching and playing

Want to earn money from playing and teaching maybe you want to earn more?

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Making money from teaching and playing

Sunday 20^th October Hadlow in Kent. 10 till 4

Over thirty five years of experience in music and running my own teaching practice. Now I am going to show you how to make money from music.  In that time I have taught thousands of people,  I exam here and abroad, I write books and promote my musical interests. I have learnt many things in that time that are not found in books, the tricks of the trade if you will. They are the communication skills, the marketing ideas the business techniques that make the difference between it being a hobby and making money.

This has been motivated in part by the economic climate because a few of my pupils have asked me so they can make money and I thought it was time that I put this information out.

You might be thinking to yourself ‘ I could go and buy a book about this’, and you could but I does not get to the real facts and points that I cover in the seminar 'making money from teaching and playing' because a book can only go so far. In this seminar I cut to the chase and pack the information for you not only that you will become part of a network so you can share ideas and ask questions.

My other fascination apart from music is that of business and marketing and I have read literally hundreds of books and listened to hours and hours of talks on business and marketing. I have interviewed successful businessman and then written a book on the subject.

For me running a successful business as a musician is down to the business and not the music because you could be the best but if no one knows you or you are a bad communicator you will not succeed.

You may know many great bedroom musicians, you may be one yourself but I want you to go out into the outside world and make money!

Now the economic climate is tough also means paradoxically that you have an opportunity to start or develop your business and because you have to think about pricing and value you will have a stronger business for it.

For those of you already earning money from music this seminar will be able to help you lock your musical skills together to make money. This is a skill that I am good at because I had to be and I learnt the hard way so take the opportunity to learn from the thousands of pounds of my investment and get yourself increasing your income.

We will cover these and many other points…

How to set up as a teaching

What you need

How to get into teaching at schools.

Do I need a teaching diploma?

Book keeping and tax information

How to advertise ... For free

How to increase 'share of wallet'

Lesson Ideas, making them inspiring and original.

Writing reports.

Getting gigs to pay in more ways

How performing and teaching can develop one another and increase your cash flow

How to think as a business person not a hobbyist

How to price your product

Set up courses

Sell online

Teach on the Internet .. And much more

 

I have over the years invested £1000's in training and study and all your investment will be is £50 in something that will generate increased income.

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Time for change

Socrates was sitting outside the gates of Athens when a man comes up to him. The man says ‘I am thinking of moving to Athens; what is it like living here?’ Socrates looks up and asks him ‘I would gladly tell you but answer me one question; what is it like where you live now?
The man replied ‘Terrible! The people are back stabbers and thieves, I will be leaving no friends behind me only enemies’ Socrates frowned ‘Well you had best be on your way because you will only find the same thing here in Athens.’
Later a second man approached who was considering moving to Athens. Once again the philosopher asked him of his previous experience of his home town. The man smiled and said ‘Where I come from the people all work together and help each other. Kindness is everywhere and you are always treated with respect. ‘Welcome to Athens’, smiled Socrates, ‘you will find the same thing here.’
How we see the world and the people around us is all to do with our programming and our beliefs. When people come to me to learn music I often reach a point where they meet themselves on the road and that is their biggest obstacle. Their beliefs are the only thing holding them back. What people believe about their abilities and failings are the things that need to be looked at and the more education someone gets the worse they are.
These programmes that run are put in by others, family, teachers, friends and then the outside world think about it they were not even your own thoughts! Maybe it is time to get the programming you deserve; yours.
So start by changing what you believe; if it is negative and you find it ‘truthful’, remember all hypnotic programming seems truthful BECAUSE is it hypnotic; fake it and then give it time and see what happens, trust me things will change.
It is time to take control and let the rock star out.

Vic

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Sorrow and grief are like the compost of change, plant the seed of love in the compost.- Satish Kumar

Be the change you want in the world. - Ghandi

Focus on the change that you want, focus on what you want in the music that you are producing, and remember that all music comes from the fact that there is silence. We have love because there is hate, we see them as different but in fact they are the same thing but just different aspects, different polarities.

Day and night are both parts of the day; this brings us to the ridiculousness of continued economic growth as this is not natural. The politicians need to get to the basics of the nature of things and make sure that we start to flow with the way that is more holistic.

There will be periods of growth and periods of decline and if we are aware of these things then all the better, however the political system is not set up for this, what it is set up for is the few possessing the most with the many possessing the little; this is unsustainable and in time will change.

 Over the last few years there has been a recurring theme of the rich feathering their nests at the expense of the others and this is not going unnoticed with movements like the ‘Occupy Movement’. Again this is not new and there has to be poverty in the world just for the reasons that I have outlined above but there has to be change and balance not stagnation. 

We are entering a new phase of change and it can be the most creative time for the arts, think back to the decades of the 60’s and 70’s and of the way that music developed in those times of unrest.

Best that we work this out in the arts!

Vic