Making Money from Teaching Music

What would you do if you knew couldn’t fail, would you write about; if you knew that a song could create a reality?

The first part of this question is a premise from NLP, designed to focus the mind about change.

For change to happen we have to either believe that it can, or better still suspend our disbelief, because it is our belief systems that tend to hold us back, this is often enough. Taking this idea further if you are a musician what would you write about if your song could create a reality? Just for a moment allow the possibility of this being plausible, so that we can create!

My guess would be that the writing about lost love or how difficult life is would not only create a cliché, but it also might set the mind on the course to look for that situation to fulfil.  For a change to happen we must write something far more positive, for example about having money, health or happiness.

Interestingly successful artists do tend to write positive songs! The most obvious who spring to mind are The Beatles, who wrote about love and quoted the word more times than any other band in existence, and they seemed to do quite well in reflection! But along with those, are artists like Robbie Williams, Bob Marley, Abba, Queen, Neil Young and Michael Jackson.

Whether or not the Beatles were in the love zeitgeist of the time, or whether they actually helped to make that ‘Love Movement’ happen in the 60’s is obviously debatable, and of course they were not the only ones! But there is an interesting interaction between art and reality; as in the quote’ life mimicking art’, so it must happen enough times for that quotation to exist, that there is a certain amount of conjuring the future through art.

The unexpected outcome of this is that we end up with interesting pieces of music. I have been experimenting with this concept, with people at Bluescamp, and private pupils for couple of years. There is something in that creative process that is worth pursuing, and in some cases produces some weird results. It doesn’t have to be a song, it could be a poem; just create something that focuses the mind in a different direction than just rambling through some crude clichés!