The Passageway To Your Music

So I’m rushing around the kitchen, doing this and that and a little bit of the other.  Sarah, my 12 year old is with me.  She’s chatting about music, her favorite topic and I’m half-listening (yes, it’s true).

A little background, for those of you who don’t know my family: Sarah is an exceptional singer.  She sings with the Connecticut Children’s Chorus and has sung with the Connecticut Opera Company.  It’s her passion, and she’s willing to put the joy and the time in.  Most of the videos I’ve produced over the past couple of months have been recorded during the two and half hours I’m waiting for her during her Tuesday rehearsals.

She’s learning her art, which makes me very happy - even when she’s giving me details I’m not particularly interested in, at time when my brain is on other things.

But one thing she said to me stood out tonight.  Sarah was practicing her vocal exercises, something that was making me crazy at the moment she was doing it.  Seemed to be a whole bunch of random noises specifically designed to antagonized her father.  Then I was about to ask (demand) she stop she told me how she hadn’t completely warmed up, and she had to open her whole body to let the sound out.

“Run that by me again, Sarah.”

“You have to make a passageway through your body to let the air come out and go…”

The she stood erect, breathed in deeply and produced this note.  It was absolute clarity.  It seemed like it came from her toes.  This little girl, in a random moment on a Thursday evening generated a sound I’ve never created in my life.

Holy Moley!!!!

Out of the mouths of babes.  Sarah nailed what we’re all trying to do.  When you’re trying to make something beautiful, profound, sublime, choose your adjective…you have to open up your being - your whole being.

You have to set aside the the things that block your music from coming out.  They may not seem related, but when you intend to give it all you’ve got in one area of your life, it helps if all your channels are open.  It may even be necessary.

Yeah, Sarah can produce some neat sounding stuff in any given moment.  But if she’s going to give it her best..the kind of thing that gets her on stage with world class musicians, the channels have to be open.

How about you?  What are you working on?  What passages need to be cleared?

What are you holding onto that it’s time to let go of?

NO MORE HOLDING BACK!  Your music - your full throated, soul driven beautiful music is waiting to come out…in whatever medium that works for you.

And greatness is on the other side of those closed passageways…guranteed!

Let it go!  Let ALL of it go!

Love,
Larry

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