Spirit

It’s easy to feel a bit bi-polar with school sometimes.  I’ll walk out of class full of belief and know in my gut that something I’ve just learned feels right and fits with what I picture and dream for myself.  On other days I’ll leave another class wondering if/how/when/what is for me in the music “business” and what just doesn’t sit right in my gut. This leaves me feeling mostly dejected and worried that I’m not cut out for the experience of the music business.  This happened just the other day when I was leaving my Entertainment Business class.  After I slipped into a Producer class that a teacher of mine invited me to along with a few others to sit in on if we wanted since the guest speaker is a producer from Sony.  I almost didn’t go. Besides, I could’ve been grilling some burgers or making meatloaf.  But I stayed.  Good thing.  What a great class.

There was one particular thing he said that set everything on course again for me and brought me peace of mind.  He said “stay in your craft (eat, breathe, live) and if you do, God, the universe, whatever you believe in….I believe in God but if you stay in your craft God, or that greater power etc will make everything line up”.  He was referring to anxieties we all have about finding the right opportunities, or any opportunities at all, or making something of your efforts.  This spoke right to my heart because everything that has brought me here to this school has so been about that.  Everything just lined up-even down to my roommates, my apartment and the fake snow they just sprayed on the Scientology Christmas tree (I was missing snow).  I digress.

So before that class I was worried about many things: about what was right and not right for me in the “biz”, what I wanted and didn’t want, if I could/should this or that and seeing results as far as gigs, opportunities or whatever else.  I talked to the guest speaker afterwards, got some contact info, exchanged an email or two and BAM things lined up.  He invited me to go to UCLA to be a vocalist for a class he was teaching for producers. It would be on how to work with, record and get the best performances out of a vocalist in the studio.  I’ll elaborate more on this later but the main thing he said to me the day of the first class, in the email and again in person lastnight after he heard me sing for the first time was “I knew there was a spirit about you, you’ve got something inside”.  Thank God I went to the class, stayed in my craft and so was prepared to receive what He had coming down the pipeline!

 

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