Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Oct 4, 2009, 6:05 pm
“Everyone must begin to trust their dreams because out of that trust is born the artist, and the artist is the role model for the entrepreneur we now need.” - Ernest Hall (entrepreneur an...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Sep 24, 2009, 11:31 am
It’s my life.  It’s my pain and my struggle, The song that I sing to you it’s my everything. Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first And my thirst is the same as w...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Sep 20, 2009, 9:33 pm
I was in a meeting recently with some members of my company’s executive team. It was a brainstorming session regarding the “big picture” roadmap and how we can effectively drive our ...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Aug 29, 2009, 8:41 am
There is little doubt that Apple is not just a company, it’s a zeitgeist. Apple products inspire brand loyalty that rivals Harley-Davidson’s (Exhibit A), with a reputation centered on qual...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Aug 24, 2009, 10:10 pm
A war has been raging and you can hear its noise grow louder, but you may never have noticed it. It’s called The Loudness War: “the music industry’s tendency to record, produce, and...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Aug 18, 2009, 8:26 pm
The summer grabbed hold of me in August—interference of the highest degree—so instead of writing about creativity and music I decided to live it for a bit. This Interference may have interrupted m...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jul 29, 2009, 6:03 am
From the GuitarPlayer.com post, 99 Ways to Play Better: “Think of a guitar solo as a paragraph. You need a clear beginning, a middle, and an end. Look at musical phrases like sentences, and mak...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jul 26, 2009, 5:13 pm
99 Ways to Play Better – A great post over at the Guitar Player website, which includes quotes from famous guitarists about ways they keep their playing fresh, inspired. Some of my favorite quot...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jul 19, 2009, 10:13 pm
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or ...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jul 15, 2009, 9:09 pm
You are the music While the music lasts. - T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets Related post: The Finale
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jul 10, 2009, 6:19 pm
I just returned from a full week in the Bahamas, without phone, Blackberry, or computer. No e-mail, no games, no updates of any kind whatsoever. I brought a watch but rarely used it, and did not alway...
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Mark M. posted an article on BlogSounds - Jun 30, 2009, 4:51 am
phoneme (from the Greek: φώνημα, phōnēma, “a sound uttered”) Be careful when changing the lyrics to a near-completed song. There are two factors that contribute to successful ...
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