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I went to a local songwriter’s circle tonight as one of my favorite worship songwriters was one of the three songwriters. His name is Jared Anderson. His songs are sung at hundreds, maybe thousands of churches globally every weekend by thousands of people in congregations at those churches. Just at his home church, I think average weekend attendance is about 10,000. He’s signed with Integrity Music which is one of the bigger publishing companies specializing in worship music.

Including me, there were 12 people there to hear the singers; at least 5 of whom were relatives of the other 2.

Lesson 1: If you find yourself eventually being kind of a big deal, pull some others up with you when given the opportunity

Lesson 2: Always do the gig no matter how few people show up

Lesson 3: Maybe bring along lyrics of some of your older stuff. Jared forgot the lyrics to one of his songs and had to stop. Called it a day on that one and just marched ahead with a different song. But the one that stopped was a better song.

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That's a great story Rockstar.

I had a somewhat related (though not exact) experience when I showed up to take a master class with Michael Jackson's former guitarist who was for a long time Jeff Beck's music director, and who also wrote, played and toured with Beck, who I much admire. She has played some of the most iconic guitar riffs in pop music history.

I think she charged like 40-60 dollars for the 3 hour class, and with it she gave away some free transcription software and a flash drive with tons of educational material on it.

I was one of FOUR people who signed up. I was astonished.

One main difference between our experiences is I am not sure what I learned from that as a key take away.

It's not worth $40 or $60 to spend 3 hours with one of the best guitarists on the planet to learn a few things and get some free software that costs almost that much?

Well, at least we got to spend some quality time!!

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Three good lessons, Rock....

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What an interesting story, and some food for thought on those lessons. Thanks for sharing.


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Is this/that a mistype ? when

You wrote : " It's not worth $40 or $60 "

and if not that's how she makes a living to pay for those guitar strings and picks and ...

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