Burn Out & Overworked

How A Freelance Music Career Can Support Your Mental Wellness

Wow. This hit close to home. Especially looking at my short stint as a working musician in early 2000s.  The relentless need to work harder to prove something to all of the "naysayers" in my family.  There is so much of this article in me.

It also sound like some "burn outs" I have seen/ witnessed/ heard about in the Computer Incident Response field.  Especially those that work in a Security Operations Center or SOC.  As this role changes with work from home, some of these habits could be beneficial to those folks as well.

"Belafonte" Harry Belafonte

 The sheet was a little damaged, but the record looked OK to play. 

Matilda was a pick up compared to the other tunes. The whistling was out of sight.  This is much closer to my own association with Mr. Belafonte's music. 

The last song on this side is quite sad.

Side 2 

"Noah" starts with a preacher call and response rally. Using th e bible story of noah to bring context to the next piece.  It raised an eyebrow in my household to hear that coming from my vinyl all of a sudden. 

"Scarlett Ribbons" goes back to the crooner model. 

"Unchained Melody" is a tender and very sparse arrangement, but tons of vibrato on his voice. Too much for my taste. "Jump Down..." is a fun little tune. silly. the tempo speed up is nice. This is also the first song that had a skip on the record. Not bad.

"Sylvie" is more crooner. Another tune that shows how low to high, or high to low he can go in his range. Very smooth. The solo guitar with the building vocal harmony is nice. 

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Watch out world

Gamakas

Nice intro to gamakas. Slow and gentle for us westerners. 

https://youtu.be/AIPraIlSmIk

Swimming along nicely

So excited about the new track. John is working on some killer stuff. This bluesy jam is going to be the best thing to kick start your errands. It is a cold January morning and you leave the apartment to walk out to the car to warm it up. The rest of the family is upstairs still getting ready. You clean the car from the ice and snow and enjoy the silence in the morning air. It's windy off the lake, but you know you have a few moments of peace with a few tunes before things heat up. Drop this as the first track in your shuffle as the car warms up. By the time John's solo kicks in, the heater has kicked on, and your starting to feel the juicies flowing again.

Song :: Dark

I sat on this song a long time.
Made real progress for a month, and then sat on it for awhile.

Today, I am forcing myself to be done with this and move on.
I think I was getting to micro-focused on parts of this song.

There is a lot of stuff in this song, that I like, and a few thing that I wish I could do again. oh well, right?

I could not get the sounds dialed in fully for what I wanted at the end of the song. The last little melody that starts on a string patch, and moves to a combination of sounds.