Is it for Money or Music?

Can you free your music from the influence of profit? Spartacus says yes!
      
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   People actually excuse musical problems with, "They made a lot of money". Is that what you want? Do you want a lot of money, or do you want the satisfaction that comes from associating intimately with musical excellence?
 
   Spartacus of Guitar Blog chooses musical excellence which is always available and is the true value. The satisfaction of knowing that you're helping other people to be more enthusiastic about music and raising the bar for what is acceptable for creativity in our society cannot be found on a financial statement. We all know that music can be a peace inducing social barrier melting activity, and yet the music "industry" is all about selling out and enslaving yourself to the mentality and the physicality of a false concept.

    One aspect of that false concept is the mania that one feels when people clap. The truth is that people will clap for anything. Just watch one of the morning shows with people standing outside clapping. In fact people will clap just from seeing a sign saying to clap. LOL In fact most audiences are looking for an excuse to yell, scream, and clap. In smaller venues with alcohol served, it becomes quickly apparent that the performance is an excuse for them to yell, and their true music appreciation level is very low. They want to yell because of the beer and the next morning they don't even remember what songs they were yelling for. Don't be enamored by people clapping, or by compliments. I recommend instead to stick to what you know is excellent and have that confirmed either scientifically or by a bona fide Maestro.

    It is amazing that there are shows like MTV cribs where people are highlighting the money they made, while never mentioning anything about their musical education. In CA it's embarrassing for a bachelor to have more than one car. Actually I have an electric bicycle so there is a "smug alert" here. Lol The idea of getting on TV and showing how many extra gas guzzling cars that you have as part of your musical presentation image, is exactly what seems to be at the crux of what is wrong with the music business. It is all based on a profit driven hierarchial philosophy where everyone is on the take to some degree or another. Even if we are in our home studio that is paid for on our day off, if we are thinking about adjusting criteria like the length of the song being shortened for DJ purposes, then we are enslaving ourselves.

   Of course even music has limitations. That is no reason to keep playing the same things over and over again in the same way that everyone else has been playing them on the guitar for the last 50 years because the fatcats think it is commercial. Obviously I am repeating phrases and musical expressions that have been overused too, however I make up for it in the higher message as the subtle sub-context of the musical piece comes into full comprehension at the right moments. So just like when we talk, people repeat a lot of words like "the", "it", and "like". lol It takes someone who has the capacity to comprehend musical linguistics so that they indeed can turn a regular musical piece that uses standard phrases into something that still becomes unique due to the multidimensional characteristics of creatively manipulating common tones and adding guitar pick textures to the demi-tones.

   Spartacus of Guitar blog philosophy is that money can be involved, but it needs to be the right amount of money for a purpose that is righteous. Selling out while thinking that after you get your big break, then everything will straighten itself out is a very dangerous mentality. Not that you will make millions and lose it as in the old cliché, but that you will miss what you could be capable of musically doing right now as you put it on hold to make money. People clap and then they boo.... money comes and money goes.... but your musical breakthroughs, and the ever increasing intensity of your musical meditation never leaves you....

    You can't force it, but the ironic thing is that when you do go all out just for the music, shunning the glittering opportunities for quick money, then you seem to end up with way more money than what would have been yours if you had you not sold out.

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