DOPBEATS "The Journey"

DOPBEATS "The Journey" chronicles the ups and downs, the pitfalls, and rewards of my struggle to make it in the music industry......and other cool shit along the way. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18188705-9']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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WHAT?

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It's sad...but still funny.

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Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring: Part 1

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“Research is showing, for example, that our brains understand music not only as emotional diversion, but also as a form of motion and activity. The same areas of the brain that activate when we swing a golf club or sign our name also engage when we hear expressive moments in music. Brain regions associated with empathy are activated, too, even for listeners who are not musicians.”

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/04/18/science/100000000777338/how-musicians-communicate-emotion.html?ref=science (via nostudio)

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DOPNEWS: Music Tech & Biz

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Gets Tiring Sometimes

I find myself, sometimes, getting weary of the daily grind that is the music industry. Not of the music, but of the business side of it.

Since I am independent in the industry, I have to do my own business work.

For example...I have to contact promoters, put together a media package, monitor and mediate my social media daily (like updating my facebook, twitter, tumbler, blogger, and reverbnation status every single chance I get), network and obtain industry contact info, schedule my own shows...whew *inhale*...conduct my own research (musical research as well as business research), establish and manage a separate business bank account, manage my copyrights, and much, much more.

Plus, since I don't have enough money yet to pay someone to do it for me, I had to learn how to engineer, mix, and master my own music...all-the-while holding down a fulltime dayjob.

I'm not complaining. No. On the contrary. Without these experiences and paying my dues, I would not have appreciated what I have accomplished and WILL accomplish. I now know much more than I did before.

So, yes. It gets tiring sometimes, but I gotta keep grindin', knowing that greater things are in store...because I am working for myself and my family. And that is ALL the motivation I need. 

I hope you find YOUR motivation.

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...in the neighborhood.

Do you know your neighbors' names?

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My thought of the day:

Before my son eats or drinks ANYTHING from a restaurant, it has been tasted and tested by either me or his mother. Don't let restaurants serve your kid booze. Also, "I didn't know" or "I just gave my child what they served him" won't work as a defense in court. Check your child's drinks, food, medicine, etc. Check your child's "EVERYTHING". Do your research. Protect them.

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DOPBEATS and The Facebook Incident: Chapter 1

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Thought I would share this with everyone. This was written and scored in 2008, by DOPBEATS, and performed by the 399th Army Band from Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

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This is not hubris, but confidence to say that my music WILL be played and sung by the hottest and baddest artists in the world...of which, I will become.

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No pay? The government needs to get their SHIT together. Their are Soldiers out here in the desert. What about their familes back home? Bills not paid, food pantries and savings accounts depleted fast. And, what about R&R flights back home? Are they cancelled as well? What about the Troops who were scheduled to return home after being deployed for more than a year away from home? Are they gonna be stuck in Afghanistan?...with no pay?

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