There is a creative student with a soprano voice who sits at the front and never misses a class. She plays three instruments, well as far as I can tell. All of these students are involved with major courses different than this class on song lyrics. Her assignments are very well researched and written. Her main studies lead to becoming a Librarian Technician. When she told that to me, I thought she was shooting low. Shouldn’t she go to law school and show off her debating skills and capacity to understand and negotiate various points of view? Cleave Anderson changed my mind about click tracks when I was young and at first offended by them. He said it was like he had a friend in his ear with perfect time. I thought differently after that. Even got off on the voodoo or the hallucinatory space of being one with the machine. I still work with many people who never musically developed that part of themselves and they do not need to, they can play their songs perfectly. I am the one who has to rethink the proceeding and keep them connected to their song. In those instances it becomes a timing job for me later, to match whatever might push or pull. I enjoy when I work with drummer Mark Hundevad, because he too doesn’t complain about a singer songwriter if they speed up or slow down a little. He doesn’t mind the musical problem he has now of matching them. It is another kind of musical game or test. At this point in the course I mark the journals, the ones they started the first week of classes. Daily entries and lyrical experimentation. In her’s I read about how fantastic she has found studying to become a Library Technician and how much meaning it added to her life. Once again caught believing that I knew anything about what someone else needs or doesn’t need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"