Don’t know how to describe your music?
Email everyone you know, saying you’re trying to come up with a single phrase to describe your music, and ask their help.
Find a few teenagers, and treat them to pizza if they’ll sit and listen to a few songs, then describe it for you while waiting for the pizza to arrive.
Hire a music writer to help you. This is what they do.
When you’re playing on stage, ask people in the audience.
Read a music review site that describes music you’ve never heard. Notice which phrases make you curious to hear more.
When you’ve got one you like, try it out on people. See if their face lights up. See if they get curious.
When you’ve got a great description, you’ll know it. Then you can use it for years and years.
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I like this idea! Thank you for posting it!
Hi Derek and everybody,
I like the idea of 14 year olds. Not because they like pizza, but because they can be creative in different ways.
For artists and regular folks alike, if you only hang out with your own age group, gender and religion, then you are limiting your ability to think and create.
Narrow fanatics neither collect nor create great art.
Wow, as I live and learn... How do I describe my web blog for essays?
Happily, I just got an idea from web essayist Paul Graham who in his latest essay, "Earnest," notes that nerds don't attempt to look sophisticated or worldly because they are so earnest.
I thought "wow," and added to my blog site tagline: Missing those earnest student talks about concepts...
Nobody believes me if I say I'm a nerd, but —wow— I still have my earnestness, my Zen beginner's mind. One more thing for me to appreciate in real people.