Rocking In A Virtual World

Rocking In A Virtual World

Today you can do everything from a computer. You can locate your long lost relatives or you can find a new love. You can order a pizza and have it delivered and you can do all your Christmas shopping. If it has to do with life, it can be done via your personal computer.

You can find the lyrics and tabs to your favorite songs and you can even download your favorite songs, legally or illegally. You can buy the instruments and other components needed to make your own live music. And what s very cool is that you can do all of this without hindrance.

You truly are able to rock the world virtually. If you have access to the Internet and you are looking to put together a world-class project you can hire people to virtually help your project rock.

You can set up the rhythm guitar and scratch vocal tracks in your home studio and then email them to a lead playing musician across the country in LA. He can overdub his part and send them to a bass player that lives in Nashville. Those tracks can then be sent off to a drummer from Jamaica and on to a piano player in England before they come back to you.

You can then lay on the final vocals and send the files to the producer in New York who can mix and master them and send them to our friends in France for Graphic work and then finally on to China for Manufacturing and packaging before coming back to you as a finished CD.

The point here is that each and every one of the people in this chain could have been gotten from contacts at places like myMusicCircle. You can find everyone that you need to do this project right from the same computer that you use to shop on Ebay or to check the weather. These are people that you may never meet but they are true virtual employees of your country coming together to help make that project a reality.

You are likely to save quite a little money by hiring professionals this way and the downside is that it is going to likely take a little longer to piece it all together unless you stay on top of the production schedule and make sure everyone stays on target and gets their portion of the project done in a timely manner.

Changes and Challenges

As humans we hate change. We get set in our ways and we like to be in a comfort zone. Musicians generally don’t like to get outside of a comfort zone because when things are familiar, it is easy to do them and present a consistent result. However, as anyone knows the only constant in life is change and with every change comes a new challenge. How well we end up at the end of the day is directly proportional to how well we meet and handle the change.

A case in point is, if thirty years ago you had told people that one day Hank Williams Jr. would do a video with his dead father as a duet of an old Hank Williams Sr. song they would have called you crazy and banished you to disco music forever. But it did happen.

If twenty years ago someone had said that rock and roll musicians would be the studio musicians in Nashville. You would have sent them to a funny farm. And yet today some of the most successful studio guys in Nashville are members of some old classic rock bands.

If Ten years ago someone, ok – I think you get the point.

Change is healthy and good for everyone if we let the changes challenge us to do better rather than becoming complacent and allowing those changes to dictate the end result.

Today the technology available to the world allows us to do things that were not even a pipe dream to our parents and that scenario will likely play out for our kids as well. Change is inevitable and change is generally good. We need to learn to adapt to that change and find a way to make that change work to our advantage rather than sitting back and letting it take us where it wants us to go.

The Internet and sites like myMusicCircle allow us to take control or our virtual destiny and steer our own futures by locating the people and the processes needed to make the things we want to happen actually happen. As long as we maintain an open mind and remember that we have to keep the end in sight and use the technology as the vessel and not the result, the next ten years and the things we will be able to do with the aid of technology is going to blow the last fifty away.

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