Introducing the “A Song A Week Project”

Introducing the “A Song A Week Project”

Starting this week, I will produce/sing/record/share a song to be listened to and viewed on my YouTube channel once a week. Because perfection is is the enemy of good (as a wise friend once told me), I am making it a rule that it is more important to be in the flow of making and sharing music than to obsess over its perfection. The intention of this project is to create great music and give you great musical examples of my voice.

“A Song A Week Project” Rules and Regulations:

- That it must be fun

- That it must be imperfect

- That it must be beautiful

- That it must be shared on my YouTube channel (hlhightower)

Here’s where the fun starts, and here’s where you come in:

I’m looking for musical partners. I’ve already started to team up with the genius musicians who are infiltrating and inhabiting local businesses in Charlottesville, Virginia. My first month’s goals involve getting up musical clips that reflect the wedding ceremony repertoire I love (classical or classically infused music).

If you have a song that would be a great match for me, and falls outside of the classical category, that’s ok. Email me the song, the arrangement you want to follow, what part you envision me singing, how you want to participate, and I’ll let you know if it is something that serves my highest purpose in getting my voice out to the world and my peeps!

What you get when you participate as a musical colleague or production guru:

For the fruits of your efforts and expertise, you will get:

- Mention of you and your company and your latest promotion on my blog

- Facebook and Twitter love to my social network (I will tag you or your company in my post)

- The blog post will be sent out to my exclusive list of followers who opt-in to receive updates from me

 

If you’d like to participate, email me at heather (at) heatherhightower (dot) com

In fact, in an excellent example of “Ask And It Is Given,” within a day of opening up to the idea of regular, imperfect music making and sharing, I not only met a new musical colleague who offered to lay down the guitar tracks, he totally exceeded my expectations an produced a video, recording two guitar parts, two percussion parts, a harmony line and THEN producing the video. My first ever YouTube “music video” – you know, with multiple camera angles and everything – is going live next week.

Why this project?

Two weeks ago I attended a retreat with a conference room full of passionate, purposeful entrepreneurs. We spent two days getting clear on where we want to go this year, what we need to do to get there, and most importantly for me, making choices on how we want to get there. We come together again in May to update each other and take our businesses to the next level…again.

In those two days I grew extremely clear  on a few things.

For one, this year it was time for me to step into my zone of genius around music-making and make music as much as possible on a daily and weekly basis, keeping music as the cornerstone of goal-setting and not letting it fall by the wayside behind the “shoulds” and “coulds” and “it would be a really clever idea to’s.” (You know, those “really great” ideas that leave you spinning your wheels, wondering where all your hard work took you to at the end of months worth of hard work.)

Secondly, I grew clear that it’s time to employ marketing practices that are fun for me to undertake. I decided I wanted to engage my followers in ways that actually make me giggle with pleasure, that highlight my creative juices, and spread the fun and value at the same time.

Thirdly, in order to let you get to know me and my voice, I realized I absolutely *had* to get more musical clips on line!

Naturally, the optimal outcome of these insights is that I must meld the music with the marketing more frequently.

And…it’s going to be fun!

My 20s were filled with such amazing life experiences. Traveling to Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, Venezuela, living with the Mayans in the remote highlands of Guatemala, teaching music, teaching in foreign languages, falling in love, falling in love again, learning how to date, falling in love again, spending quality time with my family, sharing intimate times with friends, learning new businesses and skills, physical miracles within my own body, sharing miracles with other incredible souls from all over the world…this list of amazing experiences and accomplishments goes on and on.

My mastermind colleagues emphatically pressed the point that I had to get musical clips on line.

They were right.

My inner Recovering Perfectionist crept up. She started feeding me impossible visions of impossible hours of impossible recording studio times with musician colleagues who would feel burdened by the task of supporting me. Gah! Burden! I could already see the invoices piling up with money I hadn’t prepared to spend. Already this vision was a black hole.

Just as I felt the Perfectionist Tide threaten to sweep me out, far away from Creative Bay and into the the Depths of Doom and Despair, I decided that for a few days at least I could float on my lifesaver of breath and see what would happen…what ideas would decide to come rolling in. Hopefully these ideas would be sexy, like the lifeguard who was on his way to rescue me from my own potential intellectual drowning.

Then, last week, amidst my floating (and check-list destroying worker mania goodness), a brilliant idea hit me.

So, I have to also to share with you my excitement of having this idea - this fun idea - for me. Not for another business, not for a stranger I just met, not for a friend, but for me. That in and of itself was a sign of the creative opening! Success had already been attained. As I breathed even deeper, the tide was washing me into Creative Bay’s shoreline, sun-kissed salty hair and everything.

I look forward to sharing my music and musical collaborations with you!

I look forward to your email at heather (at) heatherhightower (dot) com 

 

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