[More-so than my guitar player thing, I do music, and closely after, I'm a band leader. I try to create spaces for other people to do interesting things.]
[You can go to college for four years to study harmony, or rhythm, but not melody.]
[Improvise using the structure of Happy Birthday.]
[Melody is the way things go together. As you flow easily in conversation, flow from one musical idea to another.]
[Melody can be a way to share a cool thing you found, introducing and describing and showing examples.]
[I want to understand how the music I love works.]
[Every night I would take ten pages of notes about the songs we played.]
[Most of the people who are going to check your stuff out are not born yet.]
[I never play any two notes at the same volume.]
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