{"id":11500,"date":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=11500"},"modified":"2024-10-14T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:40:46","slug":"leap-frog-growth-grow-leaps-bounds-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/leap-frog-growth-grow-leaps-bounds-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Leapfrog Growth: How to Grow in Leaps and Bounds in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s day<\/span>, our president and founder told me that “2016 is a year of Leapfrog Growth<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> for all HearandPlay.com students.<\/p>\n

I was ecstatic to hear this and received it with much joy in my heart. And now I pass it on to you along with some words of encouragement.<\/p>\n

Truth is, there’s no better time to share this theme with you than now, as it’s still the first month of the year — which gives you time to structure your year to accommodate this growth.<\/p>\n

In this post, we’ll be looking at growth and most importantly, what we need to do in 2016 to grow.<\/p>\n

Note: I’ll use words like diet, exercise, food class, and lots more in this post to drive my points home. If you don’t have a fair knowledge of biology, indulge me.<\/p>\n

What Growth Means <\/b><\/h2>\n

There are so many ways to define growth. However, I’ll define growth as the irreversible increase<\/em> in size, height, weight, and depth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key word in this definition is “increase.”<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Defining growth as “increase”<\/strong> is obviously enough to characterize it as positive.<\/p>\n

This definition goes further by stressing the areas or dimensions that this increase can affect. The first is in SIZE<\/strong>, the second is in HEIGHT<\/strong>, the third is in WEIGHT<\/strong> and the fourth is in DEPTH<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growth in music doesn’t just happen. The same way your natural body depends on your ability to feed, and most importantly, on the right things to grow, your musicianship can only grow when you expose your mind to the right information, or, in our president’s language, “when you learn the right things, the right way, in the right order, at the right time.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Growth (aka – “increase”) may not seem apparent overnight. However, if you keep up with the appropriate nourishment (exposure of your mind to the right things), days will pass into weeks, weeks will pass into months, and sometimes months may even pass into years before it will become apparent.<\/p>\n

Surely, you’ve seen fitness advertisements featuring “before” and “after” photos on television. <\/span><\/p>\n

We appreciate the “after” and sometimes laugh at the “before,” never asking ourselves what really transpired in between both ends. This is because whatever happened to create that transformation is the “story”. We often see the glory<\/em> but don’t truly understand the story<\/em>.
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In his New Year post<\/a>, our founder also talked about what has happened in between the first and fifteenth year of HearandPlay’s existence. I also wrote a direct letter to musicians here titled “Here and There<\/a>, where I talked about what it takes to move from where you are to where you want to be. <\/span><\/p>\n

If possible, read these posts before you continue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Should Grow and Who Shouldn’t<\/h2>\n

\u201cI want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.\u201d
\n\u2015 Tupac Shakur<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In biology, one of the characteristics of living things is growth.<\/p>\n

One may not necessarily increase in height annually, but one can increase in weight or size annually. 12.5% of why you are called a living being is because you grow.<\/p>\n

Phones, tablets, PCs, etc., are non-living things, which shouldn’t grow by all standards.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding, you get notifications of software updates once in a while and when you download and install the new version, you notice visible changes. For lack of a better word, isn’t that growth?<\/em><\/p>\n

Windows users can see a clear difference between windows 7 and 8 and appreciate it because of remarkable differences that point to one thing, growth. How will you feel if windows 7 and 8 are the same, no changes (I realize for folks that are not a fan of Windows, this point is debatable.)<\/p>\n

That’s exactly how your audience feels after hearing you do the same thing for a while without the introduction of new things. It is the introduction of these new things that highlight growth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, growth is for everyone, especially me.<\/p>\n

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Watch Your Diet and Exercise Properly<\/h2>\n

Another year just begun, our year of leapfrog growth. But beyond saying it, it’s important that you make an effort towards it, and take a step (if not two) in the right direction. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the ways of ensuring that you increase in 2016 is to watch your diet and exercise properly. Or else you may grow but maybe get out of shape.<\/p>\n

In an internet world with so much information, it’s not easy to find a balanced music diet. That’s the reason why we scrutinize every bit of information you are served on this site, breaking them into digestible proportions with everyday application.<\/p>\n

At the moment, we are on a free 16 week chord revival program<\/a> that will nourish you harmonically by putting several chord classes within your grasp.<\/p>\n

Beyond the diet, we’re following it back to back with 126 exercises weekly. 126 exercises \u00d7 16 weeks = 2016 exercises. The impact of 2016 exercises in the year 2016 is not something you should underestimate. <\/span><\/p>\n

You also have the option of nourishing other aspects of your musicianship during or after this chord revival program so that while you’re growing in chords, other areas are not suffering.<\/p>\n

If you’re yet to join our free 16 week chord revival program, it’s not too late. Click here to check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve prepared a diet for everyone who is desirous of serious growth. This diet is balanced because it contains six classes of intellectual<\/em> food that will nourish you.<\/p>\n

[thrive_2step id=’11335′]Food Class #1 – Notes<\/span>[\/thrive_2step]<\/h3>\n