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I'm not a natural race car driver. I thought I was when I was 7 years old. It took all of these years and then some more years of trying to find that out. I was a wreck waiting to happen on a road course, because I was just an obstacle on the track for the guys who were running really fast. I had to pay for all of that myself, Daddy wasn't interested in my aspirations when I was knee-high. Turns out, by mistake or on purpose he was right.
I'm not a natural music player. I can't even sing on key. I want to play too fast, faster and faster during the song. I use the term "player" carefully, I'm not a musician. Musicians can keep time, but they cannot TELL time, like what time is band practice. They're all over the map.
But I found out.....One day at work, the Safety Manager handed me a script for a computer-based compliance module. He said," Read this." I said, WHAT? He said you're gonna narrate this one, read it, here's the microphone. So I did. This is boring stuff, worse than a visit to the dentist office.
So I did, and the feedback was amazing. The Safety Manager said he loved my Southern drawl. I actually had folks come to say they really enjoyed my narrative, I had no idea. That was my calling.
When Ron Ward got into the podcast thing, the first one he posted here, I listened to it. That's one of the greatest stories ever. About buying his kid the tools and then the kid used them, that's classic. I listened to that and then I called Ron. I needed to call Ron anyhow, to get our plans together for Arkansas. I said, Ron, that's the greatest story ever. But in the first two sentences, I could tell you were reading that off of a piece of paper. I could hear that, use the stuff on the piece of paper and then just tell the story, like you would sitting around drinking beer. It's all about inflection.
Ron and I were sitting beside the swimming pool in Arkansas drinking beer and banging on guitars and he thanked me for that advice. He said the next episode, he only had bullet points on paper and talked about those during his spiel. And the folks around him said that was the best thing ever.
SO - We're all on earth for some reason, usually unknown to us. I'm curious. All of the BangShift Brothers here, what are YOU a natural at? Or have you even found that out yet?
I'm not a natural music player. I can't even sing on key. I want to play too fast, faster and faster during the song. I use the term "player" carefully, I'm not a musician. Musicians can keep time, but they cannot TELL time, like what time is band practice. They're all over the map.
But I found out.....One day at work, the Safety Manager handed me a script for a computer-based compliance module. He said," Read this." I said, WHAT? He said you're gonna narrate this one, read it, here's the microphone. So I did. This is boring stuff, worse than a visit to the dentist office.
So I did, and the feedback was amazing. The Safety Manager said he loved my Southern drawl. I actually had folks come to say they really enjoyed my narrative, I had no idea. That was my calling.
When Ron Ward got into the podcast thing, the first one he posted here, I listened to it. That's one of the greatest stories ever. About buying his kid the tools and then the kid used them, that's classic. I listened to that and then I called Ron. I needed to call Ron anyhow, to get our plans together for Arkansas. I said, Ron, that's the greatest story ever. But in the first two sentences, I could tell you were reading that off of a piece of paper. I could hear that, use the stuff on the piece of paper and then just tell the story, like you would sitting around drinking beer. It's all about inflection.
Ron and I were sitting beside the swimming pool in Arkansas drinking beer and banging on guitars and he thanked me for that advice. He said the next episode, he only had bullet points on paper and talked about those during his spiel. And the folks around him said that was the best thing ever.
SO - We're all on earth for some reason, usually unknown to us. I'm curious. All of the BangShift Brothers here, what are YOU a natural at? Or have you even found that out yet?
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