Hold That Note

Here is the visualizer video for today's first song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHFDZnZBQws Check out my new album if you've yet to do so.  It is now available at http://lightninglucas.com It is called 'seek a path.'  Feel free to peruse some of the old albums while you're there, including the two albums I mentioned recently on the show (It Ain't Me Babe --rough cut-- and A Taste Of...

Check out this song about autumn by Keith Hershberger, one of my all-time favorite artists:  (It's called The Ace In My Sleeve Is Gone, but they're all worth listening to)!!! http://www.keithhershberger.com/songs My new album is now available at http://lightninglucas.com It is called 'seek a path.'  Feel free to peruse some of the old albums while you're there, including the two albums I...

Check out the music of the band I was once in, Ears to the Ground Family, here: https://earsto.bandcamp.com/ A lot of people seem to have missed last week's episode, so be sure to catch up if that's your thing.  You can make Routine Saves Me into your alarm clock by following the ridiculously complex instructions at https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/track/routine-saves-me-alarm-clock-song T...

Make Routine Saves Me into your alarm clock by following the ridiculously complex instructions at https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/track/routine-saves-me-alarm-clock-song The new album is now available at http://lightninglucas.com It is called 'seek a path.'  Feel free to peruse some of the old albums while you're there, including the two albums I mentioned recently on the show (It Ain't M...

The desert blooms, just so you know.  Today's featured song is a commission I recently finished from two of my patrons who just celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary.  If you're interested in commissioning a song of your own, email me at Lucas@lightninglucas.com The new album is now available at http://lightninglucas.com It is called 'seek a path.'  Feel free to peruse some of t...

The new album is now available at http://lightninglucas.com It is called 'seek a path.'  Feel free to peruse some of the old albums while you're there! Today's episode again features the wisdom of King Solomon in the first song... and then there is a Dylanesque song about turning 31.  I love to hear from you!  To be the second person to leave me a message (which may well appear on t...

King Tut wore the flip-flops of a beggar boy (but his were gold). Here is the link to my 2015 album Skyfinding https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/album/skyfinding Here is a YouTube video of a doumbek player in Rome (I actually busked on the streets of Rome while on my cross-cultural, so there's that, haha). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZFCDVhS-4 Here is the Wikipedia article about these drum...

Ever feel like something is taking forever...? To be the second person to leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote and click '+Message' To see if you'd like to become a Patron, check out https://www.patreon.com/lightninglucas no commitment involved in clicking that link. To discuss commissioning a song, email me at Lucas@lightninglucas.com Have a...

Here are 2 more love songs =)  In August 2010 Nathan and Kaitlin got married!  Several of us got together and wrote them a song.  10 years later they commissioned me to finally do a recording of the song, so we put our heads together and made it happen, although unfortunately not in time for the actual anniversary.   --Lucas-- The Nathan and Kaitlin Wedding Song is by: The...

Fight chaos using the instructions in these two songs! To be the second person to leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote and click '+Message' To see if you'd like to become a Patron, check out https://www.patreon.com/lightninglucas no commitment involved in clicking that link. To discuss commissioning a song, email me at Lucas@lightninglucas.com...

Today is my 8th 'Lightniversary' ...  It has been 8 years since my heart started beating again, and tomorrow will be 8 years since I woke up after being directly struck by a freak bolt of lightning.  Hear the whole story in this episode!  I was wrong in the episode, I said I wrote this song for the 5th Lightniversary, it was actually the 4th.  Check out one of my early efforts...

An episode featuring a question!  Also featuring the drumming of my talented brother-in-law Yugo Prasetyo.  Check out his music here: https://soundcloud.com/yugodservant Also, check out the art of our first question-asker BrownPaperDad: brownpaperdad.com To be the second person to leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote and click '+Mess...

Two humorous songs to cap off Season 1 of Hold That Note.  Thanks to Jon Nafziger!  His album is called Shenandoah Moon, and there is another album in the works, so I'll let you know when it is available.  Thanks to Perry Blosser!  He is a member of The Willow Run Band, so check them out.  To leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit https://anchor.fm/ho...

Break-ups and the 4th of July collide. Aliese Gingerich co-wrote Break Up Slow with me, and Nichole Barrows of Ears to the Ground Family sang it with me.  Break Up Slow is from the 2017 album It Ain't Me Babe --rough cut-- https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-me-babe-rough-cut To leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote and click...

An episode about leveling up and how to do it properly. Some things I touched on in this episode that are worth Googling or looking up on Wikipedia: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, This Is Marketing, The Bootstrapper's Workshop, The Akimbo Podcast, Trent Wagler, The Steel Wheels, and Brendon Burchard.  To leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit http://holdthatnote.net or h...

To leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit http://holdthatnote.net or https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote and click 'Message' To see if you'd like to become a Patron, check out https://www.patreon.com/lightninglucas To discuss commissioning a song, email me at Lucas@lightninglucas.com Have a wonderful listening week, --Lucas--

Some things we talked about today which are worth Googling or looking up on Wikipedia: Irving Berlin, Irving Berlin's trick piano, The Circle of Fifths (not explicitly mentioned, but quite relevant), The Capo, Capo-ing a cello, Harmonicas, Playing by ear, and Quantity vs. Quality. To leave me a message (which may well appear on the show) visit http://holdthatnote.net or https://anchor.fm/holdthatn...

Here are the promised links: The Serenity Prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer The Lord's Prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Prayer Sir John Hargrave's 'Mind Hacking': https://www.mindhacki.ng/ My religious album 'Wash Me/ Walk On Water': https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/album/wash-me-walk-on-water The Network Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect To le...

Have a safe trip Caleb and Tyler and everyone else. Here are the links promised in the episode: Caleb's bike ride: https://sustainableclimatesolutions.org/climate-ride/ Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions: https://sustainableclimatesolutions.org/ The original 25 song: https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/track/25 Have a wonderful listening week, --Lucas-- To leave me a message (which may well...

Thank you so much for supporting this podcast through its tenth episode! To leave a voice message with a question or comment that may be featured on the show visit http://holdthatnote.net and click the appropriate button.  If that doesn't work, try https://anchor.fm/holdthatnote/ To see if you would like to become a Patron of the show and my other creative work, visit https://www.patreon.com/...

As I recorded this I realized that there is way more than one episode's worth of stories and information on Bipolar Mania.  Here is a drop in the bucket though, and I think you'll find it an enjoyable drop. Things mentioned in the episode include Harold and the Purple Crayon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon A Taste of Lightning Lucas (the album): https://lightninglu...

Hooray, you can now find all the show notes and past episodes at HoldThatNote. Net ... and you can also go there to leave me a voice message with a question or comment.  If you're lucky, your message might make it into a future episode! Here is a link to Seth Godin's blog about Mentors versus Heroes: https://seths.blog/2010/10/heroes-and-mentors/ Here is a link to the visualizer video for Gro...

It's finally time for a couple of love songs. If you'd like to discuss commissioning a song, or if you'd like to have your name in the birthday song... email Lucas@lightninglucas.com To become a patron of this creativity visit Patreon.com/LightningLucas Have a wonderful listening week! --Lucas--

Today's episode spirals around the question of how we should know which decisions to rethink and which to stick with. I discuss Beethoven , Seth Godin , Adam Grant , and the YouTube channel Productivity Game . I would love your feedback on this or any previous episode.   Email me at lucas@lightninglucas.com You can find the song Inexcusable on the album A Taste Of Lightning Lucas, wherev...

This episode is in honor of my Grandpa Paul.  He died tragically 10 years ago, and this episode features a song I wrote about his life, followed by a song based on one of his favorite sayings: Aim high, there's room at the top. You can download the song GrandPaul at https://lightninglucas.bandcamp.com/track/grandpaul   You can support this podcast at www.patreon.com/lightninglucas You ca...