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		<title>Unconscious Musical Concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a musical concept? Many of us don&#8217;t think about this question very often, and even if we do, it can be difficult to put into words. People often have different ideas of what makes up a concept. Often they will use musical terms such as, tempo, dynamics, etc. but this is not what &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/unconscious-musical-concept/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Unconscious Musical Concept</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about teaching online is being able to communicate with students from all over the world on a weekly basis.Through this process,it occurs to me that despite differences in background, education, location, or life experience,there really aren&#8217;t that many problems we all face.Most of us suffer from different versions of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/permission-to-think/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Permission to think</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Become Unemployable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cliff Almond]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Im not an expert in much of anything, but I learned the hard way how NOT to get called back. I&#8217;ve learned a few things about what gets you hired, and what keeps you getting hired. These are things that are blatantly obvious to some, yet others seem to have not picked up on them. &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/how-to-become-unemployable/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How to Become Unemployable</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Its Not Supposed to Feel Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 02:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often forget the perils of learning something new. Over the years, I have received many emails on my teaching site that are related to the endless frustration of working on new things, which of course is the essence of improving on a musical instrument. The questions I receive vary in relation to the elements &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/its-not-supposed-to-feel-good/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Its Not Supposed to Feel Good</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamentalism, Musically and Otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cliff Almond]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In music, when we refer to fundamentals, we are often referring to the basic tools, or elements required to create something on our instrument. Usually this would mean rudimentary elements, such as snare drum rudiments for drummers, scales for guitar players or pianists, etc. Many of us don&#8217;t realize that these same elements that are &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/fundamentalism-musically-and-otherwise/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fundamentalism, Musically and Otherwise</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Envy Amplifier: What are you really seeing, and why are you seeing it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cliff Almond]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Envy Amplifier has to be the best term I&#8217;ve ever heard to describe facebook, but outside of that, it illustrates the fact that keeping up with everyone else has now gone from local to global. What&#8217;s worse is that if you don&#8217;t participate, you can be considered out of the social loop. There are a &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/envy-amplifier-what-are-you-really-seeing-and-why-are-you-seeing-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Envy Amplifier: What are you really seeing, and why are you seeing it?</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Person; Bad Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cliff Almond]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever know someone who is really smart, but defends some really strange, often bad ideas? We all have a friend or colleague in your life that we look up to. I have a few people like this that I always learn from. Each one of them has a perspective that is much different than my &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/smart-personbad-idea/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Smart Person; Bad Idea</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned by not blogging for 3 months.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been months since I wrote a blog. When I started this blog I was committed to writing at least one a week. Much to my surprise within a week or so of not writing the blog I began to receive questions about why I wasn&#8217;t writing it. I began to consistently arrive at the &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/what-i-learned-by-not-blogging-for-3-months/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What I learned by not blogging for 3 months.</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being productive&#8230;and I mean REALLY being productive takes some serious dedication. The act of being truly productive takes a tremendous amount of discipline, guts, and awareness of course, but what really takes guts is to look at what you are really getting out of your work, and what kind of return you are actually getting &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/connecting-it-all/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Connecting it all</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More where that came from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just couldn&#8217;t see it coming&#8221;.. is what someone recently wrote in an email sent to my site. &#8220;One day the calls just stopped, and I really haven&#8217;t known what to do since&#8221;.  Without going into detail about what else was in this email, I will tell you that what this person described wasn&#8217;t due &#8230; <a href="http://www.cliffalmond.com/more-where-that-came-from/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">More where that came from?</span></a>]]></description>
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