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Musicians
Lesson 28: One Capo, Every Key — The Drop D Trick You Need to Know
with Jimmy Yeary
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Jimmy Yeary
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Jimmy Yeary was writing songs long before becoming the lead singer of the Grammy Award winning supergroup SHENANDOAH. These were years that saw Jimmy performing #1 hits like Mama Knows, Somewhere In the Vicinity of the Heart, and Sunday in the South.
Today, in Nashville and Los Angeles, one of the most common calls in the music industry is from an artist’s representative to Sony Publishing requesting availability on songs from Jimmy Yeary’s catalogue of music. It’s not surprising. Jimmy has written more than two-thousand songs, many of which have been featured on albums selling millions of copies–Grammy winners, gold and platinum awards among them. Fourteen of Jimmy’s songs have been certified “Number 1” hits as singles by Billboard Magazine.
Recently, both the CMA and ACM awarded Jimmy Yeary with “Song of the Year” for I Drive Your Truck–the inspiring song he wrote about the father of a fallen soldier and how he continues to remember his son. Jimmy’s most recent Number 1 was “I Called Mama,” a song he wrote for Tim McGraw.
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Advice for a Debt Free 21 Year Old Who Owns a Business?
with Dave Ramsey
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Question: I’m 21 years old. I graduated from high school but did not go to college. I am not married and not close. I own my own business, which is debt free. I am also personally debt free. What three things in my financial and work life should I pay closest attention to as I move toward 25 or 30 years old?
Wow, what a rockstar young man or woman! That’s pretty amazing. I wish I’d been that smart at 21! In your work life, and in your personal life, you become who you hang around with. So you’re going to speak like, walk like, talk like, read like, save like, be generous like the people you run with. It’s not to say we’re gonna be unkind to someone who has a differing view, but you’re gonna become what your posse is; so choose them. Don’t let life just hit them with default.
Number two: read like a maniac. Read, read, read, read, read, read, read. I have 73 master’s degrees after I graduated from college. All from books. No real master’s degrees. But I have a book open—a non-fiction book—all the time. I still read fiction because it makes airplanes fly faster. But read like a maniac.
If you need the answer to a question it’s in a book If you need to be inspired by someone who’s done something you want to do, it’s in a book. Someone’s done it. You’re not the first one to run into this problem. You’re not the first one to run into this opportunity. Read.
As far as your financial world goes…you’re on track. I mean, if you follow God’s and Grandma’s ways of handling money, you’re always gonna save money, you’re always gonna be generous, you’re gonna live on a written plan; that’s called a budget and you’re gonna stay out of debt. When you do those things with money, you’re always gonna win with money—but those are pretty basic, and easy to understand. But in a world where almost no one saves money, stays out of debt, lives on a plan, and is generous…no one you run into does that, but no one wins financially.
Success is highly unusual. So you’re gonna get engaged in highly unusual activities.
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