“I like instrumental music.
I am like, really smart.
Therefore, really smart people like instrumental music.
Proves my philosophy professor to be correct!
There was a cat. It was brown. Therefore, all cats are brown!”
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I think the key to success as an instrumental musician is to do the opposite.
Say, for example, this recording of Coffee Cold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwGQXJqu5s
Now, see, I would have thought to name this track “Hot Tea.” But the artist, Galt MacDermot, decided to do the opposite, and name it Cold Coffee. But not just Cold Coffee. He then switched the order of the words completely, and the final title was Coffee Cold. The total opposite. The song took off and the rest is history.
If I’d released it as Hot Tea, I doubt that Jimmy McGill would have ever pasted shredded paper back together to it in Better Call Saul.
Bob Cobb seems to be a bright guy.