Lesson 7 · Arlo
The Long View
Folk music takes the long view. It looks at a life from the distance of years, decades, a deathbed. It does not panic about the present. It sees the present as one moment in a long arc, and it measures that moment against the whole.
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Arlo takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.
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