This is the sound of all of us Singing with love and the will to trust Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust This is the sound of all of us The Wailin' Jennies - One Voice Often we talk about the power of small, self-organising groups of people, working collaboratively. Lyssa Adkins gives a beautiful example of a string quartet in her powerful book on coaching on how the quartet members work together and communicate constantly throughout a performance. Some of the most powerful music of the last century has come from pairs of writers and performers working intimately together - George and Ira Gershwin. Lennon and McCartney. Simon and Garfunkel. But music, like software, often seeks to deliver work at a larger scale and with more complexity than a single, self-organising team can manage. And seeks to do so with unpredictable skill levels of the performers. What lessons can music teach us about the problems and potential workarounds of scaled delivery of creative work? Using more musical examples than deserve to fit in 10 minutes, Martin Burns brings 40 years of musical experience and formal education from his first career to bear on the problems of his current day job.

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This is the sound of one voice
One spirit, one voice
The sound of one who makes a choice
This is the sound of one voice
This is the sound of all of us
Singing with love and the will to trust
Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust
This is the sound of all of us
This is the sound of voices two
The sound of me singing with you
Helping each other to make it through
This is the sound of voices two
This is the sound of voices three
Singing together in harmony
Surrendering to the mystery
This is the sound of voices three
I spent 3 years getting a Music Degree.
It’s about time I used it for something.
This is the Sound
of All Of Us
The Wailin' Jennys: One Voice

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Lyssa Adkins
This is the sound of all of us
Singing with love and the will to trust
Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust
This is the sound of all of us
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Close Partnerships
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1. Creativity

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Eric Johnson:
Cliffs of Dover
Just what is it
you want to
do?
We wanna be free
We wanna be free to do what we wanna do
And we wanna get loaded
And we wanna have a good time
That's what we're gonna do
(No way baby let's go)
We're gonna have a good time
We're gonna have a party
Peter Fonda
The Wild Angels
Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
source: http://www.leanleadershipacademy.com/lla-and-the-genesis-of-the-lean-expert/
Griff Hamlin:
Blues Jam Track & Solo Tutorial

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Journey - "Don't Stop Believin'”
James Blunt - "You're Beautiful"
Black Eyed Peas - "Where Is the Love"
Alphaville - "Forever Young"
Jason Mraz - "I'm Yours"
Train - "Hey Soul Sister"
The Calling - "Wherever You Will Go"
Elton John - "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" (from The Lion King)
Akon - "Don't Matter"
John Denver - "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi"
U2 - "With Or Without You"
The Last Goodnight - " Pictures of You"
The Fray - "You Found Me"
3OH!3 - "Don't Trust Me"
Tim Minchin - "Canvas Bags"
Blink-182 - "Dammit"
Kasey Chambers - "Not Pretty Enough"
Alicia Keys - "No One”
Amiel - "Lovesong"
Bush - "Glycerine"
Thirsty Merc - "20 Good Reasons"
Lighthouse Family - "High"
Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"
Men At Work - " Down Under"
Jill Colucci - "The Funny Things You Do”
(Theme from America's Funniest Home Videos)
Jack Johnson - "Taylor"
Spice Girls - "2 Become 1"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Soul to Squeeze"
Banjo Patterson - "Waltzing Matilda"
Bic Runga - "Sway"
Maroon Five - "She Will Be Loved"
The Beatles - "Let It Be"
Bob Marley - "No Woman No Cry"
a-ha - "Take On Me"
Green Day - "When I Come Around"
Eagle Eye Cherry - "Save Tonight"
Toto - "Africa"
Beyoncé - "If I Were A Boy”
Jason DeRulo - "In My Head"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Joan Osborne - " One of Us"
Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"
The Offspring - "Self Esteem"
The Offspring - "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"
Akon - "Beautiful"
Timbaland featuring OneRepublic - "Apologize”
Eminem featuring Rihanna - "Love the Way You Lie"
Bon Jovi - "It's My Life”
Robert Burns - "Auld Lang Syne"
Five for Fighting - "Superman"
The Axis of Awesome - "Birdplane"
Missy Higgins - "Scar"
Alex Lloyd - "Amazing"
Richard Marx - "Right Here Waiting"
Crowded House - "Fall At Your Feet"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
Daryl Braithwaite - "The Horses"
Pink - "U + Ur Hand”
Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
Aqua - "Barbie Girl"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Otherside"
Ben Lee - "Cigarettes Will Kill You"
Michael Jackson - "Man in the Mirror"
Mika - "Happy Ending"
The Cranberries – “Zombie"
Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"
The Gregory Brothers - "Double Rainbow Song"
MGMT - "Kids"
Andrea Bocelli – “Time To Say Goodbye"
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ

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2. Cadence

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Sustaining Out of Sync Cadence is Hard
Steve Reich: Clapping
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzkOFJMI5i8

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...Particularly when working with multiple independent external
parties who have local synchronisation to worry about
Linked, Regular Cadence Helps
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewi14pygvAs

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3. Co-ordination

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Total Freedom on your own
Martin Carthy: January Man

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But with others...
Martin Carthy: January Man (with Arrangement)

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A little advance agreement…
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s

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…common logistics and touchpoints
Grieg: Piano Concerto (By Grieg)
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s

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…and Acceptance Criteria
Grieg: Piano Concerto (By Grieg)
All the right notes
Not necessarily in the right order

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…and you can achieve great scale
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD8G9G4U1L8

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Creativity with Patterns
Cadence
Co-ordination
Enables Scale & Complexity

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