Gary Doherty, author of The Ignition Point
02/25/15 • 56 min
Gary Doherty is spearheading a conversation that is long overdue, particularly in the field of music education. We were introduced at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic by mutual friend Cam Stasa (who gets an associate producer credit for this episode). After just a few moments with him, I knew that Gary Doherty could speak with authority on the importance of self-care and wellness for music educators (and volunteers!) as someone who had spent thirty years in the trenches of music ed and performance, and paid the price.
He looked at me and he said, “Within 12 months you’ll be dead. THEN who’s gonna take care of the...
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In this episode, Gary talks about his own personal “ignition point,” how to recognize your own, and even how to create one for yourself or someone you love. He talks about what came next on his journey, and how his relationship with food has changed. We cover the paleo lifestyle, the slow food movement, and his adult beverages of choice, influenced by his secondary career as a mixologist.
Mixologist is to bartender as chef is to cook. — Gary Doherty, #musiced mixologist...
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About the book
“Mr. Doherty, everything that could be wrong with your lab work is....If you do not radically change your behavior and lifestyle, you’ll be dead within twelve months.”
So began my personal journey, my ignition point toward better health and a more fulfilling lifestyle. My journey is everyone’s journey. Design your own self-fulfilling prophecy for a better life by taking personal responsibility for every aspect of your life.
You need to find your ignition point!
About Gary Doherty
William Gary Doherty is an eclectic educational leader with an uncompromising commitment to dynamic and state-of-the-art educational programs and events. He’s been blessed in his experience to work with the iconic names of the educational profession, as an educator, administrator, non-profit executive director and wind conductor. Mentors include Dr. Tim, Lautzenheiser, Harry Wong, Madeline Hunter, H. Robert Reynolds, and Frederick Fennell. I am a dedicated, life-long learner with commensurate skills that encompass an educational presence unique in the industry today. I have developed educational programs in middle schools, high schools, universities, and international non-profit organizations. In addition, I have presented more than 100 workshops and clinics at educational gatherings in Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, California, Arizona, London, Singapore, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Mexico City. Topics include: “Technology in the Classroom,” “Developing Grant-writing as a Means of Support,” and “Building Leaders Inside Your Team.” In 2011 he was honored by the US Army and the National Association for Music Education as the first recipient of the National Band Director of the Year Award. In 2012, he was named the Indy Star’s “Most Influential Educator in Indiana.” Published in January 2015, the first of three books, The Ignition Point: Striking the Match, chronicles Gary’s personal journey and experiences in the urban schools of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Resources
The Ignition Point on Facebook
Listen to the episode to get Gary’s email address! (51:44)
Gary Doherty is spearheading a conversation that is long overdue, particularly in the field of music education. We were introduced at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic by mutual friend Cam Stasa (who gets an associate producer credit for this episode). After just a few moments with him, I knew that Gary Doherty could speak with authority on the importance of self-care and wellness for music educators (and volunteers!) as someone who had spent thirty years in the trenches of music ed and performance, and paid the price.
He looked at me and he said, “Within 12 months you’ll be dead. THEN who’s gonna take care of the...
Click To Tweet
In this episode, Gary talks about his own personal “ignition point,” how to recognize your own, and even how to create one for yourself or someone you love. He talks about what came next on his journey, and how his relationship with food has changed. We cover the paleo lifestyle, the slow food movement, and his adult beverages of choice, influenced by his secondary career as a mixologist.
Mixologist is to bartender as chef is to cook. — Gary Doherty, #musiced mixologist...
Click To Tweet
About the book
“Mr. Doherty, everything that could be wrong with your lab work is....If you do not radically change your behavior and lifestyle, you’ll be dead within twelve months.”
So began my personal journey, my ignition point toward better health and a more fulfilling lifestyle. My journey is everyone’s journey. Design your own self-fulfilling prophecy for a better life by taking personal responsibility for every aspect of your life.
You need to find your ignition point!
About Gary Doherty
William Gary Doherty is an eclectic educational leader with an uncompromising commitment to dynamic and state-of-the-art educational programs and events. He’s been blessed in his experience to work with the iconic names of the educational profession, as an educator, administrator, non-profit executive director and wind conductor. Mentors include Dr. Tim, Lautzenheiser, Harry Wong, Madeline Hunter, H. Robert Reynolds, and Frederick Fennell. I am a dedicated, life-long learner with commensurate skills that encompass an educational presence unique in the industry today. I have developed educational programs in middle schools, high schools, universities, and international non-profit organizations. In addition, I have presented more than 100 workshops and clinics at educational gatherings in Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, California, Arizona, London, Singapore, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Mexico City. Topics include: “Technology in the Classroom,” “Developing Grant-writing as a Means of Support,” and “Building Leaders Inside Your Team.” In 2011 he was honored by the US Army and the National Association for Music Education as the first recipient of the National Band Director of the Year Award. In 2012, he was named the Indy Star’s “Most Influential Educator in Indiana.” Published in January 2015, the first of three books, The Ignition Point: Striking the Match, chronicles Gary’s personal journey and experiences in the urban schools of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Resources
The Ignition Point on Facebook
Listen to the episode to get Gary’s email address! (51:44)
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Practice slowly to learn fast!
If you want to learn something quickly, practice that thing S-L-O-W-L-Y. Because your brain is like a fresh snowdrift.
Obviously.
Listen to find out why musicians should practice slowly.
Here’s the Lifehacker article that inspired this podcast, and the piece by Dick Hensold that inspired the article.
From Daniel Coyle’s Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills:
“...Students at the Meadowmount School of Music often practice according to an informal rule: If a passerby can recognize a song, it’s being played too fast. The point of this super-exaggerated slowness (which produces songs that resemble those of humpback whales) is to reveal small mistakes that might have gone undetected, and thus create more high-quality reaches.”
“Precision especially matters early on, because the first reps establish the pathways for the future. Neurologists call this the “sled on a snowy hill” phenomenon. The first repetitions are like the first sled tracks on fresh snow: On subsequent tries, your sled will tend to follow those grooves. “Our brains are good at building connections,” says Dr. George Bartzokis, a neurologist at UCLA. “They’re not so good at unbuilding them.” When you learn hard skills, be precise and measured. Go slowly. Make one simple move at a time, repeating and perfecting it before you move on. Pay attention to errors, and fix them, particularly at the start. Learning fundamentals only seems boring—in fact, it’s the key moment of investment. If you build the right pathway now, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and trouble down the line.”
Also check out Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code.
And The Goonies.
And because it is too incredible not to share, I present to you “a song from The Goonies musical by Keith Doughty & Rob Dean.”
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Tim Hinton
In this episode of Marketing Music Education, I speak with Tim Hinton. He is one of the hosts of the Marching Roundtable podcast, which I’ve listened to and enjoyed for years. Hi background as an educator is readily apparent, as he schools me about the benefits of hiring an arranger, the pitfalls of burnout, and the need to educate not just marching arts judges, but the entire marching arts community—and beyond!
About Tim HintonTim Hinton is a composer and arranger, writing for concert and marching bands. He serves as a consultant for all aspects of marching shows, from show concepts to drill and color guard. Information about his music compositions, blog, and book can be found at www.timhinton.com. He received his degrees in Music Education from the University of Tennessee and Georgia State University, and he was a marching member and instructor for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of Rockford, Illinois. Tim taught in the public schools for 10 years and developed a highly successful program at Dunwoody High School in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Tim is one of the hosts of the Marching Roundtable podcast, a resource for everyone involved in the marching arts. You can hear interviews with experts from the world of drum corps, marching band, winter guard, and indoor percussion at the podcast website at www.marchingroundtable.com. Tim is also one of the creators of the Marching Roundtable Judges Academy, an online course of judges training and assessment education. Each student is paired with a mentor who assists the student in learning how to judge marching contests and how to design and teach better toward these assessments. Find out more about the Judges Academy at JudgesAcademy.com.
ResourcesMarching Roundtable’s interviews with David Holsinger are here and here.
You can find the Marching Roundtable episodes featuring parents here.
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