Suara Kupang – Bumi bakal kedatangan tamu yang menjadi ‘Bulan’ kedua dalam bentuk asteroid kecil pada periode September ini. Simak penjelasannya.

“Bulan mini” ini merupakan asteroid bernama 2024 PT5, yang masih bagian dari sabuk asteroid Arjuna. Nantinya, Bulan mungil ini akan berkunjung selama dua bulan sebelum kembali ke rumahnya.

“Benda yang akan mengunjungi kita itu milik sabuk asteroid Arjuna, sabuk asteroid sekunder yang terbuat dari bebatuan luar angkasa dan memiliki jalur orbit yang sangat mirip dengan Bumi dengan rata-rata jarak dari matahari yaitu sekitar 150 juta kilometer.” ucap Kepala tim riset dan profesor di Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, mengutip Space, Kamis (19/9).

Marcos menambahkan beberapa benda angkasa di Arjuna dapat mendekati Bumi dalam jarak yang dekat, yaitu sekitar 4,5 juta kilometer dan dengan kecepatan rendah sekitar 3,540 km/jam.

Dalam beberapa situasi, energi geosentris benda angkasa dapat menjadi negatif dan objek menjadi Bulannya Bumi untuk sementara. Fenomena ini disebut mini-moon.

“Anda bisa melihat satelit sungguhan [Bulan] adalah pelanggan yang masuk ke dalam toko dan membeli barang, tapi objek seperti 2024 PT5 ini cuman seperti pelanggan yang melihat-lihat lalu pergi” jelas Marcos.

Bulan mini ini terbagi menjadi dua tipe berdasarkan durasi. Pertama adalah mini-moon panjang, saat asteroid akan mengorbit Bumi dalam satu putaran atau lebih. Tipe ini biasanya bertahan satu tahun atau lebih.

Kedua adalah tipe yang singkat, ketika asteroid hanya mengorbit Bumi dengan durasi singkat. Asteroid tidak sampai mengorbit satu putaran lalu terlepas dari Bumi. Tipe ini biasanya berdurasi beberapa hari, minggu, atau beberapa bulan.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 termasuk dalam tipe bulan mini singkat yang hanya ‘singgah’ dua bulan. Menurut Marcos beberapa bulan mini singkat yang tercatat sejarah adalah 1991 VG, 2022 NX1, dan banyak lainnya yang tidak dipublikasikan.

Planet ini juga pernah kedatangan bulan mini panjang, yang tercatat sejarah adalah 2006 RH120 dan 2020 CD3. Bulan mini tersebut dianggap langka karena hanya muncul setiap 10 atau 20 tahun.

Saat sedang berkunjung, 2024 PT5 ini tidak dapat terlihat oleh mata telanjang. Bahkan karena ukurannya yang kecil bulan mini tersebut hanya dapat dilihat dengan teleskop khusus.

Marcos menjelaskan untuk melihat benda ini kita setidaknya perlu menyiapkan teleskop berdiameter 76.2 cm dengan pendeteksi CCD atau CMOS.

“Objek tersebut terlalu kecil dan redup untuk teleskop amatir dan teropong. Namun, objek tersebut berada dalam rentang kecerahan teleskop yang biasa digunakan oleh para astronom profesional,” kata Marcos.

“Diperlukan teleskop dengan diameter minimal 30 inci ditambah detektor CCD atau CMOS untuk mengamati objek ini, teleskop 30 inci dan mata manusia di belakangnya tidak akan cukup,” pungkasnya.

Source : https://www.cnnindonesia.com

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Harry Kane dan Ollie Watkins menjadi pahlawan The Three Lions dengan gol-gol mereka, membalikkan keadaan dari ketertinggalan.

Kemenangan ini mengantarkan Inggris ke final euro 2024 di mana mereka akan bertemu dengan Spanyol. Pertandingan diprediksi akan sengit, mengingat kedua tim sama-sama kuat dan ingin meraih gelar juara.

Lolosnya timnas inggris ke final ini tentunya sudah diprediksi beberapa pihak. Inggris menjadi salah satu jagoan untuk bisa meraih title jawara Eropa 2024. 

Di sisi lain, Ingris ternyata menjadi salah satu Timnas dengan nilai pasar termahal dalam semifinal Euro 2024 ini. Nilai pasar ini berhasil mengungguli timnas Prancis yang saat ini memiliki nilai pasar Rp 21,4 triliun.

Di timnas Inggris, jude bellingham, menjadi pemain temahal. Pemain Real Madrid ini memiliki harga Rp 3,1 triliun. Sementara pemain paling murah yaitu Kieran Trippier dengan nilai pasar Rp 173 miliar.

Inggris menjejakkan kaki di final Euro 2024 setelah mengalahkan Belanda dengan skor 2-1 di Signal Iduna Park, Kamis (11/7/2024). Harry Kane dan Ollie Watkins menjadi pahlawan The Three Lions dengan gol-gol mereka, membalikkan keadaan dari ketertinggalan.

Belanda sempat memimpin melalui gol Xavi Simons di awal babak pertama. Namun, Inggris bangkit dan menyamakan kedudukan lewat penalti Kane. Ollie Watkins kemudian mencetak gol penentu kemenangan di babak kedua.

Kemenangan ini mengantarkan Inggris ke final Euro 2024, di mana mereka akan bertemu dengan Spanyol. Pertandingan diprediksi akan sengit, mengingat kedua tim sama-sama kuat dan ingin meraih gelar juara.

Pertandingan berlangsung ketat sejak menit pertama. Belanda mencoba bermain menyerang dengan cepat, sedangkan Inggris lebih memilih untuk bermain sabar dan mencari celah.

Belanda berhasil unggul lebih dahulu di menit ke-7 melalui gol Xavi Simons. Pemain muda berbakat itu melepaskan tendangan keras dari luar kotak penalti yang tak mampu dihalau oleh Jordan Pickford.

Inggris baru bisa menyamakan kedudukan di menit ke-18 melalui penalti Harry Kane. Wasit menunjuk titik putih setelah Denzel Dumfries melanggar Kane di kotak penalti. Kane sendiri yang maju sebagai eksekutor dan sukses menjalankan tugasnya.

Babak kedua semakin seru. Kedua tim saling menyerang dengan gencar. Inggris akhirnya berhasil mencetak gol penentu kemenangan di menit ke-73. Ollie Watkins memanfaatkan umpan silang Bukayo Saka dan melesakkan tendangan voli yang tak mampu dihalau Jasper Verbruggen.

Inggris terus mencoba menambah gol di sisa pertandingan, namun Belanda mampu bertahan dengan baik. Skor 2-1 pun bertahan hingga akhir pertandingan.

Inggris patut bersyukur atas kemenangan ini. Mereka menunjukkan mental juara yang pantang menyerah dan berhasil membalikkan keadaan. Harry Kane dan Ollie Watkins menjadi bintang di pertandingan ini dengan gol-gol mereka.

Spanyol menanti di final. Pertandingan Inggris vs Spanyol diprediksi akan menjadi duel sengit dan menarik. Siapakah yang akan keluar sebagai juara? Kita tunggu saja nanti.

Memasuki babak kedua, Inggris dan Belanda sama-sama turunkan pemain baru. Inggris menurunkan Luke Shaw gantikan Kieran Trippier, sedangkan Belanda mainkan Wout Weghorst untuk gantikan Donyell Malen.

Kedua tim sama-sama sulit untuk menemukan celah di pertahanan lawan. Inggris dan Belanda masih buntu sampai menit ke-52, baik untuk membuka peluang atau lepas tembakan.

Belanda mendapatkan peluang emas lewat Xavi Simons di menit ke-65. Manfaatkan tendangan bebas dari Joey Veerman, Simons berhasil melepas tembakan yang masih bisa ditepis Jordan Pickford.

 Pertandingan cenderung berjalan keras. Belanda membuka peluang lewat Cody Gakpo yang mencoba manfaatkan umpan terobosan, tapi Kyle Walker berhasil mencetat bola di menit ke-74. Skor 1-1 antara kedua tim masih bertahan.

Xavi Simons membuka peluang Belanda di menit ke-78. Tembakannya yang sempat memantul ke lapangan terlalu mudah diamankan Jordan Pickford.

Fans Inggris sempat bersorak saat Bukayo Saka cetak gol di menit ke-80. Namun Kyle Walker yang memberi umpan sudah berdiri offside.

Cole Palmer mendapatkan peluang emas di menit ke-88. Namun tembakan kaki kirinya masih melambung sehingga skor 1-1 masih bertahan. Apakah duel bakal berlanjut di perpanjangan waktu?

Inggrs akhirnya mencetak gol kemenangan lewat Ollie Watkins di menit ke-90. Sambil membalikkan badan, dia membuat skor jadi 2-1 untuk Inggris lewat golnya.

Hingga pertandingan berakhir, Inggris berhasil jaga keunggulan 2-1. Ini kali kedua secara beruntun Inggris lolos ke final Euro.

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’’Sertifikasi AirCar menjadi pembuka jalan untuk produksi massal mobil terbang yang sangat efisien,’’ ujar Profesor Stefan Klein, pencipta mobil terbang itu sekaligus CEO KleinVision, seperti dikutip BBC.

Mobil tersebut mampu terbang dengan kecepatan 160 kilometer per jam dengan ketinggian 8 ribu kaki. AirCar hanya butuh waktu 2 menit 15 detik untuk berubah dari mobil biasa menjadi mode terbang. Ia merupakan jenis hybrid dengan bahan bakar bensin biasa. Mesinnya memakai BMW. Jika berada di darat, wujudnya seperti mobil sport. Beratnya 1.100 kilogram dan hanya bisa untuk 2 orang. Yaitu, satu penumpang dan pilot.

Sertifikat kelaikan itu diberikan setelah AirCar melakukan uji terbang selama 70 jam serta lebih dari 200 kali tinggal landas dan pendaratan. Salah satu uji coba dilakukan Juni tahun lalu. Yaitu, terbang dari Bandara Internasional Nitra ke Bratislava di Slovakia. Penerbangan itu ditempuh dalam waktu 35 menit. AirCar juga sangat efisien. Sebab, ia hanya membutuhkan landasan sepanjang 300 meter untuk terbang dan mendarat.

’’Ini adalah konfirmasi terakhir atas kemampuan kami untuk mengubah perjalanan jarak menengah selamanya,’’ terang Klein.

Rencananya, AirCar terbang dari London, Inggris, ke Paris, Prancis, dalam waktu dekat. Mobil terbang ini mirip dengan pesawat konvensional. Tidak semua orang bisa mengendarai. Hanya pilot yang memiliki lisensi. Hingga saat ini, belum ada harga yang dipatok untuk pembelian AirCar. Namun, diperkirakan mobil terbang tersebut bakal dijual di pasaran 12 bulan lagi.

’’Lima puluh tahun lalu mobil adalah simbol kebebasan. AirCar memperluas batasan itu dan membawa kita ke dimensi selanjutnya di mana jalan bertemu dengan langit,’’ ujar penasihat dan salah seorang pendiri KleinVision Anton Zajac.

Source : jawapos.com
Link : https://lombokpost.jawapos.com/teknologi/01/02/2022/mobil-terbang-bukan-lagi-khayalan-segera-diproduksi/

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Sebelum Colbert mengumumkan hal tersebut, ia sempat menyinggung sejumlah nama yang mungkin dinobatkan gelar itu, termasuk Ryan Gosling dan dirinya sendiri.

“Ada spekulasi yang beredar di pasar keseksian. Pada Kamis kemarin, the New York Post melaporkan bahwa gelar itu akan jatuh pada Chris Evans,” kata Colbert dalam monolognya.

“Secara bersamaan, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson mengklaim itu miliknya, mengatakan dia akan selalu menjadi pria terseksi,” lanjutnya.

Setelah berbicara panjang lebar, Colbert kemudian menyambut Paul Rudd dengan alasan sebagai bagian promosi film barunya, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Rudd bahkan berkontribusi dalam sketsa komedi bahwa ia menjadi pria terseksi tahun ini.

Usai sketsa tersebut dan dilanjutkan dengan canda gurau, Stephen Colbert pun secara resmi mengumumkan Paul Rudd sebagai Pria Terseksi 2021. Hal itu juga bersamaan dengan unggahan People di akun Instagram yang menampilkan kover majalah itu berisi wajah Paul Rudd.

Paul Rudd yang berusia 52 tahun mengikuti jejak Michael B Jordan yang sebelumnya dinobatkan sebagai Pria Terseksi 2020, John Legend pada 2019, Idris Elba pada 2018, Blake Shelton pada 2017, dan Dwayne Johnson pada 2016.

Gelar Sexiest Man Alive merupakan penobatan tahunan dari majalah People sebagai penilaian akan daya tarik pria yang biasanya berasal dari kalangan selebritas. Gelar ini serupa dengan Person of the Year dari majalah Time.

Gelar Pria Terseksi pertama kali disandang oleh Mel Gibson pada 1985 pada usia 29 tahun. Pria termuda mendapatkan gelar tersebut adalah Tom Cruise pada 27 tahun saat 1990. Sementara, pria tertua yang menyandang gelar itu adalah Sean Connery pada usia 59 tahun pada 1989.

Sejumlah aktor pernah dinobatkan dalam gelar tahunan ini, seperti Richard Gere, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt yang mendapatkan dua kali pada 1995 dan 2000, George Clooney juga dua kali pada 1997 dan 2006, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp dua kali pada 2003 dan 2009, dan masih banyak lagi.

Source : cnnindonesia.com
Link : https://www.cnnindonesia.com/hiburan/20211110140642-234-719216/paul-rudd-jadi-pria-terseksi-2021

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Namun di China, 11 November kerap diperingati sebagai Single Day atau Hari Jomlo Sedunia. Karena hal ini, tak sedikit kaum lajang yang dengan bangga merayakannya.

Meskipun pada mulanya dimulai di China, tapi dalam perayaan Hari Jomlo Sedunia kini mulai merambah ke negara lain. Meski sudah banyak dikenal, tapi tak sedikit orang yang masih asing dengan Hari Jomlo Sedunia ini.

Berikut informasi lengkap mengenai asal mula Single Day atau Hari Jomlo Sedunia yang diperingati setiap 11 November.

Sejarah Single Day atau Hari Jomlo Sedunia

Dikenal di China sebagai “bare sticks holiday” karena tampilanya yang numerik, Singles Day dimulai sebagai Hari anti-Valentine pada tahun 1990-an ketika mahasiswa di Nanjing University mulai merayakan status lajang mereka. Momen ini juga dikenal sebagai Hari Bujangan karena ketidakseimbangan gender China yang diakibatkan kebijakan satu anak.

Pada hari tersebut, mereka yang berstatus lajang akan merayakannya dengan membeli hadiah untuk diri sendiri. Hal tersebut lantas diadopsi oleh e-commerce besar, Alibaba pada 2009. Para petinggi Alibaba melihat peluang komersial di Singles Day pada 2009 dan mulai meluncurkaan penawaran Double 11 tepat pada saat belanja online mulai menjamur.

Peluang tersebut juga dilihat sebagai kesempatan utnuk meningkatkan penjualan di jeda antara liburan nasional Pekan Emas Cina pada Oktober dan Natal. Kini, pada hari tersebut, semua orang, terlepas dari status lajang maupun berpasangan, akan membeli hadiah sendiri.

Perayaan Hari Jomlo Sedunia di Indonesia

Pesta belanja online terbesar Singles Day yang dimanfaatkan Alibaba membuat perputaran uang ratusan triliun rupiah yang menjadikan beberapa pelaku e-commerce lain tergerak untuk berpartisipasi dalam Singles Day selanjutnya. Kesuksesan ini lantas rutin diadakan, termasuk di Indonesia.

Menurut situs berhemat CupoNation yang melakukan studi tentang perkembangan popularitas pesta belanja ini di Indonesia. Volume penelusuran online untuk kata kunci 11.11 di Tanah Air meningkat di dua tahun terakhir.

Lewat hasil studi, jumlah penelusuran untuk kata kunci 11.11 pada mesin pencari google meningkat hingga 29 persen di 2017 dan 456 persen di 2018. Peningkatan yang cukup tajam di 2018 menggambarkan jika jumlah masyarakat Indonesia menaruh perhatian dan menelusuri kampanye diskon dan promo yang ditawarkan pada Singles Day semakin bertambah dan diprediksikan akan terus meningkat di 2019.

Ada enam wilayah yang jumlah pemburu diskon dan savvy shopper terbanyak pada 2018 adalah Banten diikuti Jawa Barat, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung, Kalimantan Barat, Yogyakarta, dan DKI Jakarta.

Masih berdasarkan hasil studi CupoNAtion, ada lima situs toko online dengan jumlah pengunjung terbanyak di Indonesia, yang jika diurut berdasarkan jumlah pengunjung terbanyak adalah Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Shopee, Lazada, dan Blibli.

Namun, studi menunjukkan pada pekan pesta belanja online singles day, situs ecommerce yang meraih volume penelusuran tertinggi di tahun 2018 adalah Shopee, dan disusul oleh Lazada. Shopee berhasil melesat ke peringkat pertama dimana sebelumnya berada di urutan ke-3 pada pekan Singles Day yang digelar pada tahun 2017.

Source : merdeka.com
Link : https://www.merdeka.com/jabar/asal-mula-single-day-atau-hari-jomblo-sedunia-yang-diperingati-setiap-11-november-kln.html

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Pejabat senior provinsi, Suhail Anwar Hashmi, mengatakan banyak korban tewas akibat tertimpa tembok dan atap bangunan yang roboh.

Satu orang wanita dan enam anak-anak termasuk ke dalam korban tewas.

Badan Survei Geologi Amerika Serikat menjelaskan, gempa tersebut menggetarkan Kota Harnai, Balochistan, sekitar pukul 3 dini hari waktu setempat. Kedalaman gempa tercatat 20 km.

Getaran dari gempa terasa hingga Quetta, kota berpopulasi 733 ribu orang, dan area-area lainnya di Provinsi Balochistan.

Kota Harnai menjadi wilayah terdampak buruk. Di kota ini, hanya sedikit jalanan yang sudah diaspal. Terbatasnya jaringan telepon seluler (ponsel) dan listrik di wilayah ini turut mengganggu proses evakuasi.

Gempa juga menyebabkan mati listrik di Harnai. Akibatnya, tenaga kesehatan di rumah sakit pemerintah terpaksa bekerja tanpa bantuan pencahayaan.
Pakistan berlokasi tepat di wilayah pertemuan lempeng India dan Eurasia, menjadikannya sebagai area yang kerap diguncang gempa bumi.

Source : https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/gempa-5-7-m-guncang-barat-daya-pakistan-sekitar-20-orang-tewas-1wfkxgQC5mQ/full

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Meski keberadaan Natasha Romanoff telah berakhir selepas Avengers: Endgame. Namun film solo Black Widow memberi kesempatan pada jagoan baru yang diperankan Florence Pugh.

Pemeran Yelena Belova dikabarkan menerima tongkat estafet untuk Black Widow selanjutnya. Sutradara Cate Shortland buka suara dalam sebuah wawancara belum lama ini dalam sebuah pernyataan terselubung perihal kemungkinan Yelena Belova menjadi penerus Black Widow.

Selengkapnya

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To put together a successful career in music as soon as possible, you’ve got to know the questions you do NOT need to be seeking answers to, and understand how to ask much higher quality questions that will put you on the right track toward reaching your music industry goals.

These are the 4 worst music career questions you should avoid asking in order to build a successful career as a professional musician:

Bad Music Career Question #1: Do I Have To Become A ‘Starving Artist’?

A lot of people believe that making a living as a professional musician means one of two things: Either you ‘make it’ and go on to tour the world and sell millions of albums or you ‘become a starving artist’ and have to play at crappy bars and street corners just to get by. This music business myth makes sabotages people’s careers from the start, either by making them believe they need to get full time jobs unrelated to music and ‘try to do music on the side’, or be afraid of trying to enter the music business.

Fact is, the music business is made up of a large middle class and there are countless ways to earn a living. You’d be surprised at how easy it is to make a good living in the music industry versus becoming successful in an outside field. However, before you will make a lot of money, you must stop asking low quality questions. Stop worrying about becoming a starving artist and start envisioning all the different ways you can make money as a musician.

As you work in the music business, you are not forced to live from one paycheck to the next like in a normal day job. Instead, it’s always possible to be earning multiple sources of income at the same time. This makes becoming a professional musician a much more stable career choice since you don’t have to be dependent on just ONE source of income. In addition to the obvious ways that musicians seek to make money in music (selling albums/downloads, playing live shows or recording as a session musician), there is one thing you can do right now that will quickly boost your music related income:

Start growing a music teaching business. This will immediately produce multiple sources of income (your students) for you while you work much less than full time hours each week.

When you build many sources of musical income as discussed above, it’s very possible (and not as hard as you might think) to annually earn more than $100k in your music career (I know this, because I’ve helped many musicians to do it).

Bad Music Career Question #2: How Do I Get A Recording Contract?

In order to understand why this is not a good questions to ask, answer this: “Why should someone give YOU a recording contract?” If you think it’s because you write good music… try again. This is never a good enough reason for someone to sign you to a recording contract. No one is going to invest many thousands of dollars into you just because you can write good music. This would be WAY too risky of an investment (so much so that it doesn’t even make sense). Imagine that you saved up $200,000, would you then go to a casino and put it all on the line for one spin of the roulette? OR would you instead invest it into someone who has proven that they can help you earn even more (at least at a smaller level)? No doubt, you would make the wise choice and invest it into someone who would help you make more money. This is how recording labels think. So stop wondering about how you can get signed to a recording contract and start turning yourself into a ‘wise investment’ that any label would immediately see as valuable. This requires much more than writing great music, playing your instrument well or having a Facebook page.

Here are the actions you should be taking to make yourself into a valuable investment for a record company:

1. Understand what the music industry is looking for in musicians before they begin working with them.

2. Work every day to build your music career. Record companies want to see that you have a good track record before they will begin working with you. The more things you do as an independent musician, the more likely it is that you will gain the interest of a record company.

3. Get music industry training from a successful mentor who has already accomplished big things in the music industry and helped others get signed to recording contracts.

Once you begin developing your music career on your own, you will make yourself like a beacon of light and record companies will come searching for YOU!

Bad Music Career Question #3: How Can I Get My Music ‘Heard’ By More People?

The majority of musicians want to get their music heard by as many people as possible, believing that this will help them earn money and become successful pro musicians. However, the quantity of people who listen to your music is not very significant in and of itself. What really matters is the amount of people you are able to turn into a highly dedicated fans who will do anything to support you and your music.

Stop asking yourself how to get more people to hear your music and start transforming anyone who is already your fan into a real FANATIC. Only After you have a strategy in place for turning ‘casual fans’ into ‘hardcore fanatics’ will the total number of people who hear your music begin to matter.

Bad Music Career Question #4: What Is The Best Music City To Move To?

Many musicians think they will be much more likely to succeed in the music industry by moving to a ‘music city’. Then with this belief in mind, they pack up their things and move, believing that opportunities will simply ‘fall into their lap’ once they arrive. Once they have been in their new location for a while and nothing has changed, they blame it on the city and look for a new location to move to (while being completely unaware of the TRUE reasons why they aren’t successful).

Here’s the truth about ‘location’ leading to success in the music industry: Your location has nothing to do with your ability to become a successful pro musician. This applies particularly today when it is easier than ever for someone to get a recording contract, put out music, organize world tours or work as a session musician regardless of where they live. Highly successful musicians do not become that way because they lived in one area rather than another. If that were true, there would be zero successful musicians living in cities that are not known for big music scenes. The principles that lead to developing a successful music career apply exactly the same regardless of where you live.

Rather than making the massive (wasted) effort of trying to research and find the best music scene, go through the following process that has been PROVEN to work for musicians:

Determine your specific musical goals.
Start working together with a music business mentor to put together an effective strategy for reaching your musical goals.
Work each day to get closer to achieving your goals until you reach them.
When you focus on what is most important (using the process above), you will achieve success in your music career much faster.

Now that you’ve learned why many common music career questions actually steer your music career down the wrong path, here is what you need to do to get back onto the right path:

Step 1. Think more in depth about your music career goals. Use the resources in this article to gain clarity about how the music industry works.

Step 2. Start asking yourself high quality questions on a consistent basis when trying to figure out what you must do to reach your music career goals.

Step 3. Don’t build your music career alone. Get music business training to quickly achieve big things in the music industry.
Tom Hess is a recording artist, online guitar teacher and a music career mentor. He plays guitar for the band Rhapsody Of Fire. Visit his musician development website to become a better musician, get free music industry advice, music career tips and professional music industry advice.

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You are about to learn the five critical elements that have fueled the success of all great musicians’ careers. Until you possess these key elements for yourself, it will be nearly impossible for you to reach your musical dreams and build a successful career in the music business.

Read below to discover these five key elements and take action on the information you learn:

Music Career Success Key #1 – Don’t Set Realistic Goals

All of the most well-known and successful musicians did not achieve their goals by thinking realistically about what seemed possible. On the contrary, they focused their mind like a laser ONLY on what they truly wanted. When you make your goals in line with the things you want most, you will be much more motivated to actually achieve them. More on this in a moment…

Think about this – out of the following choices, which choice would inspire you to put all your time and energy into growing a music career?:

Making a recording of a demo with a band and possibly playing a few shows around town.

Writing chart topping songs for a killer band, then promoting your music by going on a massive world tour – playing to stadiums full of fans, earning tons of money from music sales alone and never working a regular job ever again.
Even if your goals in the music business are entirely unrelated to releasing music, the point still applies: don’t let yourself accept anything less than what you truly want in your music career, just for the sake of being realistic. Life is too precious to live it by not doing the things you really desire. When you set goals for yourself that do not inspire you, it is nearly guaranteed that you will NEVER achieve the things you truly desire in music.

All the biggest rock stars are people just like you. They began small – whether it was broke without any idea how they’d make it in music, lacking in musical talent or not having a band to play with… Just imagine where they would be now, if they would have told themselves that their music career dreams were unrealistic or didn’t seem possible. Well, of course they didn’t… they followed their dreams and went on to achieve them!

You must do what they did. Start building your music career by focusing on what you WANT, not what seems possible.

Music Career Success Key #2 – Manifest Your Musical Dreams Into Reality Before They Actually Are Reality

Musicians who never achieve anything significant in this industry, build paths to their goals by starting from where they are in the present moment.

On the other hand, musicians who achieve great success do something completely different. They plan their music career by beginning from the end point of achieving their goals, and work backwards to the present day. They imagine themselves having already accomplished their major goals, then build their lives around this vision. This is a much more effective way of accurately determining the actions required for putting together your music career.

Music Career Success Key #3 – Start Living Or Start Dying

The two keys I mentioned above are critical for building a successful music career. With this in mind, you need more than just goals and a plan of action to realize your musical dreams. You have to take action each and every day to bring yourself closer to your goals. You might think this is common knowledge, but you would be shocked at how many musicians give up on their musical dreams simply due to lack of effort (in terms of taking physical action).

Visualize this scenario (I use this as inspiration for the professional musicians whom I mentor): You’ve just found out about a disease you contracted that requires major surgery. If you don’t get this surgery, you are guaranteed to die in no more than half a year. To make matters worse, the surgery is extremely expensive and cannot be covered by your insurance company (also you can’t borrow money to pay for it). So you have a decision to make: You can allow yourself to die, OR you can take whatever action is necessary to get the money needed for the surgery.

Certainly this example is extreme, but it is a perfect illustration of the kind of mindset you need to have in order to build a successful music career. Making big moves (by taking action) in your music career is completely different than sitting around waiting for things to happen for you (allowing yourself to ‘die’).

With this in mind, hard work/consistent action does not necessarily equal music career success, when you don’t know exactly what you should be doing to reach your goals.

Music Career Success Key #4 – Have MASSIVE Reasons For Achieving Your Musical Goals

No matter what you do, something will always go wrong in your music career plans. Whenever you are faced with unexpected events in your music career, this is the time when your commitment will be put to the test. For instance, here are some challenging situations you could face:

Working at a day job you hate while regretting the fact that you never developed a music career backup plan to help you make a living doing what you love.
Playing at crappy bars all the time with your band because you don’t know how to move to bigger venues.
Trying to record an album, but doing so at an extremely slow and frustrating pace because you never practiced developing your recording skills.
Working with unmotivated band members who are bringing you (and the entire band) down.
Not understanding how to attract more music fans to listen to the music you worked so hard to create.
Here is what you need to do in order to maintain your commitment and dedication to achieving your music career goals:

Take out the piece of paper you have that contains the list of your written goals (that you put together in key #1 above). Then beside each one write down the big REASONS you have for pursuing them. For every musical goal you have, answer this question: “Why do I want to achieve this?” Spend a lot of time thinking about this for each goal before you write down your response, and look over your goals/reasons two times every day.

When you do this, you’ll develop the ability to maintain motivation and stay focused on the major reasons you have for reaching your goals. This will help you move forward in the difficult times when your dedication is put to the test.

Music Career Success Key #5 – Don’t Try To Build Your Music Career Blindfolded

Once you are in possession of all 4 keys mentioned above, it’s still possible that your music career will go nowhere. This occurs when you lack certainty about what to do to achieve success, are (unknowingly) sabotaging yourself or lack effective strategies to help you reach your musical goals. The last key required for building your successful career in the music industry is to train with a mentor who has experience helping musicians take their careers to the highest level.

A truly effective mentor will not simply tell you what you need to be doing in order to succeed in the music business. He will help you utilize all of the strengths you built while developing the first four keys and will keep you heading down the right path toward success, while preventing you from making the same mistakes that unsuccessful musicians make. Without this kind of training, you are essentially trying to build your music career with a blindfold on – completely oblivious to the best ways to succeed using your current skills and knowledge.

Now that you’ve learned the five keys that build the foundation of a successful music career, these are the steps you should take right now:

1. Focus on getting all the missing keys you do not currently possess.

2. Being working with an experienced music career mentor to quickly achieve your greatest musical goals.
Tom Hess is a music career mentor, touring musician and guitarist. He teaches online guitar lessons to musicians all over the world and mentors musicians on how to build a successful music career. Visit his website for music instruction to get many free musician resources to help you start a career in music and learn about the music industry.

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As well as being a nice little insight for you guys into our daily lives, it’s also a nice way for me to recap and relive the days as they happen!

Check out entries for Days 6-10 below.

Early start today for a Converse live session, but it was a great excuse to get in a cab and see the sights of beautiful Boston. The wealth of redbrick buildings reminded us of the redbrick of Manchester in our own U.K., which adds a natural autumnal look to the city, and this wonderful quality was compounded by the blue skies and soft, orange sunlight! On our way we passed Harvard Business School on our right, and I wanted to take a detour over the bridge to Harvard Square in Cambridge so I could get a nice feel of what it’s like there. All of a sudden I felt pangs of wanting to study a postgraduate at a Boston uni after I finish my BA at Cambridge—assuming I graduate, of course! Haha! We didn’t take the detour; we like to be punctual!

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