Play Along

Nearly everyone has some affinity for music. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't have at least some even among those friends of mine who are legally deaf. I have several friends and family who are musicians, and some of them actually make a living at it. This blog, honestly, is not for them. Unless they wish to look at this journey from the other side.

I am not even qualified to be an amateur musician, I have a day job and simply do not have the talent or the ambition to put in the 10,000 hours required to be one. More on that figure later. What I do have is a love of music and the earnest desire to create some of my own. I do not wish to play for anyone but myself. As a point of fact, I absolutely have NO ambition to play in front of anyone, even were I accomplished, but that, in the immortal, though slightly paraphrased words of Alton Brown is another blog.

In my personal quest to play music I have traveled down many roads, got lost, and wandered back to my normal life. I have again started down the path, only this time, I seem to have struck on a set of tools and techniques that changed how I look at it. It is all really beginning to click for me, and I am the most excited I have ever been for my musical future. I have even created my first pieces of music, and am learning to play three instruments. While I will forewarn you I don't recommend that last bit, you should probably pick one to start with and then once you have that where you like it, expand from there. There is a story as to why I am trying to play those particular three, and I will tell it in an upcoming post.

Nearly everyone can tell you a story that has for it the moral "stick to it" or "try, try again" and this is definitely one of those stories. If you love music, listening to a piece of it that you constructed is amazing. It can only be described as a religious experience. There is nothing like it. It is also obtainable.

Anyone can do it. Believe me, I have only been doing this a short time, and I have no intrinsic musical talent, at all. I was literally arranging (producing) music in a matter of minutes. I had an idea, I found a tool, and in under an hour, I had produced a tune that sounded like real music. I will explain that tool later, and how to use it a bit later than that.

In the sidebar you will find a link to my music page where my creations are available to listen to. There will also be posts about how I made them, some of them quite detailed as to the tools and methods. I will put recordings of my playing as well (eventually), and link them.

Anyway, thanks for playing along, and stay tuned.

Scott.