after 10 years of vocal training and 14 years of playing the old "eighty-eight", i'm finally starting to write music.
or, rather, i'm attempting to write music.
i'm still a little on the hopeless side of coming up with original lyrics that are meaningful and not overrun with fluffly pop stuff, but i'm pleased with how easily the chord progressions are coming to me.
it's becoming progressively more simple to hear the pitches i want in my head and then transfer them into a nicely harmonized chords on the piano.
but here's the rub, due to my lack of composition training, i'm kind of stuck on simple chord progressions with basic harmonizing octaves in the bass part (imagine the beginning of "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles), which is no fun for me because it makes me feel like a no talent poser who can't make original music, which may very well be the case, but i don't like feeling that way. so the goal is to make more original sounding chord progressions, which is working for now...but whatevz, this talk of chord progressions is boring me and i'm a musician, i can't imagine the pain i've just you poor blog-landers through.
bottom line = i'm just glad to finally be doing something with my decade and a half of musical training.
to whom it may concern (whoms being BC and CSUFullerton peeps), have an awesometastical first week of school y'all!
and to my pallys who have recently left/are soon leaving for schoolio out of town, i love you all, miss you already, and will see you laters!
Til Then.
mjl.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
and if occasionally he'd ponder what makes Shakespeare & Beethoven great, him i could love til i die
i'm listening to a variety of classical music right now. well, i suppose after taking my music class this past spring, i can't in good mind call it "classical" since what i'm listening to really ranges from the romantic period (Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor) to, what i would imagine is, the modern period (movie scores from Pan's Labyrinth, Narnia, and Pride & Prejudice).
*sigh*
it never ceases to amaze me how truly beautiful music can be. isn't it fantastic and yet utterly bizarre to think that something as seemingly simple as an arrangement of varying pitches and tones can make you feel such an enormous range of emotions?
i mean, just from my own meager point of view, i have felt anywhere from ecstatic to utterly melancholy & heartbroken when listening to a song. and sometimes these mixed emotions can be derived from the same song! it's crazy! and then, to think that music can trigger certain things in one's brain and memory is even crazier!
it's like when God is talking to Job about creation and says that "the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy". CS Lewis used that idea of music being used at the world's creation and transfered it to Narnia where Aslan sings the world into existance. maybe it's just the music nerd in me, but that would be a phenomally cool way to create the world and would help explain why music has such an awesome influence on our brains.
though one thing's for sure, it makes me curious as to what it might sound like to hear angels and stars sing. it blows my mind even trying to grasp at how powerfully and magnificently beautiful that's going to sound.
alright, i'm done geeking out about music for now. hope my rambling didn't bore you too much. to whom it may concern, enjoy your first day of school! and to everyone else, enjoy your last few weeks of summer!
"Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped."
revelations 5:11-14
amen and amen.
mjl.
*sigh*
it never ceases to amaze me how truly beautiful music can be. isn't it fantastic and yet utterly bizarre to think that something as seemingly simple as an arrangement of varying pitches and tones can make you feel such an enormous range of emotions?
i mean, just from my own meager point of view, i have felt anywhere from ecstatic to utterly melancholy & heartbroken when listening to a song. and sometimes these mixed emotions can be derived from the same song! it's crazy! and then, to think that music can trigger certain things in one's brain and memory is even crazier!
it's like when God is talking to Job about creation and says that "the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy". CS Lewis used that idea of music being used at the world's creation and transfered it to Narnia where Aslan sings the world into existance. maybe it's just the music nerd in me, but that would be a phenomally cool way to create the world and would help explain why music has such an awesome influence on our brains.
though one thing's for sure, it makes me curious as to what it might sound like to hear angels and stars sing. it blows my mind even trying to grasp at how powerfully and magnificently beautiful that's going to sound.
alright, i'm done geeking out about music for now. hope my rambling didn't bore you too much. to whom it may concern, enjoy your first day of school! and to everyone else, enjoy your last few weeks of summer!
"Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped."
revelations 5:11-14
amen and amen.
mjl.
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