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.
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