So, I've decided to document my winding journey in my quest to break the music business. Like so many before me I've had many a dream of being able to perform in front of people who genuinely want to come and here me play. Its a very universal feeling I think, I could say in confidence at some point or another almost everyone has had that bug. Well I caught the bug about 8 years ago now and its never left my side.
Now with the coming of a little more maturity, I'm starting to really take the whole game seriously. Writing music and lyrics become a very big passion of mine. I think I've always been quite literate but for the first time I'm starting to be able to string together line after line and be able come up, otherwise catchy little turns of phrase which I'm almost able to write a song around. My problem at the moment is I'll start something good, write the first of it down and leave it at that. At the moment I have nearly 30-40 four lines files on my computer just waiting to be finished. Theirs also the 20 or so scraps of paper I've bought home from work with the same basic gist, 4/5/6 lines with a slim outline of how i want a song to sound and that's it, its annoying as hell but when i go back to em I just cant get into the mind set I was when I wrote them and therefore I find it very, very difficult to add more to them.
So where does this leave me for the coming future? Well, the good news is that the studio I'm set to go into is practically finished, in fact it was of my understanding that this weekend it would be finished. So, with any luck, what I'll be able to do is print off all these half arsed attempts and hopefully turn them into something a little more substantial. Mark Nasir, my record producer, is a fair bit older than me, 10 or 15 years, and he has spent most of his life dedicated to music, so I know that when it comes down to it he's going to be a major guiding light in months to come, And I'm really looking forward to that to be honest, for too long now my energies have been scattered all over the place. It'll be nice to have a little focus and direction and hopefully some finished products.
At the same time as well, Me and Jade have got to start getting together soon and getting some stuff sorted. Jade has an amazing future ahead of her in terms music and i am absolutely honoured that she would want me to be a part of it. For a long time now, I've been debating whether or not raw talent alone will get you anywhere in the industry, and I'm not sure so far it has been that way. But if anyone will prove it wrong it will be Jade. I look forward to the day i can say "I remember when..."
Well that was a basically sum up or the last 19 years of my life up until this point and maybe just maybe, a preview of that is yet to come. I'm looking forward to it, hope you are too
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I can sympathise entirely with the predicament of having unfinished songs- recapturing the mood you were in is difficult, but not impossible!
At one stage I was going to delete all my incomplete poems/songs on my laptop as I could never add to them, but recently I have managed to add a little to some of them: so there is still hope yet!
Keep up the writing man, you have talent. For as long as you are keeping it real to your self and writing lyrics that are meaning to you, you are on the right track. I too look forward to being able to say I remember when... but in reference to you!
Keep it up!
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