The semester is over and I’m kinda left here… thinking. What was is that I learned? Where am I going with this? I think this really needs to be addressed before it drives me mad (more so than usual). Really the semester has been full of crazy bumps wrought with ups and downs and blocks in the road. Artistically and emotionally. Really everything’s been a big mess of crap. And I got some days of inspiration and some days of absolute laziness. But despite it all I still felt like I achieved something. I still felt like I was doing something right, and like I learned. Maybe that thing was a greater understanding of music? Maybe a new knowledge base on how to become something more with my music and it honestly blows my mind away that I can find that, and how fun it can be to do it too. The world is full of incredible things and this… music is a path to it. A way of speaking. It really showed me that there’s more to life. And there are some incredibly amazing quotes that really back this up. One of my favourites is “You can’t say you don’t love music. Everything has music. You can’t say you don’t like music side it’s everywhere. Even the sounds of passing cars, is music in its purest form”. And this kinda thing is what really pushed me to look for… an inner happiness. That really worked! I started writing my own music and I think that really was the highlight of the semester. But more importantly my achievement of happiness. I’ve learned so much and I’ve really gotten to figure out the kinda music I love. Really playing and listening to rock, metal, classical and all sorts of similar music. I really do appreciate the classic rocks too. Nothing too modern but modern enough for things like avenged sevenfold, Boston, KISS, etc. From everything that’s happened I really think that I’ve become a better musician and I continue to get there. Of course, it’s expected to have challenges. They are part of life as is and I think they do more good than they do any damage while they go underway. One of the things that really challenged me was a lack of motivation to do musical things. We were only doing covers and I felt… empty I guess. I didn’t feel like we were living up to our full potential. But around when we started making more of our own songs instead of playing other people’s riffs I really felt like we were getting somewhere. Now as for goals? Right now I am really satisfied with the pursuit of making our own riffs and I think it’s really gonna pay off. As an artist I want to… make my music for people to know and enjoy. I want people to like my music and I think I can make that happen. So as for semester 2? I really want to have quite a few riffs made so I can bring them to Nashville. Everyday from here forth I will take an hour or so out of my day to develop my music skills and make some riffs that I can start putting into a song. Then hopefully I can bring my dream closer to life.
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Brandon ParnhamWhy do I musician good? I think that, personally, music is the ultimate expression of emotion, feeling, and ideas. The flow of music is unmatched on what it can do. Archives
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