Ever since I graduated, I’ve been trying to juggle work, church, music, and social life (not necessarily in that order). Not an impossible task, but it does require planning and diligence to keep growing in all of the above aspects of life. I’ve been thinking about starting a music blog for a while now. It acts as motivation, as one of my main problems is I am just not as prolific as I should be. Another benefit is that I’ll start to actually release songs, pieces, or sheet music, instead of clinging to them like a greedy little elf.
My goal is to update in writing every few days, and release some sort of downloadable material about once every week or so. It might be arrangements, sheet music, or just old compositions. Hopefully this blog will have enough content to be an interesting read (and listen) for those of you who have a vested interest in my musings.
Today, I spent an hour or so trying to learn Michael Bublé’s Everything. I really haven’t explored his music much, but this song was catchy enough. Actually really catchy. One of the difficult things about doing a piano arrangements is trying to get the lilt of a singer’s voice in the melody line. This song I found quite a bit more tricky than normal, because he swings his words in addition to the syncopation in the piano. I have no problem comping along to track, but I’m not too happy with what I’ve come up so far in terms of an arrangement solo piece. Maybe I’ll return to it in the future.