Small Beginnings

In writing music, I think that the best way to get started is to rearrange music. Personally, I find that in rearranging popular music, it's like looking at the parts of a clock and understanding how it works. It's such an intimate session where you're with the music and you're trying to bring out more emotions into it.

If I were to give the process of writing music a goal, it is to evoke an emotion. In composing and performing music, you are speaking a transcendental language that only the human heart can understand. This is my belief, no matter how cringe it sounds, but music is such a powerful thing it is too undeniable to even downplay.

That's why I think that if I want to get my machine oiled and running for the upcoming choral composition competition, I'll have to start small. It's almost opportune that I'm performing on Saturday for church. Just to be extra, I rearranged a well-known song called Cares Chorus which is to be played during the intermission where the deacons collect the tithes. I figured that this is a perfect time to practice collaborating with musicians, get their feedback, get to know more about them as musicians and how they play their instruments. If I want to fully utilize the power of music, it would help if I understood how their instruments work, and how the musicians play.

This is not to say that I have abandoned my other projects. I feel that I would benefit more from taking a step back and go back to the small beginnings. Take smaller steps instead of swinging strides. If I were to have a shot at being a runner up to the competition, I would owe it to myself to do everything as best as I possibly could.

As soon as I get the go signal from my musical collaborators, I'll have the pdf of the rearranged song for the Cares Chorus up in the musical projects page. I cannot wait to see that list grow.