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Redefining -- Playing to my Strengths

Wednesday Oct 13, 2004

In the past week I have been to quite a bit of live music and each event has furthered my understanding of where I need to take my own work. Though I love alt. rock and pop my vocal skills and guitar playing do not entirely lend themselves to this branch of music. I need to be working more towards creating ballads that will better suit the colour of my voice and range. Songs that I have been writing, while creative and emotionally introspective, often fail to play to my strengths. I need to go further towards rock melody and away from tenor pop and I plan to rework some of my songs to be more fitting while taking on a bunch of new covers (jazz, musical theatre, and very specially selected rock) while working on new music for myself that is in that same vein. Eventually I think I will be looking for a situation with a couple strings players, a percussionist, and a keys player where I play bass and guitar pending on the song and a few of us sing.

That being said, this weekend will probably be my last show for awhile. I need to spend my spare time on writing and practicing and recruiting, not preparing and performing. So come on out!! I'll be doing a couple new covers in the Halloween theme and trying some old songs played completely differently and maybe some new songs if I really practice in the next few days.

I became a musician to emote through my songs and to sing my soul out. My songs have allowed my emotion out but have often not been a vehicle for my soul to be heard. Hopefully a balance will soon be found and I will be playing to my strengths.