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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:33 am
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:31 am
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 12:30 am
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I got my start as a musician when I was 15 months old, I have been told. As a baby/toddler I was able to sing (gibberish) on key along to songs on the radio that I had previously heard before I had gained the power of speech, and I've been told this by many of my relatives. Unfortunately, during my tender developing years, I was not exposed to the classics such as Zepplin, The BEATLES, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc... I was exposed to COUNTRY MUSIC! YAY!... so there are tapes of me singing Randy Travis as a little child. I would not be as embarassed of them if it was 'Sewgeant peppew's wonwey heawts cwub band.'
Anyway, when I was about 4 and a half, we moved back from Florida, where we had been living for a while since my mom got a divorce and got all screwed over. Anyway, she remarried to a jerk (wrong forum for that story), but we would go to church, and she took me up to the piano and taught me where middle C was, where F was, and what a 5th was. A few minutes later, I was playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, because I worked it out myself by ear. A few weeks later I was playing the wedding march when me and the other children would pretend wedding after church.
I was eventually put into lessons, though I basically ignored the teacher and did what I wanted while learning more and more by ear. The teacher's sole job was teaching me to read music and denying the existance of what I would later learn to be called Music Theory. (according to her, music's rules were "read the page and don't improvise.") All the while, I was doing shows at nursing homes with my sister, who would sing oldies while I'd play the piano... and we'd RAKE IT IN from those old farts. We once made 80 bucks playing for 30 minutes to a group of old people at this christmas party. What can I say, we were cute ^_^!
Fast forward, My sister broke her leg and we never did a show afterwards. I got bored and fed up with my piano teacher, as she was now actively telling me to destroy my ear and only learn to read, which I still hadn't done. I kept asking her about the "rules" of music and different things about chords, but she insisted still that there was no such thing and that composers just knew what sounded good or something... there was no such thing as theory in her book. I eventually dumped this piano teacher at the same time my mom divorced and married a bassist.
Fast Forward. I learned the bass at 17. It's now my 2nd best instrument to piano. I went into the military for a while, and got out soon after because I was going insane. I realize now it was because I didn't have access to a piano or any instruments.
-------------------------------------- I DISCOVERED BEN FOLDS FIVE. --------------------------------------
I consider this a turning point because I was still very novice on piano until I started learning Ben's songs, and thus was forced to start learning about music theory, the term I had just recently learned. From here on, things looked up.
Fast Forward - two years ago... I took a theory class, learned the secrets, and decided to learn every instrument I could get my hands on. I also discovered I still didn't know s**t about the bass, and not much more for piano. So I changed this, and also learned guitar, drum set (with other percussion), harmonica, saxophone, flute, clarinet, and a lot of others I can't think of right now because I just had a shot of vodka. (I'm of age, don't worry!)
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 4:08 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:05 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:15 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:30 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:37 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:31 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:06 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:15 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:10 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:47 pm
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x.Marsh[mel]low.x Captain
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:21 pm
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