Music Lessons
Jan. 29th, 2018 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingOkay, I'm calmer now. Not smoking can trigger panic attacks in me, although I do have the patch, which should help. I don't know why tonight was especially hard.
One of the happiest times of my life was when I was taking music lessons near the end of my IBM career. Taking voice lessons in San Francisco was especially fun. It took me around an hour and a half to get there one way, but that was part of the fun. I was able to forget my stressy job for a few hours and pretend that I was a starving music student. Guitar lessons were fun too, but I have less aptitude for it.
I started singing around the time that I started talking. I can't remember not singing. I spent hours trying to imitate the records that my mom played (movie musicals and Barbra Streisand). I took existing songs and wrote new lyrics to them. I wish like hell that I had learned to play guitar then, but that's split milk now.
So I really want to get my life to a place where I can take music lessons again. The potential music teacher is a singer-songwriter, which is what I want to be. Yes, I know that I'm too old to become a star, but singing and (possibly) writing songs would be very fulfilling to me. (I would kind of like to start a band called "Better Late than Never" with over-40 musicians though :))
So I need to keep on keeping on.
I'm planning to take free online guitar lessons for the nonce. I need to see if my guitar tuner is with my guitar, which is the first step.
One of the happiest times of my life was when I was taking music lessons near the end of my IBM career. Taking voice lessons in San Francisco was especially fun. It took me around an hour and a half to get there one way, but that was part of the fun. I was able to forget my stressy job for a few hours and pretend that I was a starving music student. Guitar lessons were fun too, but I have less aptitude for it.
I started singing around the time that I started talking. I can't remember not singing. I spent hours trying to imitate the records that my mom played (movie musicals and Barbra Streisand). I took existing songs and wrote new lyrics to them. I wish like hell that I had learned to play guitar then, but that's split milk now.
So I really want to get my life to a place where I can take music lessons again. The potential music teacher is a singer-songwriter, which is what I want to be. Yes, I know that I'm too old to become a star, but singing and (possibly) writing songs would be very fulfilling to me. (I would kind of like to start a band called "Better Late than Never" with over-40 musicians though :))
So I need to keep on keeping on.
I'm planning to take free online guitar lessons for the nonce. I need to see if my guitar tuner is with my guitar, which is the first step.
