Musical Autobiography

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How was I first introduced to music? I do not remember the first time I listened to music but considering both the family and world I was born Into, I would imagine the gap between my birth and first musical experience to be rather small. They were not Mr. and Mrs. Von Trapp, but my parents are both certainly musical in there own right. My father is a rather talented guitarist and song writer and my mother is perhaps one of the biggest John Prine Fans you'll ever meet. She would sing me his timeless folk anthems instead of lullabies and In the first grade I was met with very strange looks to my suggestion that my music class learn his song Angel from Montgomery. My extended family is musical too. Some of my earliest memories are from the big …show more content…

As a child In Catholic elementary school I learned to play the recorder with the rest of my peers and I eventually volunteered to be one of the members of the children’s choir that would sing at the all school Friday morning Mass. In fourth and fifth grade I took clarinet lessons three days a week as my music class. I transferred to a secular school leaving God in the dust in sixth grade and I deiced to swap the Clarinet for the Guitar. The Guitar was cool and I stuck with it until about eighth grade when I loss all passion for the practice. Many of my friends continued playing and are fantastic musicians today, but its never too late I suppose. During my Highschool years I was very confused by electronic music so I decided to do what got me into the genres I liked at the time, and force my self to listen to something new. I devoured electronic music, like Justice’s Cross, Daft Punk’s Homework/Discovery, and Apex Twin’s Drukqs. In this process I deiced to teach myself a bit about how these relatively foreign sounds were being made. I found some awesome software that emulated a two Roland TR-808 drum synths, a TR-909 drum synth and a TB-303 bass synth. I also found great instructional videos on youtube and spent a few months learning how to produce very basic house music. This was never meant to be an artistic endeavor, however I believe the results are still on Soundcloud somewhere. I just wanted to learn a tangible difference between genres like Dubstep, House, Trance, Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, Downtempo, and Trap. In my current form I consider my self an Avid music consumer but by no means a musician. I have developed a hunger for new and unique music and I get board with my overgrown music library very easily. I now force my friends to listen my newly discovered music and I take pride in introducing them to something they like thats totally out of their

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