Seriously, how cool is music?
There is so much history, variety and potential that it’s almost impossible to be familiar with everything about it.
Growing up, I honestly didn’t know that there was such a thing as new music. I grew up listening to the various eclectic collections of my family members and had no comprehension of the fact that people were making new music every single day. I thought Mozart, Alla Pugacheva and nursery rhymes were the cream of the crop.
I think I was in second grade when I realized that my friends were listening to and singing songs I have never heard before and finally realized that there was so much more to this hidden world.
Now as an adult, I love everything about music. I love that you can pick something for literally any mood. I love the variety that different cultures have to offer. I love seeing how music has evolved over time.
One of the things I think is the absolute coolest thing about music is that as a musician, you can not only learn and cover songs that already exist, but you can literally do anything you want either to that song or to your own to make something completely unique and different.
I have seen people doing metal songs in a bossa nova style and I have heard people combine the most unlikely of instruments to create something beautiful. I myself have learned some songs on one instrument that were originally designed for another.
For a final project, I once took an alt/indie song my band and I wrote on two electric guitars, a bass, drums and vocals and converted it into a two piece ballad including acoustic guitar, vocals and piano.
Part of this project was also a group performance wherein which my professor found a song done completely on synthesizers and made individual parts for each of the guitar players in this class. The seven of us played “Computer Love” by Kraftwerk as an ensemble of seven. One person acted as the bass, two people acted as percussion, two people acted as rhythm and myself and another acted as lead. While there were some performance day hiccups, I have to say I was impressed with how it all came together.
One of the reasons I love going to see small artists perform is that while they have their original songs that are always unique, they almost always have to perform covers. Those covers always have something different to them that makes them one of a kind.
As someone who plays a fair amount of covers with my band, I always try to do something with the vocals to make it uniquely ours and uniquely mine.
— dj dragonfly
