Good evening Hive! This is Brandon again aka The Mixed Hippie reaching out today with a brief little write-up into a bit more about my personal jive with music.
For those who haven't had a chance to meet me yet, I recently created a short and sweet intro post on here yesterday I believe as well as link a new song I released. In it, I briefly went over how and when I got into music, kind of why I started taking it seriously, and where I am planning on heading with it as the year progresses. To see that post just head to the following page: https://hive.blog/hive-175836/@bbtmh/first-musicforlife-post-short-intro-and-new-song
I must admit, I am no writer. So please, read this as if I were speaking and just let me speak freely! I am going to wing this!
In this particular post, as part of my own self-reflection and again another more intimate look into who I personally am, I am going to discuss what music truly means to me and why I pursue it in the way that I do. But before I do that, I want to quickly thank anyone who's made it this far into this post already. I am trying to do my best with getting on here more and actually creating some cool content because I really do love the interactions I have been getting. It feels quite different than let's say, Instagram! Something about the blockchain just feels a bit more AH!
Anyway, let's get to it!
So, as the year comes to a close we tend to do a bit more reflecting on what's come to pass. This year in particular I really did have to take a back seat approach with music. My personal life, work-life, and art career really did add some complexities to the mix. Oh, and did I mention I had my first son this year. Oh, yea, and there there was COVID. Oh, how easy it is to forget the time we are currently living in.
Anyway, this year I really only put out a few NEW songs and mainly finally put out older ones. I ended up getting a new guitar which I've wanted for years upon years it seems but took what felt like an eternity to get. I did this in hopes of rekindling my relationship with utilizing the guitar in my tracks. Something about added reverberated delayed guitar to my music just puts a smile on my soul.
Look at that beauty!
I really need to get to the point of what music means for me now. With everything going on, music is and always has been what I think will be a saving grace for many. Not just those who make, or those who listen, but those who have to interact with those who do. I think as more time goes on, the type of music people will listen to will continue to change and evolve and I believe more instrumental music will take off. The reason being, we are becoming more reflective. Many are also having more time on their hand.
I have always created music to get something off my chest. And I know that's why a lot of people listen to all types in general. As I get older I realize how "hard" life can actually be but also how hard we are making that ourselves. My ability and desire to make music I feel must be a calling of some sort but I do not nearly do it enough. Why? I wish I had a better answer. All I can say is, with each day now seeming more and more "wild" and unpredictable, I fully intend to create WAY more in the next year. Building an asset catalog and also simply just messaging on here and TELLING people I made a new song or showing them, this is the simple stuff that actually means a lot. One post, one song, on a message can change someone's life.
I hope to use my time to continue to channel sounds and put them creatively together so I can hope someone gets through their day and if all is well even inspire them to create personally.
This post gives you a point for the initial distribution of our tribe's token. 🎶
Not sure what that means but I appreciate it and thank you!!!
And now you shall add HIVE to that mix. When you are not careful, you'll be spending hours and hours in our community with some part of that time somewhere else in crypto space. HIVE (well, Steem before) was and still is my bridge into the big pool of total chaos crypto space actually is. But it's a lot of fun! :)
Music preferences changes with generations, that's clear. Now the 'mass' is attending all these dance parties, I think indeed this may be a driver for more instrumental music. Though the dance music for the mass 'EDM' uses a lot of vocals, I suppose to appeal to the mass, to give them something to sing along or something.
I was always drawn to instrumental, whether it was the well-know Vangelis, or Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, or many of the movie soundtracks (modern classical I call it), or the techno music that was born back in the early 80s in Detroit.
I do hope you can find the time to spend more on what you really seem to want: Create music! It's easy to create time; Just ditch anything that became a 'normal' in your life while it doesn't contribute to feeling happy. Easier said than done, I know :)
Thanks for the comment :) I actually have an old Steemit account but locked out of there! A huge bummer!
https://steemit.com/@themixedhippie
Steemit is soooo passé 🤪