One Of My Biggest (And Longest Term) Goals

I thought I'd chat a bit about where I'm 'hopefully' going with all this. As well as wanting to write a bunch of cool songs I'm starting to get other ideas about the kind of avenues I want to explore. There are many things I want to try but there is one in particular that gets me all giddy! It's a little (a lot) out there and probably typically for me, a little extreme but it's going to be very fun to experiment with I think.  And I'm warning you it's very geeky!

A little caveat before I begin. I'm an ideas person, I have hundreds and hundreds of them, some tiny twinklings of ideas that may grow or may fade, some big whoppers that often are brilliant but I simply don't have the skill set to peruse them. Some are wild and may be disasters, some are growers, the more I explore it the more it evolves, and importantly, changes. But whatever the case my mind tick tick ticks and I've learnt to take each with a pinch of salt because one thing is true of just about every idea I ever had - it will evolve.  Even some of the dumbest ideas could work if rethought and reworked and looked at from a new angle (some ideas are just plain dumb though - full stop - and I've had more than a few of them!).

This one is in infant stage and will seriously evolve and change as I learn more!

I want to be able to write for each instrument, we already know that yes. But... I want to expand that by thinking about the individual role of each instrument within a song, in particular within a story. I want to write a song and have a clear idea of the emotion journey, the storytelling and style or genre I'm trying to achieve. Then to take each instrument and push, push, push in terms of the technique etc itself to make it shine but always contained with that same set of rules (the story etc). I want to tease out stronger and deeper stories by using the nuances of each instrument, by giving each room but most importantly, still complimenting the others, to really explore the connection between them with perfect focus always of the main objective. I want to use theory to do this also, not just in terms of note choice but sound levels, dynamics, all kinds of ways. To use psychology & to understand a particular genre. Just to really experiment and push boundaries I guess.

Sometimes the goal will be emotional response, sometimes it will be to drive home a message, sometimes it will just me being playful. But the overall idea is to use music in a fun way to illicit something out of you. Music already does that of course but I want to ramp it up to 11 on the dial!! Just because!

Yeah I know for most people this is nerdy "really? omg that's so sad" territory but for me it's very cool stuff! I know you'll forgive just a bit of geek in me!

So there you go one reason I need to play well and what's cool about it is the combination of instruments I've chosen.  I won't be setting the world on fire with this - I won't be trying to haha - but I will have lots of fun!