I Am a Musician Stories of Experiences

Here's a link to download my latest 5 track project ''The Smoke E.P.'' Go take it for free if you're interested.
http://adam-son.bandcamp.com/
Or
http://adam-son.bandcamp.com/album/the-smoke-e-p

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1BjEhJ0P5E
this song has many parts. what is here, is only 2 parts and basically just me messing around with the progressions and riffing around. the beginning is about 15 seconds of noise that my...

the self critical part of me wants to say that i am a washed up guitar player. the problem with that is that i still love to play, i just dont want to make a career out of it. I gave up the notion of being a rock star long ago and i am...

I love music a lot. I play the trombone for the RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music) but tutor general brass instruments at home (tuba, trumpet, cornet, trombone, euphonium, French Horn, etc;). I have two students coming to me learning...

I wrote 48 songs and I sang some covers.
I am a musician, singer and songwriter.
My musical name is C&M. I don't remember why I chose this name, and when an Italian radio asked me why (I am from Italy), I couldn't be able to answer.
The...

I am a musician.

I spent years in the musical world.
I attended specialist musical schools and continued this through to university.
I am
Classically trained on the piano, studied Operatic soprano for 15 years, French horn, clarinet...

My desire to be a musician started at a very young age when I refused to go anywhere without my Mickey Mouse "good-tar".
I am that person who wants to play everything! I have been playing drums for 17 years now. It could have been...

What I am most happy about is that I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me when I daydream that it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be...

1) When making music make something which you want to hear but which doesn't yet exist. Or, in business terms: 'fill a gap in the market'. Forget 'genre'.

2) Work with what you have. Nowadays even a budget computer, £100 of software...

Early 70's I grew up around Mason Proffit, REO Speedwagon John Mellancamp and they motivated me to pick up guitar.  I still practice today and play as a walk  on..in bars when open stage   but just   for fun....I wouldnt trade the...

So a C, an E-flat, and a G walk into a bar. The bartender says, "sorry, but we don't serve minors."

So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes...

Hey there, well i am a singer, songwriter, guitarist and a bunch of other things, from Australia. Started playing guitar 25 years ago and began writing music when i was like about 12. Music is everything to me. If you want, you can...

Yes, I am actually. For the record, I have Grade 8, passed with distinction, and I plan to go to university to study music. I have played in many a concert, and I'm in two orchestras, and a folk band.
I often have a hard time telling...

used to be a professional singer...the stage's my world...somehow i lived in the songs i sang...so much so i was overwhelmed and emotionally drained...stopped after my father died...the last connection to my family...after so many years...

I have challenged myself to write a song.

30 years ago, I was a teenager when I wrote my first song. It was pretty and vapid. Actually just pretty vapid.

12 months ago the desire to play guitar returned. I added skills and knowledge...

i love music with a passion, ambition and dedication. i won't stop until i made into a prosperous career for me. Music is everything to me and i just want more opportunity for it, that's all.

I got a bass and a practice amp, and I find it very difficult, especially slapping and popping in time and on rhythm. It is particularly difficult to slap the A, D, and G strings.

Of course, slapping de bass is only one technique, and...

Well I started in the fourth grade and I thought it was pretty cool. At first I was horrible, ofc. But as time went on I got better and started participating in music festivals. I love my instrument and I would play it everyday. It...

Im a singer songwriter. Its was my dream to make a living playing music. I had an extreme weight issue my whole life which I felt kept me from getting to that next level with my music. By the time I finally got my weight under control I...

I used to sing in front of thousands of people about 4 times a weekend ten years ago. I started singing professionally about 12, i was a bit of a prodigy. I began singing at about 4, could harmonize read music & play piano at 7. It is...