Life Melody

I really like the sound of the guitar.
It's so refreshing and clean. You know?

If you listen to the songs where they just pick at the strings. It's just so very intriguing. You have to hear it.
It's quite amazing how something so simple can be so beautiful.

Music fascinates me. Maybe you've experienced one of those musical moments where you were just goofing, playing a few random notes, and happened to create this incredible sounding melody. I was improvizing with Taylor and Rebecca after school one day and we were just playing. Not for any occasion, but just playing for the heck of it- Taylor was strumming his guitar playing a few couple chords over and over again. Rebecca was just repeating a few notes up and down her string on violin. And I was just basically playing quarter and half notes on my cello. It was just a bunch of notes here and there all mixed together- not exactly the prettiest thing I've heard. But you know what? For a few split moments... no! More than like, for a few several minutes... everything just started to fit. We weren't trying to do anything, but somehow it just happened. And we began to be in sync with each other. It was as if all the notes had decided to arrange themselves to fit together. It sounded like a real something. It was amazing. Just so amazing! You can't understand the excitement I felt. It was just one of those nerdy joys. I guess it was just one of those "things".

So I've heard a lot of these really huge gigantic fancy symphonies and it's kind of funny how I've experienced some of the greatest musical moments in all these really simple passages. Maybe 4 or 5 notes played in a certain way. I mean I'll give you Jupiter by Holst for example. It starts off with this somewhat of a fanatic beginning, all these fast-paced-high-pitched-trilled-notes, it's exciting and all but it's just not the highlight of the whole thing. There's this reoccuring melody that's played throughout the piece and it's really simple but when the orchestra plays it midway in this one slow dramatic moment, it's incredibly moving. It's not even that complicated. In fact, it's really easy to play (I mean I can play it -0-). But it's really amazing how something not so complicated, can make you feel all these complicated things without even trying.

Ah, so I've gotten on a bit of a rant. Music is just that exciting of a topic! But the basic point I was attempting to get to was this: do we too often complicate the already beautiful melodies of our lives? I've found that too many trills, tremelos, and accidentals in some pieces only distracts the listener away from the real voice of the music. As does synthesizers and all these high-tech effects in a lot of current pop and hip-hop songs-

I think I'm going to redit my life melody. Take off alot of the unneccasary fancy trills I put in before. It's not going to be as exciting. And honestly, you may not even want to listen to it after. You'd be surprised how different my song would sound without it all. But the thing is, it would be me. It would be pure and it wouldn't be this fabricated mess of who I want to be. See, I've been going along with this "complicatedness" for such a long time I honestly don't even remember what the real melody sounds like anymore. It's funny how we try to be so much more than we really are. We make up this outer persona to keep ourselves from getting hurt. We think maybe if I put on all these "trills" it'll hide the fact I'm really scared. Scared of disappointing others. Scared of not meeting up to all their expectations. Effort is good, trying to become better is good. But eventually, you do have to ask yourself, is all my effort being pushed in the right direction? Afterall, you can only sing someone elses song for so long...

*Reference
Jupiter - 3:05 is that slow dramatic moment I was talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6NopU9K_8M