Hello there my wonderful writers! Today, I have provided for you a small music video of me playing guitar! As this week’s Student Blogging Challenge is related to music, and I truly do love guitar, I decided to write a song on the guitar. For a little background, I took guitar for two years in school, and still play on the side at home. My genre of music isn’t defined by any existing genre, but a genre that I have dubbed FSSEASNS(it’s okay if you can’t pronounce it I can’t either). While you may be scratching your head as to what FSSEASNS is and pondering if I have gone mentally insane, I can assure you that, one, I’m okay( at least according to the doctors) and, two, that FSSEASNS stands for the Fifties, Sixty, Seventy, Eighty’s, And Some Nineties Songs. When I was around the age of eleven, I found that I didn’t have a “favorite genre,” so I looked back on all the music that I loved and found that they all come from one of these five decades! And so FSSEASNS was born and it was glorious. I’ve used music from my made-up genre ever since. I think the wacky song I made up for this video takes inspiration from the FSSEASNS.
When making this song, I just started experimenting and tried to decide what sounded right to me. In the end, my final product sounded a little out of control, so I toned it down for you all. When writing the notes for this song, I found that my love of guitar is as strong as ever! This surprised me, as I don’t take guitar class anymore! Maybe all I needed was some experimentation to let my creative/inventive juices flowing. I also found that writing music is very similar to writing a story. When your writing, you write whatever comes to mind, but you don’t truly know if your story sounds proper until you read it out loud. In music, you write your lyrics and notes, but you don’t know if it sounds good until you play it. At the end of the day, aren’t they both forms of expressing ourselves creatively as well? Isn’t crazy how similar these two art forms are? I know it is for me!
Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed my song and my post. Let me know about your musical journey or some connection you have to music in the comments section. Remember to leave a link to your blog in your comment, so that I can visit your guy’s blogs. I love reading other people’s experiences, it lets me think of new ideas for stories :).
Have a great day and remember to wear your pencils!
Wow! I love your blog. Thank you for writing such an incredibly thoughtful and detailed post. I think I like the same “genre” as you because I love music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s!
I don’t play an instrument, but I am a dancer… So I feel very connected to music and I love to create dances and choreography to all different kinds of music.
Thank you for sharing your video!
-Morah Lianna (Morah is teacher in Hebrew… this is what my Grade 2 students call me)
Hi Ayyoob!
As usual, I found your post to be both entertaining and interesting! It has been fascinating learning about your many talents and interests through this Blogging Challenge. You have so many layers to your abilities! I’m very glad that you rediscovered your passion for music and especially for playing the guitar through this week’s challenge. It doesn’t surprise me at all that you approach song-writing in the same way you approach writing a story.
Keep up the great work, and I want you to know that I’m currently wearing my pencil 🙂
Mrs. Sheridan
https://blogs.lcps.org/mmssheridan2018/
Hello Ayyoob,
This is your good friend Risad! I loved that you incorporated your passion for music, by playing the Guitar! I know many people who have lost their past passion for the wonderful instrument, unfortunately I have too. (But it might reignite, no one knows what the future holds) If you don’t mind me asking, what oldies songs do you recommend, or what songs do you like? I want to get a taste of that music genre. I have like one foot on one, and the other on the other side. So, that is why I am asking a knowledgeable person like you. I want to expand my music horizons!
If you want to expand your music tastes too, click on the to visit my blog!
http://blogs.lcps.org/artsntstuff/
-Risad
Greetings Ayyoob!
This is Nature Nerd. I love music as well, but I have no act for playing instruments. I will sing and dance, but I have never played an instrument. Except if you count recorders in fourth grade (Recorders are like a flute and a whistle in one instrument). We put rubber bands on the end of our recorders, sort of like belts in martial arts. We were all in the classroom at the same time and we would practice at the same time. All I can remember is the unnerving sound of untalented fourth graders playing plastic objects. Do you play or have played other instruments, other than guitar? 😛
Nature Nerd
https://blogs.lcps.org/naturenerd/