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I wont go through my life story but I'll try to start in the beginning.
I've always had a desire to be a musician and music has always been important to me ever since before I can remember. When I entered elementary school I really wanted to learn guitar, but I never did, and when we learned to play the recorder I even wrote a song for it. In 6th grade they make you started on belles if you want to go on to percussion and when the time came to switch to percussion I stayed on bells. I started to write more seriously near the middle of the school year and I started to realize that, not only was I limited on my instrument but really limited to just that instrument and I started thinking about other instruments. The next year I started piano lessons. My piano teacher was the worship leader at my church. He was a nice man but I had never really gotten to know him up till that point, all I really knew was that he played piano in front of the congregation every Sunday and that it wasn't too bad. Once we started going, I think we both grew a lot in our compositions.
In high school I started out in the jazz band on vibes and I took the percussion workshop offered by the drum line teacher. People began to know me more and more for my abilities on mallets. My senior year I joined the drum line and I met the other mallet players in the school, there were two of them. I learned a lot from them and I will be ever great full to John Glade for teaching me so much. After that year, I had more popularity than I knew what to do with. Everyone that the drum line was amazing and the pit and the mallets were just exotic enough to get the football fans in a froth. I never fooled my self for one second into thinking I was a great musician, I know I had my short comings. Even when I became the best mallet player in the school it was because there were only three of us. Even then there was Matt Keown but no one ever counted him, he was great at everything. Besides, Matt was more focused on snare than on mallets.
Now I'm a graduate, my piano teacher has just told me that I'll have no more time for him, and I have my whole future ahead of me. I'm just entering college and I'm exited about the jazz combo class I'm taking.
Oh that reminds me...you should check out my piano teacher. His name is Neil Patton. He has some stuff on iTunes. He also as some posted athttp://www.myspace.com/neilpattonmusic and at http://www.indieheaven.com/artist_main.php?id=10234. And if you have a Myspace and you want to be my friend my URL is http://www.myspace.com/metamorphicrocks.
I'll try to get organized enough to get more songs up. I really have to apologize, I don't have a band or an orchestra at my disposal so all my songs a written in midi using Finale so none of it is an actual instrument. I know that most of you use the same kind of set up, but midi sounds really terrible.
P.S. I don't have an instrument of my own so if anyone has a spare vibes their willing to donate...? Leave me a message? Well it's worth a try.
I've always had a desire to be a musician and music has always been important to me ever since before I can remember. When I entered elementary school I really wanted to learn guitar, but I never did, and when we learned to play the recorder I even wrote a song for it. In 6th grade they make you started on belles if you want to go on to percussion and when the time came to switch to percussion I stayed on bells. I started to write more seriously near the middle of the school year and I started to realize that, not only was I limited on my instrument but really limited to just that instrument and I started thinking about other instruments. The next year I started piano lessons. My piano teacher was the worship leader at my church. He was a nice man but I had never really gotten to know him up till that point, all I really knew was that he played piano in front of the congregation every Sunday and that it wasn't too bad. Once we started going, I think we both grew a lot in our compositions.
In high school I started out in the jazz band on vibes and I took the percussion workshop offered by the drum line teacher. People began to know me more and more for my abilities on mallets. My senior year I joined the drum line and I met the other mallet players in the school, there were two of them. I learned a lot from them and I will be ever great full to John Glade for teaching me so much. After that year, I had more popularity than I knew what to do with. Everyone that the drum line was amazing and the pit and the mallets were just exotic enough to get the football fans in a froth. I never fooled my self for one second into thinking I was a great musician, I know I had my short comings. Even when I became the best mallet player in the school it was because there were only three of us. Even then there was Matt Keown but no one ever counted him, he was great at everything. Besides, Matt was more focused on snare than on mallets.
Now I'm a graduate, my piano teacher has just told me that I'll have no more time for him, and I have my whole future ahead of me. I'm just entering college and I'm exited about the jazz combo class I'm taking.
Oh that reminds me...you should check out my piano teacher. His name is Neil Patton. He has some stuff on iTunes. He also as some posted athttp://www.myspace.com/neilpattonmusic and at http://www.indieheaven.com/artist_main.php?id=10234. And if you have a Myspace and you want to be my friend my URL is http://www.myspace.com/metamorphicrocks.
I'll try to get organized enough to get more songs up. I really have to apologize, I don't have a band or an orchestra at my disposal so all my songs a written in midi using Finale so none of it is an actual instrument. I know that most of you use the same kind of set up, but midi sounds really terrible.
P.S. I don't have an instrument of my own so if anyone has a spare vibes their willing to donate...? Leave me a message? Well it's worth a try.
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Music
| Title | Genre | Released | Plays |
| Carol of the Mallets | Holiday | Sep 25, 2008 | 84 |
| Homage to Mountains | Classical | Sep 21, 2008 | 109 |
| Listen | Other | Sep 21, 2008 | 69 |
| Serenade For Strings in E I | Classical | Sep 28, 2008 | 111 |
| Serenade For Strings in E II | Classical | Sep 21, 2008 | 74 |
Favorites
| Title | Artist | Genre | Plays |
| A Scanner Darkly [Studio Demo] | artneuro [+2] | Rock | 251 |
| Baroquen Cymbalism | padowan_learner [+1] | Electronica | 578 |
| Black Car [Live] | artneuro [+2] | Rock | 215 |
| Champato | Wayout | Electronica | 54 |
| Furiant (Dvorak) | KeithOtis | Rock | 379 |
| Lost Hours | JackFancy | Alternative | 87 |
| Love Or Luck | JackFancy | Alternative | 69 |
| My Conundrum | artneuro [+2] | Rock | 759 |
| Serenade for Strings - III. Scherzo | compuguy1088 | Classical | 816 |
| The Demon | Aravoth | Classical | 54 |
| The New Heavy | PinkFreud [+2] | Rock | 182 |
| The Ruins of Time | ShadowofNine | Other | 314 |
| This Way | Lapotu [+1] | Blues | 254 |
| Tower Of Power | ShadowofNine | Other | 239 |
| Volcano King | Justin_Case [+1] | Other | 384 |
