Blood, sweat, and tears

First step:

Come up with an idea

something you spiral

circulate around

carve your name and your life into a treble clef

what inspires you?

 

Second step:

Google note patterns

if you need help

otherwise

click letters

lines or spaces

into the blank score

make chords and sounds

 

Third step:

Listen with your eyes closed

listen

to it

every couple measures

feel

in your heart

 

Fourth step:

Complete it

come back to the main melody

advance on it

make it major or minor or different 

 

Fifth step:

Dynamics

articulation

expression

title

 

Sixth step:

Play it on GarageBand

all your hard work

cranking notes out 

each with careful thought and intention to fit the theme

record yourself and layer it

so what if you only play one and a half instruments

the tracks sound good

a quintet with yourself

 

Everything you just did

everything you just made

is purely yours

just yours

no one else has created anything like it

QueenBee

VT

14 years old

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