Muse for my Life

Music

Now most of you out there likes music. Of course everyone has different tastes. Music is my life. I need it while I exercise. I need it while I am working. I need it while I am sitting home doing nothing :). I first got interested around my 6th grade when I was "volunteered" to be part of the school band. I started learning the flute and caught on real quick and I was simply impressed by how much you can have fun with it. I started playing drums in my band which lasted till my 7th grade and then no more school band as I went to the high school. However the passion of music remained in me. Then I was given this amazing gift of a small casio keyboard by my elder sister and then I just went bonkers. I caught on that so quick that I was playing songs in 2 months. Not to be boasting here but I learnt everything on my own watching others play and my faithful ears. So far my music instruments collection include 1 keyboard, 2 fluts (scale D and G), two guitars (picture below - the electric one was a gift from me to me on my 23rd birthday :) and the acoustic one was from my father when I got nice grades in my 12th so that I can go to a nice engineering college) and 3 harmonicas. I however do wish to learn guitar from scratch so as to improve upon my self learnt technique.



I have always been fond of sharing good music with everyone. So I had a nice little band back in undergrad. We did perform in one of the annual celebrations however I missed out on my last semester as I was down sick and couldn't go to college for 5 months. Back in NC State where I did my masters we created a big music group where we had a lot of fun. It was a group of very very talented people. They still continue to play and I really miss playing with them. We christened our group Aalaap. I learned a lot while I was part of the group and it has become a great part of my life.

I have always liked to create some nice music and it is my dream to create a nice home studio and a band so I can write and record music. One day maybe I will make good enough music to make it into an album. Since I am mostly left alone right now I take help from number of software tools. The one that really stands out is the Fruity loops which lets you create beats and melodies while you can play your instrument. I have some recording setup on my computer so I can record this together on multiple channels and create songs. If you are one like me you will love this software.

Getting back to my music taste. I mostly like rock, metal, jazz kinds of genre. Lately I have been attracted to trance music which can be good sometimes. Here are few of my favorite bands

1) Led Zeppelin
2) Metallica
3) AC/DC
4) Iron Maiden
5) Pink Floyd
6) U2
7) Tool
8) A Perfect Circle
9) Black Sabbath
10) Def Leppard
11) Dire Straits
12) Infected Mushroom
13) Enigma
14) Bon Jovi
15) Coldplay
16) Deep Purple
17) The Corrs
18) Joe Satriani
19) Steve Vai
20) Ywngste Malmsteen (The above three are called G3: the best 3 guitarists according to me)



I guess I might have forgotten some of them :). I like to play guitar from the songs of most of these people. To help me out is this wonderful site: Ultimate Guitar and when you find yourself lost on a chord you can go here: Chord Find

Music can be relaxing, invigorating and exciting. It comes in all flavors of life and you can choose it suit your mood. I hope in the future I create a tune that will touch everyone's hearts.

posted by Sameer @ 3:17 PM