What is everyone doing today to start off 2014?

Deane

I am happy to report that I have begun to record a new song (after more than five years from the last one) and I cannot emphasize enough what this means to me.

I have a New Years Luncheon Gig today 130-230 !

Have a double today, single tomorrow, and the snow is supposed to hit here heavy on Friday. Next week, three doctors appointments, one for possible knee surgery, the next at the pulmonary doctor, and finally the cardiologist. Then all Hell cuts loose with wall to wall jobs for the rest of the year. I did, however, schedule a couple weeks off in the middle of summer for a short sailing trip to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, and another couple weeks in December to drive down to Marathon Key, Florida to warm up and get a good tan before winter hits full blast up here. Just another typical year for an old man.

Gary

aside from the doctor stuff .... go for it gary its your passion as is mine, share it with the world plenty of time to rest in the grave!!

Wow! That is good news. I can emphasize with you to some degree as I went through a slump some time ago but it was only for several months, and not years!

In my case, that first recorded tune kick started me to do quite a few more, and I only stopped when I was in the process of moving into my new apartment and everything had to be taken apart and reassembled.

Now I'm ready to do some more recording, and I am trying to keep it more in the "fun" aspect rather than super serious, at least for the first few tunes.

So. my friend, I am very glad to hear you've initiated the process.

Will this be an instrumental song or one with vocals?

Is it your own composition or your own interpretation/arrangement of an existing song?

In any case, kudos to you for getting back into your music, and perhaps you will share some here with us on SZ?

Ian

Best of Luck Andrea, I've got little Gig next week but I'm spending most of my time these days recording.

The new years resolution is to improve my playing, piano mainly, the G70 is helping a lot with this. Great action and good piano as I'm sure you know. May post some instrumental stuff if it comes together.

All the best

Col

Andrea ... Lydia and I are SOOOO happy for you ... We cannot wait to add another 'Dreamer' song to our iPOD ...

Gary ... keep pluggin' man ... the world needs us 'old codgers' out there ...

Ian,

I am sure that you can understand what I went through because I remember -not long time ago- you telling us of a health problem of yours, one that took several months and two interventions to be solved.
In my case the problem kept me away from the music for more than two years because I was literally unable to press the keys and one of the reasons I bought the Casio was that I needed a weighed keyboard to re-educate my fingers.
Aside from that, I went through a phase of total emptiness or lack of energy and, even if I sat at the keyboard, the music refused to flow from inside out and after a while I just stopped trying.
So, the very fact that I am now making the effort required to play a song over and over and then record it means that I am slowly coming back to my old life.
Since I don't sing it will be an instrumental song and since I suck as a composer it will be an arrangement of an existing song, but right now I can't tell more because it's meant to be a surprise...
and of course I will share it with you all, because it was the very idea of sharing that set this process in motion.
I hope that, like happens for avalanches, once you make the initial effort the rest will come more easily, almost by itself, and more songs will follow.