nzEscher
06-16-2008, 12:33 AM
Hi,
Names Greg Pienaar, from 'ol Aotearoa (South African born though, if that wasn't obvious :rolleyes:).
I'm a few months off 21, just getting started in my music career, in the process of building my Studio now (at the moment home studio, but I have plans to take it further.)
---skip this if you want, its probably not that interesting :)
As for musical background, I was forced infront of a piano at the age of 7 at the threat of my video games being taken away, and hated every second of the 3 months I did it. I wrote a few classical songs at the time, based loosely around simple things like Minuet. I didn't realise that this was remotely abnormal, and still hated it. Took the opportunity to give up when my teacher left the country.
So from that experience I completely avoided music until I turned 16, and a friend wanted a bass player for their band, so I started to teach myself on a 20 year old acoustic guitar we had lying around. Within a week I realised I was able to write songs, even if I couldn't really play them. I also this time realised how much fun it was!.
So I ditched the bass idea, and just continued to teach myself and write songs on guitar.
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So come today, 4 years on, I have much that I want to express in terms of my own music, and I am currently teaching myself theory/pitch/piano/drums/singing/(and midi instrumentation now :D). I plan to work towards game/film/TV composition once I have finished an album of my own music, and done some producing for other artists.
This forum seems a gold mine of information for new composers, I've learnt much since starting to lurk here! So thanks already.
I am expecting Pianos SD2 MoR SOPlXp and Gypsy shortly :) and will have a few songs to post for critique not too long after I hope!
Names Greg Pienaar, from 'ol Aotearoa (South African born though, if that wasn't obvious :rolleyes:).
I'm a few months off 21, just getting started in my music career, in the process of building my Studio now (at the moment home studio, but I have plans to take it further.)
---skip this if you want, its probably not that interesting :)
As for musical background, I was forced infront of a piano at the age of 7 at the threat of my video games being taken away, and hated every second of the 3 months I did it. I wrote a few classical songs at the time, based loosely around simple things like Minuet. I didn't realise that this was remotely abnormal, and still hated it. Took the opportunity to give up when my teacher left the country.
So from that experience I completely avoided music until I turned 16, and a friend wanted a bass player for their band, so I started to teach myself on a 20 year old acoustic guitar we had lying around. Within a week I realised I was able to write songs, even if I couldn't really play them. I also this time realised how much fun it was!.
So I ditched the bass idea, and just continued to teach myself and write songs on guitar.
----
So come today, 4 years on, I have much that I want to express in terms of my own music, and I am currently teaching myself theory/pitch/piano/drums/singing/(and midi instrumentation now :D). I plan to work towards game/film/TV composition once I have finished an album of my own music, and done some producing for other artists.
This forum seems a gold mine of information for new composers, I've learnt much since starting to lurk here! So thanks already.
I am expecting Pianos SD2 MoR SOPlXp and Gypsy shortly :) and will have a few songs to post for critique not too long after I hope!