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Fun with SoundCloud




I spent the whole day just trying to think about what to post on this new sound recording website at SoundCloud.com. It's a great app for those who want to get their music out there, or at least on the facebook wall. I just love the fact that it's so easy to use and that I can actually use my iTouch4 to record the songs I want to be posted online. It's a great way to start sharing music to others who have an open ear. I just love it.

As a musician, I totally revamped my philosophy when it comes to sharing my music to other people. I ran back to basics. I love to write songs that make me feel good. I write songs that have a feel-good vibe and is easy to listen to. Although I must say that I'm a neophyte compared to all the greats out there; heck maybe even you have a greater gift compared to my menial singer-songwriter bravado. But you know what? I'm okay with it. I'm okay with people thinking that this guy is better than me when it comes to making songs. It's not like I don't give a damn about what people think; I do. As a musician, you have to look towards what your music does to people, rather than what it does to you. It's just that I don't mind it anymore when people think a different way; it's okay. Music, after all is a personal experience; one that we can't really share with people completely. All I can really do as a singer is just gut it out and hope you like it; hope at the end of it all that you enjoyed it too. 

I love singing songs. I love music so much I carry it around practically everywhere I go. It's in my head constantly. I can even see it sometimes! My only frustration is that I can't be the best at it; I just work with what I have. For me, I'm not gifted with the fastest hands in the world, or the best singing voice, I just love doing what I'm doing, which I guess, is enough for me to get by. Don't get me wrong, I "practice" all the time when I'm home with a guitar and do my homework. Sometimes I just play around with chords and progressions and watch time pass by. But sometimes I just think I'm always a work-in-progress, and never will be the musician I have always hoped to be. And that's just fine with me! I just love the feeling or creating music; it makes me feel valuable, like I am part of the world.

SoundCloud is great because I now I get to share my songs to other people and hope they like it. But to tell you honestly, it's actually a very grueling process for me. While most musicians can't wait to share their music to others, I on the other hand am more tentative and scared of it. It takes a whole lot of courage for me to post a song online, and it scares the hell out of me when its there. It's not that I'm scared of people telling me that I suck, it's more of a feeling of hopefulness and excitement; me hoping that you like it. I'm more scared of you telling me that you didn't like it, than with me seeming like a total douche posting songs online.

I'm sure in one way or another you can relate with the passion I have. I'm sure there's something you love doing; something you can't live without. Something that is always with you wherever you go. When you have that, doesn't it make your life just a little bit more meaningful? And when you share that with other people and they see the joy in your eyes when you do it, doesn't that give them happiness as well? I really hope it does, for the world's sake, because the world needs more of that.

If you want to listen to the song I posted, click on this link here. The song is entitled So Alive and I wrote it just last week in my room. I hope you like it. :)

Thanks for reading friend. Be blessed!




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