Just to be honest for a quick second before getting into what I really wanted to write about to you today. Before falling on disability because of injuries and illness almost 10 years ago, which includes having survived through cancer, I had been playing classical guitar almost my entire life. Although I never got to have music become a source of livable income, I first started on the piano as a kid, then electric guitar and bass before making classical guitar my main dedication at some point between college and university. I also have increasingly bad tinnitus, pretty bad anxiety, and am somewhere out there on the spectrum. A whole bunch of things that aren’t making aging any easier.

I’ve been playing the drums almost exclusively for about five years now, after a few year of ‘forced retirement’ I actually needed to take a break from the guitar … If I had one thing to tell my past self, it would be to learn drums younger. I had plenty of opportunities to do so, despite the guitar being such a demanding master. After buying that acoustic bass last year, well, one thing led to another and now I can’t get off those nylon strings again. Happened at some point between taking a pause from the sticks and recording Scalar Feels. The video embedded below, also available as an audio file here. I have fun playing drums, writing for the drums I have no idea.

So I’ll end up posting about the new stuff at some point, I just spent almost two-months working on getting Accidental Notes ready for recording, etudes 26 and 27. It’s all classical guitar. It doesn’t really fit in with any of the other stuff so far, so the three pieces that make it up are getting their own album name. A demo version, the recording I’ll have on youtube at most a few days after posting this, is already on my bandcamp page.

I should be done with writing at this point, and aside from learning or re-learning some classics, I’ll focus on stepping up my drum workouts. I’ll be sharing the notations for all the latest music, not making it much of a priority though, unless I get some feedback or requests for it to convince me otherwise.

So no other projects going on this time posting here, I’ll give myself some time to hopefully make a better take of that last one before sharing it proper. Part 1, the Carnival in G, was going to be it’s own thing, but trying to end it making sense led to Part 3, Folk Jazz in E, which led to the thing being 10 minutes long. Part 2 turns out to be lots of fun so it’s all worth it I think. If I can’t get my best takes on them all at once, then I’ll settle for recording them separately instead of just cutting them out in parts in editing :D
It just really makes more sense for the video to have it all in one take.

That’s all I have for now.
Thanks for stopping by, please help me buy some new strings if you can.