My first post

As one of many new years resolutions, I have decided to start a blog. I want to capture things I experience and things I learn along my journey. Also it would be nice to reminisce on times that have passed.

I have now been playing as a semi-professional musician for around  7 years. It all happened unintentionally really. I just wanted to share my own music, so I decided to take to the streets and busk. Needless to say, I was pretty nervous, but somehow I persevered. It was shortly after I started that I was asked if I play weddings. I just paused and was like.. Yeah, sure. I realised in that moment that there was more to busking than its initial pay off. It was the start of my (paid) musical journey.

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Bookings quite quickly started to roll in after distributing many business cards. Some of my designs were a little strange as I had no idea what I was doing. As time passed I refined my style and figured things out. I pretty much started with 15 songs that I sort of knew how to play. As soon as the first few bookings came in I swiftly took to learning another 20 or so.

My original music took a back seat, though I always made sure I would include my own songs in my set. I feel like at some point I just stopped making time for writing and focused mostly on learning cover songs and building my repertoire, as that was paying.

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I never stopped writing songs, of course not. It's so ingrained in my being that I don't think it would be possible to exist without having that expression.

I like to capture and save little snippets of inspiration where I can. Whether it is a photo or a lyric or even a quote that evokes thought and feeling. I might even hum a melody while tapping the steering wheel and record it on my phone if I have no other means of getting an idea down.

Everyone is driven by something. It has always been music that has helped me in times of need and help me focus my attention.

I am looking forward to another year of gigging and writing music. I have big plans for releasing my music this year. I will be releasing one of my newest songs 'The Gift' at the end of this month. It's an acoustic track, I wanted it to have the raw energy. I will save my thoughts on the song for another post after the song is released maybe.

Thank you to everyone that has supported me so far, it really is an amazing gift to be able to do this as a job. I am forever grateful.