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Music in its simplest form is 12 notes, inspiring a wide range of emotions in a person with expression and feel. It can carry such a humanistic quality along with it that little else, especially as simple in its truest form, can make such a boast. My job in music is to use each note to manipulate the feelings of those who listen through music or through cinema. Wasting any of that potential on a dull moment can turn off a listener, making even the slightest detail critical to a piece. Ever since I can remember, my music has always been about trying to put my inner most feelings into a medium that people of all differences can understand. To waste or mince notes is to cheat myself out of a skill that has taken me my life thus far to attain.
I have been involved with many musicians my whole life, those who have mentored or briefly crossed my path have all left an imprint but I also found, in my growing musically, that people outside of music give me a valuable and different perspective. People who use language or the rawest human emotions can inspire notes in you without ever mentioning music. You are using music as a language, as a narrator guiding your thoughts with dialogue or images by using the simple 12 notes at your disposal which can inspire any range of emotion depending on their arrangement. To think of the infinite possibilities of selections that all sound completely different from one another using the same notes is daunting and makes you feel that if you make something that sounds the same, you're not trying hard enough.
That mentality crosses many different categories of music, helping mold my musicianship in many different styles and instruments. The detail oriented approach that I take to music is considering each note I have at my disposal, constantly searching for that perfect melody, that heartbreaking harmony, that inspiring motif, that stylistic chord change or that perfectly phrased lick which fuels me to try something new.
Music to me isn't just a bunch of notes played together. It's a way of trying to get inside and unlock those doors and bring what's inside to the forefront. That challenge is something that any artist worth his work takes on happily and confidently. There is something out there that will always challenge the way you look at music and at life and there is no negotiating that, which is a reason to feel excited about each opportunity to face such an obstacle. I expect that every professional understands this, and I never intend on being an exception in that regard.
Film Score 1: Love Scene
