Eight Bars Of Beauty

I composed some music today. Well, I did some composing towards the end goal of composing the second of two compositions required for my A-level in music.  To many of you, it probably looks like complete nonsense. Just dots. To me, this is ten years of work.

When I say "ten years of work", I don't actually mean that this has taken me ten years. I should probably have said that my life has been building up to those bars. I started learning to play and read music ten years ago, and I say that I've been properly composing for over a year now. It's probably more like two or three years but I say a year because that is when I've really started to enjoy composing and do it for fun.

At the beginning, my compositions were a bit rubbish. I would stray away from complex rhythms and complex harmonies because I feared them and had no idea what I was doing.  Gradually, I have become more confident and I have experimented and these bars are the result.

I have a message here I think. Don't give up. Don't give up on what you enjoy doing.  Persistence is key.  Experiment. Break the rules.  Every great thing starts off small. Roald Dahl had to learn to hold his pen before he wrote his books. Pythagoras had to learn to count before he came up with his triangle theorem. Mozart had to... let's discount Mozart because anyone who can compose music at the age of five is destroying this well thought out point.

So what I'm trying to say is that a lot of work has gone into these eight bars of beauty, just like a lot of work went in the 'Theory of Relativity' and 'Hamlet'. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll learn new things and experience new experiences in order to write your own metaphorical bars of beauty (or literal if you are actually a composer yourself)

Stay Strong
Michael

N.B. I OWN ALL RIGHTS TO THAT MUSIC. ANY COPYING WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED