A Music-Lover’s Dream Come True (a.k.a. Thoughts On Songcraft Session 11)

Photo (“Guitar Hero”) by wvs

Songcraft is turning into everything I had hoped for it to be.

I was very pleased with tonight’s Songcraft session. You could say that it is every music-lover’s dream.

It’s exactly the way I had envisioned Songcraft to be like:

Passionate musicians/songwriters coming together to share their songs with one another.

Engaging discussions about the finer points of music, composition, lyric-writing, arrangement, etc.

Being encouraged by having others hear and give feedback on your original songs.

Being inspired by one another to write more and more songs.

Meeting and getting to know new music-loving friends each and every session.

It’s just amazing, the feeling that I get every time I come away from another Songcraft session. We have people who play the blues, we have people who score music for films, we have people who study music recording and composition, we have people who write songs for popular singers, we have people who play the guitar in non-conventional tunings…and of course, we have people who write beautiful songs.

One can never cease to be in awe of the wonderful and amazing talent which Songcraft has managed to attract.

It’s always a humbling yet inspiring experience every time I attend a Songcraft session.

And of course, I really love the post-session hangouts too…cos that’s where we really get to chill out and get to know one another better over a passion iced tea.

I really cherish being able to know all these wonderful music-loving people, cos it’s not often you have someone say “I think every key has it’s own mood…” and everyone else in the room starts nodding their head in agreement.

Or when you say “I almost died when I learnt I had to play his song in Gb major…” and everyone gets the joke.

It’s the common fundamental passion for music that brings us all together.