Personal Narrative: A Career In Music

Growing up, my life revolved around music. My mother, a waitress and my father a bassist. I pretty much grew up in restaurants and bars, listening to my dad play songs Keith Richards wrote 30 years ago. Living in a house with more vinyls than square feet, I learned to love every genre of music. My parents went to every live concert they could go to; Aerosmith, Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, you name it my parents were in the crowd. When I was ten my mom told me about this great guitar player named Stevie Ray Vaughn she saw live in 89', and insisted I listen to some of his records. Instantly, I was smitten. "Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughn was the reason I started playing guitar. It's not the intricacy of the chords or the sophisticated leads, it's the feeling behind the notes. Stevie put his soul into his work, and you could tell. Blues music used to sound all the same until I listened to Vaughn. He opened up my eyes to the world of Muddy Waters and B.B King, and all the greats that I learned to admire. I wanted to create music like that. Music that gives you goosebumps, music that touches your soul. …show more content…
I started taking piano lessons when I was twelve and fell in love the same way I did with guitar, but I was on a whole new path. A path filled with Bach and Mozart and anything I could get my hands on. I became entranced by the 88 keys that had been sitting before me all this time. My piano teacher, Ms. Allen pushed me harder than any teacher I ever had before. With technical studies, lesson books, classical repertoire, jazz lead sheets, scales, chord work, intense theory, and incredible guidance from her, every single week I improved immensely and eventually arrived at a respectable