Why I Write Music

Dear You, 

This is my 50th published post on this blog! And I wanted to do something different from my normal posts, something more personal. Since I started this blog because of my passion for music, I decided to write about something dear to me in the world of music: writing

I started writing music shortly after I turned 13, I can't believe it's been 5 years already. I had some problems in life and I needed a way to escape. I am the type of person who refuses to burden others so I tend to internalize my problems. It's a horrible problem of mine but I've never been able to overcome it. 

Around that time I had just become obsessed with Taylor Swift and her music. I wanted to be her so badly, to blend such powerful emotions with my one true love in life: music. I'd been enrolled in as many music programs I was allowed since 5th grade, when music classes were introduced. No matter what program whatever school I went to had, I knew I just needed some kind of music in my life. 

Writing was definitely a learning process. I started with a random notebook (that I still have) on my dad's back deck. I loved the sounds of the birds out there and thought it would be inspirational but that didn't help because my first song was easily my worst, I never even finished it. But as I got older and wiser, my vocabulary and grammar improved, I experienced more, and the songs gradually got better. VERY. GRADUALLY.

Writing for me is much easier when I have a source of pain, it's what drives me in my writing. The strongest emotions are always the best ones. I think it took awhile simply to learn how to bring up that pain and be able to write from it. It's definitely hard to write with passion but is there any other way?

About a month after I started writing lyrics, I had really wanted a guitar. But I didn't want to ask for one because my mom was already paying rent on a saxophone for band class. One of the most amazing coincidences in my life happened, my grandpa had an extra guitar and without me saying one word about it, asked if I wanted it. I couldn't believe it. 

I didn't want to ask for lessons so I practiced on that guitar, all the time. I started with the scales, like my multiple music classes had taught me and built my way into chords. I played the same Taylor Swift song at least 100 times before I mastered singing while playing and the rest is history.

I read a quote recently that you have to find the thing in life that builds you up when you're good at it and tears you up when you're not. For me, that's writing music. I hate when I write a bad song and feel on top of the world when I really like one. I don't even know how I would have gotten through the past five years without writing songs, it feels like such a monumental part of my life. Once I started writing, it's like I knew that's what had been missing the whole time. 

I don't let many people read them and I've never recorded a single one but just because they're not famous doesn't make them unimportant. They're important to me. 

Have an Amazing Day!

Mia B

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