40's music and jazz

[victicious]

I've been excited about 40's music for awhile - learning and understanding it that is.. I've been trying to teach myself how it works, what the mechanics are behind it - 40's music especially, jazz is so over my head but I'm delving into it anyways - this is all on my own too, with no music theory involved. I've always done everything by ear, by feeling. I've learned WAY slower because of this, and I regret not getting into music as a kid (I actually WAS in piano lessons as a tyke and didn't want to continue because we were doing songs that I hated - interesting huh?) and so I'm way far behind now, but I'm grateful that I've devoloped my own style, seeing through the musical genres and taking what I like from everything and making my own unique sound that I absolutely love. That's actually how I do everything, how I live and think. Following someone else's path has never appealed to me and I can't understand why it appeals to anyone (?) I'm so thankful that, for whatever reason, God made me the way I am and I've thought this way my entire life, which has always made me seperate from everyone I've ever been around and very alone, until now, now that I have a few friends who have always been the same way.. it's such a wonderful thing.

So just now I figured out how to play, and almost fully understand, my favorite part of "It was a very good year" by Frank Sinatra.. I'M SO STOKED!!! It sounds freakin awesome, check it out

my beautiful synthesizers, ah...

a tiny part of a song I'm writing..

I'm starting to understand these weird harmonies! It's so cool to have something I wrote in my head that's somewhat complex actually figured out and understood and to play it - usually it just stays in my head because my music theory/piano playing skills are WAAAAAY behind my creativity, which, as I was telling Katie, it SO frustrating