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  <div class="message"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-foo"><span>Wow what a process! Its amazing reflecting on the inner workings of making a record. Each time its such a process and this time has been 10 fold! I have been involved in recording music in professional situations since I was 18. I have been an avid student of the craft always asking questions, watching, listening and learning. In this day and age, the art of album making is almost a lost art. We consume music in such a different way (play lists, shuffle, etc) that organizing music into an album is almost not needed. I am a die har though and even though I know the current state of the industry, I still enjoy the craft of having a concept and unified sound for each recording. Throughout my career, I have primarily enjoyed the live method of recording. That's where musicians get together in person, and engineer sets up microphones and the record button gets pressed and then the musicians perform the music. After that its just tweaking the sound of the recording until it sounds right and you are done! Ok that may be a bit simplified but it is basically what happens. The other method involves overdubbing. That's where musicians may never even meet each other. One person (usually the drums) lays down the skeleton of the song and then the rest is built in layers one at a time. This can be tedious but the sonic quality is often better (although sometimes less organic sounding) and the possibilities are almost endless in what you can do with it.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block2"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-8948d"><span>When the pandemic struck, I made it a goal to begin the recording process and quickly I had the raw makings of half a dozen albums! Today's technology allowed me to create my own skeleton of the tune using a mock up with synthesized instruments (artificial drums, bass, piano etc). Once that was done I could electronically deliver that framework to the drummer who played their part then I sent to the bass player, piano and finally I was ready for my saxophone part. In a matter of less than a month the album was complete! Ok no it wasn't. I could have quick just said it was finished and released it, but the critic in me steps in and says but wait it doesn't sound organic enough. The mixing process begins. Taking each song stripping it down and working on the sound of each instrument until it sounds its best and then putting it all back together. Ah that's it done! Nope, again the critic steps in and several more mixes go by (don't forget the music has been completed for a while this is just the finishing touches, or so I thought). I struggled (not being a recording engineer) with getting the best sound I could with my equipment. I did research on how to best to deal with each shortfall in the sound, used my memory/experience bank of being in the studios and was stuck. So I called a studio friend who works with the best and asked for a lesson! I went to his studio, asked questions took notes and headed back to my humble little studio. Now we are talking! Huge progress in the quality and then it hits me.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block3"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-1v4ko"><span>I wrote this group of songs (except one) about 6 years ago. I was searching music from around the globe and was inspired to write music influenced by those different cultures under the premise that "the Blues" which is considered an American art form is actually a universal concept. Each culture seems to have their own version of it in their folk music and I was enjoying finding it. Mongolian music, Japanese music, middle eastern, Native American its there! As I wrote the tunes, I also heard the sounds of electronic music mixed with the acoustic instruments. Mostly textures and sonic landscapes to add a different dimension to the music. This would require me to learn more about that world and so off I went and what a deep rabbit hole that was! I decided to put it on hold and began getting serious about the Hammond organ (believe it or not its directly related but we will save that for another time). Well, time passed and it was hard playing the music without rehearsing as it was so conceptual (not all written out in detail). Along came the pandemic and everything I said above and like I said it hit me.... I didn't use any electronics.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block5"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-6br8h"><span>No we are in November of 2020, 8 months after recording the music, all the mixing hours and research and now I needed to have electronics! I will save that part of the store until next time, but attached is the first version of the recording (just a quartet playing music) and considering it was layered as I explained, it still sounds pretty organic and live! I would have been happy to release this version until I remembered the electronics. You may be the only people besides the music to ever here this version and some people would prefer this version, but the journey has other plans for me so off I go. Hope you enjoy!</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block7"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 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Others thing it is a divine gift or tapping into something greater than our selves. No one knows for sure. To me it is just something that I have done almost as long as I can remember.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block1"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-7vroe"><span>I wrote my first piece of music in 7th grade in general music class. I can still remember (and probably still have it somewhere) that it was for 4 percussionists and I called it Megawatts (yes I am a heavy metal child at heart). The fact that I created the thing, put it on paper and was going to be able to hear it played by other people activated a part of my soul that I didn't realize was there. Only know reflecting on that moment do I realize who important that experience was for me.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block3"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-c9juq"><span>Next in 8th grade after being exposed to the minimalistic music of Phillip Glass by my older cousin, I decided to write a piece for piano using the same concept. I dabbled at the piano but really didn't know what I was doing. I had learned the basics of music notation in music class but really didn't know how to read the music. Somehow though it made enough sense for me to write down what composed (and fairly accurately). This piece "Always Changing" was my first real composition (and I do still have that one!).</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block4"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-37m30"><span>I never had a desire to be a composer, I just sort of started doing it. I just was fascinated by everything to do with music and it needed to come out in what every I could get it to come out. By my 11th grade year after playing in the Jazz Ensemble for a couple of years, I 'needed' to write a big band tune. I knew nothing about that process (almost 20 instruments) but it needed to be done. I wrote my first blues tune and orchestrated it for the band (very basic I might add). Again the desire to hear my creation led me to its completion and my band director was kind enough to not only play it but put it on the concert! There was problem, I had no name for it. He asked and I said " I don't Know Yet". That was now its name. Senior year another couple of big band tunes and then off to college.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block7"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-9nic0"><span>Attending music school exposed me to a universe of music that influenced me down to my DNA. Classical music, world music, jazz, R&amp;B, you name it. I immediately started trying to write like my favorite composers, sometimes interesting sometimes not but writing music all the same. At this time I also joined a rock band (Caged Monkey) and began writing for that group as well as my own jazz combo. I occasionally (rarely) set out to write something and when I did it was hit and miss. It was always the random moment that an idea struck that the music was more convincing. sometimes walking and idea would pop into my head, sometimes while I was sleeping I would wake up and have to write an idea down so I wouldn't forget. Either way the best stuff always just happened.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="empty-line" data-hook="rcv-block9"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-361of"><span>I continued to through college writing and orchestrating music on my own sometimes sacrificing an "A" for a "B" for a composition assignment. I would break some of the rules in the assignment for the sake of making sure the music sounded the way I wanted. The teacher would say something like beautiful composition, but you broke such and such a rule. I was always ok with that as to me the music was more important.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block10"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-14q1h"><span>Over the years I have tried to set a side regularly scheduled time to write, sat down with the sole purpose of writing etc but that never has yielded the results I have gotten with my tried and true method. Just do it when it comes.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block11"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-54sp2"><span>It can come from anywhere at anytime and usually unexpected. To be sure it is always influenced by life and the music I have heard but the ideas come when they come. Sometimes I have walked by a piano and just hit a couple of keys and then had the need to sit and soon a composition was born from it. Other times goofing around I have improvised a love song for my with and the song just came out almost complete and within 5 minutes I had it down on paper. Sometimes driving or hiking, you name it, I am not in control of when it happens.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block13"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><div class="bbl5c dkFHG _8UBmS _-7CKp" style="-webkit-text-decoration:var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset);background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset);font-family:var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family,unset);font-size:var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size,unset);font-style:var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset);font-weight:var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset);line-height:1.5;margin:0px;min-height:var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset);outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:initial;text-decoration:var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset);vertical-align:baseline;" dir="auto" id="viewer-1arpg"> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-bbsrn"><span>To this day over 30 years later it still happens best when I don't force it. I haven't counted but I am quite confident that I have over 1000 songs or compositions. Where does it come from? I have no idea. I don't even try to find out why. The great pianist Lee Shaw once told me "Keith, we don't choose music, music chooses us". I think she may be right!</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" type="paragraph" data-hook="rcv-block15"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:transparent;border-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;caret-color:rgb(4, 4, 5);color:rgb(4, 4, 5);font-family:avenir-lt-w01_35-light1475496, avenir-lt-w05_35-light, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:auto;outline:0px;padding-inline-end:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0);padding-inline-start:var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0);padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px;" data-breakout="normal"><p dir="auto" id="viewer-9lcb6"><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.keithpray.com/blog/hashtags/jazzlifezen" target="__blank"><span>#jazzlifezen</span></a><span> </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.keithpray.com/blog/hashtags/musiccomposition" target="__blank"><span>#musiccomposition</span></a><span> </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.keithpray.com/blog/hashtags/creativity" target="__blank"><span>#creativity</span></a><span> </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.keithpray.com/blog/hashtags/create" target="__blank"><span>#create</span></a></p></div></div>
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