First of all Woohoo!! I made it to 300 songs on this site.

Now on top of this being my 300th song, I decided to dedicate this particular article to a little insight to CIEIR Music.

First things first, my experience.

In terms of instruments I am somewhat good at the piano, good with guitar both acoustic and electric and have tried a Sax, Xylophone, drums and Trombone as my instruments in music class.

My main talent is being able to play by ear, to repeat and play some songs I've heard over a million times. While I can read sheet music, I am not good at handwriting it, as I cannot equate the notes to the sounds.

Luckily for me, I had a sheet music program that helped me with that. Initially I was gonna use it to just write by ear and play the finished result later. However when I discovered that Musescore had a midi setting, I knew that I could do so much more. I couldn't just play the midi itself out, as it would sound extremely bland. So the midis I've saved, I converted to Wav and Mp3 files depending on where I'd publish my music at. Using FL Studio to give the instruments more realism.

So when I call my persona S.T. Musician, it really lives up to that part of the name. In a nutshell I make music simply by writing it.

Ralph Bakshi a very influential animator once said to a group of up and coming artists, that as long as you have a computer, you have your studio. Now at the time, he was speaking merely of animation, but that principle can apply to anything including music making.

In short though, true artistry, whether it's music, movies, games, tv shows, books and so on, relies on three main parts on your body. Your brain, your heart and your hands.

Now with Halloween only 13 days away, I wonder how I'll top this off.