{"id":868,"date":"2021-06-09T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:40:59","slug":"time-for-some-original-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Time For Some Original Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have composed music intermittently since I was a teenager. The first instrument I learned (barely) was piano, and then I fell in love with the drums. As a late teen in music college, I persevered at making sounds on a guitar since it&#8217;s hard to get people to sit and listen to a song that you wrote on the drums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular creation started in late 2019 as a chord progression on guitar. The demo was charming, but soon other instruments suggested themselves into the arrangement. Words came, too. It&#8217;s the most adventurous recording I&#8217;ve made at home so far, with a nuanced mix of more than 70 different audio tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was almost done with the song in the Spring of 2020, but then the pandemic, George Floyd was murdered, and the US election chaos dominated the emotional environment. I couldn&#8217;t see how I could finish and share the song until the world was in a better place. Finally, in May 2021, I sat down one Saturday afternoon and knocked out the final vocals and solos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/scottstillman.bandcamp.com\/track\/all-weve-learned\">Bandcamp<\/a> and even download the song for free, or see the video on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All We&#039;ve Learned\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pH2itLSTJ5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>You have to have a music video!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have composed music intermittently since I was a teenager. The first instrument I learned (barely) was piano, and then I fell in love with the drums. As a late teen in music college, I persevered at making sounds on a guitar since it&#8217;s hard to get people to sit and listen to a song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[157,156,155,158,153,84,11,150,152,149,151,154],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-157","tag-arranging","tag-balalaika","tag-guitar","tag-harmony","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-original-music","tag-progressive-rock","tag-recording","tag-roots-rock","tag-solo-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottstillman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}