{"id":1364,"date":"2018-02-27T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:52:40","slug":"davids-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"David’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Music has been a part of me for as long as I can remember<\/strong>. At a very early age, original melodies filled my head. Many times, when listening to songs on the radio, I would modify or change instrument parts and even vocal melody lines. Just before I turned 10, my family moved to a mountain community where our neighbors had an upright piano. Every time I went to their house, I tried to find an excuse to play that old piano, which always seemed to be calling to me. Two years later, my parents purchased a piano. Shortly after that, a musician friend came to visit. I sat in a chair next to her and didn\u2019t move until she stopped playing some 2 hours later\u2014not a usual activity for a 12-year-old boy, especially since her songs were all originals and were classical in style. I had never heard anybody play their own compositions before. I think that was when I first realized music comes from deep within the composer, from all the pain and joy and sadness of life. Words cannot always express our feelings. Music can.<\/p>\n

After seeing my growing interest in experimenting with notes and chords, my mom decided I should take piano lessons. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a model student. Reading music didn’t seem important because I remembered what a song sounded like when the teacher demonstrated it for me. Within moments after returning home, I could play it almost as well as she had, so I spent more time composing than I did learning to sight read or practicing my lessons.<\/p>\n

From the acoustic piano, I migrated to electronic keyboards and began to explore a mushrooming variety of new sounds in the 80s. Not only could I compose songs for the piano, I could orchestrate them. Today\u2019s synthesizers, unlike those early predecessors, emulate many instruments quite well. Now it\u2019s difficult for all but perhaps the most discerning listeners to distinguish a synthesized piece from the same song played by a full orchestra.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/strong> What kind of music do you like? Is it an important part of your life? Have you ever written a song? How does music affect you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music has been a part of me for as long as I can remember. At a very early age, original melodies filled my head. Many times, when listening to songs on the radio, I would modify or change instrument parts and even vocal melody lines. Just before I turned 10, my family moved to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidalanemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}