It all starts with 12 notes.

So 12 notes in the chromatic scale are the well-point for every musician that's ever lived and created life from pitch. Creating music is like arranging the musical alphabet on the steering wheel of your car. Letters "A" through "G". Sometimes when you start up your car and try to back out, you might have left your steering wheel turned all the way to the left or right...in that case, if you accelerate/back up too fast, you'll get a rude awakening. That’s kind of like hitting a wrong note. Or when you're writing a song & you can't find the next note to further solidify your composition. Each note that is concrete is litterally like a piece to a puzzle. first you start with finding the end pieces, then you work on the picture and what it really is. finally you fill in the gaps, then you can even transfer the puzzle to a piece of cardboard and flip it on a table, gluing its frail pieces together - that's how you make a permanent puzzle...AND MAKING A SONG ISN'T TOO FAR OFF.



You have to work it out, hit a bunch of wrong notes (or turns) before you find the ones that are highlighted in your mind/head/brain. You have to hear a melody in your head, hum out something - then try as best you can to emulate that on the guitar. Your hands are the translators. The musical knowledge you gain and utilize will be your weapon of choice - for good. For the future of all that will listen to what you have to say musically and lyrically, as an artist.



There's a slight fear that someone's song, album, or level of success will be as good as or better than ours. That is inevitable. But this should fuel and drive us to create all the more passionately. We should be writing songs and whole albums from that place - the place where our hearts reside. The place where we go when a song is on the tip of our tongues or fingers...





And once all of the above is finished, we need to hold fast to what we know to be true: in ourselves, our past, our music and conversely, the caliber of our fans. We need not add people from Greece (unless your style of music applies and/or you wanna book a European Tour thru there LOL).