Resolution

Is it too late? For resolution, I mean. Am I out of time? Anybody? No answers! Ok, then, I’ll decide: no too late. Just on time. I was right on.

That was easy.

So, first of all, here goes: Happy New Year! I hope all your wishes and dreams come true.

Second, as per title of this blog: Resolution. For me: 30 pounds. I prefer to come out and say it. I need to lose the triplets in my belly this year. I’ve already started: I laugh more often. That strengthen the muscle in the tummy. Scientists agree on that one: the more you laugh, the more you lose weight.

Just kidding.

Resolution: practice more. Yes, that one is serious. After all you are on a website dedicated to music, I can’t be joking about that one. I’ve already started that trend in 2024. That’s when I went back to the drums, to the piano, piling up the hours without care for the blood, sweat and tears I would have. It was the first glimpse, the step towards the mountain, that very one I’ve had been contemplating for a long time, for too long a time.

I needed to stop stopping, so to speak. I needed to begin. I needed to make it something regular, before it became something daily, before it became something necessary, before it will become an obsession. I’ll keep feeding the beast trying to not let it consume me. The first time around, when I was in my twenties, it was devastating. I ended up far from home, lost in a country the size of a continent. It took me a long time to build a home in this foreign land. It’s been great.

Resolution: Maintain my business. That’s an easy one. I’ve been floating on a full schedule for two or three years now. Ever since I’ve been writing a lot of pages and composing play-along song to illustrate said pages, my students stay longer. Since my business is based on accumulation, you do the math. Anyway, I’ll keep striving for excellence and do a good job day in/day out. I can’t do more than that, and that should be enough, and that should be plenty.

What is your resolution? Will you go back to studying piano? Drums? Both? Will you start the year fresh and ready to tackle that magnificent challenge, the one you’ve been dreaming about for most of your life: put your hands on the keys or wrap them around a pair of sticks and start building a world. Express who you are, show the deep you through the means of chords or cymbal crashes. What’s keeping you from it? No, really, tell me, I want to know. You can leave a comment, you can email me. Let me know what forces are going against your most intense desire. I do want to know.