Originally Posted by John Walradt
Hi, Chay. I'm always amazed at composers who write musical scores and you do that very well. I'm more a pop songwriter with a love for catchy melodies. "Winter Peace" is certainly a variation on a theme and has lots of lovely transitions of instruments. The melody sounds like it seeks out the winter and moves through it with tranquility and varied sights. The piece is lovely and does just what it's supposed to do. John

Thanks, John! Since my teens (I'm about to turn 75) I've always been more into songwriting - I began at school as a drummer, then learned guitar as I really wanted to write - but creatively I've always been into all kinds of writing, music and graphics. After self-publishing some books from 2013 I petered out on both writing and music due to getting illegal neighbours next door to where I used to live, but I continued with CGI as in some of the images in this video, then in what I call the Year of my SNAFU Catch 2022 I had to leave the apartment where I'd lived for 18½ hears and I ended up in a way too small retirement flat and I only discovered after moving in that the flat is only separated from the neighbouring one by thin plasterboard walls - had I known that before I wouldn't have moved - which means I have to use headphones for any sound entertainment so as not to get complaints from my older neighbour. It also meant not playing my guitars and that was when BiaB came to my rescue as I can compose and play with headphones on. I so far have 44 videos on YouTube, 40 of which are 100% BiaB instrumentals, the others songs using Fiverr vocalists. But even creating demos for others to sing first requires me making a demo and I very, very rarely have the freedom to record vocals as my neighbour rarely goes out and even then I don't when, so I can never plan a recording session. I've now reached the point when I'm not getting inspired re new instrumentals, so I really want to go back to vocal songs, but while I now have the BiaB music set for 7 I virtually never get the opportunity to record vocals, be they demos for others or for me only. There's little worse than getting set up and also getting into the zone, but then getting banging on the wall!

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#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.