Music is infinitely better than 3M!

I don't know about all of you, but for me, composing original music is a far more fulfilling career path than blue collar 8-hour work days at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, day in and day out. I just got off of work an hour ago and I am not particularly excited to go back tomorrow. I work in an area called Extruding, where the plastic film used for 3M's tape is produced, a process that does not utilize my personal abilities whatsoever. Why am I doing a job I take no pleasure in, you ask? Because I, like other college students my age, need money to pay for continued school. Working at 3M has inspired me to launch my career in music composition sooner rather than later.

But enough of my complaining and ranting! Today I am uploading two new videos to my Youtube Channel, bringing my total number of uploads to 21 videos of music. The first is an all-vocal song called "The Epic Song" that I wrote spontaneously several years ago, using Audacity to record and track my own voice. It's a simple, silly, and upbeat little tune with only two basic but memorable melodies and two chords. If you like comic music, The Epic Song is for you. The second video is a recording of me performing the piano solo "Mandarin Orange," which I did not write myself. It's fast, quiet, and sort of mesmerizing; a far different character than my first upload. If you enjoy my original piano work, you will probably enjoy this obscure gem, written by C. Michael Ehrhardt.

Also, I am trying to find more original composition recordings to upload onto my musician Myspace page, which can be found HERE. At this point, I don't have many recordings of my original works, but I'm considering uploading some MIDI recordings for the time being, at least until I can get some more performances of my orchestral and chamber composing recorded. Let me know what you think of all of this! I need all of the support I can get for these endeavors, so even something as simple as Youtube replies from you, my readers, goes a long way for me. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a great day! Send me links to your blogs and I will check them out.