THEY ARE HERE!

episodes two and three will be up very soon. check out the facebook group or the youtube channel in the meantime

songs!

so for the series, i had plans on featuring a few songs. these songs were:

sixyearstwomonthstendays

never had the chance

and,

train wreck....

the first two songs were relatively easy to write and took no time, but train wreck was the hardest to write...

train wreck is a song that talks about my "state of affairs" so to speak. it was hard to put these complicated feelings on paper, but last week after a trip with my friends i was inspired and i wrote the lyrics that night. the music is very rockish with a motif of being "a runaway train, about to head into disaster". the song actually came about following a phrase i created while talking with a friend. the phrase is "we're all just train wrecks waiting to collide". at first i thought it was a good quote then i realized it made no sense. i later rationalized that it meant that we are people who have our baggage and hang ups and issues and we are waiting to find people that complete us, although they are "train wrecks" too..

so yeah.. you'll hear about the other songs in the videos!!

Harder than I thought...

so, it seems making a "show" while in college is harder than i thought!

i have been on hiatus for about a month, and while it is spring break i plan on making episodes 2, 3, and 4 hopefully by the end of the break..

1st song- Sixyearstwomonthstendays

1) six years two months ten days
and yet my feelings
still feel the same
i have traveled all over the world
and i still wonder why
i feel so cold


2) when the rain falls
i think back to yesterday
where things were not the same
you haunt you haunt my dreams
and its not fair
cause you left me here alone

bridge) and i have tried to move on
but it hurts too much inside
i am broken
there's no use to even try
pick up the pieces of my life

http://www.youtube.com/user/makingthesong

First Episode

So I have officially finished the first episode as of Friday. I have posted it on the Facebook Group, as well as the youtube channel. I'm so happy!!! i'm going to link it so you can watch it.

Editing The Episode!

So, I'm sitting in the editing lab at school waiting for my footage to be captured. Its been an interesting process, and now its the time for me to create what's been inside my mind for some time now. I find the editing process to be very tedious, yet rewarding in a sense because I'm in control of what I want to present to an audience. My hope is that people are able to see what I'm trying to do and to help support me. Support is a big thing. I've had so many ambitions in my life and nearly 99% of them have ended in failure. This is one project that I want to see through, something I want people to be proud of and to see a change in me artistically and creatively. I am slowly opening my mask, revealing myself to people. And it is something I think will be very beneficial, because for so long I've built walls around myself and have gone through life as if it is a masquerade ball; hiding my true self and feelings. I hope you guys like it and it is something that you can relate to, or if not that, something you find intriguing.

A Brief History

My name is christopher. and i am an artist.
i am an almost 20 year old college sophomore, whose concentration is communication studies and music minor at canisius college. i love it at canisius, it really has helped me grow artistically and academically.

specifically from an artist, i am a musician first and foremost.
i have been singing since like forever! I remember being four years old and singing "I Will Always Love You" in headstart. those are my earliest memories of being a singer. i also remember being very young and loving karaoke machines and tambourines. since being a young singer, i sung in church and briefly took piano lessons. i first realized my dream when i was offered the chance of enrolling in an arts school in my city. i applied and was accepted to the buffalo academy for visual and performing arts in june 2000. i started my fifth grade year at performing arts in september 2000, and graduated from there in june 2008.
during my tenure at performing arts i became a member of the performing arts elementary, junior and select choirs; all under the direction of a mr. frank scinta. this is where i began to develop my already burgeoning affinity for music. learning choral music and being in a choral setting helped my confidence in singing as well as my love of various composers and musical eras.
songwriting is a tool i have begun to use as sort of a therapeutic outlet to express myself. i am a very private person, and i only share some of my feelings to my innermost circle of friends, which is basically composed of a couple who i tell some stuff to. but anyway, songwriting helps me get out things that are hard to say, in just speaking it. the very first song i wrote was called "the thanksgiving song". i basically wrote lyrics on what thanksgiving means to me backed by an instrumental jazz cassette. i had to be around maybe 7 to possibly 9 years old. although i felt very good about it, i didn't start truly writing until i became a teenager. when i started writing more and more songs, they were christian or gospel themed songs because i refused to sing or write r&b material. so i wrote a multitude of religious songs and i became very ambitious to complete and record these songs...
the only problem was that i was like 13 and 14 years of age, and i did not play any sort of instrument. so basically i would come up with a melody in my head and either keep it in my head or record it on cassette tape. this proved to go nowhere because; i guess i was too young and inexperienced. so i left it alone after awhile---
then, the guitar captivated me.
i had had some friends in high school that played guitar. i always thought it was cool, but i never envisioned myself playing. but, after seeing the play so wonderfully, i became enticed and begged my father to buy me an acoustic guitar. he eventually bought me one, and i spent about a year fiddling around and not really learning anything. i basically made up stuff and had no knowledge as far as chords and such. eventually, i received a chord book for my birthday, and i wrote my first song.
it was called "misery", and it was the very first song i wrote on guitar. it was a simple am-a5-em-e chord progression, but i loved it. the lyrics were very explicit, in that it talked about how the person singing cuts themself to be able to feel, cause this woman (misery) keeps hurting him. i loved the song and first performed it at a multi-media show at my high school for my senior year.
then i went to college and took guitar lessons. since then, i have written quite a few songs. most of them are unfinished. mostly all my songs have a common theme: loss.
this is a subject that will be further explored in the second episode of "Making the Song"....................

First few shots

So in preparation for the first episode, I have been shooting some footage. I shot some basic stuff in my house, like me playing guitar etc. This past Sunday me and my friend BRIT shot some footage over at Bird Island Pier. It was nice thanks to the sunshine but very, very cold!!!!

First Time

Hello, and welcome to my blog. This blog with be the second half to my show "Making The Song".
I will post supplemental info and use this as an outlet to give more behind-the-scenes stuff that I probably won't show in the final version. I'll be starting shooting this weekend and will hopefully have something up by the next week and a half!