1Song1Week1Year - Week 15 - Busking

YouTube via DJDJSMusic — April 09, 2010 — "When I first saw the Tenori-On on other people's YouTube Videos I knew I wanted to have one, despite the negative comments some people where making on various boards (I knew that those people just didn't get it). But the most amazing thing about my sudden love affair with an instrument I didn't even know existed before last August was that I saw myself standing in front of an audience playing music with one.

Now this may not seem a big deal to you. But I am someone who spent my teen years either reading SF books or playing computer games, and who spent his professional life programming computers. I have no musical training, I don't know a "Key" from a "Cord" and couldn't hold a tune to save my own life. But suddenly I have this image of playing my music in front of a live audience. Well... at 43 years of age I guess I'm having a mid life crisis.

I have had great fun this past half year with my on-line social networking and making my YouTube videos. But there is only one true test for music and that is playing in front of a live audience.

So last Saturday I purchased a battery powered Amp. and I have spent the last week practising my songs "out loud" for the first time.
Tomorrow's weather forecast is "Dry with sunny spells" so I don't have the usual Irish excuse of the weather to stop me. Will I actually be able to hold my nerve to stand in the street and play my music, and what will the people passing by make of it?
Stop by my blog http://www.djdjs.com/ for updates :)
PS Luckily I'll be able to delete this comment if it all goes pear shaped."