Anish Nadh’s Blog

Today I wanted to finish my piano assignments! I heard from Mrs Elizabeth today, I didn’t have any corrections.  But as I started recording them today, I made a thousand mistakes! I just couldn’t focus. Then I started classes at 4:00 and had a break between 5:30 and 7:00. I took a long walk at the Lakeview park. Then I came back for another class with Ryan.  I wound up the day with my piano assignments through the night with Elton John’s Your Song on repeat. I have a lot of notes to make.  God bless Mrs Elizabeth and Tanya for being the best patient teachers! 

It was time for a shiny new guitar, the old one used to be a favorite like the many others, but not anymore. It had dents, scratches and scars and was difficult to play. There were better ones in the market now. A call was made, a new one ordered. ****************************************** The old guitar just wanted to be played! It had seen and felt it all ; passion, anger, love and now hate! Overwhelmed with this new emotion, it felt heavy, almost dead with rusty strings. It was left in a dark corner and never played. The neck warped with time.  ****************************************** The shiny new guitar was fun to play on!  But there was hardly any time. Family and other obligations took utmost priority. It was left in a case, near a bright window and taken out only occasionally.  It was left, where the sunlight warmed the guitar in the case. That was a wrong window indeed!  ****************************************** Someone picked up the old warped guitar from the dark room fin

I wrote a blues song 7 years ago, called “ I need glasses ” for a solo set at Sofar Sounds.  It was quite difficult to finish the song! I had worked on wording it for months and months but was never happy!  I showed it to a singer-songwriter friend of mine Mahesh Raghunandan. He gave me a few tips on singing and breath work, (I don’t usually sing in public). He also added , “The song will be done, when you stop working on it”. After a long thought, I figured it was time to stop, and viola the song was done.  Maybe I was just being a perfectionist, trying to make the best song in the world!  I started to see my musical journey in two perspectives.  One, learn songs from the masters, practice, share it with people to enjoy. Basically, play, teach and learn music. This one literally is to please people and pay my bills.  Two. Here is where I put your heart and soul, This is not for everyone to hear. This is my “me time” building my skills, honing my craft relentlessly. I will never let th

Solitude, Silence, I’m in my quiet space.  Behind my eyes, is my galaxy!  I see how you glow,  This is a sweet escape to the other side of space,  Where all that is unknown is known.  I travel faster than the speed of light,  Watch the planets align,  I move the stars,  I touch the sun! I play God!