About.
So I came to this music thing a little late.
I’ve only recently started songwriting, after a long life filled with adventures big and small, good and less good. Many mistakes but few regrets. Did my best.
Although I’ve always had a deep connection to songs and music, I have no prior experience in creating music. None. Zero. Never played an instrument. Never sang a song (not even in the shower).
One night at home, after enjoying my favorite music playlist and some red wine, I boldly declared that I was going to write a song. The next morning, as my red wine fog lifted, I doubled-down on my drunken boast: I would write a song.
I created a self-study course that started at grade school level (I had heard of notes and kind of knew what they looked like, but that was about it).
For the next three years I learned the basics of songwriting, music theory and composition, arrangement, lyric writing, singing, performing, DAWs, MIDI, VSTs, among many other topics.
I started writing songs in 2024. It was slow and painful at first, but I stuck with it, got better, and slowly improved (says I). I’m taking it one song at a time.
I consider myself a novice songwriter with aspirations.
I consider my songs (at this stage) to be more raw demos than final studio-quality products. Like the old four or eight track song demos a songwriter would create solo and then take to his band or record producer for fine tuning and finishing.
I decided to share my song demos (the ones I like) with the world under the artist name Arlo Gibbs.
Hope you like them too.
