When I got to my hometown last week, I knew there was an old guitar of my dad’s here. I had brought a new set of strings with me, intent on continuing with my practice during this visit.
What I did not know was how neglegted that poor guitar was. It needed much more than a change of strings. Thankfully my grandpa helped me clean it, as much as he could improvise with whatever we had around the house. After he got it in a bit better shape, I got the new strings on, tuned it, and it’s been quite lovely company over these past few days.
This past weekend I released my first official music video on YouTube. You can find it here: youtu.be/vxyb5yxxlUc 🙂
I recorded the scenes with the phone when I was in New York a month ago. Then edited the whole thing on my own. Before doing this I didn’t quite think I’d be capable of producing a music video all by myself.
Now, I know it’s far from professional quality, but it’s not the worst thing either. i have the tendency to compare myself with top artists and feel bad that I can’t do as good of a job as they do. But a few months ago I noticed on the credits from one of Dua Lipa’s videos how big the team that worked on that production was. And I am sure that if I had a team of professionals working with me on all the things that I am doing, the results would be even etter. But I can’t afford thise kind of services, so meanwhile I am filming this thing on my own with the phone. 😬
So, bottom line, I am happy with what I made and I have learned bits and pieces in the process, which is nice. At the same time I do feel a bit lonely and would love to work more closely with other people on the stuff that I am making. 😊
That’s all for now. I had no idea what I was going to say when I started this post. Now we’ve found out, together. 😅
PS: My actual name is Cristina, thought I should properly introduce myself, now that I’m using my artist name all across social media 🙂
Loved reading about your deep dive and I’m happy I could spark some inspiration 💖
I do believe these inner journeys are very much worth while. They can help us figure out who we are and what we actually want, what motivates us and what will actually feel fulfilling for us. Not the easiest thing to do, and sometimes it can get overwhelming or scary, but I do think it’s fundamental.
How is everyone here?
I’ve been travelling for the past two weeks. One more week till I go back home now.
In the meantime I’ve been working on a few more covers and wondering what has been holding me back from adding more items into The Making Of collection.
At first I wanted to add a recording of The Loneliest after I got to play it a bit better from
beginning to end. Had the recording ever since I left home but didn’t post it. And then I started wondering if that’s really what I want to do or I will only include one clip from each song, from the very beginning of the learning journey for that song. With all the funny or not so funny mistakes that happen along the way. I feel more drawn towards that. 🙂
What food of yours is his favorite?
No one will ever be more sleepy than a cat who has done nothing all day. ✌🏽🤣
If nothing else, it’s a beautiful thing allowing others to witness your process and journey and to get to know you, beyond the things that you actualy do get through to getting done :)
I know the feeling of wanting to get so many things done and not having the time (or the skill, or the support, or the resources etc) to actually do it.
And I don’t think any of us is inherently “lazy”, I think laziness or procrastination is a deeper message from our system that something needs to cchnage. Now, I don’t know what that is, but I know it’s feedback that our nervous system is giving to us. So perhaps slowing down and looking to understand what is it, beyond the likitations of time, that is at play here, could be quite helpful. Why do we want to do so many thing? Why fo we find that even when we could be doing more we are actually not doing it? Etc.