> Me Learning Kalimba?

published by: Christopher Gaines

published date: Jan. 9, 2023, 4:02 a.m.

Something like a month before Christmas I had thought about making YouTube videos to help attract people here, to my website. I've seen videos that people would make sort of like commercials of themselves as arts, as creatives for Adobe. This inspired me to try making my own. While I am quite the novice, still feeling inspired I want to make videos like this. Show my creations as well as how I created with some music added to the background.

With this idea in mind I didn't want to pay for a subscription to some channel that provides music that I could use for my videos. Currently I am subscribed to a music providing website, but at the time I thought to myself, "Why don't I just experiment and make my own music if I can?". I've never own and instrument in my life so I one day bought my first kalimba which was a 17 note kalimba. To make a long story short, this particular chromatic kalimba has 34 notes and the sweetest ringing sound. Absolutely fell in love with this after the online order was shipped and came to my door step.

Having not been any form of a musician, this has been a wonderful experience and joy! If I never use this for anything else, I still find it soothing even figuring out music parts to play as well as just simply being therapeutic to play. I did say music parts because I cannot yet play full songs, but short melodies.

I hope you are all having a fabulous 2023 so far! Keep progressing, keep producing, stay inspired, and perhaps try learning something new!