The melody of life
Life Through the Eyes of a Musician By: Jiayi Zhao
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ou’ve been dreaming about this your entire life. Traveling the world with the need to get away or to create something no one has seen before. Melodies however mellow, rich, soft, or loud, fill your head and block out the world outside. You pour your heart and soul, a whole lifetime of stories woven into poetic verses into your melodies. It’s like you’re hearing and understanding yourself for the first time. And in that moment, you get a sudden epiphany – being a musician is your dream, and there’s nothing else you’d rather be doing. The career of being a musician
can be hard to define. There are a range of responsibilities it takes for a person to become one. Musicians perform, record, and sometimes write music. They may be trained under a specific genre or instrument, or they can also play a variety of instruments. To be successful in music, musicians should always strive to improve and have commitment in their creative pursuits.
communicate with his audience through their music. “[I love] the interaction you get by sharing something,” Cadle commented. “because songs, especially, are very emotional, like it doesn’t necessarily have to be a serious emotion, but when someone is feeling whatever it is that you’re putting out, and you get this reciprocation of energy, that’s crazy, when a crowd is really digging a band, and they’re Performance is often a musician’s just going nuts, and the band favorite part of their job; They starts playing even harder, beget to share the songs they write cause they just want to give more and the pieces they learn with an and more and more.” audience. Jace Cadle is the vocalist and guitarist of the American Since the pandemic, however, rock band Madam Radar based many performances have had in Austin. He expressed how to be adapted or canceled to fit much he loves to connect and COVID guidelines. Hailey Wal
