Music Moves Me More Than Words

I struggle a great deal with written and verbal communication due to my learning disability.  It always feels like I’m reading and hearing a foreign language.  But with music it’s a totally different story.

Music moves me more than words ever will.  I can hear music in my head, but I’ve never learned to read notes.  I took a few months of piano lessons with a friend down the street over the summer, but trying to learn how to read simple notes on a page was really difficult for me.  So, I can still only play by ear.

When I come home from work or I need to take a break from a project, you’ll find me in my front room playing the piano.  It’s where I can take off my thinking cap and relax in my happy place.  I feel as though I can clear my mind and inspiration just floods into my head.  I have created about 15 compositions and have made 25 or so different arrangements to songs.

We are all busy this week so I wanted to keep this post short and sweet, and simply share an arrangement that I put together a couple of weeks ago.

Please forgive me, I’m not a professional pianist, and my piano is 0ver 100 years old and not perfectly in tune.  Also, I recored this on my iPhone, so the sound quality isn’t the best, but I’m using what I have.

I hope you enjoy my brief arrangement of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”

I wish you all a very safe and very merry Christmas!

Love Melessa