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The Very First Note
The doorway into what comes next
Every single song you have ever heard in your life has something in common with every other song you have ever heard in your life. There is no song without this one important factor.
In fact, there cannot even be any song at all except for this one important factor.
Every single song you have ever heard in your life has a first note!
I’m not a math expert and I don’t have a degree in physics but I’m pretty sure that it is an indisputable fact that it is impossible for any song to have a second note until AFTER it has its first note.
Am I wrong?
Okay, okay, maybe it is a first chord. A chord is three or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmonic that pushes certain buttons in our heart or the memory imprints in certain areas of our noggin. I’m not a brain surgeon so I might be wrong about that.
But whether or not a song begins with a single note or a chord or a painful dissonant screech, the important factoid to take away from this is that no song, no piece of music, can exist without a first sound.
How profound is that? Think about it. Does this not also apply to music but also writing and other creative endeavors? It is literally and scientifically impossible to…
