This girl is amazing.

She turns on a drum loop, then plays 3 different instruments (sometimes 2 at a time) to perform her song.

If this doesn’t inspire you to practice, I don’t know what will! 

One of my facebook friends posted this video today, and I immediately had to come here and add it to this blog.  This video is an amazing example of finding musical inspiration in anything.

The creator of this video decided to play a musical representation of Pi (3.14….) out to 31 decimal places.  He built it into a song with harmonies and rhythm, and in my mind it is shear musical brilliance.

I absolutely love it when people find new ways to be inspired to create music.

Check out the video for yourself:

What can you use to find inspiration?

A little weird, but still musically cool…

I stumbled across this video not to long ago.  Someone took a collection of completely unrelated YouTube videos and did a little mashup work to turn it into a song.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… you don’t have to always write brand new riffs and chord progressions and lyrics to be involved in creating awesome music.

I like watching people do interesting things.  This guy is a street musician playing several instruments at once by himself.  Pretty creative.

Here’s a little Memorial Day fun for you.

I’m not going to spoil the video, but watch this video all the way through, no matter how pointless it seems in the first half.  By the time you reach the second half, I think you’ll be impressed with this guy’s creativity and dedication.

Here’s just a quick little video for you today showing off some creative musicianship.

This lady not only plays the guitar upside down, she’s so incredibly casual about it, too… almost like she barely knows she’s doing it!  I love it!

You don’t have to write new stuff to be musically creative!  Sometimes taking existing songs and twisting them into your own style, or putting them together in new ways can be just as much of a creative pieces as when you write songs “from scratch”.

Check out this video who took 22 TV Show Theme songs and put them together into an acoustic medley.  I love this kind of stuff.

You can play music without a musical instrument

So a quick survey… how many of you have ever “played” a song in a weird way… tapping out the notes on your steering wheel when you were driving, tapping a glass that is half full of water, blowing in a glass bottle, flicking a rubber band.

I’m sure most of you that are musical have done something similar, at least for a few seconds, just messing around to see what kinds of sounds you can get.

In my random searches on Youtube I came across this video: Someone playing the theme to Super Mario Brothers on a RULER… yes, a ruler.

It just goes to show that you don’t even need a musical instrument to play music… as long as you’re willing to put a little effort into it.

Last week I showed someone playing the Super Mario Brothers theme on a ruler.

Today I have something that was a probably little more time consuming to set up.

Someone set up a series of glass bottles in the proper order and spacing so that when they drove a remote control car past (set up with something to hit those bottles on the way by), the Super Mario Brothers theme song would be played.

I can’t understand what the people are saying (they’re not speaking English), but this is an impressive feat!