This song was written for a friend of mine to use in a video they would be running all summer at her camp in Maryland called reCHARGE. As a song writer I always thought instrumentals would be easier to write due to there being no lyrical content to have to work through. This project proved that notion wrong. What I realized, as I stared at the piano not knowing how to create a 4:30 minute piece of music for the first time in awhile, was that l leaned on lyrics and the structure they provided more than I knew. Fortunately I was able to hit a pretty chord that lit the creative spark to compose this piece about an hour into brainstorming. I titled it "begin" because it was in fact a beginning, not only from a literal standpoint, but from an awareness standpoint, that if you work hard and push yourself to make something good, something worth listening to, you just might succeed.
credits
from Begin (Single),
track released July 22, 2010
Music by Ricky Taylor, Josh Luke, and Austin Campbell
Composed by Ricky Taylor
Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Austin Campbell
at Clockwork Studios, Charleston
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