The Best Purchase Ever

This post is all about one of my most treasured possessions and best purchases outside of my instruments! It's my "Musician's Notebook". 

I got this from Barnes & Noble about 2 years ago. This lovely little journal where I write down all the little songs I make up for my Music Therapy sessions. There are 40 pages that look like this:

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There is a place for the title, a staff for the melody, 3 lines for words in multiple verses, guitar chords, guitar tab, and piano accompaniment. I don't use the last two things very much, but they are an option if you want to! Also, at the back of this book there are about 6 lined pages where I write the words to all of my "piggy-backed" songs.

At the bottom of every other page, there is a music quote by some of the most prolific musicians and songwriters of our time, talking a bit about their process or beliefs. These are some of my favorites:

~"Those first five or six songs I wrote, I was just taking notes at a rock concert that was going on inside my head. And once I had written the songs, I had to sing them."- Jim Morrison

~"A great song is more than just words and music. It's like a thumb pressing against the pulse of living that relates a simple truth about a very complicated process."- Jimmy Buffett

~"I don't want audiences to feel a specific thing- I just want audiences to feel."- Paul Simon

~"I wish it would last forever, but as long as I am able to sit with a guitar on me lap, not even to sing to people but just sing to myself, then I'll be alright."- Noel Gallagher

I love this notebook. It is pretty thin, so you can take it anywhere, and it is PERFECT for all of my Music Therapy friends. I am pretty close to filling mine, and I will definitely be getting another one! Also, it cost $5.95. That's it. Less than 6 bucks and you have a notebook that is designed to hold a bunch of short little songs and compositions! And it's on recycled paper. Write music and save the earth? This is a no brainer, people.

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool to say that, but when me know me facts me can say me facts. My music go on forever."- Bob Marley