Not sure what to think...

[Bluesman]

Hi,

My name is Steve and I am a guitarist. I've never been regressed nor do I have any specific 'Memories' of any past lives.

I have however had a feeling...almost a knowledge, of my destiny as a musician/guitarist.

From my earliest recollections, I knew I was supposed to play the guitar. It wasn't a fascination or a 'Oh wow that looks cool' kind of thing with me. I knew it was what I was supposed to do before I knew what it was.

Growing up in a non-musical, relatively poor family, I never had the opportunity to play or learn to play. Every year I asked for a guitar for Christmas and for my birthday with no avail.

My parents had foster children when I was fairly young and one of them played the guitar. My older sister then thought she wanted to learn how to play and my parents bought her a guitar so she could learn from the foster child (a girl who was a few years older than my sister). While my sister didn't take to it, I did...without any help from the foster child. Naturally, I was asked, then told not to touch the either of the guitars as they were not mine. This was torture.

When I got a little older, I was able to take lessons as a school music class, but had nothing to practice on at home and never really went anywhere with it...

When I moved to Alaska, I had the opportunity again and this time flourished as a sight reading jazz playing bassist in less that six months of formal training. Still, something was missing...

My teacher moved from our school and again, I was out of luck, but I had decided that the time was right and I bought a guitar and taught myself based on what I knew to that point.

So you don't have to read my entire life story, I have been playing now for nearly 30 years and have had some successes with it but have never become famous outside of my own small region...

The thing is though, I have grown to excel in a style that I was not taught in any way and is usually attributed to African American guitarists of the South and South East that was popularized in the 20s to mid 50's.

Being a mix of Canadian Native American and Caucasian, I have no ties to the South or anyone who played in this style. I've never even been there... I think the closest I've been to there was Iowa.

I have had an uncounted number of piers (some semi-famous, some unknown...like me) and two different professional guitarists and from the Southern region of the US, who have heard me play and have told me I have an uncanny feel for the blues and have amazing technique for someone who just picked it up. Also, I have been told that my vocals sound "Black". This is in now way intended as a slight or put-down as for most blues artists who are not of African decent, sounding "black" is to sound authentic.

So, I'd like to know your thoughts of my story... it has taken me on a journey that has not ended yet and I want to know if it's just a random thing or if this feeling that I was destined to be a guitarist was evidence of some kind of past life.

Thank you for reading, your time and consideration.

Steve

 

[fiziwig]

It sounds to me like something that could possibly be attributed to past life skills. From the time I was very young I wanted to compose music. I taught myself to play the piano, since my grandmother had one in her house. Then I started inventing little melodies, etc. I did take formal piano lessons later, from about age 7 and up. But I never had any formal training in music theory or composition. Yet still, in the back of my mind, I new I should be composing music. In addition, I always had the feeling that if I ever picked up a violin I'd be able to play it immediately, with no lessons. (I've never put that to the test, and now at age 65 I still have never picked up a violin.)


Then a regression brought up some past life clues that pointed to a semi-obscure Danish composer/violinist (Carl Nielsen) who died in 1931, 14 years before I was born. I once met a symphony conductor and talked him into listening to mp3 recordings of a couple of my concertos and symphonies, and he said my style of composing is similar to that composer even though I had not mentioned the composer's name.


I am a retired software engineer, and music and composing has never been more than an occasional hobby to me. I'm sure I'm not good enough to be professional, but I do enjoy my amateur diddling around. (Listen to me at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=744587&content=music )


Anyway, I think it would be interesting for you to consider doing some kind of regression, maybe even a self-regression. There are some decent CD recordings of regression self-hypnosis that I've had some interesting experiences with.


It seems like, if nothing else, it would be fun for you to learn more about whatever past life influences (if any) are steering you in that direction.

 

[Sunniva]

Hi Steve and welcome to the forum


I agree with Fiziwig that what you describe could sound like past life skills. For many years I felt the same way - I just had to play the violin, but my parents couldn't afford music school and thought I was silly because if I wanted to play music I could have free piano lessons with my grandmother, but I didn't want to play the piano!


I've always felt that I would know how to play the violin. Unfortunately I've never been able to even try it. It's amazing the power other people's opinion can have on you: "you're too old to learn how to play well," "Are you aware how difficult that is?" "Won't you loose interest in it, as you did with the piano?"





We've discussed before people who seem to have a talent from birth - someone like Mozart, for instance. I'm sure that music is someone that is so important to those who play that the love for it, the need for it, will stick with the soul

 

[Karoliina]

Welcome to the forum, Steve.


I agree with others. It sounds like your skills could stem from a past life. Would you be interested in trying to remember that past life? If you would, we can help you here. :thumbsup:


Karoliina