Recently, I’ve gained the perspective that every person, artist, musician is truly on their own path, and it only makes sense for any one person to stay on track with their own goals, at their own pace. I feel as though I’ve become wiser with this realization, with a clearer understanding of my own objectives.
It can take a lot sometimes – especially in music and even more especially in the Jazz idiom – to not be swayed or intimidated by the history of others, the path taken by your friends and mentors, or the greatness of the past.
One of the main reasons why I came to Berklee was that I knew that in going there, I would be given the freedom to chart my own course. What that meant for me was to not be forced into picking up the double bass by my program, as many other programs would have done – especially back home in Canada. Coming in as a freshman, I was content with my life and career goals as an electric. When I did find myself beginning on upright, I knew it was a choice that I had made, because I had fallen in love with the sound, and had found comfort, and a certain level of challenge in the music that it had made available to me.
I continue to seek my own story everyday in my life and music, and consistently find fulfillment in my freedom to go at my own pace.
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