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by Fdemetrio - 04/15/26 12:27 PM
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PETE
by Fdemetrio - 04/14/26 06:57 AM
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It all started with many a weekend family camping trip. The scenery got boringsince it was the same forests every week...and I started singing quietly to the window....just making things up when I couldn't think of other songs.
and sometime at the age of seven...wrote a full song. (well..... not the greatest...but not bad for a 7year old.
A year or two later when I started taking formal piano lessons.. there were biographies in my music books of some of the great composers. and reading how Bach and Mozart were writing (or inBach's case transcribing after listening to a concert) full symphonies, concertos...or such at the age of 5...I thought I was getting a late start.
I certainly didn't really think I was doing anything all that unusual.It was several years later before I started writing songs about my own life.... or what I saw around me.
Even now...I tend to keep my own personal life fairly camauflaged or even absent from my writing. I might write from how I THINK I would feel in a given situation..., and if it's my story....I'm liable to change a few facts... to at the least make the song flow better.
I believe it was my namesake...the great Harriet Shock who said..
never let the facts get in the way of a great song" (ot something close to that)LOL
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