The Very First Note
The doorway into what comes next
Every single song you have ever heard in your life has something in common with every other song you have ever heard in your life. There is no song without this one important factor.
In fact, there cannot even be any song at all except for this one important factor.
Every single song you have ever heard in your life has a first note!
I’m not a math expert and I don’t have a degree in physics but I’m pretty sure that it is an indisputable fact that it is impossible for any song to have a second note until AFTER it has its first note.
Am I wrong?
Okay, okay, maybe it is a first chord. A chord is three or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmonic that pushes certain buttons in our heart or the memory imprints in certain areas of our noggin. I’m not a brain surgeon so I might be wrong about that.
But whether or not a song begins with a single note or a chord or a painful dissonant screech, the important factoid to take away from this is that no song, no piece of music, can exist without a first sound.
How profound is that? Think about it. Does this not also apply to music but also writing and other creative endeavors? It is literally and scientifically impossible to express a poem, short story, essay, article, novel, memoir, or letter that you’ve always been afraid to write, without a first sentence!
Without that first sentence everything remains unsaid. And everything remains unread. Wow, that even rhymes!
Seriously, is there any other advice that is more profound than this?
Are you wanting to write an expert article or short story or poem or novel? Are you trying to write a song? Know that your first sentence, your first note or chord, your first paint brush stroke, your first exhalation of energy is what opens the door to the full creation.
It is one of those weird things about this dimension. Everything has to, for some reason, pass through doors. And they cannot get past those doors without an energetic nudge from us. We are the ones who have to open the doors.
That is what lets things in. That is what makes possible the second note, the second sentence, the second line, the second brush-stroke.
Because there simply cannot be a second one until after we open the first one. The first door must be opened first.
Otherwise we’ll never get to the second door.
There are so many freaking doors but seriously, the most important one is the first door.
Every first note, first chord, first sentence, or even first word is a door.
Open it and let the song or story or other pieces of art in.
“Open the door and let ’em in.” — Paul McCartney
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