Welcome to Blogging!

Okay, so this isn't my first attempt at blogging. I had a blog a few years ago for something else entirely, but I'll get to that in a moment.


So, what can you expect to find here? In order to give you a better idea, I should probably get into a few details about who I am:


1) I am a college senior, tentatively set to work at a software company after I graduate in May.

2) I like to dabble in music. By that I mean that I am/was a member of two different a cappella groups, I play tenor saxophone in a small jazz combo, and I am self-taught in a small amount of piano and guitar.

3) I'm a big fan of NBA basketball. I've been a Lakers fan since I was a child (I can already hear the moans of disdain), but I appreciate all of the great players in the league. Others sports...well, I'll watch them if others around me are, and I have a small amount of knowledge about the NFL and professional tennis players. College sports, I got nothing.

4) I've been into making YouTube videos off and on since high school. What kind of videos? Why, I'm glad you asked:

I'll talk about my second channel first, seeing as the back story behind it is much shorter than of my first one, and because it's the one that I still work on.



When I say that I dabble in music, I usually mean other people's music. I've written a few of my own songs, but it's so much easier to perform stuff that's already out there. So, about a year ago, I bought myself an iMac and pursued a new hobby. I would follow in the footsteps of many musicians both talented and talentless and create covers of popular songs for the sole purpose of putting them on YouTube. Why not? I had a computer, a keyboard, knowledge of the difference between major and minor chords, huge delusions of grandeur, and the ability to casually strum more than 3 different chords on the guitar. Clearly that's all it takes to become famous (am I right, Justin Bieber?).


My first cover was of “Down” by Jay Sean. I rustled up a honky, 4-instrument version of it that took me 2 hours max to do on Garageband, put one of those stock iMovie title screens behind it, uploaded it to my new channel, and waited for the record labels to start calling me. But when a week past without any sign of an upcoming multi-billion dollar recording contract, I was devastated. Oh well, just gotta keep trying, I said. Not everything on that damn site goes viral after all.


Over the next few months I learned quite a bit from subscribing to (i.e. stalking) other YouTube musicians. For one, if you use better recording equipment than just the internal mic on your computer, you'll sound so much better. Eureka! Also, there's better software out there than Garageband. Holy crap! What's more, making actual videos to go along with your music instead of still pictures can make the entire experience more exciting. Well I'll be damned!


I went through a long stretch of time without making any videos, but I'd like to think that my past few covers since then have shown a fair amount of improvement both musically and visually. Though I've pretty much conceded that I'm neither good enough nor lucky enough to become famous off of clips of me singing Mika songs into a webcam.


But Kiran, you ask, why continue making YouTube song videos?


Because it's fun!


I'm in my last semester of college and am pretty much free from all major responsibilities besides merely passing my classes. Why not make random music and show it off online? There are far less productive ways to use your free time. Right now I'm working on a few projects with some friends and just continuing to cover songs on my own. I'm not expecting nor wishing for a record deal to come out of this. I do it merely for the sake of artistic expression and creativity...or something like that.


You can click the link to my YouTube channel on the side or click here. I'll be updating this blog with new video releases, plus whatever random crap I feel like talking about at the time.


In the interest of my fellow reader(s)'s short attention spans, I'll separate the details of my other, former channel into a different post.