This will be a quick post, but I want to thank you for coming by and having a little read through it. In this post I am going to just introduce myself and give you a little backstory so that you can understand where Music It Up is coming from.
Most people start their stories with the day they were born, but I'm going to take it a little further back. The two people who I need to credit my love for music are my parents. They were the ones that really invested in the idea of Music It Up well over thirty years ago.
My parents met a couple of years before I was born. My mom had just finished her university degree, and my dad was a working to afford is one true passion at the time, and that was riding motorcycles. At a party, that was supposedly a set up, my folks took the first step to creating music it up. With the tunes cranked they road off on the motorcycle together until the sun started coming up. I've never really got a clear story on anything, but that's the story they tell.
If I do the math correctly, within a year they had planned on starting a family and I was conceived. My parents, being avid lovers of music, would put on the records of Abba, Supertramp and Alice Cooper nice and loud, making sure that I could hear them clearly from within the womb. When I was born, the only thing that would put me to sleep was Michael Jackson's Thriller album. So the second person I might have to attribute Music It Up to is the ever reigning king of pop.
As soon as you enter the front door of my parents' house you'll see all the family photos. In the first few frames are the pictures of my youth, and in a number of the pictures you'll see a very young version of me sitting at the piano, or with my Dad's huge 80's headphones on. I grew an amazing passion for music. A passion that would drive me to learn how to operate the turntable before I could hold a fork properly! A passion to learn all of dance moves and words to Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad albums! A passion to learn how to read musical notation before I could read english! The one thing that I can't thank my parents' enough for was the constant encouragement that fanned that musical spark into a flame.
I was enrolled in music lessons before I was enrolled in public school, and when things got tough, my parents taught me about dedication and determination. As I grew up, most every decision I made was to follow my dream as a musician. In elementary school I played the role of the little drummer boy for the Christmas pageant. I played piano for all of the talent shows. In high school I would spend all of my time hanging out either in the music room or just outside. I played in all of the school bands. I put together my first band with the great people I met in that music room. When I graduated from high school I attempted computer science at York University, but within the first year I had transfered over to the music program. I got my first real job working at a music store in Toronto. I taught piano and drums privately to help pay for my education.
It was during the year right after my undergrad that I thought about Music It Up. I put together a business plan, and I started a little website. Back then I called it "Live Through Music," and I started networking like crazy to find people just like me, dedicated to helping others achieve their musical dreams. It was too early for Music It Up to become a reality because the internet was still in development and creating a website took some programing knowledge that I lacked. I put that business idea on the back burner and had to come up with another way to keep pushing through to achieve my dreams.
The second best way for me to reach students of music, I thought, was to get my degree in Education and become a music teacher. I did just that and for the past seven years I have been working very hard at becoming a skilled music educator. My dreams for Music It Up have stayed with me throughout the past seven years. When I finished my school year in June of 2013, I had realized that I was struggling with my passion for music. Teaching in the public school system had brought me away from my dreams and into a world that couldn't allow me to really teach music the way that I wanted to. While cleaning out my computer the following September to start the new school year I came across the business plan I had written over seven years ago and it was like the lights came back on. A spark of electricity started running through my veins, and I knew that Music It Up was what I had to do.
Its the beginning of March 2014, and I've been working really hard at designing the website, buying the domain names, recording podcasts, filming videos and reading everything I can get my hands on that will help Music It Up become a reality. That's my story. The fire that started in utero, fueled by sound, and a lot by the funky grooves of Michael Jackson, has given birth to a new way to help people achieve their musical dreams.
www.musicitup.com will be launching at the end of March 2014!
That's right, its just around the corner. It's going to be a platform that offers you tons of free resources to keep your musical fire burning. I will be slowly launching different programs through Music It Up, that will help anyone, whether you're just turning 4 or if you've turned 4 for the twentieth time.
Do you want to be the first person to visit the site!? The first person to see how Music It Up is going to help you bring forth your song? It easy. Sign up below for exclusive rights to the Music It Up club. I'll send you first crack at signing up for any of the workshops and classes as well as send you links to all the cool podcasts, videos and articles as they are published.
www.musicitup.com - Your Music. Your Inspiration.
Chris Eakins
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