Charan Ranganath

yeah so basically in high school yeah so i kind of was a late bloomer to music but just kind of mtv grew up with me i grew up with mtv and so then you started seeing all this stuff and then uh i got into metal was kind of like my early genre and i always reacted to just things that were loud and had a beat like uh i mean adhd right it's like uh Like, you know, everything from Sgt.

yeah so basically in high school yeah so i kind of was a late bloomer to music but just kind of mtv grew up with me i grew up with mtv and so then you started seeing all this stuff and then uh i got into metal was kind of like my early genre and i always reacted to just things that were loud and had a beat like uh i mean adhd right it's like uh Like, you know, everything from Sgt.

yeah so basically in high school yeah so i kind of was a late bloomer to music but just kind of mtv grew up with me i grew up with mtv and so then you started seeing all this stuff and then uh i got into metal was kind of like my early genre and i always reacted to just things that were loud and had a beat like uh i mean adhd right it's like uh Like, you know, everything from Sgt.

Pepper's by the Beatles to, like, Led Zeppelin II my dad had. My parents had both those albums, so I listened to them a lot. And then, like, The Police, Ghost in the Machine. But then I got into metal, Def Leppard and, you know, ACDC, Metallica, went way down the rabbit hole of speed metal. Mm-hmm. And that time was kind of like, oh, why don't I play guitar? I can do this.

Pepper's by the Beatles to, like, Led Zeppelin II my dad had. My parents had both those albums, so I listened to them a lot. And then, like, The Police, Ghost in the Machine. But then I got into metal, Def Leppard and, you know, ACDC, Metallica, went way down the rabbit hole of speed metal. Mm-hmm. And that time was kind of like, oh, why don't I play guitar? I can do this.

Pepper's by the Beatles to, like, Led Zeppelin II my dad had. My parents had both those albums, so I listened to them a lot. And then, like, The Police, Ghost in the Machine. But then I got into metal, Def Leppard and, you know, ACDC, Metallica, went way down the rabbit hole of speed metal. Mm-hmm. And that time was kind of like, oh, why don't I play guitar? I can do this.

And I had friends who were doing that. And I just never got it. I took lessons and stuff like that. But it was different because when I was doing trumpet, I was reading sheet music.

And I had friends who were doing that. And I just never got it. I took lessons and stuff like that. But it was different because when I was doing trumpet, I was reading sheet music.

And I had friends who were doing that. And I just never got it. I took lessons and stuff like that. But it was different because when I was doing trumpet, I was reading sheet music.

And this was like, I was learning by looking, there's a thing called tablature, you know this, where it's like you see a drawing of the fretboard with numbers and that's where you're supposed to put your, it's kind of like paint by numbers, right?

And this was like, I was learning by looking, there's a thing called tablature, you know this, where it's like you see a drawing of the fretboard with numbers and that's where you're supposed to put your, it's kind of like paint by numbers, right?

And this was like, I was learning by looking, there's a thing called tablature, you know this, where it's like you see a drawing of the fretboard with numbers and that's where you're supposed to put your, it's kind of like paint by numbers, right?

and so um i learned it in a completely different way but i was still terrible at it and i didn't get it it's actually taken me a long time to understand exactly what the issue was but it wasn't until i really got into punk and i saw bands like i saw sonic youth i remember especially and it just blew my mind because they violated the rules of what i thought music was supposed to be i was like

and so um i learned it in a completely different way but i was still terrible at it and i didn't get it it's actually taken me a long time to understand exactly what the issue was but it wasn't until i really got into punk and i saw bands like i saw sonic youth i remember especially and it just blew my mind because they violated the rules of what i thought music was supposed to be i was like

and so um i learned it in a completely different way but i was still terrible at it and i didn't get it it's actually taken me a long time to understand exactly what the issue was but it wasn't until i really got into punk and i saw bands like i saw sonic youth i remember especially and it just blew my mind because they violated the rules of what i thought music was supposed to be i was like

this doesn't sound right. These are not power chords. And this isn't just have like a shouty verse and then a chorus part. It's not going, but this is just like weird. And then it occurred to me, you don't have to write music, uh, the way people tell you it's supposed to sound. That just opened up everything for me.

this doesn't sound right. These are not power chords. And this isn't just have like a shouty verse and then a chorus part. It's not going, but this is just like weird. And then it occurred to me, you don't have to write music, uh, the way people tell you it's supposed to sound. That just opened up everything for me.

this doesn't sound right. These are not power chords. And this isn't just have like a shouty verse and then a chorus part. It's not going, but this is just like weird. And then it occurred to me, you don't have to write music, uh, the way people tell you it's supposed to sound. That just opened up everything for me.

I was playing in a band and I was struggling with writing music because I would try to write whatever was popular at the time or whatever sounded like other bands that I was listening to. Somehow I morphed into just grabbing a guitar and just doing stuff. And I realized a part of my problem with doing music before was I didn't enjoy trying to play stuff that other people played.

I was playing in a band and I was struggling with writing music because I would try to write whatever was popular at the time or whatever sounded like other bands that I was listening to. Somehow I morphed into just grabbing a guitar and just doing stuff. And I realized a part of my problem with doing music before was I didn't enjoy trying to play stuff that other people played.