Welcome to my 31 Days Series on Homemade Music! This series is meant to give you a rationale for being an active participant in music-making and give you ideas for beginning your own musical journey.

“Music making. In our day and age, you only make music if you’re in school or if you’re a performer of some sort. The rest of us may sing along in the car or at church, or enjoy dancing at a wedding, but very few of us make music for ourselves as a personal discipline, much less as a family. Even professional musicians are guilty of abandoning the joy of commonplace music making, and spend time practicing only for their jobs rather than for the art’s sake itself…

The problem is that the culture at large is so separated from actually producing music that we’ve lost sight of it as an art, a traditional skill, or even as a fun family activity.”  (Taken from the introduction to the series.)

Want to know more? I will progressively work through reasons why anyone can benefit from music making- yourself, your children, even the culture as a whole. I’m also going to give you some places to start- some inspirations and ideas to get you enjoying the art together.

This is the central hub were you can find all of the posts in this series in one list. It will be updated daily throughout the month. I would love your feedback so that I can work to make this series as helpful as possible to anyone who reads it. Thanks in advance! Here’s the links to each day in the series: