About Me

First Name

Andrew

Last Name

Townsend

Nickname

Andrew Townsend

Why I'm Here

When I was in college I wrote a little poetry that got published and did some graphic design.  After writing software for  nearly 20 years I felt working with primarily the logic side of my brain I had lost my creativity. I wanted to find a way express myself.  I never thought I could learn to play this late in life but a friend convinced me otherwise and it has been a rewarding but frustrating journey.

City

I wrote the lyrics to a song for my wife on our 25th anniversary.  I hired someone to help me with the melody.  I had a couple of months from the time we finished it until I wanted to play it for my wife on our anniversary.  I thought I had it down until I recorded it.  My timing was all poor and my picking inaccurate.  I had only taken a couple of months of voice lessons and hearing my own voice recorded was darn near traumatic it sounded so bad to me.

I had to hire someone to record it for me.  it turned out quite good.  I surprised my wife on our 25th and it brought her to tears.  She loves it.  I didn't think much more about it, but our 30th anniversary is a year out so I am working on playing the song and taking voice lessons so I can play it and sing it to her on our 30th year anniversary next year.