Grace scott + Musician in Norfolk, EN

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ABOUT

I’ve played piano for years now self taught I picked it up really well with nu lessons or help from anyone started on a basic keyboard my mum got my brother which he didn’t really use and I started learning songs very quickly after about 2 years my mum brought me a digital piano for my birthday and I progressed very fast from y6 to y8 and during covid I would play for extreme amount of hours as it’s the only thing that kept me from going insane being inside for so long somtimes I would play for 7 hours of the day but every day I was playing for a average of 3 hours just for fun and enjoyment I would say during the end of y8 and 9 I used it as a coping mechanism as it was a very rough patch for me I was really low and I hated school so much, yeah everyone hates it, but it got to the point I’d make my self sick on purpose and my mum would have to drag me out the door and that’s when my piano playing and music became like my other world if you will the place where everything sounded comfortable and calm where I could use my emotions and do something with them instead of them accumulating inside my head I would put all my effort into it and I know a lot of people say music is their escape and it truly was mine and still is.
And I’m not going to write a perfect description of my self becuase I’m not perfect nu one is so I’m going to be honest about my self so who ever reads this can get a honest perspective of me.
I suffer with adhd and anxiety wouldn’t say they effect me greatly but I have my bad days where i find it hard to cope and if I’m going to be completely honest my adhd has a lot of positive impacts on my music as I hyper-fixate on a lot of tasks and things and that’s why I play for so long because I’m not even aware of the time and playing really realises everything for me and I get into a really deep state of mind almost like meditation it’s difficult for me to explain because of the amount of time and effort I put into practice I have such good muscle memory of a lot of the songs I play I end up day dreaming whilst I’m playing like I don’t have to think about it I just do it and it’s not like when I’m playing I know what notes I’m playing every time I play one enless I analyse or write down what they are. (sorry if it doesn’t make sense).
I remember and learn in a very different way to a lot of people as I taught my self and I pick a lot of things up by ear as well I don’t know how I just do, this part is different to explain but when I’m practicing a new song say if I’m looking at something like out of a window or I hear my mum talking or think about something whilst I’m learning that specific part of the song/music when I play that part of the song in the future I almost get like deja vu and that thing or sound, thought, what ever I remembered when learning that part I will aways remember when I play that part and like I don’t remember things by the notes I’ll think about those things that I heard and that and it kinda just unlocks a series of muscle memories and I just play, I’ve never tried explaining that in a message so I am extremely sorry if it made nu sense at all.
As I said I have adhd and my brain learns in a different way and I understand things in different forms sometimes and music has just been something that my brain has just understood and not really struggled with.
Around mid y9 I was really struggling with everything my mental health and school and music was just the only thing that mattered or meant anything to me I didn’t have any friends by the first few months into y9 my 2 I had kinda just left and me and we drifted and I was really badly bullied and I was scared to go on the playground or lunch hall so I would sit in the music room and just play for 55 mins straight it was such a lovely piano a Yamaha absolutely gorgeous I would give anything to play it again I would be so focused during playing that a few times I didn’t hear the bell and missed a few of my lessons it really was my safe place around that year in July I first heard the song interstellar by Hanz zimmer and I really obsessed over it it made me feel a certain way and it brought so much emotion to me I would feel violently sick and disgusted with how amazing it was I immediately started learning it took me a long time as I kept hearing different versions and learnt different styles of it and it took a while to master the broken chords in the left hand but I eventually got it and I was so determined and invested in mastering the song I played it on repeat whilst I fell asleep to get the rhythm and atmosphere of the song in my head as soon as I woke up I would put it on, any opportunity I got at school I would purposely go to the bathroom just to hear the song so I could have it ringing in my head, after about 3 months I had learnt so many different styles of the song I ended up putting them all together making a really detailed instrumental I can’t express the song means to me it’s literally heaven to my ears when I hear to play it I only properly finished putting all the different versions and bit and a few improvised verses I made all together a few months into y10 it’s a very emotional piece for me but one of my favourites.
I ended up moving schools in the November of y10 to a school where I already knew a lot of the people there and had primary mates there that I really got on with, I aways wanted to move but I was just worried about the whole new girl thing and having everyone making first opinions on you but I ended up telling a girl who I was already really close too in that school and she said she would make sure everyone was nice to me and told her mates I was worried about moving and it really helped me to gain the confidence and still now it’s one of the best decisions I ever made i it wasn’t a very good school but I believe it’s the people that matter and it does really effect the way you see school knowing that when u go there u have people who are happy and glad to see u everyday and I started to become myself again my music class was my favourite I felt so welcome and just like I fit in with them all and I met a girl who was really good at singing and she stunned me every time I was I best piano playing in my class and in our theory I struggled a lot as my in my old school they didn’t have a proper teacher and we didn’t learn very much but I have improved on my theory side of music since I joined and we had to make our own piece of music and made a piece and the first lesson making it I already had made like a melody and my teacher was like have u just made this your self and I was like yes and she asked me how and I discribed to her like how I think and learn music and she told me I had a musicians mind and the way I think is phenomenal she said I have a very good understanding of chord patterns and how different notes fit with others the songs I make are very heart felt and bring her many emotions and that I’m one of the most talented students she’s taught, that she could listen to me play for hours.
I know it sounds like I’m a very classical player but I have a very good understanding of chords and can pick up notes really easy to most songs when my class performs the songs we got told to learn i was aways on the keys but like i don’t feel like I’m heard enough and I think I fit more into songs which are built around piano but I do play with a lot of other instruments as well.
And since I was about 6 I would write song lyrics and sing I’m not the best singer but I can match my voice to notes if that makes sence I don’t really sing to other people but I really do and I wanna get better I’ve only sang to my dad brother and my mate and my dad started crying because he said my voice was so beautiful and he didn’t actually think I would sound good and my brother aways say how good certain parts of songs I sing I’ve sung to a few people on line and they said I was amazing i think I could become really good if I practice and had people to help me who know what they are doing I’ve aways wanted to be on stage like I love the attention I can’t explain it I have never been a singer on stage but I have been the piano player for the vocalists and i would die to sing for people but I can’t just steal their spots as I was already playing piano I love singing with a passion if I’m not playing I’m singing I feel so happy when I sing and it’s my dream to be apart of a band and sing on stage and play piano my voice suits certain songs though so I think I’d be better with another singer that can fill in for certain songs or parts I’m okay at guitar not the best but I think if I practiced I would be good which I don’t have a guitar so unfortunately I can’t I don’t know what else to say other than I want to be apart of a band be on stage and produce music I don’t know if this is needed but I’m blonde 5.2ft blue eyes and I really want to go somewhere with my music and get noticed it’s my dream and I would love for anyone please reach out to me

Screen name:

Grace scott

Member since:

Jun 04 2023

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Touring

Years playing music:

5

Gigs played:

Under 10

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Hanz zimmer, Harry styles, Rihanna, birdy, adel, artic monkeys, the neighbourhood, sex after cigarettes, billie eilish, two door cinema, Coldplay, cage the elephant,queen,JVKE,SYML

Instrument experience:

Piano:

Expert

Keyboard:

Advanced

Vocalist:

Intermediate

Background Singer:

Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

I have 3 pianos 1 digital