Hi all.

Several weeks ago now in a Pimp Your Post Thursday session, @dreemsteem shared about Three Tune Tuesday. That share prompted me to write my guide to What To Write on Hive. But, I never actually took part in Three Tune Tuesday - until today!

Three Tune Tuesday is run by @ablaze. You can read their post for today's edition of Three Tune Tuesday here.

My Musical Background

Since it's my first #ttt post I think it's only fitting that I tell you a little bit about my musical tastes - and my musical origin story if you will.

I grew up on country and sacred music with a good bit of classical thrown in. My mom made me take piano lessons - just like she had my sister. I say made me because after the first year, I didn't really look forward to the lessons. But, I started lessons at age 4 and I continued until I graduated from high school (age 18). After about age 13 I started to realize how much that early music education had benefited me and I actually started asking for more lessons - eventually taking as many as two, two-hour lessons each week for a couple of years.

I also joined band in the 4th grade and decided to take up the flute. I never learned to love playing the flute so in later grades I experimented with a lot of different instruments for short times. For instance, since I went to a small, rural high school, we had no oboe player. So, one year for the holiday concert, I learned oboe just well enough to play the oboe part in Greensleeves.

I was not anywhere near as good as this.

In high school, I believed I wanted to be a high school music teacher like my older sister. She was a high school choral director and while I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a band director or a choir director, I was pretty sure music education was for me. I served as drum major of our high school marching band for two years and was the piano accompanist and student director of our high school choir for two years. This was back in the days before cell phone cameras so there is little if any evidence of all of my exploits.

So, I started college as a music education and mathematics education dual major. I took my first music theory class on the first day of my freshman year and much preferred calculus to music theory so I graduated from college as a mathematics education major with an endorsement in computer science. Things turned out okay in that regard.

My Musical Preferences

Today, I like country, classical, pop, some rock, some indie - I really have a very eclectic style. I draw strong connections to both rhythms and lyrics so pretty much any song has potential as long as I connect to it in some way. I listen to a lot of instrumental only music and some future Tuesday maybe I'll share an instrumental only version. For today though, I thought I'd take you through a "day in the life" of Kara in musical form with three (okay, so it's actually four) of my favorite songs.

Get Up and Move - The Morning
In the morning, I actually prefer silence and maybe a little news from the NPR podcast Up First. However, if coffee isn't doing the trick to get me moving, I'll occasionally play something upbeat. My favorite selections for this come from a playlist I have called Walk On Songs. (Maybe that playlist will be the theme for next week's Three Tune Tuesday! I'd love to hear what other people would put on their Walk On Songs playlist.)

One of my favorite songs on that list is Alice Merton's No Roots

While I actually have deep family roots and connections, both the words and the rhythm always draw me in.

Work Time - The Day

During the day, I like songs I know by heart so that even if I am singing them, I'm not necessarily thinking about it. One of my all time favorite songs for this "just have something playing while you do the work" mood is Feels Like Home by Chantal Kreviazuk.

If I ever marry this will be the first song my spouse and I danced to at the reception. That's probably because the first time I heard this song - and the moment I fell in love with it was in an episode of Dawson's Creek where they were attending a wedding.

And finally, we come to the evening.

Dancing in the Kitchen - The Evening
In the evening, you'll find me doing chores around the house and so that calls for dance music. In this house, we do dance in the kitchen. (I need to get a sign that says that because it is my most frequent dance locale.)

That means it's time for my Jubilate playlist! It always starts with LMFAO's Sexy And I Know It

From there I might choose shuffle play or just let the play list go as it's crafted.

Time for sleep - Bedtime
Since it's my first Three Tune Tuesday, I'm of course going to break the rules and give a fourth tune because pretty much no day ends for me without playing a Marvel movie. I don't even know how long I've been doing this, but I turn on a Marvel movie - most of the time it's the OG Avengers - and I go to sleep to it.

So, nearly every bedtime starts like this:

What does a day in your musical life look like?