I'm really surprised the most that I currently write my works and they are listened to by you.

It was so mysterious, but I was certain that I was confident in music since I was a little child, I didn't understand why I felt so, though.

But that foggy feeling made me learn the piano, or try something that related to music, wanting to know the reason rather than liking music.

The impressive event was that I listened to George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" when I was a high school student and I was so moved by it.

Then I thought profoundly, "How wonderful. I really want to play the piano!", for the first time in my life. Though I started piano when I was 6 years old, I had been 16 years old...what had I done for 10 years...?  a little poor parents!

Later I practiced hard 'Rhapsody in Blue' of course, and I was fascinated with other Gershwin's tunes, so I also tried to grasp the musical framework by ear and reproduce Gershwin's on the piano that were not published as sheet music repeatedly.

This process requires a large amount of trial and error, so some people felt that I was bizarre, but when we want to create something from nothing, it depends on how sticky we could be, I think.

The next key event was that I had started the modern jazz club at my university. The reason why I wanted to start playing jazz was that I was very interested in the fact that Gershwin's repertoire often appeared in jazz.

At the same moment that I started jazz, I had mastered 'chords', which was a very convenient tool for me when I deal with harmony in my mind.

Learning chords enabled me to create brief sheet music from the tunes I listened to, or reproduce melodies while playing harmony on the piano. And then I got the idea what I should do when I compose music.

That experience made me think that "I'm confident with music" means that "I'm good at taking shape on music".

But I needed more time to begin with composition, because I was enthusiastic about 'copying'.

People who play jazz often do to copy from great player's improvisations, and I could understand chords without sheets and I was good at memorizing the solo parts that I listened to from recordings, so I concentrated on copying Bill Evans or McCoy Tyner for example.

Though it's very important to express a player's own style in jazz, I tended to ride an easier tide and it caused delay for my starting composition.

To play the piano while we synchronize with some recordings was great training where we brush our rhythm feelings or understand musical structure, but soon I got a conflict that 'creation' is absolutely different from 'imitation' in music.

If I continued copying Gershwin or Evans, I never would reach the creation stage where they have stood, I thought. I was eager to see the landscape they had seen.

So I made up my mind to make tunes. Since I knew that I had to use the computer if I wanted to do music by myself, I read books or magazines about the computer or acoustic engineering, or I often used to go to the electric store to get some information about my needs.

And then things are as you know today!

Thank you for reading. (^^♪