This is Start (as you probably already know). It is the first album I have ever written. I decided that instead of just sticking with one style/genre, I would write in a bunch of different ones. Because if I didn't, I would get bored pretty fast considering I had a lot of ideas for this album. 　　The title track and also the first track on the album got inspired by the Symphony and Metallica (S&M) concert from 1999. This means the song has an orchestra supporting a hard rock band in it. I wrote the orchestra intro while at a martial arts camp, and when I came home that following Sunday I wrote the rest of it. This version actually replaced the original that I think got a little screwed up in the mixing together of the orchestra and rock band. Maybe someday I will release the original version under a different name. 　　The second song on the album, which has an old school title, is a song that is supposed to capture the moment when a guy sees a really pretty girl that he falls in love with at first sight. It may sound clichéd, but when I thought of that moment, the music flowed right onto the computer. 　　Song number three was inspired by the intro to the song All Alone by fun. because the almost Gameboy Color sounding synthesizer in that intro was incredible. I heard it a few times and after a while I thought "I wanna write a song that sounds like that." So I did. 　　The fourth song was actually supposed to be a piano quartet, but that didn't work so I stuck with just one piano. I wrote this after I realized how well I wrote the piano part in Beauty (the second track) so well that I just decided to try my luck with a song having just piano in it. 　　Number five is the result of listening to a lot of music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. After listening to it enough I decided to try and write something similar to it but different enough so that it had my personal stamp of style on it. Using a harp, violin, and violin section I feel I was successful in doing just that. 　　The sixth song was really a personal challenge: write in a style of music that everyone says sounds the same no matter what and make it different or recognizable. Since pan flute music sounds the same to a lot of people (and I understand why) I used rock an heavy metal elements in this song along with a completely random bongo drum beat, like I literally just entered in random notes on Finale 2012 for the bongos and it sounded quite alright so I left it that way. Surprisingly this song got more views on Youtube than other songs from this album that was made into simple videos for Youtube. It came in second to Dark Forest. 　　Song seven was a challenge of writing a song in one day or in 16 hours...and I did it! And for a while I liked this song so much I listened to it on my iPod every other day. A little egotistical but oh well, as a violin player, I liked it. 　　Track eight is one of three hard rock and heavy metal songs on this album and it is really a song for when someone is just mad at the world. Musicians benefit from this song more (especially the drummer) because it can be a song where the musicians can just kill their instruments while playing it. Hopefully the song helps people when they're mad in one way or another. Plus the solo section is insane with a tempo of 167 bpm. 　　The ninth song is the rock ballad of the album, the first original song of mine that I learned to play on guitar, it is that easy. I almost forgot to put a bass part into this song so after it was all done I had to go in and add one. 　　Song ten is a song that is meant to hype somebody up for something, whether it is a fight or a big math test this song is meant to put you into the "let's do this" state of mind. With the marching beats in this song there's no way you can't get hyped. 　　Number eleven is the first of two symphony orchestra songs. Sorry woodwind players, I couldn't add your section and make it sound good. The balance of sound was just never quite right, maybe someday I'll add your section. This is a song that makes someone imagine being trapped in an incredibly spooky/eery forest and having the feeling of being chased by something and not being able to leave. This was a song that I focused on intensely. I worked exclusively on this song for about two or three weeks until it was done. People have even said it sounded like the second coming of Beethoven, or that there was a little extra something in the song. And that, by the way, is the rock and heavy metal elements that I feel classical music desperately needs. 　　The last song was the only song written with a keyboard with multiple MIDI instruments. This is something I wrote for all the people who fight in martial arts tournaments and can never find the right song to get them hyped up. With this song, if you can imagine some kind of medieval knights versus orcs war then I have done my job. If you imagine yourself leading one of those opposing sides into battle then I have done my job fantastically. The final gong of this song gives a nice ending note for the album to fade out on.