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Oh my soul…I long to know you well, to hear your soft voice whispering to me.

…you touch me with your love and understanding.

…show me my wings so that I may fly as I’m destined to.

…teach me to trust you and release my worries.

…I’m ready to shine your light out into the world.

…you are my dearest companion, my truest love, my All.

…take over my heart and show me how to love deeply.

…teach me to dance to the music of life, to the rhythm of the wind.

…know that I love you and desire only to know you better.

…show me my truest self, my magnificence, so that I may see me.

…hand me the key to open the door to my self-imposed prison.

…shine the light on the path out of fear, and show me the way to peace.

…I long to drink and replenish from my own internal font, for I am tired of drinking from the fountains of so many others.

…allow my light to shine brightly, brilliantly, enduringly.

…teach me about silence.

…I have so many thanks to share with you that I know not how or where to begin, and there is certainly no end.

…open me up to my greatest desires and fulfillment.

…instruct me in the nature of my own beauty and wisdom.

…embrace me so tightly that I am you, and you are me, so that I know our unity and live from it.

Oh my soul…I absolutely love you/me.

Songwriter/vocalist/producer L. Young spends considerable thought in putting together his albums. Although he ventures into rock, funk and hip-hop for variety, his greatest care is spent developing ballads he believes will re-kindle audience craving for the kind of melodic, romantic numbers penned and performed by Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.

He composes and performs in between writing and producing for such major pop singers as Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight, Toni Braxton and his late close friend Teena Marie. He is also a veteran composer of soundtracks for film and television shows. The primary components of each song he writes are an infectious melody and sensitive lyrics expressing his concern about humanity and the world in which we live. One of his recurring themes is the plight of today’s children.

L. Young frequently presents music workshops and programs in Los Angeles schools. Each appearance makes him sadder than the previous one; he is especially dismayed by his recent discovery that many students cannot identify the most common band and orchestra instruments. At their age, he and his peers throughout the country were immersed in band, orchestra and vocal programs from the elementary grades upward. He laments the terrible disconnect in today’s younger generation because music has always been a driving force behind change and major events in history and has spearheaded the development of the arts for centuries.

L. Young grew up in a musical, church-going family and sang before he could talk. After graduating from the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky, he headed to Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio as an acting major. One of his high school classmates, Nicole Sherzinger, is best known today as a member of the Pussycat Dolls. The two worked together often during their early years and he is the one who encouraged her to take her talent to the West Coast. They are still close friends.

He credits the launching of his own career to Michael Carter, tour manager for Mary Blige. Carter urged Young to move to L.A. and focus on writing and producing, but once he began singing at live shows, the positive audience reaction convinced him to record his own songs.

Once you have learned the basics of how to play the violin for beginners, which is about the positioning of you and the violin, it is time to start learning actually how to play it. You need to learn both bowing and fingering positions when it comes to the violin.

There are two different ways to get notes out of the violin and you will need to learn both to correctly learn how to play the violin for beginners. The first is playing by plucking the strings, which is known as pizzicato and will be written like this on your sheet of music. When it comes to plucking the strings, you should be careful not to do it with your fingernails and always use the pads of your fingers – usually your index and middle fingers.

Now it comes to learning to play with the bow. You will need to tighten the bow hair before you start but you should always ensure that you do not tighten it too much – too much tension leads to scratchy sounds. It will take some time to get a proper note when you first use the bow so be prepared to practice.

When you hold the bow, most of the pressure should be on your index finger, which sits on the top of the bow. You thumb and other fingers are used to stabilize it. Even your little finger will be needed to stabilize the bottom of the bow. You should place your thumb in the corner of the bow and keep your fingers light while using it.

When you start using the bow, you want to concentrate on the sound that you are getting out. The tone should be clear and this will take a lot of long movements to get the positioning of the bow right. You will need a little bit of pressure on the strings but try not to use too much – you will need to be the judge so that you get the sound that you have wanted.

Your left hand is in charge of determining the notes that you will be playing. This is one of the hardest parts of playing the violin because it can take time to learn exactly where you should be placing your fingers. Each finger width will determine the notes and you need to remember that there are sharps and flats (the black notes on the piano) that you will need to think about too.