Lyndsey Wood

Lyndsey Wood began her journey back in 2002 in Baileyville, Maine. [] At the age of eleven, she was purchased a Casio CTK-573 as a Christmas gift. She started teaching herself to play simple melodies by ear, and built upon them with chords she found online by using the 'root' note of each melody.

By the age of thirteen, Lyndsey had her first 'gig'. She was asked to accompany Mrs. Robinson's Jr. High School Chorus Class for their winter concert. Lyndsey Preformed the left hand portion of 'Cannon', while Shelby basset played the right hand. Lyndsey could not read music at this time, so she listened to the track over and over again until she had the piece perfected.

Lydnsey's teacher, Mrs. Robinson was so impressed with the performance in December, that she requested she accompany the group again in the spring of 2005 with a song titled "Hashivanu"

Not only did Lyndsey get her first taste of performing in 2004, she started learning a new instrument as well. After noticing how fluently she picked up on the piano, Lyndsey's parents purchased her a guitar. Just as she did with the piano, she picked up on the guitar almost immediately by combining hours of practice with her natural ear for sound.

In 2005, Lyndsey started high school. Leaving numerous opportunities to play music! Unfortunately, she began her start at a whole new school in Hermon Maine. [] The school was wonderful! She began a Jazz Band class and played guitar during school hours! Lyndsey still had a very limited ability to read music, however, with hours of practice she was able to keep up with the pace of the class.

Just two months after beginning school in Hermon, Lyndsey was moved back to Baileyville, where Lyndsey was unable to participate because she was unable to read music. She was rejected from the class, and began to work on original material.

In February of 2006, Lyndsey preformed one of her original piano pieces for the first time at a coffee house performance at "Woodland Jr/Sr. High school" in Baileyville, Maine.

When Lyndsey was fifteen, she moved to Ballston Spa, New York. [] In September of 2006. Here, Lydnsey requested a shot at the guitar position for the Jazz band. After finding out the position had already been filled, she spoke with the instructor, who informed her that their was a piano position available. Lyndsey accepted, and started learning how to read music to try and keep up with the rest of the class.

In spring of 2007, Lyndsey moved to Calais, Maine. [] Here, she was involved in her high school Jazz band, and played the piano. Lyndsey had made a tremendous improvement with reading music. If she took a piece of sheet music home, she could learn how to play it within an hour. This worked out wonderfully, because she wouldn't need the sheet music after the song was learned. Lyndsey finished the year at Calais, and couldn't wait to go back to begin Jazz band again.

In fall of 2007, Lyndsey moved to Brewer, Maine. [] Where she attended Brewer High school. Lyndsey was given an 'on the spot' audition, and due to her lack of ability to fluently read sheet music, she was rejected from this group.

Because this was a brand new school, Lyndsey didn’t have any peers to practice with, She didn’t have a school band to be part of, she didn’t have the internet to get new sheet music…Lyndsey began to write more and more of her own pieces. She focused more on creating her own style than trying to mimic what was on sheet music or what she heard on the radio. Lyndsey also began creating more acoustic pieces with a clean sound and clever lyrics.

In 2008, Lyndsey preformed one of her original pieces at the ‘Brewer High school Coffee House’ At “Country Hearts”.

Lyndsey stopped playing guitar for a one year period, between 2009 and 2010.

In 2011 Lyndsey picked up a guitar at Paddy Murphy's in Bangor, Maine and played one of her origional peices. This was the last time she preformed. She still continues to write music.