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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 21-24, 2020 B-9 The Park Record Park City High School graduate wants the ‘Best for You’ in song Wyatt Pike wrote debut single about his sister Hazel SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Singer -songwriter Wyatt Pike broke through a mental barrier when writing his debut single “Best for You,” which he released Friday. “I was always super concerned about writing things that were crazy personal,” said Pike, a Park City High School graduate who will start to attend the Berklee School of Music this summer. “I would write a song and think about a person, and thought, ‘They don’t want to hear this,’ but then I thought about the several billion people in the world, and decided maybe someone else might want to hear it. So this is the first song that I wanted to share with the masses.” “Best for You,” which is available on all streaming services including Spotify and Apple Music and will be included on Pike’s forthcoming EP, is about his younger sister, Hazel. “It reflects on the stresses and anxieties that she has experienced, and it also ties in with the anxieties that I slipped into during my senior year in high school,” he said. “Just seeing that we were going through some same things kind of brought us closer.” Pike will also perform the song during an hourlong set that he will live stream on Facebook and Instagram from 7-8 p.m. on Sunday, March 22, from the Rockwell Listening Room. Pike began writing the song in the fall of 2018. “It was a day full of panic attacks, and I closed myself up in my room and sat on the floor to think and reflect,” he said. “All the ingredients were put in the pot back then, and it’s been simmering for a long time.” Pike remembered sitting quietly for a long time before he picked up his guitar. “Sometimes I’ll sit in si- lence more than singing and playing when I’m in that state,” he said. After a few minutes he picked up his guitar and started experimenting with ideas. “When I do that, I’ll make things up and stumble on a couple of chords and melodies that I like,” he said. “When that happens, I’ll start singing.” The first words he tries out are usually gibberish, and then he begins to work in phrases. “When that happens, I’ll wonder where the phrase is coming from,” he said. “Usually the phrase comes from some sort of feeling, or an event in my life, which was, in this case, my sister.” Pike felt a barrage of emotions while he was putting the lyrics together. “This was the first time I actually cried when I was writing,” he said. This was the first time I actually cried when I was writing...” Wyatt Pike, Park City-based singer and songwriter The songwriter revisited the song repeatedly over the past year and half and made some changes. “Then I went back and fixed it,” he said with a laugh. “It was such a slow process for me.” He first performed it publicly on KPCW radio last December. “I’ve never been one to praise to my family that I had written this song and play it for them, but this one kind of slipped through,” he said. “I was on the radio, and I said, ‘This is a song about my sister.’ I knew my friends and parents were listening, and that’s how I would have wanted them to hear it.” Pike’s next adventure will be music classes at Berklee, which he decided a few months ago. A D A G E B E L L Y B E L I E D I S U S E E M O T E S P A N E R A S A D T A L E S A G U I L E R A L E T M E T R Y A D H A D E I B O A U N E R D R A U S T T I I S C H U T A H T E T E I C U F O P I L H A L I B T A L O O B L U L T I C E V O U S E N C H C H A W A R R E V E D N E T A G T O W N O R E O R E C R B C A I H Y T I S O L E R E I N N E O P E T S H O P C A D S A K E N L A L E L G A G R A K E R E D B L A P O Y M O E O S E R V N E M E A D E N S D N O I R E D I V A T R E N T S O U C H D R A I S T O N Y O R D K E P E I R S Y E S A P C A H O O R A R M A K A N D C U E B I B R A N L I T I I C E N A X H U E R E D A S T O D O U I D O T O W N S E S E M C Y B O A E O N P S T L A N Y A R D S C H I E F D O M E V E R S O S O W E T O P E R C Y F E D E X PHOTO BY BLAKE BEKKEN MARCH MADNESS SPA SALE Park City High School graduate Wyatt Pike, who will attend the Berklee School of Music in the summer, has released his debut single, “Best for You,” which was inspired by his sister, Hazel. Singer and songwriter Wyatt Pike When: 7-8 p.m. on Sunday, March 22 Where: Facebook and Instagram live stream Web: wyattpike.com At the end of last summer the musician was enrolled to attend business school in Charleston, South Carolina. “I had registered for classes, paid for a dorm and all of that,” he said. “Then I realized that I hadn’t tried to record any of my own music, or applied to music school. So, I decided I wanted to try it, because I knew I would always regret it if I didn’t go for it.” He withdrew from the business school and applied to Berklee, where he had spent a summer in a music camp in 2017. He was accepted on March 1. “I’m supposed to move out there in May for summer semester, but they are transitioning to online classes,” he said. “So we’ll see.” In the meanwhile, Pike hopes people enjoy “Best for You.” “It’s been helpful to me to finally release an actual single, because it kind of sets things in stone for me,” he said. “It reassures me that I’m really doing this.” Park City & Salt Lake City UP TO *$1000* OFF YOUR NEW SPA! Salt Water Hot Tubs Available! Ask about Floor Model and Clearance Specials! S p a D e p o t U t a h . c o m SHOOT TO THRILL! We’re Park City’s Public Always Welcome! LOOKING FOR A JOB? Check Our Help Wanted Section In Classifieds Home On The Range Monday-Saturday: 10-7 • Sunday: 10-5 After a day on the mountain, experience a higher caliber of fun on any of our 12 state-of-the-art shooting lanes over 3 separate ranges. Featuring a full selection of top-brand pistol & rifle rentals, and the most modern, thrilling machine guns in the world. 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