AN AMATEUR musician who was seriously injured in a road accident last year has gone through the therapeutic experience of composing an instrumental record - and now he hopes to release it to the public.

Ryan Dewar, 24, has played the keyboard for eight years and started composing the song after a two-month stay in hospital.

Mr Dewar, of Petty's Brook, Chineham, suffered multiple broken bones and organ damage after he collided with a motorbike while riding his bicycle in Thornhill Way in September.

During his recovery in hospital, including several operations to insert metal plates into his head and pins in a broken leg, Mr Dewar came up with the tune.

He said: "When I woke up in hospital, I just thought it up. It was weird how I kept thinking about it all the time and I thought 'I have got to get this recorded'."

Mr Dewar, who has been unable to return to work since the accident and is still receiving physiotherapy, started playing the keyboard again after his release from hospital.

When he first went back to music, he realised that, partly as a result of the injuries he suffered in the accident, he had forgotten how to play and had to relearn his keyboard skills.

But since then he has recorded the track and sent it out to several record companies - and he is now considering composing an album.

Mr Dewar said: "It is kind of a dance style. It is almost like soundtrack music - like I was thinking about the video to go with it.

"I made the different melodies to correspond with whatever was happening at the time. In a way, when I was writing it, it made me think about the accident more and made me deal with it. I was on the mend anyway, but it was good to have it there.

"I had always fancied distributing my music, and since the accident I keep thinking 'you only live once so make the most of it'."

You can listen to Ryan Dewar's song through The Gazette's website at www.thisisbasingstoke.co.uk/songs/ryansong.mp3

First published: Monday, April 24, 2006