Band Meeting! A Promising Venture (Day 4)

Today I had a meeting with a Band that's looking promising. We've got things scheduled out, and we're planning on doing many a practice. Only once a week, but that's great, because I know the Singer and Drummer pretty well. They're good, and not at all annoying, while the two guitar players (whom I've just met) are pretty awesome people, and definitely do not suck at their instrument. It's the first time I've been musically excited in a long while.

What kind of band will it be, you may ask. Well, it's not going to be a hardcore band, or some indie nonsense band (not that all Indie bands are nonsense, but lately...). We're going to be a bit experimental, and genre mixing. It'd be cool to start a new genre, but ya know what? A band devoted to making a new genre becomes a lot of nonsense. We're going to be a band devoted to the Music we're playing, and we're going let Music take us where it wants to go.

Well, that was longer than I thought it'd be. Here's where I mention, though, that I did not play or practice any instrument whatsoever, so no worries, keeping my challenge!

Keep jammin'!

Field Painting and Insanity (Day 3)

So, the entirety of my day nothing has happened, except this morning where I helped mark a few fields for painting. This will enable the Marching Band to have many a choice when it comes to practicing their drilling.

Beyond that, completely uneventful. I sat here. I then proceeded to sit here some more, and I'm slowly going insane. I did a few push-ups, but beyond that I've just tried to stand up every 30 or so minutes and walking around a bit. I'm at a loss for things to do. Try not to mind so much if the next few posts are INSANE.

Okay, so.. I don't really have any muscle (Day 2)

Today was completely (and utterly) uneventful. No, really, nothing happened today. I did a few pushups and random other work outs today. When I mean "a few", I really do mean "a few", and those few really got me out of breath.

So yes, I have no arm muscles whatsoever, and what little leg muscle I have will slowly disappear if I don't do these spontaneous workouts, which to anyone who had even a teensy bit a of muscle would call a warmup!

Okay, so I'm exaggerating a little bit, but honestly, I'm a twig anywhere there isn't fat, so if I can't practice music, I might as well be slightly less of a twig, right?

The Internet is a Cruel Mistress (Day 1)

On the first official day of my ban on instrument practicing, I found my internet going in and out, until it finally just shut down. For several hours. In fact, it only just came on, and it shut down about 10+ hours ago. Having spent most of my days on the internet and practicing instruments before, I lost them both on the same day o.o It wasn't entirely fun, but I did get out of the house and had a short visit with my best friend (which was quite fun).

At any rate, hopefully this doesn't happen again tomorrow. If it does, I don't really know what I'll do >.<

Just keep chargin'

No Instruments for a Week and a Half

Except for the rehearsal(Thursday) and performance(Monday) I have to play at, until the Monday after that performance, I will not be touching any of the instruments I play. I will also not be touching my drum pad, for those who don't consider that an instrument.

I am taking a week and a half off. Something I haven't done since I was forced to due to having no access to them. I've hidden them away in various corners of the house where I will not see them, and put all my music and books under piles of things.

This is going to be an experience. Especially when my most favorite people will be gone for most of it. I won't have anyone to help me get through not playing the instruments, so this will be the ultimate test of willpower.

Bahahahahahahaha.

Test on my friends, test on.

Listen

Can you hear that? Now try to hear it with your eyes, try to hear it with your fingers. I didn't say see it, I didn't say touch it, I said hear it. It should sound very different through your eyes and through your fingers, but you should hear it all the same. Try facing your hand away from the sounds. Do you hear it? Try facing your hand towards it. Can you tell the difference?

Listen, always listen. If you cannot listen, you cannot speak, if you cannot  hear you cannot talk.

I Can Cook. By. My. Self.

Yesterday I baked a cake. I  made it from scratch, I put it in the oven, I watched it, I took it out. Some sneak took them out of the pans, but luckily I didn't let that same sneak frost it.

I frosted it while it was still slightly warm, where it was cool enough to frost, but still a bit fragile. You know what I didn't do? I didn't ruin the cake one bit. I frosted, it, frosted it right, and it tasted great.

It's a rather dark cake. Made using Hershey's "Special Dark" Cocoa powder, which actually made it quite good.

You know how I did it? I followed the recipe, exactly as it was. It's weird, I know, but following recipes can give a pretty good result. Sure, being a master at cooking usually involves being able to tell how strong stuff is or isn't, and changing the recipe on the spot so flavors are still balanced and such, but I can at least read the notes on the page, and follow the dynamics just as it says.

Yes, I just changed a cooking tale into a music tale. Sure, with music I can follow the song's dynamics. The unwritten ones that you can just feel should be there, those are the song's dynamics. The page is just a few hints here and there, but music is more then a sheet of paper. Why only learn from that sheet, if there's so much more?

So these things, they apply to all things, don't you think? If you want to master something, you have to be able to feel it out, and if you'd like to be good at something, you have to know how to read the page. That's life.

Keep learning. I know you can do it.