This blogging business is working - I've played my guitar or piano nearly every day in the past week! Woooohooooo! It's been fun.
I've made some progress with my goal, and I'll try to provide some evidence soon (in the form of a recording or video).
Last week I learned how to play "Steer" by Missy Higgins (thanks to my Thursday Year 12 jamming buddy Elyce for teaching me this one). It sounds really cool on two acoustic guitars but it's hard to get the strumming perfectly in time with two people - we're working on it!
On Sunday I learned my first song on piano and it happened in a really weird way. I've been listening to the latest Sia album on repeat in my car for a few days now, and I discovered a really nice song that I hadn't really noticed before, called "I'm in here". There are two versions of the song on the album and the second one is stripped back to just piano and vocals. I was listening to it and thought "hmm... nice song... doesn't sound too complicated... I could learn this". Later that day when I was in front of a piano, I remembered and thought I'd try it, without any chords or anything and a freaky thing happened.
I had this really weird "out of body experience" feeling where I felt like my hands weren't even joined to my arms and they were just moving by themselves! And my fingers just played the song. They knew what to do. The song sounded.... right. I can't really explain it.
Have you ever written a piece of writing and had that feeling of being detached from your pen? Where you're consciously thinking about something but unconsciously your brain is making ink flow off the pen and form words that actually make sense? I'm not an artist, but I imagine it must be like that for painters sometimes, when they pick up a paintbrush and lose themselves in the painting and it almost creates itself. That's what it was like with this song. It's like something had been downloaded into my brain and I knew what to do before I'd even tried.
Oooh I just realised what it reminds me of! All you Heroes watchers out there, you know the supernatural "ability" that one girl has where she sees something once and can do it? Amazing things like martial arts, classical piano playing, other skills. It was like that. Only I hadn't seen it, just heard it. It's never quite happened like that before, usually I fumble around for a while until I figure it out. I'm not suggesting I have a supernatural ability either, in case you're wondering! It was just a straaaaaaaaange feeling...
That was a pretty long-winded explanation and makes me sound a bit like a crazy woman.... maybe I am!!!
Not as crazy as Sia though - look at her! :)
*phew*
P.S. Quote of the day: "Miss Haydock, when you speed, are you called a lead head?"
("No, Eb, lead FOOT.")
Bahaha!
