Picking a Song
Apr. 2nd, 2008 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebWe have another informal music recital coming up.
I pulled out the songs that seemed almost ready last time but just didn't have it, but they still don't have it and I don't know how to fix it.
So I found a song I could play some notes of with the music and then later figured out some more stuff without the CD playing, and it looked like it was going to be easy and fun. But then it turns out I had misremembered the stuff I had figured out earlier, so the new things I had figured out didn't work, and I couldn't figure out anything that did work, so I went looking for a plan C.
And today I found it. It's not my favorite song. It's interesting but not all that beautiful, though the tune is pleasant enough. But I can sing it. And I can make all the chords on the guitar. And I have even figured out some totally awesome finger picking I can do. And I wrote it down while I still know it. And I wrote it in pencil so that if I think of a better way, I can just change it to the new way.
And so now I have a song! That makes me happy.
Now all I have to do is finish writing out the lyrics, finish working out the finger-picking pattern, and then practice it. I can do the chords pretty well except one transition which seems quite easy to learn. I can do the finger-picking by itself fairly well, though I need to speed it up a bit more. And I can sing the song okay at speed with strumming. So now all I have to do is melt that all together and voila! No one has to throw up when they hear me!
(Except that it's a Leonard Cohen song. Ha!)
Journal entry of the day - See the most beautiful doggy dish ever (unless you hate Victorian stuff) at Notes from a Cottage Industry.
I pulled out the songs that seemed almost ready last time but just didn't have it, but they still don't have it and I don't know how to fix it.
So I found a song I could play some notes of with the music and then later figured out some more stuff without the CD playing, and it looked like it was going to be easy and fun. But then it turns out I had misremembered the stuff I had figured out earlier, so the new things I had figured out didn't work, and I couldn't figure out anything that did work, so I went looking for a plan C.
And today I found it. It's not my favorite song. It's interesting but not all that beautiful, though the tune is pleasant enough. But I can sing it. And I can make all the chords on the guitar. And I have even figured out some totally awesome finger picking I can do. And I wrote it down while I still know it. And I wrote it in pencil so that if I think of a better way, I can just change it to the new way.
And so now I have a song! That makes me happy.
Now all I have to do is finish writing out the lyrics, finish working out the finger-picking pattern, and then practice it. I can do the chords pretty well except one transition which seems quite easy to learn. I can do the finger-picking by itself fairly well, though I need to speed it up a bit more. And I can sing the song okay at speed with strumming. So now all I have to do is melt that all together and voila! No one has to throw up when they hear me!
(Except that it's a Leonard Cohen song. Ha!)
Journal entry of the day - See the most beautiful doggy dish ever (unless you hate Victorian stuff) at Notes from a Cottage Industry.