3 days to go as we countdown for Christmas, in celebration of Christ the noble hearted's birth. I guess due to the tight budget i'm saving up cash for Christmas Eve celebration by hanging out at mamak joints and jamming with my friends . Yea, i'm still pretty much trying to realise my dream of becoming the next rock legend. Take note not a rock star but a legend.
I am born with an ear for music as people often commented. Well i guess i'm just a lazy slacker whose been playing music or inventing tunes with the courtesy of my sharp hearing and my love for music. Even as a lad at the age of 10 for i find it easier for me to memorise musical tunes and lyrics rather than those thick and over compiled pieces of papers our Education system label as textbooks.
I guess the reason i have solid ground in the English language apart from reading lots of novels and fables ,it is because of music. I chased away my piano teacher at the age of 7 by making him really pissed and quit {i believe he pissed in his pants too}. I did the same to my organ teacher who was such a nice and patient lady by staring at the paintings of snow white instead of those taugeh on paper they call my manuscript. As i recall down memory lane, the only instrument that i actually excel in would be the triangle looking object whose name i forgot but i enjoyed hitting . Ting, ting,ting it went as if Santa's sleigh was flying around the corner.
I was such a terror to musical experts and it went on until i was twelve and it just came to me. I picked up a guitar and started pressing all over the 6 stringed instrument and because i have always enjoyed listening to music , it seemed a lot easier for me to identify the do, re ,mi's and it felt like a miracle as i am able to play songs that i have heard from the radio, every single tune. I went on in discovering that i am able to do the same with the piano and organ. I am still able to recall the first song that i have played which was a cha cha number and i do believe that was an early sign that i would be taking up the dance .
Many of my friends and friend's of my family gave plenty of words of encouragement after listening to me play. I thought at the beginning they were just being nice but it seemed that they were pretty impressed with my new found skills and it made me feel spirited as if i have just stumbled upon a chest of gold. However, i am aware that since i have not attended any formal music classes therefore compared to those that have been attending, i am far behind.
I believe it is out of my love for music that the art of dancing captivates me easily. Alvina's right, a music lover may fall in love with dancing. As for my love for writing out poems , apart from being a person that showers my feelings out in writing, it must have been because i enjoy singing and memorizing lyrics for ballads .
Singing for me was a bath time routine for i used to be really shy and even if am held at gun point i would never dance what more sing? It was not until last 2 years that a friend of mine kidnapped me to KTV that i grow fond of karaoke. I remember singing "I Miss You Like Crazy " during my teenage years rehearsel for my friends formed a mini band and each of us had to sing and get ourselves familiarize with the tune . Flower seemed to have blossomed from the mouth of those girls complimenting me for having a nice voice. I recall blushing and my pale complexion turned red as if someone had me kicked at the groin.
Plucking the tunes out of my guitar seemed to be a lot of fun for i play by do,re,mi therefore it was like playing the piano on strings. However i wasn't very good with strumming for it involves a lot of chords which means it requires learning up those chords. It also mean i am better at lead compared to rhythm . I am determined to get rid of this flaw by slowly picking up guitar chords and piano chords whenever possible.
My friends wanted to jam and though it has been gazillion of years since i have last jammed, it sounded like a lot of fun and a lot of challenge. Jamming isn't easy for it requires team work, sychronizing and lots of tolerance among fellow band members and through my previous experiences there were lots of arguements and disagreements.
As for this band which is consisting of only 3 of us in the meantime , each of us has got high level of tolerance so i believe there wouldn't be much to argue about. It may appear to sound pretty strange for the other two are more towards death metal and those really extreme metal music and i'm more into ballads and rock and roll but we share the same passion for music and we do listen to practically all genres except techno which is pretty much senseless to our ears. Techno we believe is the music for the tone deaf. I mean come on there's no rhythm, no good drums, no lead, no good vocals , just basses in rage.
I choosed to play the bass this time for i enjoy plucking but anyhow i am determined to pick up the drums, piano and other techniques of guitar playing especially harmonics which seemed really awesome. By any chance, if if have mastered those, i may want to try out Gu Zheng,the ancient chinese stringed instrument. It has got like hundreds of strings attached to it and i have played it once and believe it or not i actually played Colour Of The Wind from Vanessa Williams.
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