Oct 12: Short
I had less than half an hour to play today. I played the two Halloween-ish songs from my app, which made the kids happy.
I played my song twice… My allergies are really bad today so my voice sounded terrible. It was kinda funny.
Then I played a couple songs from my song app. Pegasus was very happy to hear Puff the magic dragon. It’s one of his bedtime songs.
Oct 13: New song!
I played about five different songs in the learning app. The two Halloween ones, of course, and then I played a Mozart and a couple Beethoven. Lots of fun. Very hard. But fun.
Then I played my song, and a few others.
Lastly, I messed around with different chords for a NEW song that I wrote last night. I don’t have a tune for it yet, so it’s coming together quite different than the last one, which felt like it popped into my head fully formed. Should be interesting.
Oct 14: Playing for fun
I played a challenge on the learning app and did decently. It was called Skeletons.
After playing a few other songs from the learning app, I moved on to the other app and asked my son which song he’d like to hear.
He requested Puff the Magic Dragon. Zero surprise there lol!
I’m rather impressed with how much easier that song is to play now. Especially the strumming. It’s feeling so much more natural.
I played my song once. I still love it.
I didn’t work on the new song today.
Oct 15: Repeat
My practice session today was almost identical to yesterday’s, except I did worse on some songs and better on others. I had forgotten how frustrating Youcisian is as an app for chords. If you’re not perfectly on the string, it doesn’t register properly.
I played my song twice because I felt like the first time wasn’t good enough.
I sent my new song off to a musician friend to look the lyrics over. I’m not going to start trying to put music to it until I get feedback from her, because I told her that I wasn’t attached to it. Once I start memorizing it, I will get attached.
I’m going to need to name these songs so you won’t get confused.
The first song is called Get to Know You.
The second song doesn’t have a name yet, so I’ll refer to it as The Wedding Song.
Oct 16: No playing
I didn’t play today.
Sorry.
I’ll try to make time tomorrow.
Oct 17: Today
I played a bunch today to make up for not playing yesterday.
I started on the learning app, played a bunch of the classical stuff. It was fun.
Then I played Get to Know You twice. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting worse at it…
I then played a bunch of other songs from my uke app and guitar app. I consider this to be strumming and chord change practice.