Nov 11: I keep forgetting to do these
I play at 10am until 11am, because that’s when my daughter’s first recess is (she’s in virtual school and in Sr kindergarten, so I have to supervise). But sometimes I don’t remember to write my post about it until 9pm.
Today was understandable, it was Remembrance Day. At 11, when she returned to the classroom, it was time to honour the soldiers that fought for our freedom.
Thank you.
Nov 12: Lemonade Mouth
Yesterday, I put on the Disney TV movie Lemonade Mouth for my kids. I intended to write while they watched it, but it hooked me, even though I’ve seen it before.
And it made me realize I didn’t have any of their music saved in my apps.
I fixed that before the movie was over.
So I played it today. It rather, attempted. It’s really hard to play a song if you aren’t super familiar with the melody or harmony. I’ll work on it.
On the plus side, my learning app, my song, and the random songs I played went well today
Nov 13: Memorizing
I didn’t play today. Too much life stuff going on.
So tonight, I worked on memorizing the wedding song.
It’s getting there, slowly. A melody is starting to form. We’ll see how that goes. I find it a little bland right now, so I’ll tinker with it for a bit.
Nov 14: Arranging
I played at my parent’s again today. My sister was there too. I don’t know why an extra person makes me even more nervous, but it did.
It went well though.
We rearranged my corner today.
My corner is the spot next to where I sit. It had a lot of kids books (still does) and art that my kids gave me (which have now been moved somewhere else) because I really wanted to put my guitar there. It looks so pretty and now I get to see it.
My daughter helped me build the bookshelf. It was fun to do it with her.
Nov 15: New week
Our routine is always all over the place on the weekends, so often I don’t have a chance to play guitar, or I only play a bit.
It means that when Monday rolls around, and I play from my learning app, my scores end up being really low.
It’s kinda frustrating, but I try not to pay too much attention to the scores.
I found a bunch of Christmas songs in my guitar app. I’m enjoying them.
Nov 16: Not feeling well
I wasn’t feeling great this morning, so rather than play guitar, I worked on the melody line for Get to Know You.
Because I don’t know if you know this, but I’m very extra.
(Says the person who learned how to play guitar so that she could play the song she wrote for her book.)
I’m crocheting myself a tiny basket to hold my guitar accessories like my capo, picks, and cleaning cloth.
And I got this brilliant idea to make it look like a music staff, but of course I can’t just throw music notes on there, they have to actually play a song!
So I’m trying to figure out the melody in order to put it on this basket.
I downloaded a piano app on my phone, which worked quite well, tbh.
So that’s what I did during my music time today.