Dec 29: Fancy
I got a guitar strap and a shark capo for Christmas. They make me feel super cool, you have no idea!
Look at my daughter dancing. She’s so fast the motion capture couldn’t catch her hair or her hand.
I played my songs while standing today. I need to strengthen my back muscles (chronic injury) because I hurt now.
Ooooh and look at my cute shirt! It’s the title of my first solo book (fingers crossed the publisher accepts it!)
Dec 30: Ow
I played my two songs standing up today and my back pain went from a 2 to a 9.
To give you reference, normally when I’m playing guitar, it goes from a 2 to a 4 or 5. This is while sitting.
So … Ow.
Dec 31: Happy New Year
Someone told me that things we do on the 31st of December and the 1st of January set the stage and pace for the whole year.
Well, today I played my songs while standing and it didn’t hurt too badly, and then I played a bunch of Disney songs while sitting.
My kids sang and/or dancedalong.
It was fun. 🙂
I also plan on writing today and tomorrow, because I want that to continue in the new year.
Husband and I aren’t going to start our next book until our daughter’s virtual school restarts, so I’ve got another week to finish Tommy and Carter’s book 2, but I’m not stressing out about it too much.
Jan 1: First day
I played my songs today. And a bunch of Disney songs.
My parents arrived for new year’s day celebrations (within bubble) just before I started to play, so that added a level of anxiety.
I don’t know if I can play for an audience in the future. I’m going to need to play a lot more before then.
Jan 2: Ow again
I played my songs standing today. My pain increased a bit during the second song.
Then I played from the second Disney chord book I was given for Christmas.
This one:
There were lots of chords that I had to learn. Most of them were feasible, but I didn’t know them, which meant I had to spend a little of time bent over towards the music stand, trying to see what chord I needed to play.
So.
Ow.
I only played a couple songs before I had to give up.
I only have a few books left to try out before I’ve tried all of them.
And then, I think, my goal should be to focus on becoming more consistent with rhythms and memorizing more chords.
Because, you know, it’s hard to sight read if you don’t know the chords very well.
Jan 3: Friends
Picks and I are not friends, I have decided. I like the sound better without them, I keep my wrist looser, and I just find them annoying.
The Frozen 2 music book and I are not friends either. The chords are way too unnecessarily complicated. It will be a “once I’m better at this” book.
On a more positive note (ha! accidental pun), I wrote my third song yesterday night and tidied it up this afternoon. I’ll let it sit for a couple days/weeks and then put music to it.
It’s a ballad, a love story about the Phantom and the Wraith and how they met, except fictional. So my character is writing filk about two other characters.
Which I find hilarious.