Saturday 21 February 2009

Music Bits

I'd kinda forgotten about these... eight short (ie. c.1 minute each) pieces of fun random music I made and played the other month. Some of them aint too bad, actually!
Made me happily smile listening to them again.

I'm still chugging away working on my piano-keyboard playing. It's been years, really. It's not my naturally-preferred instrument, and I'm having to re-learn a lot of stuff I'd simply forgotten about actually playing. But it's actually sounding quite good. This is sure a challenging piece of music to play, which I'm loving, actually. Playing simple but fun 'rock'n'roll' is pretty brain-dead music to play, honestly - tho this is wonderful. A delight to try something completely different for me. I've never played anything like this before, so it's like a breath of fresh air.
"Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan.
There is simply no way Julian and I could have even attempted to play something like this together with Matt, our old guitarist. It's wonderful to be moving on from playing relatively-boring three-chord rock'n'roll at last. Having a four-piece ensemble again is fantastic... Andrew seems like a complete bonus kinda out of nowhere, as a musician, player and vocalist! I mean, this guy can sing!!!


My heel spur is feeling a bit better today. Has just been a dull ache, mainly. We'll see how I go on Monday after a whole day walking about on it tomorrow, watching the Car Races on the Mount.



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4 comments:

  1. Kid Charlemagne is a rather ambitious piece, if I was doing something from the Royal Scam I'd go with Haitian Divorce. ;) (although the lead riff is a little complex, and you'd need a wah-wah)

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  2. those are real toe tappers :) Keep up the great work.

    All the pain really never goes away...but it does get bareable. Have you thought about getting the cortizone shot? It does help!

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  3. Good stuff Mal.

    Now don't forget the bread and milk okay??

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  4. Thanks. Oh, I'm using my wah-wah enough in some songs already! heh heh.
    hopefully I can get back into my doctor this week... I'll talk to him about a cortizone injection. Thanks.

    I didn't forget the bread and milk yesterday, either! yay me! lol

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