seventhe: (House: Bottoms Up!)
unfortunate hobo ([personal profile] seventhe) wrote2007-06-26 08:29 am

random

So! I really like playing the drums!

It doesn't entirely come as a surprise. I've wanted to play drums since I was in second grade and it was time to pick our instruments and I asked the music teacher if I could play the drums; he looked at me and said "Sorry, Jessy, but girls don't play drums; why don't you try this nice flute instead." That wasn't necessarily a bad choice because I did like playing flute - I almost majored in it. But it still wasn't my first pick.

It's like piano, in a way, or all the things I liked about piano. I played percussion instruments in HS, too - the marimba, xylophone, all the "keyboard" percussion instruments. The thing I like most about piano is keeping a rhythm: filling in the background of a song with some kind of syncopated something. I'm not really fond of soloing (although that may just be because I'm horrible at it!); what I really like is hitting those jazz chords while people play over it.

Drumming is fun. I've always had a good sense of natural rhythm - better than my natural talent, really - and the problem is really just getting my hands (and feet) to go along with the rhythm in my head. With more practicing I'm definitely getting better at that. I like it, even when it's just three or four losers in the basement playing "The Ballad of Chasey Lane" or something. We actually tried a couple "new" songs last night and they turned out to not be as hard as I thought they would've.

Just random. Hopefully we keep playing, even if it's never to go play out somewhere.

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I may just meet a bunch of fatties who love owl girl too. :(

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
You need to buck up and love on the fatties.

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly i've never really had any fatties have any interest in me...perhaps it is because I'm insensitive? Or maybe its my cologne, eau de no fat chicks.

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually if a girl (who is insecure about her appearance) hears you making comments about the fucking disgusting fat chick at the next table, she isn't exactly going to express any interest in you.

XD

[identity profile] hilldo.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that...and its not really the way I feel anyway. As long as the girl I meet is cool I can deal with it, it's usually the pretty ones that have the defective personalities. :O

[identity profile] first-seventhe.livejournal.com 2007-06-26 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Then maybe you should stop making fun of fat chicks. ;)