Scatterheart » 2004 » May

of course i got called into work this morning. i knew it'd happen. oh well. more hours, more money. :D i have a feeling i'll get called into work tomorrow, which totally ruins my plans for tomorrow. x_x i'll have to figure out something…x_x

we make new cookies at work now. i'm eating one now. strawberry white chocolate chip. *_*;

i've been practicing my new music even though i have no instrument to play with. i pretend i have one, though, and i make sure i know the rhythms, and stuff. yeah. sight reading. and i put the cd on, and stuff, so that helps. some of the songs have some fun/challenging rhythms. *_* in the austin powers song there's a sixteenth note tied to a quarter note. you don't see that very often. >_> especially with tenor sax. you're lucky to see a sixteenth note in the first place (except in jazz, of course). -_-; at least that's how it was in our band. and in another song (i think one of the harry potter songs) there's dotten eighth/sixteenth combonations (and in 9/8 time, to boot), which sometimes, for no reason, throw me for a loop in the n/8 time signatures (6/8, 9/8, etc.). they throw me for an even bigger loop in swing music. X_x;

what's really sad about this book is that i'm really loving the song in it that's from pearl harbor. x_X i hated that movie, but this song is actually really fun. it's so calm sounding, and it has sixteenth notes up the yin-yang (hehe, the reboot pok駑on spoof >:D).

i think the hardest part of this entire book is going to be the accidentals. o_o there's so many. @_@ and to make it worse, they're really weird ones that i'm sure clarinet players think are great, but tenor sax players think are weird. x_X i think i saw a d-flats in there somewhere, which is just dumb. and then there's the g-sharps which i personally can't stand. x_x it's friggin a-flat!!! -_- i have yet to see an a-flat in this book. everything's g-sharp. x_x i'm going crazy.

oh, crap, some relatives randomly showed up. i can hear them in the other room. my aunt and uncle. x_x my aunt is fine, but, omg, my uncle makes me so mad sometimes. okay, useless overly long storytime!! i'll probably just drone on and on about my uncle until they leave or i run out of stories. >_> here goes. (more…)