I am a little late to post today because I figured I could do it at work, but the computers in break room were being horribly slow. (You would think a company that deals with computer business would be fast.. but that is an entirely different issue)
So,today's post is about music... which is sort of funny since Abi's post is sort of about music as well.
I remember a time when I couldn't read music, and then I could, and now I sort of have to struggle to remember everything.
When I was in fourth grade, around Christmas there was a little booklet in the paper with christmas carols. I didn't know what the notes meant, but I thought you had to sing the left to right, and down.
I am trying to think of how to describe this. Mainly for multi-verse pieces I thought that you read something in each square and move onto the next square..
Hmm...I am not sure if that describes it, so here is a diagram
I hope that makes sense. Basically i am special and thought you sang it totally different than what it was. I think it took me a while to realize the songs did not make a bit of sense the way I was singing them.
I eventually sort of learned how to read it, and to follow the notes a little. I went to Chorus and learned how to read music.
In high school, I took a music theory class, and actually learned a lot about reading music... It was actually a very interesting class. It had maybe 12 students, and we learned a lot of different things. I think me and another kid were the only none band kid in the class.
I can still sort of read it. I don't remember where all the chords. I could probably if I tried... Now, when I sing I don't usually have sheet music anyway, if I am following the hymnal at work, I mainly just follow the words, as I know I am not really on the right note.
I wonder now if I ever really was. Even doing chorus for several years, and also being in a production of Fiddler on the roof, I don't think I have good pitch.. I am not sure where I sing... I am thinking more alto... though one year, the teacher had me and two other girls singing baritone or bass section... Though if I want to I can hit high notes, not necessarily soprano notes...maybe in falsetto
I have never really liked my singing voice. It's passable, but I know damn well I won't be releasing any albums... though most of today's music is autotuned to high heaven so maybe..lol
Anyway, I thought of another random music related memory on the way home from work. The song Cats in the cradle came on. My mum said she didn't hear the follow up Harry Chapin wrote many times.
I asked her if it was on the LP she had of Harry Chapin.. She said she didn't remember having the LP. I remember listening to it multiple times. Me and Abi would constantly be playing my mum's records. She had queen records, and early Michael Jackson, and all kinds of other things.
I remember especially in Haines City listening to them all the time, as well in Arcadia.. though I think we weren't really supposed to. I also had some small records. (45s i think they are called) and I remember I had a fraggle rock album I would listen to. There was also a larger record with a lot of disney songs on it like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Yes, I just googled the spelling... bite me)
In high school, my sister would constantly play albums on repeat, or songs for days... I remember weeks where she would only play Karma Chameleon... cause she knew it was driving me crazy... that song still makes me cringe.
In Arcadia, for a week straight when the fair was in town you could hear country...which we lived close to the fairgrounds, so it was annoying... a while later they would have a spanish rodeo... and latino music would play for days (which is why I hate both country and latino music... I am sorry any music playing at a high volume all through the night, especially with either stupid lyrics, or in a language I don't understand I would probably hate, even if I had liked the type of music before... not that I really did, but it made my hatred more intense.)
There was something else about music I was going to write about... but I don't remember...
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