Day 19: C'mon get musical!

I'm perhaps the most tone deaf person in the world. I love music. I like listening to it and discovering new types, I'm in awe of people who can sing or play a musical instrument. My guy friends have a sexist joke along the lines of "beer is the best makeup for girls". The guitar is like the instant sexifying make-up for boys, according to me. I also like to sing much to my family's displeasure. I have the musical talent boosting nick name of "Cacophonix" so try to restrict my singing to the bathroom as much as I can.

I've also tried to play musical instruments. Piano classes as a child which I wasn't very fond of and not very good at and then I often tried to play the guitar by trying to learn from my friends but again, I just don't have the ear for it. Trying is the first step to realising you suck!

However, I decided to do my new thing for the day and attempt once again to learn the basics of guitar playing. We had a farewell for a family friend yesterday and had a wonderful performance by a local band. By local I mean, people we knew, by people we knew, I mean four 16-year olds who jam together after school. They really were awesome though. I thought if the 16 year olds could rock it, why can't I? So I picked one of them, the most patient of the lot (picking a patient teenager is like picking a tolerable cast member from Twilight or picking the hottest doctor from Greys anatomy...extremely hard). He tried to teach me to play "smoke on water" on the bass guitar. He made it look super easy, I tried and my chords sounded nothing like the actual song! I tried to copy what he was doing but it felt like I was rocking a completely different tune, one that would drive just about anyone away and make babies cry. Patience has a limit and this guy gave up and tried to get one of his other band member to help...that wasn't very successful either. Shortly after every person who plays or has played the guitar tried to teach me but yep, my tone deafness is more serious than I thought.

I tried to play a few chords...wasn't very good but it was a new thing! I'd just have to continue on a pursuit to find more friends with musical talents to live vicariously through them and till then, continue to sing in the shower and play the air guitar! I'm mighty good at that!