Been A While

Damn I'm getting lazy to blog in KL. Wait a minute, I didn't blog when I was in Sg for 4 days either haha. Let's see, major updates...

Had only ONE match with Meyer during my 4 days return to Sg, managed to win 6-1, 6-1! Heehee, was on fire that day, but main thing was that Meyer lost too many points on service. Well at least I didn't carry my racquet from KL back to Sg for nothing :D

Shucks man, why are guitarists expected to SOLO all the time? Ok I admit I myself yearn to hear solos on records, but I wanna hear good solos, not weird BS-sounding stuff like that which I play every week. My classmates mostly can solo, I can't!

Partly it's cause I'm not very fluent in the pentatonic scale, I can remember 2 shapes and I don't get many ideas when soloing within them. What happens is I end up playing stuff which sounds lame to myself, like repeating patterns and non-musical ideas. (By the way, I think guitarists are responsible for putting out some of the shittiest music around. I know other genres have shit also, but guitar music has a lot of self-indulgent crap whose only purpose seems to be for showing off)

I mean, I feel like a primary school kid asked to write a novel or something with an advanced dictionary, but without any inkling of how to make the story appealing.

In musical terms that is like saying you've the scales and patterns, but if you play them anyhow you sound incoherent to the song. That's what I feel anyway. I mean, not everyone who uses the same words that Shakespeare uses would write stuff as brilliant as his. Well anyway, I'm gonna work on making better sounding solos hehe.

Next week I've got assessment which was postponed from today. Basically got to do some sight-reading and perform a piece which you think can showcase your proficiency on the instrument of your choice.

I've chosen to perform Praying Hands from Castlevania 2 : Belmont's Revenge. I think it's a damn beautiful song, only worry is whether I can do it justice next week or not...

Oh yah, I've lugged my PS2 over along with DMC3 and GOW (for those of you who know what they are, cheers!) but the TV in my unit sucks; it sputters and goes psychedelic after approximately 5 minutes of playing so I've lent it to a friend first.

Ok, I think I've overtyped, it's time to go home and practice my Praying Hands again. And the solos...