My Blue Heaven

I have come to clean zee pool

Check out this guy I saw on the train last night. Wow… porno glasses, mustache, boofy hair (nearly a mullet!)… but the most ewwww thing about him was that he was checking me out… from the seat directly across the aisle from mine. Ewwwww! Its so yuck when dirty old men do that.

And so it begins again

I went to the first jazz fusion class for the year last night! Woohoo! So it begins again! Man I’ve missed playing.. esp such cool and interesting music such as this. We played a new song last night, by Pat Metheny, called “Every Summer Night”. It was so much fun to play. The chords were pretty easy, which made me happy, and the rhythm was pretty straightforward. Except for the constant change of time signatures, which made the song more interesting! We went from 4/4 to 2/4 to 4/4 to 3/4 then back to 4/4. Fun! 🙂

I did suprisingly well in the class, considering I haven’t touched this stuff since last year! I’m so lazy! Lets break it down:

• My technique and fingers were a bit rusty… doing the warm-up 5 finger exercises at the start demonstrated that much. The left hand was especially un-co too.. hehe.
• But I suprisingly remembered most of my jazz chords, esp my 2-5-1’s. That was pretty cool. My hands remembered the shape of the chords, even the some of the more complex ones.
• Rhythm wasn’t too bad either, just a bit slow on the uptake, coz my fingers needed to warm up. And I fumbled a bit in the 5/4 time sig.
• My improvising was so-so… which is to be expected. I just have to refresh my modes knowledge. I also really need to sit down one day and actually learn my altered and diminished blues scales.. in all 12 keys!! Now thats gonna be a task and a half. :\

So yeh, all in all it was a fun class. And I’m looking forward to performing again in the end of term concert in 10 weeks time. Eek!

In other news.. have been dealing with a mixture of rather negative emotions lately. Guilt, sadness, depression, loss, loneliness, discouragement, unenthusiasm, indifference, apathy, listlessness.. I suppose its only natural. But yeh… s’no fun. Think I hear some rich & creamy chocolate ice-cream calling… from somewhere over in Pitt St mall… could be opposite Sydney Central Plaza… with that orange/brown sign. Australian Ice-cream, here I come! 🙂

Current listening :: “Whats Up Lonely” – Kelly Clarkson

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