My Blue Heaven

Thoughts

Last night I went to a Jazz Topix class before my jazz fusion class at the Con. Jazz topix is this new addition to the Jazz Outreach Program – complimentary for any “performance class” student, they’re a bonus series of half hour tutorials that broaden performance skills and general jazz knowledge.

It was pretty cool… coz I was learning something new. We were learning how to sightread jazz charts and melody lines. I never knew there was a standard on reading and interpretting the melody in a jazz chart. Things like crochets are all “short”, quavers in a run are joined and long until the last quaver of a phrase, which is short. So we sat in a small circle and jazz “scatted” (eg dah dah doooo.. bah!) this jazz chart given us for the sightreading exercise. It was pretty hard actually. But fun… I’d never done anything like it before. I spose coz its been all same old, same old for so long – with playing piano at church, or even with other stuff – things get pretty boring after a while. Its nice to do something new and fresh and different. Keep things challenging.. which is one reason I like going to these jazz classes.

On that note (haha.. pun not intended), playing piano isn’t the only area in my life in danger of going stale. It seems to be life in general at times. Everything is always the same old same old.. work, church, stuff… I’m starting to wonder what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and what I could be doing different… other possibilities in life. I had the crazy thought today as I visited the beautician and chatted with her on how she got into the industry (whilst getting my toenails painted.. hee) “I wonder what it would be like to be a beautician? It sounds fun.. I definitely find this sorta thing interesting. I wonder if I’d be crazy enough to drastically change vocations like that. Hm.. prob not. Maybe I could start into it as a hobby?” So, I might start off trying something like a massage class. It sounds fun (though tis a pity I won’t benefit much from it myself.. hehe). Still, I think I’d enjoy giving people massages. There’s something satisfying about it.

So anyway, gotta head off to Glue (youth group) soon.

Oh, and I forgot to add, went to dance class on Wed night. Was much fun indeed! It’s been like 2 months since I’ve been. It was nice to be back. 🙂 The routine was to the theme song from “Queer Eye For A Straight Guy” apparently. Funny.

Current listening :: “Si Ya Se Acabó” – Jennifer Lopez

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