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as if I don't have enough hobbies

Last year a friend of mine did a band workshop with the Blue Bear School of Music. Basically a bunch of amateurs get together, form a band and with a little help from an experienced instructor practice, get better and then do a little showcase performance in a bar where all their friends show up and get really drunk (if the band is really aweful) or just drink and have a good time if the band is decent.

Now, this is sort of a deep dark secret (hey, what are blogs for?) but I've always wanted to be in a rock band... "I should have learned to play the guitar" and all that. Now, wait a minute... I actually did learn to play the guitar, back when I was twelve. I haven't played at all in the last 10 years, but it's sort of like riding a bicycle, right?

Anyway, guitar, shmitar. The singer is the one who gets to be in front. And I could sort of sing. I could sing pretty well when I was a kid, and even was told I had perfect pitch (meaning I could tell when I sang off key, that doesn't mean I could consistently sing in key, that comes with practice). Of course other than an occassional karaoke outing, I haven't done any singing since high school.

And that brings us to my new hobby. Starting tonight I'm doing an eight week singing class with Jessica Will. I'm pretty excited about this, and I hope it goes well because I'm going to put myself on the list to be in one of those band workshops next spring as a singer. I hope I'm don't totally suck because I wouldn't want to subject all my friends (who'll certainly come to cheer me on at the show) to the sort of off-key renditions that I was subjected to at that showcase I went to (to be fair, almost all the singers were quite good, only one or two were out of their element).

Dates, of course, will be posted here, and everywhere else.

Posted by asya at September 8, 2003 03:00 PM | TrackBack