Sh*t It Out Time And Busted Ankles

Last night I went out and had a wicked evening really letting my hair down. Tom invited us to watch his dads band and it was really nice. Coming home I misjudged the steps in the dark, landed hard on my foot and something went twang then in pain I lunched back into my backside and bruised my tailbone. OUCH!!!

Now my ankles strapped it's not too bad but it is double it's normal size and the less said about sitting the better!

But that can't stop me (nor can my mild hangover!) and I pulled another mini song out of my head (bet you thought I was going to say some other place there HAHA!). I really like this one and there are a few things worth mentioning.

1). The drums took a lot of the time because I had to really nail the beat but also I tried to use Toms tips from last lesson to hit the rim for a better snare sound, more force on the kick drum (hard on those double kicks!) and softer and more consistent on the high hat. The result is far from perfect but it's better.

2). The guitar rhythm strumming was HARD and took most of the record time to get right. It's 9th chords I'm using which sound sooooo funky and cool. Getting the rhythm to match the beat leaving room for that double kick to shine through was hard but then having to keep my hand going away from the guitar and move that shape around took a 'considerable' amount of practice. Again not great but better.

3). Then comes the piano and of course it's 9 chords!! Moving between them at speed adding in a bit of rhythm and flavour notes was really hard.

4) And finally bass which technically I did last but I only matched it to the drums so I could have done it second.

The song then felt like something was missing and my head heard a trumpet do a quick noodle later as time was now pressing and ta da! It needed some space so I gave it some and in came the quick bass "solo".

It's super fun this one! Enjoy, I've no time to rest too much to do.