Another Dancing Tuesday

This Saturday is the day the dance-teaching will occur.
Tonight we got all of the waltz straightened out, and we spent the time doing other stuff.
We covered the basics of many things.

The main things we did were:
Foxtrot, Cha Cha, Rumba, and Swing.

-Foxtrot was the most confusing when it came to aligning it to music.

-My cha-cha is back! Yay!

-I believe the rumba was a bit like waltz for a 2/4 or 4/4 music timing.
It seems to be the most useful.

-It was a different swing from the kind I know. Useful, nonetheless.


Well, I could let this hijack my guitar article, but I refuse.
So...
Lately I've gone out running/jogging and I'm getting in better shape.
I listen to my iPod during that time.
I'm beginning to think I want to learn a song by Rocket Summer.
I'm just not sure which... I like many of them.

I haven't had too much time for my guitar, with adding on Illustrator to my Photoshop workload. Illustrator is slowing everything down.
Hopefully I'll get what I need learned and accomplished soon, so everything can catch up.

I'm thinking of writing a song for Valentine's day, but I'm not sure when or of what.
I might write it and play it for Sarah when I get the chance.

Today's song of note is "colors" - by - you guessed it - Rocket Summer.
I don't have that album, and I'm waiting for a chance to go buy it.

If I had to choose one artist out of all of them, if I had to throw out all my music except for one, that one, If I could be any of the people who's music I listen to, it would be Bryce Avary aka The Rocket Summer.

I don't "idolize" people , don't get me wrong. But his music relates to me emotionally and by lyric more than any other. I'm not very emotional, either... lol...
If would give almost anything to be able to make music like him.

Waltzing Around... And Still Practicing.

This Valentine's Day I'm going to be co-teaching people to waltz at the little dance/ball thing I'm going to. I went and worked on it all with friends tonight. I'm a bit rusty, but I'm far better off than I was beforehand.

Today I worked on my blog code. I spent a lot of time, and didn't get much to show done. Oh well. Stuff is in the works. That's always something.


That's been most of my day - I haven't done much more with my guitar than what I'm doing now.
I'm just practicing speed and technique - nothing interesting.

It's stuff from Guitar Cardio. You really should check it out, those of you that play or are learning guitar.
It makes you better - significantly. Dunno if I said this before, but it's akin to the Hanon series for piano.

I played I Will Follow You Into The Dark the best I ever have tonight.
My singing is improving.
That's saying something. Vocal chords aren't something to be "fixed" magically.
I've learned not looking at my guitar helps.

What I'm concerned about is how sloppy I seem lately. maybe something's amiss. I just need to figure out what.
It could be the strings - maybe one just need tuning... i'll deal with it tomorrow.
It may be I'm just tired - or more observant than usual.

I have had trouble barring chords - namely the D string. Maybe I'm just improving from dead to flat or weak.
It could be a good thing, in a twisted way. I'm not thinking straight, tho.

I guess I'll head to bed.