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AHHHH!!! I really wanted to make an entry right after the show last night, but I totally crashed. The show was AWESOME!! We kicked it off with 'Prelude/Angry Young Man' by Billy Joel, which the crowd loved, and played through the set list ending with 'Gravity' by John Mayer. For Gravity, I got the big ending solo that he does live and I get very, very into what I'm playing. Especially on that song. So my eyes were squeezed shut and I was making all these spectacular faces that come completely unintentionally, and my makeup must have gotten into my eyes while this happened because in my solo they just started burning. And this, for added dramatic effect, made my eyes start watering and made me appear like I was crying for my solo. Great. Haha, but the crowd really loved it and we all had such a great energy going throughout the whole show, it was really amazing. I get to play with such talented musicians who all absolutely love what we do. I'm going to put up a video of my Gravity solo soon on youtube, so I will post it on here too :)

Also over the weekend, I took a dance lesson with Brittany. Dance of course goes hand in hand with music and it's a way to feel music more. Even though I don't hip-hop music for the most part, I do have respect for some of the artists and their work. So we helped out with a class full of little kids at the YMCA who were learning how to dance to hip-hop music, and we got to dance a bit too and just have a good time. It was very cute to see the kids dance and how fast the child's mind wanders on to something else. But after that class, Britt taught me some belly dancing moves as well as some more hip-hop oriented stuff. Definitely got me a good work out! Loads of fun though, dancing is a blast and something I'd like to do a little more of.

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