Roll With the Changes

Title song by Philip Sayce by the way. Check him out :)

Some changes have popped up into my outline plan for this week. That's probably going to happen a lot since life likes to throw twists, turns, and all kinds of new tricks at ya. Oooo triple T's. Saturday, at my Rokafonik practice, the drummer Mikey and I jammed a little on 'Crazy On You' by Heart...at least we tried to :P He'd never actually played the song before, but it was fun nevertheless, and I got to play a Guild acoustic. But out of that, he brought up doing some recording together, which would be a ton of fun. So now, I get to try and learn a Dream Theater song called 'Pull Me Under' . John Petrucci's guitar part is definitely going to be tricky for me, he's an incredible player. The whole band is truly made up of VERY skilled players. But once Mikey and I get the song together, it'll be such a great feeling. We're also going to work on 'Nightmare' by Avenged Sevenfold (A7X). Sadly, their drummer (Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan) died before the recording of the album (Nightmare) at age 29. Jimmy's favorite drummer was Mike Portnoy, the drummer of Dream Theater, now ex-drummer. So the band brought in Portnoy to record all of the drum parts on the record that Jimmy had written. In September of last year, I saw A7X perform and it was one of the most intense concerts I've ever seen. Mikey and I are going to get together on Wednesday and work on these songs and maybe jam on some of our own material. These songs to learn by ear, maybe with a little tablature help, are going to be a handful for this week.

However, I did keep one of my plans intact, and that was to get 'Over the Hills and Far Away' by Led Zeppelin as best as it could possibly be. Saturday at practice, we played the song as best as we ever had and the intro was flawless! YES!!! And we played 'Joining You' by Alanis Morissette instrumentally with a violin playing the vocal melody line, and it was hypnotically beautiful; I'd never felt that song so deeply. It was seriously amazing. I cannot WAIT to play that for an audience!! That entire show (FEBRUARY 19th 7:30 PM AT DEKKA IN HALLANDALE!! IT'S FREE!!!) is going to be a buzz.

This weekend for me was pretty simple...Band practice, voice lesson, some artwork, brewed, and caught up on homework. I'm not sure what else will be in store for me musically this week. For now, I'm just really looking forward to Wednesday.

PS, my microphone makes my heart jump with the invigorating, intoxicating power of love. It makes me go all girly excited on the inside :)