Ah balancing work and school and life.
BLEAH.

Just finished charting i'm yours.
Quite fun actually, though it's 4 chord song.
Enjoyed doing it without a guitar until the funky chord came out.
Cannot, must take out already.

Initially i had in mind some diminished 7th chord thing.
Then i thought it was a F#dim7 or F#dim.
Then hearing carefully to the top note of the chord, it was a C#.
Then i just randomedly whacked a A#m7b5 and it sounded fine.

Then I listened carefully again at the end and realised it's a A#dim7.
Sigh that one note difference.
Need more ear training on that.

No time no time.
Hahaha excuses

While listening to great music,
it inspires me to start practicing.
Because i hear those awesome guitar tones,
and i want to hear my own tone shine
BECAUSE I LIKE MY HEARING MY TONE

I realised while tracking guitars I'm always ahead of the beat. It's kinda nicer when I lay back abit.

It's different for acoustic strumming though. Still very hard to do

I just wanted to take a break from music tonight.
But i have nowhere to go.
Raped by boredom.

Just finished tracking guitars yesterday. Glad to say I improved at timing issues. I'm surprised that I do hits fairly well but other normal playing
Not very well. I also took note of how long I should hold my notes

Should slap myself cause I didn't know a min7b5 is actually a halfdim

Annoyed at myself.
I got a few recording projects.
I just tried one that isn't school related and I already hear myself sounding like shit.

Simple pop song leh.
Maybe it's because I'm lacking ideas so my timing is very very irregular.
Cannot la. I want to be tight.

I realised if I know the song pretty well I shouldn't have problems with timing much. But what if I have to improvise haha...

So I got bored and I decided to do a cover to see where am I.
That wasn't very good! But I had fun. It mattered.
Usually I would have been a perfectionist but I let it slip this time so I can analyse it.

Annotations in the video!
I actually did the exact same song one year ago and it's on my other youtube channel which has a lot of copyright issues for doing covers -bummer-.

I'm not tight enough.
I'm also camera shy actually. It's kinda scary to video myself because it's when all the silly mistakes pop up. SIGH.
I should do more videos, then I can see how I improve and how much tighter I can get.
Tired la. A lot of things to do. 

this shit is awesome.

Who says playing with overdrive/distortion can't make you sound clean.
I want to prove somebody wrong.
I practice with overdrive/distortion sometimes.
Why?
Because I think i've come to the stage where I can hear the uncleanness of playing even with distortion.

it may sound easy to smoke through but i think i can tell now.
So i will continue practicing with my drive/dist cause i know when i sound unclean.
After all, i'll be lying to myself if i think i can play that passage nicely.
No point lying. No learning.

This holidays
-learn more chords (7 9 11 13)

Honestly i think i suck at all the fancy chords.
I don't know how to play a diminished triad in all 12 keys!
I know a diminished 7th, but i only know one voicing for it.
What is a Ab9.
I DON'T KNOW I NEED TO THINK.

How, cannot la like that.
How to be a good musician like that.
Cannot la.

This holidays,
try to work hard, despite having SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY THINGS TO DO.

Thanks for reading.
^^