Rock Band

Though some of you may argue that people cannot actually make music via the video game, Rock Band, I would have to disagree. The guitar, drums, bass and vocals are channeled through the video game and through the speakers on the television screen to make a semi-authentic form of music. It's not the same as if it were through actual guitar and actual drums, but it's still similar.



I usually end up doing the vocals since, if you haven't been reading my blog lately, I am a singer. That's what I do. I sing. I've tried doing the guitar, the bass and the drums, but I suck at all of them for some reason. I blame it on my lack of hand-eye coordination. That's why I played soccer. It wasn't as necessary as foot-eye coordination which I didn't have that much of either.

I do enjoy playing the acoustic guitar better than the guitar on Rock Band. I know that I'm not very good at the acoustic guitar. I've accepted this. This is why Robby plays the guitar in our band, Karma Pills. I just really like playing it. I always end up playing it really late at night when my parents are asleep. I always feel bad because I don't want to wake them up, but I'm not going to sacrifice my practicing time just for the sake of them getting a little bit of shut eye. I know that sounds really selfish, but it's not like I practice every night or anything. I should, though. I would probably improve, then.



Another instrument that I play is the flute. I have been playing the flute since the fourth grade. I played in the marching band, the wind symphony, a flute choir and the Flint Youth Symphony in high school. I was what you would call "dedicated" to say the least. I don't know how it is that I didn't join the Wind Symphony when I got to college, but it wasn't a priority for me any more. I did pick up the flute again when I started dating this guy who played the piano. We used to play "Moonlight Sonata" together. I still find that song to be the most beautiful thing in the entire world. You should listen to it some time. It's really majical.



Now the only time I really play my flute is in my band. I don't play it often enough, but it's not high on my list, sadly. My mom always tells me about how astounded I was to hear about my flute teacher not playing the flute for a period of her life. I thought it was the most awful thing in the entire world. At the time, I was still playing it a lot and couldn't see a reason to stop playing it. Now I have classes, student organizations and a couple jobs that take up the majority of my time. I can't help these things.

Another reason that I put the flute down temporarily was because I wanted to focus on the guitar. I started taking guitar lessons at the end of my senior year of high school. I took them for a year until I realized that they weren't really worth the money that I was paying for them. I didn't practice enough (which hasn't changed much). Oh well. I still get a lot out of it. I don't usually play in front of an audience so it doesn't really matter. My dad thinks that I sound good so that's what counts. 



The weird thing is that I would actually consider myself better at the acoustic guitar then I would at Rock Band. I guess it just happens that way sometimes.