In case you are wondering what the chicken scratches are in this post, they were
my attempts to get myself to practice a few songs. I am an inveterate non-rehearser. I just HATE it. Especially if I'm by myself. So, in the spirit of the 'webcam,' I decided to share my little self quizzes on one of the songs I learned for a memorial service recently.
I don't usually test myself like this (btw, these were 'closed book' tests). I usually just 'run over' the songs a couple of times and figure it'll all come out in the wash. But that worked when I was sixteen and had a young brain with no bills to pay. I have do to more now to prepare. I learned this at St. John's, trying to demonstrate proofs in front of the class. In my head I knew what was supposed to happen, but I couldn't do it in front of the class. I tried to explain this to my tutor that, like Nigel Tufnel (pictured above), "I get the sense of it. I just don't understand it."
So, this is what I was doing at 3:00 am the morning of the service. I just wrote out some questions on the song, called "
The Farthest Wave," and tried to recall the answers from memory. Wow. Pretty revealing, especially after I had already writren out the lyrics and a chord chart. Talk about ADDDDDD.
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