Time Warp! (Well, that too.)
So I decided -- and remembered! -- that I need to start practicing all my songs again. Oh boy. It's been a while since I played them, and even then, I only get the same two requests over and over, with three more if I ask people to play them instead.
Saria's Song and the Overworld Theme, along with Zelda's Lullaby, Kakariko Village and Epona's Song, if you were wondering.
My basic repertoire is five songs, but I'm very good with them, and can knock them all off without a hitch. When you play them like twenty times in the course of an hour, you learn to fix your mistakes FAST. Anyway, I know those songs, but I'm looking to expand, which is a vain endeavor I try every year. This year is no different, so I was rooting through my lists of music to see what I almost knew and could perfect.
Lemme tell ya: Ocarina had some great music, but a lot of the songs aren't play-worthy. A lot of them are just flat-out GHEI. Like the Serenade of Water. WTF is that crap?!
Quickly passing from game to game (stopping off at all my regular points like the Temple Theme from AoL or Ballad of the Wind Fish from LA, Clock Town from MM), I came across the Bremen's March. I happen to know that because it's VERY simple. Something clicked in my head. I should learn Rufus' March (from FF7, zomb not a Zelda song!), too. Marches are cool, as evidenced by the five years I spent in marching band.
I joked with Olua. "Okay, so here's the order: Bremen's March, Rufus' March, Normal, Project, Fiesta." The last three were the marches we played at every. Single. Parade we ever did.
I ran through Fiesta! just once to see if I could remember it. Flawless, even the feared sixteenth-note run that tied up many an unsuspecting young woodwind player's fingers. I remembered I had more All-City music written out and thrown into MIDIs from the old days of the All-City website. I opened the files and, with the music in front of me, ran through some of the tougher songs. Would you believe that I remembered those, too? Sure, my playing could stand a little cleaning up, but I hadn't played some of those songs in five years. That's incredible.
Okay, so Memory Lane. Normal, Project, Fiesta!, not so much Mr. Joe, but some of the more (in)famous songs we played were Holzauction -- so mad I missed Steuben (Stupid) Day! -- Irish Spectacular (which I might be able to catch! Ooh! Ooh!!!), San Joaquin, E-Town, Time Warp (oh yeah....)... loads of crap. My folio was loaded with a bajillion (fifteen) pages and over four bajillion (sixty) songs. Ah, the good old days.
And then there was colorguard. I'm sure I still have my sparkly headband around here somewhere...
I don't really know where I was going with this, and I'd get back on practicing if I didn't just have some non-water to drink. >.>; Maybe tomorrow. My internal clock says it's getting late (from having too many opening shifts, rawr), so I think I'll start to wind down. Knit... game... Y'know.
I miss All-City, sometimes. Some of my best friends -- including the bestest one -- came from that stupid place.
OH YEAH. And then there's like, today, and stuff. Okay, so Evie is getting promoted to asst. manager. WHOA. It's amazing. Flores was talking to her about it privately, which is why I had to wait an extra half-hour for my lunch break. D: But YAY for Evie! She works so hard; she deserves it. To celebrate, I made her laugh so hard that she cried with my Dixie Wetsworth impression. AHHHHHHH!!!! Dance, Pool Boy!
I called the hair salon. I have a two o'clock appointment on Saturday, given my consultation tomorrow goes well. I hope I can explain that my hair's only very bushy, and it calms down a lot once it's wet. Chemicals haven't touched it in well over a year; I can't remember the last time I got my hair relaxed, and it may very well have been 2003. That's good, though. My hair's had a while to be its normal, un-chemically-treated self, no matter how much I hate that. So please, everyone, keep your fingers crossed for me that this goes well.
Also, I'm a touch early, but happy birthday to Warky and Mike!
Saria's Song and the Overworld Theme, along with Zelda's Lullaby, Kakariko Village and Epona's Song, if you were wondering.
My basic repertoire is five songs, but I'm very good with them, and can knock them all off without a hitch. When you play them like twenty times in the course of an hour, you learn to fix your mistakes FAST. Anyway, I know those songs, but I'm looking to expand, which is a vain endeavor I try every year. This year is no different, so I was rooting through my lists of music to see what I almost knew and could perfect.
Lemme tell ya: Ocarina had some great music, but a lot of the songs aren't play-worthy. A lot of them are just flat-out GHEI. Like the Serenade of Water. WTF is that crap?!
Quickly passing from game to game (stopping off at all my regular points like the Temple Theme from AoL or Ballad of the Wind Fish from LA, Clock Town from MM), I came across the Bremen's March. I happen to know that because it's VERY simple. Something clicked in my head. I should learn Rufus' March (from FF7, zomb not a Zelda song!), too. Marches are cool, as evidenced by the five years I spent in marching band.
I joked with Olua. "Okay, so here's the order: Bremen's March, Rufus' March, Normal, Project, Fiesta." The last three were the marches we played at every. Single. Parade we ever did.
I ran through Fiesta! just once to see if I could remember it. Flawless, even the feared sixteenth-note run that tied up many an unsuspecting young woodwind player's fingers. I remembered I had more All-City music written out and thrown into MIDIs from the old days of the All-City website. I opened the files and, with the music in front of me, ran through some of the tougher songs. Would you believe that I remembered those, too? Sure, my playing could stand a little cleaning up, but I hadn't played some of those songs in five years. That's incredible.
Okay, so Memory Lane. Normal, Project, Fiesta!, not so much Mr. Joe, but some of the more (in)famous songs we played were Holzauction -- so mad I missed Steuben (Stupid) Day! -- Irish Spectacular (which I might be able to catch! Ooh! Ooh!!!), San Joaquin, E-Town, Time Warp (oh yeah....)... loads of crap. My folio was loaded with a bajillion (fifteen) pages and over four bajillion (sixty) songs. Ah, the good old days.
And then there was colorguard. I'm sure I still have my sparkly headband around here somewhere...
I don't really know where I was going with this, and I'd get back on practicing if I didn't just have some non-water to drink. >.>; Maybe tomorrow. My internal clock says it's getting late (from having too many opening shifts, rawr), so I think I'll start to wind down. Knit... game... Y'know.
I miss All-City, sometimes. Some of my best friends -- including the bestest one -- came from that stupid place.
OH YEAH. And then there's like, today, and stuff. Okay, so Evie is getting promoted to asst. manager. WHOA. It's amazing. Flores was talking to her about it privately, which is why I had to wait an extra half-hour for my lunch break. D: But YAY for Evie! She works so hard; she deserves it. To celebrate, I made her laugh so hard that she cried with my Dixie Wetsworth impression. AHHHHHHH!!!! Dance, Pool Boy!
I called the hair salon. I have a two o'clock appointment on Saturday, given my consultation tomorrow goes well. I hope I can explain that my hair's only very bushy, and it calms down a lot once it's wet. Chemicals haven't touched it in well over a year; I can't remember the last time I got my hair relaxed, and it may very well have been 2003. That's good, though. My hair's had a while to be its normal, un-chemically-treated self, no matter how much I hate that. So please, everyone, keep your fingers crossed for me that this goes well.
Also, I'm a touch early, but happy birthday to Warky and Mike!