Musical INSTRUMENTS. yes, it's different than the last one

Between the ages of four and five, I began learning to play the piano from a beloved teacher name Becky (now a mother, thus no longer a teacher). My first lesson included banging on the old piano but singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star quite well. Or so I am told. Today, I continue to play the piano at the age of thirteen, more than nine years after my initial lesson. With a different teacher... Last summer, my dad started to teach me to play the guitar on his old acoustic guitar that was (and still is, as I found out today) missing the last string. :( Anyhow, as I walked home from my piano teacher's house today, I heard someone playing the guitar and singing a little song. I couldn't distinguish words. But that doesn't matter. As I continued down the street I started making up my own song in my head and then thinking about playing the guitar. Or learning how to play. I eventually found the guitar (in the basement- surprise!) and realized that I no longer remembered the minimal amount of chords I learned last year. Last year I remember proudly (but slowly...) playing Puff the Magic Dragon on the guitar with one missing string. How will I learn to play if it's missing a string? Must look into this...Perhaps I can purchase one guitar string. Hmm... This seems to be turning into an autobiography titled Harper's Musical Past. So, yes, I play the piano, dance, try to learn to play the guitar, and manage a fair GPA all at the same time. Yes, I could be crazy. But maybe we all are. I'll just leave it at that. Come back and read more!

Music

I LOVE Death Cab for Cutie. This is going to be a rather random post, just to let you know in advance. I'm going to see Death Cab on July 13 at Red Rocks ampitheatre and I am VERY excited. I also really like Coldplay and Muse. Coldplay seems a fairly popular band, but Muse, not so much. They are an English band, and I really like their music. One song, Hysteria, is one of my favorites at the moment. Along with Crooked Teeth by Death Cab for Cutie and Viva La Vida by Coldplay. I recently danced to the song Short Skirt/Long Jacket by Cake. That one is great too. I'm rambling. But all of these are great. Really.

I've never been to a concert. Well, like a rock concert. I've been to plenty classical music concerts. I'm rather nervous, but I'll be fine, I'm sure. I'm going with my friend and my mom to a Death Cab for Cutie concert... as mentioned above. If you've got any advice for me, please comment or write me. :)

There isn't really much else to talk about here. Music, as a media, is enormous, and I really could go on forever about it, but I'm figuring that will bore you to death, so I'll just leave it at this. Come back and read more!!!!

More on Dancing...

Every June, my dance teacher has a showcase in which all her students perform. Not that we perform anytime else... Anyhow, this years' showcase in June 13 (eek!). We don't have much time left, and I feel totally and completely unprepared. Oh, well. I hope that the next week will bring a bit more confidence my way.

This year I am doing seven dances per show or maybe six. There are two shows. That's a lot of dancing in one afternoon, in case you didn't know. That means that I will be dancing for about, oh, 45 minutes in total that afternoon, if all the dances were three minutes long. But I know for a fact that at least one of them is six minutes long. So make that almost an hour. Plus rushing around for costume changes and make-up and hair emergencies and helping other people change... All in all, it's very hectic. I don't suggest that you put yourself into something like that if you don't know what you're doing. Actually, please don't.

I said I was doing seven dances, but it's actually only six. Ballet, Jazz, Hip-hop, Modern, Pointe, and a trio that I choreographed with my friends. Now that I look back, this all seems a bit like bragging. Hope you don't mind. Please let me know if you do. I'm fairly certain that's possible on this thing... On with the show. Fun! Hopefully I will not collapse before I manage to get to the car to go home. Hopefully.

Here I go rambling again. Hope you had fun reading this.... post thing. Yeah. Come back and read more! Thanks.