Oh my goodness!!! I seriously forgot how long it had been since the last time I posted! I've been pretty busy over these last few months but I'm finally back (and hopefully I won't take such a big hiatus next time - for my 2 followers who aren't myself :D ). I've learnt a lot about music recently, especially from the music gen ed paper I'm taking at uni, and I've been experimenting a lot as well. So I think this update needs to be in bullet points:
- I've actually been getting some good chord progressions going recently. In the past any attempts to write music on my own would result in a Brian Eno-ish ambience with no particular direction but now I've been putting together some useful stuff.
- I bought the special edition of Viva La Vida by Coldplay off iTunes the other day. I know it's been out for a couple of years now and they have released another album (albeit a live album with no new songs) since but there has been so little decent music released this year and I've wanted to get it for a while so I finally decided to. And yeah. It's awesome. And musically inspiring as well.
- I've been listening to slightly more esoteric music lately (grooveshark.com is a brilliant place to find music you've always wanted to listen to but don't want to buy unless it's rubbish). I am now a fan of Radiohead (thanks Jesse), Hans Zimmer, and Pink Floyd but I still don't like Florence and the Machine. Bands need to hear more of include Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys, and The Doors.
- You might have noticed I've included Lost? by Coldplay in the 'What I'm Playing' list. I'm trying to pick up the piano version, hence the ? since the normal version of Lost ends with !, but it's a lot harder than it sounds. Chris Martin isn't amazing on the piano but he's probably better than me :(
- I've almost finished my transcription of Uprising and I'll try to get it done and uploaded to scribd soon. Watch for the link.
