I play duh piano

When people ask me what I do for fun, the answer is usually "I play piano." And when they ask, "What else?" I have the hardest time answering that - partly because "oh, you know, I go through the vicious cycle of checking Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and email until I get peeled away from my computer" isn't a really great answer, but mostly because I hardly do anything else for fun.

"What a boring person..." Yes, yes reader, I am.

But, in all seriousness, it is my most favourite thing to do for fun, especially now, in between studying. I would describe myself as a creative person, or at least a person who needs to create (and hence I am not really all for dat medical/optometry school life, but, eh, you gotta make a living...) so it is a huge break away from reading about Newton's laws and other physics formulas.

A lot of what I do is sit at my piano, and figure out covers to top 40 songs (this gets really boring because it gets pretty redundant, repeating the same four chords over and over) or whatever else I hear, by ear (and sometimes with the help of sheet music I manage to find). I've been riding the How To Train Your Dragon 2 wave most recently and have set myself the task of covering some of the songs from the soundtrack. I posted my cover of For The Dancing And Dreaming not too long ago:

The whistling part was my favourite to do. As for the piano playing, I'll admit it was really rough... like, unclean. But that's how all of my piano playing has been. I have never really been able to really nail down a song - except, maybe, for Fur Elise back in grade 5 piano and I'd have to say, I did a damned good job on it. I guess if I spent a year on it, it'd get better. Sucks that I'm not a piano-playing robot-Asian...

Anyhow, I just wanted to post that I'm working on two more pieces from the soundtrack, and both are so close to being done; I just need to work on some details, and be able to... play the entire thing (because I work on my covers in chunks, and transitioning from one to the other is my kryptonite). Posting this makes it a commitment now, so if you don't see any videos being posted here, you can, uh, throw tomatoes at me or something.

(unless of course, no one sees this. It's like the whole tree-falling-in-the-forest thing. If no one's here to read this, was a commitment really made?)