So, I had no idea what to do with myself. Obviously I had homework I could do, but to me, Mondays and Tuesdays are like my weekday relaxing time.
Some time after finishing my tooling around on the school Macs, I recalled how my boyfriend is always pointing out songs we listen to in the car that I should learn the bass line to.
This is because, as you may or may not know, I actually have a bass guitar. A Squier Jazz Bass, to be exact. Metallic blue. It's my baby.
I got the guitar for I believe my 13th birthday. Maybe 14th. I cried.
Now, don't think that I'm one of those people that gets a guitar, thinks they're going to become a master guitarist, then never looks at it again. I actually practiced on it a lot, and self-taught myself a number of pieces of songs and one full one. But after a while, I kind of fell away from it.
When I met my boyfriend two or three years later and he found out I (sort of) played bass, he began constantly prodding me to play for him. But, being that he's pretty skilled with a guitar himself, I was rather shy and embarrassed to show him my mediocre skill. So I continued to look away from my bass.
Until now.
Thinking about things I could potentially do yesterday, I decided to text my boyfriend to ask him what the names of some of the songs were that he wanted me to learn. Eventually, he suggested "Barbarism Begins at Home" by The Smiths.
There wasn't a lot to learn for the song - the same line is repeated throughout the piece, then changes slightly right at the end - but the tricky part was getting the speed. It made me really happy to be playing again, although I will really need to cut my nails unfortunately.
Today, I leave you with a video of The Smiths.
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