Today I hit a new milestone in my life. It is indeed quite sad that I’ve had a guitar for over a decade and have never before been able to play a whole song.
I’ve come close though. During high school I learned to play about 3 or 4 entire songs. But only the guitar part. My friends (including Nana) and I had a pseudo band. We played a few times during assemblies and whatnot.
But today marks a new era. I can now play a whole song on my guitar and sing the whole song as well. Yes, I am now a one-song jukebox. A cheap jukebox because my singing sucks. But in time that will come as well.
Malcolm Gladwell discusses in Outliers that it takes some 10,000 hours of practice to master something. I think I’ve chalked up a good 3 hours or so over the last 2 days. Only 9,997 more to go.
The song? Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat world.
There’s no music video for this song so here’s a splendid cover:
Hiro,
you do not give yourself enough credit. I heard you play and SING this song. You were great at it…. so much so, I look up the song later that night.