The Instruments [6]

Every musician has an instrument, whether it's your voice, a band instrument or orchestra or percussion, an instrument is an instrument.

People can meet through the craziest of things. I met Estrielle in band and then we later talked and soon became best friends over facebook. Then Estrielle and I shared favorite bands, songs, and music in general. Soon we decided to start a band of our own. It still is a little bit of a mystery to us about what we call the band. We've met a few times and we're quite good for beginners. Well, our guitarist is excellent and so is our drummer but we still have lots to learn. I've asked a few kids in the lessons I go to about singing and they said "that's cool" Although undiscussed, we have a male backup singer.
I have talked to other kids about it and they said they would like to but that there are requirements. In the end, our male singer is...alright. The requirements of the others are only that they have a life and they won't be able to devote their life to it. I can agree with that statement because we all have our own thing to do. Mikale said he would sing but he's already had a solo in his choir and this other kid said that he gets nervous in front of people. I've even met a guy who can sing with a sort of accent.
In a way, I would like to actually have a band meet with all of these guys seperately to see who is best suited but we can always do that later. I'm also in another band with my other friend from school. It's cool because we went to Wendy's once and sang them a song about fries. She's a very good guitarist too! And an excellent singer. I'm only a good singer if I'm in the car listening to the radio and my sisters driving and singing along too. I'm jealous of people's instrument skills. I've always wanted to play the guitar and I used to take guitar lessons as a kid but the teacher had to stop for a while and never was able to continue teaching. The guitar lessons were cool and I can still sort of play if I keep messing around with a guitar. Yeah, an acoustic guitar.
The other night I was writing a song too. In fact, I've noticed how it's easiest to write a song when you just simply make it up as you go and record yourself. If you record yourself you can easily go back and check the note that you sang and it's easier to edit. I tried another method out this morning too. It was pretty cool. In the end, instruments should be for the joy, not the grade, not because other people want you to play, but because you actually want to do that.