Too Good to be True
Part of playing an instrument, at least in my belief, is in order to truly play, and play well, it is necessary to feel some sort of emotion while playing. To figure out what the song means to you, and play it as though you are trying to get across that emotion. Once again, I decided to learn a Twenty One Pilots song, "We Don't Believe What's On TV. I find their ukulele parts refreshing as they are different than most of the tradition ukulele songs in their structure or use of chords. In this case I also took it upon myself to learn the vocals to go along with the strumming. I surprised myself with the speed at which I learned this specific song, and after several hours of work, I considered myself capable of producing a video of me playing the song. Another period of time passed as I attempted to find a good location to place my camera, and a good distance away from the camera as to prevent my voice and instrument from overpowering the cheap microphone on my IPhone 4s. Eventually I found such a location by placing my camera on top of my unbroken book which itself was placed upon the bass speaker of my computer. It would take several attempts before I produced a video I was content with. Even the video I am as of now still content with contains mistakes. It's technically a live performance done in a bedroom and scrapped together within the span of less then half a day. Oh wait, never mind, it isn't technically that, it is literally that. The video is down below, should you care to watch it. I hope you like Twenty One Pilots, because I am probably going to be learning a lot more of their music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjii9DOpyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjii9DOpyQ
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