Taking It Easy

Who knew taking it easy could be so much fun?!

I've been continuing to pick easy songs from my MP3 stash and play along with them, both on guitar and keyboard, and it's just been darn fun. Songs like Vangelis' "Hymne" and Alison Krauss' "Baby Mine", which are very simple, but get me to A) figure out what key it's in, B) play IN that key, and C) play in time.

Which leads me to another observation: those lesson books (Mel Bay, etc.) are full of songs that I don't want to play. (I mean, really, who DOES want to play Greensleeves and Koom Bai Yah or however you spell it?) Of course, coming up with enough different books to suit everyone's individual tastes is an impossible task, but that's all the more reason to throw the books out and find stuff I like to play.

And last night, I found a harder (for me) song, with triplets and sixteenth notes, but pretty much in a straight run, that's currently a challenge, but still doable (on the keyboard, anyway; I'm finding I'm better on keys than guitar atm). Gobs of fun!

I might just make it yet, takin' it easy.