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It's the end of the year, and I'm playing Guild Wars... yay?

So said Aerasio at 21:56 0 comments

More Figuring Out

These are just the rough chords for the song. The actual chords played and the picking guitar part are much more complex (and currently) over my head. There're at least two guitar parts to pick apart and all I managed to do was figure out what basic chords they're playing (not counting the weird variations on the basic version that are probably being used). Ah well have to start from somewhere I guess...

The song by the way is from the OST of the recent Royston Tan movie "881", listen to it here.

Wu Jia Hui: 一人一半 (One Half)

Intro: G, Bm, Am, D

_____G_____Bm
一人一半 感情不散
_____Am_D______G
一人一素故 感情才会久
_____G_______Bm
时光累积 安静的泪滴
____Am_D_____G
一心去追 爱那么可贵

Chorus:
_____G_____Bm
这样的人 这样地等
_____C_______D
无非是 等个回应眼神
____Am_____Bm
为爱反滚 不及伤痕
_____C_______D
甘心为你一身都浮沉
_____G_____Bm
这样的人 别笑我蠢
_____C_______D
傻傻的 心痛也不觉疼
____Am_____Bm
就算天冷 就算残忍
_____C_______D
等你想起这没用的人

_____G_____Bm
一人一半 感情不散
_____Am_D______G
已经找到爱 为何要离开
______C__D_____G C D GM7
已经找到爱 为何要先开

So said Aerasio at 23:57 0 comments

Alright! Figured out "3) Ambient music from NHK ni Yokoso"!!!

the Main melody is E-minor, a weird F chord with a D note in it, and a C/G. Uhh, for an example of what all that sounds like, watch the first 2 minutes of the second episode of Welcome to the NHK, linked here.

I'd talk about what the rest of the chords are but there doesn't seem to be much point.

So said Aerasio at 23:18 0 comments

It's Boxing Day. I'm chilling out. Life is good. Catch you all later...

and Happy Birthday Jeanette, hope you're having fun back home!

So said Aerasio at 14:05 0 comments

Songs I plan to learn! (or just musical things in general)

This is more for my own memory than anything else but what the hey, it is my blog after all...

Guitar/Vocals
1) Wu Jiahui: 一半(One Half)
2) Chen Wei Lian: Missing
3) Dispatch: The General
4) Dispatch: Two Coins
5) Goh Nakamura: Embarcadero Blues
6) Kuwata Keisuke: Ashita Hareru kana
7) The Brilliant Green: Maybe We Could Go Back To Then

Instrumental Guitar Bits
1) Belle and Sebastian: Fiction
2) Belle and Sebastian: Mornington Crescent
3) Ambient Music from NHK Ni Yokoso
4) Antoine Dufour: Drac & Friends part I
5) Antoine Dufour: Spiritual Groove
6) John Mayer: Cavatina
7) Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven
8) Coil: The Legendary Theme (Acoustic Version)
9) Aya Hirano: God Bless

Piano
1) Belle and Sebastian: Fiction
2) Beautiful Life OST: Silent Clouds
3) Kuwata Keisuke: Ashita Hareru kana

Bass
1) Yoko Kanno (the Seatbelts): Tank! (I actually have the intro bits down, I just need to figure out the verse bits)
2) Beck (MCS): Spice of Life

Drums:
1) Mute Math: Typical
2) Mute Math: Chaos
3) Mute Math: Reset
4) Brush Kit drumming
5) more complex Jazz drum beats than the ones I know now

wow, this list got a lot longer than I thought it was going to be. Ahh so much to learn!

So said Aerasio at 02:06 0 comments

Inertia

I slump in my seat at a library computer, typing a blog post for lack of something better that I feel like doing. Final assignments loom, but I know I can finish them later. I don't really feel like doing anything, don't feel anything particular but depressed and bored, and also mildly hungry... My friend and his girl chat lovingly at a nearby table. They seem happy, and I am happy for them, happy enough to go "awww" mentally. Its just a mental thing though, on the outside I am apathetic, indifferent, coldly critical and silent. I am disatisfied with myself, 2 years after those idle words came flying out of her mouth to crush me in the gut, I am unchanged. Or am I?

I want to make a commitment, a goal, to be less pessimistic, less negative, less apathetic. I want to care, to show I care, to love and be loved in return. It seems naive, pompous, silly and foolish... yet I cannot like who I am now.

Can a person change himself, or does it take intervention from the outside, a divine intervention perhaps... To strive always to improve oneself and grow closer to the image of Christ, is that not what it means to be Christian? Can we better ourselves through our own efforts, or are we wholly dependent on another's aid? And does it matter which?

I want to do something! I am discontent with this stasis; discontent to remain where I am. Life should contain a movement, a conflict, a certain kind of moral inertia: but how does one start it, set it in motion? 'Jesus' seems like the obvious Christian answer, 'Jesus', 'God', 'the Bible'... all these are at once clear to me, yet what do those answers mean? Do I read more of the Bible? Do I sign myself up for more classes at Church? Do I go and meditate in a cave somewhere fasting and praying till I achieve enlightenment? What do I do!?

It feels like I have the answer, but I can't think of it. It lurks in my sub-conscious, refusing to show itself.

How do you get out of a rut you can't see, or the hole you want to remain in? How do you change yourself to be a better person? I will ponder this as I sit around idling, lets hope it turns out well...

So said Aerasio at 16:31 3 comments