On Saturday I played a few songs on Rock Band with the family in San Diego. It's been awhile since I've played Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution. On Saturday, I played the guitar, sang a song (a tip to those that have no range - perform the rap songs, you just have to say the words) and hit the drums. After doing none of those things particularly well but having fun trying, I came away with the vision of colored blocks to press like a guitar fingering and lyrics scrolling on top of the screen to sing on pitch. I didn't bother to imagine drum solos - my left hand, right hand and foot refused to cooperate. On the drive home I dozed off a few times and had visions of rocking the guitar on a few Corrs and Beatles songs. Fast forward a few days...I watched a recording of No Doubt performing "Hella Good", "Hey Baby" and "Just a Girl" on the Ellen show (Gwen smacked it down) and I started to picture how it would look to play the guitar pieces...short green, yellow, yellow, long red. I then watched a recording of Oprah where Charice sang her new single 'A Note to God' (Written by Diane Warren and first performed by JoJo on an album in 2006) and pictured Karaoke Revolution with the really long, high notes that I'd probably strain my voice to attempt.
My journey to musical glory is limited to a couple of piano lessons when I was really young and playing the clarinet in my middle school concerts. So the closest I'm going to get to being a rock legend is by rocking out to Aerosmith songs on Guitar Hero and singing Pop songs on Karaoke Revolution. At least it's a step-up from air guitar and singing into my hairbrush.
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