Thank you, you sneaky bastard

During a few of my more recent guitar lessons, my teach has apparently whipped out his new audio recorder, and has taped several parts of my lessons. I didn't know that untill he handed me a cd with three songs on it, played and sung by me. I reacted a little surprised (obviously), but accepted the cd, since I saw it as an opportunity to improve whatever I played on this cd.

There were three songs. The first was a little melody I thought up myself, but it's very easy and not even remotely challenging, so I still have to work on that a lot. The second one is the song 'skin and bones', which I didn't finish playing, since I forgot the lyrics halfway through. If I had known I would be recorded, I would've studied the lyrics beforehand, but oh well. The song is at the bottom of this entry, for anyone who cares (and yes i do know what I sound like, so please don't critisize me if it isn't 'constructive'). The third song is actually my favourite. It's 'chasing cars' and I actually liked the way I sounded while doing that. The only problem with it (which is also the reason that I won't put it up here) is that my teach decided to adjust the volume of his recorder an annoying amount of times, throughout the whole song. That pretty much ruined it for me.

So what can I do with these recordings?

I'll listen to them a lot, hoping that I can spot exactly what parts I have to improve on. Also, the recording of my own little melody will help me think of new elements to put in the song (along with other instruments). I'm just not sure that I'm disciplined enough to put all that work into it though. Oh well, we'll see.