My second Rock Band video! “Roam” by the B-52′s on Expert. I got my very first FC on Expert!! And, I just barely squeaked by with gold stars…

There are a few hiccups in the audio, but I didn’t have time to rerecord it – I was on my lunch break. My voice is a little shaky on some of of the jumps. I need to work on air support. My “woo’s” are really loud cause I’m having problems with it picking up my activations (“activations” are when you make a loud noise at certain places to use the “star power” you’ve built up to go into “overdrive”). Cover your ears!

(You can hear me taking photos and doing my little “go me!” happy Snoopy dance at the end! Yes, I am still a dork. I think it is a permanent condition… )

I totally have to record myself doing some Iron Maiden or Metallica so you can hear how funny it is when a soprano sings it!

We have a tax appointment at 7:30 pm tonight. Bleck. On Saturday, we go to California, but only for one night. We fly home Sunday/Monday on the red-eye.

As my twitter posts have mentioned, I’ve taken up singing in the game Rock Band as a stress reliever. Surprisingly, it has worked! As soon as I devoted myself to really trying to improve, instead of casually singing when I got tired of playing drums in the game, my digestive problems went away and I started feeling healthy again. In fact, going to bed early hadn’t helped me, while staying up late to sing *has*. Huh.

I definitely don’t have a lead-singer quality of voice. But, I played in instrument for 12 years in school and have a really solid sense of pitch. It’s just a matter of working on my lung capacity and learning to control my voice so I actually hit the pitch I know I’m supposed to. Then, of course, I have to learn to sing the songs *exactly* as the game wants me to to, which can be tough when I’ve never heard them before. Practice, practice, practice!

I’ve currently hyjacked Danny’s Xbox Live account so I can sing in online bands. He is not pleased, so I am looking into setting up my own, even though it would mean starting my “singer” (Rock Band character) from complete scratch. I really enjoy the online play. When I get matched up with a band full of people playing at the “expert” level, it really inspires me to get better. Especially watching the insane drum parts. You are basically playing really drum parts on a practice kit at that point. (Drums and vocals are the most true-to-life in the game. Guitar/bass pushes buttons, but is still very hard at the higher levels.) Online play has inspired me to start singing some songs on “hard” (it goes: easy, medium, hard, expert.)

As requested by Johnathan, who got to see us streaming Rock Band last night, I made a video of me singing. We had just started playing so I wasn’t fully warmed up, but you can kinda hear me. The original vocals play as well. There are parts in almost every song that I have to sing up and octave because they go low. Oh, well. maybe a lower register will come to me gradually?

Another post about this might appear. i tried to post it from YouTube, but an hour later it still hadn’t shown up. I’ll delete it if I see it.

Back to work now. I have 3 ads due today and a postcard tomorrow, on top of other things.