Last night, I spent a delightful evening indulging myself in some musical mess-about-edness. God, I love making up words!
I spent two hours slamming the drums, an hour massacring the mouth organ, then another hour trying to cleverly set up my computer in the garage so I could record myself playing the drums, then play along with the harmonica, then mix it all together, and end up with my first ever original composition, recorded for posterity and giving me a real sense of creative accomplishment.
That didn’t quite work out. My abilities with technology are limited to simplicity, and my ambitions were thwarted by my own ineptitude, but it was damn good fun up to the point that it all went wrong and frustration threatened to overwhelm me. I resisted the urge to cave my laptop in with a snare drum, accepted that it wasn’t going to work, and went indoors for a cuppa, rewarding myself for the fun part of playing, rather than the annoying part of recording.
Highlight the successes and ignore the failures, isn’t that what I heard on one of the many pointless seminars I’ve had to attend for work?
It’s taken me a few years, but I’ve finally seen a benefit from my employer’s obsession with ‘improvement training’!
RC 30-7-20
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