Sing Me a Song, You're the Piano Man

So it's the second blog post and it's all about a little situation I find myself in. A situation which is both extremely frightening and exhilarating... at the same time.

It started about a month ago when I was in the car with some friends. A good friend of mine, Aftaab, told me about a friend of his(getting confused already?) who would be performing a couple of songs for a small crowd at school. She would be doing the singing herself but she still needed some instrumentals. You can probably guess where the story is going from here on.

Aftaab asked me if I was interested in playing piano with her. Though such an offer would have likely scared me into saying no in the past I decided to take this opportunity and said yes. I would be recieving a list with a couple of songs from which I could choose. Together we would play the songs that were managable for us both to learn in the short period of time. The performance is held the 18th of January. I recieved the list with songs on the 30th of December.

Well that still gives me about 20 days right? Well, wrong unfortunately. See it was on the 8th of January that we finally chose the songs to play. So that left me with only 9 days to learn two new songs and perfect two old ones O.o. Not only do I have to know the parts but I must also be able to play them in harmony with her singing.

With such a short deadline I knew I had to work hard and suprisingly enough I managed to work towards my goal with great dedication. Nothing like a nearing deadline to start taking action ey :P  To be honest I don't know if I'll learn the 4th song on time but I'll do my stinking best. It still scares me to think about the performance we will be giving, the mistakes I may make. Yes I've had these awkward feelings about me completely ruining a song and thus the performance but isn't that only natural. To feel some stress and anxiety. When I look beyond it though I see a golden opportunity for me to experience such a thing and that is what drives me forward every day.

This post actually got a bit longer than I originally intended and I still haven't said everything I wanted to say. Don't worry, I'll damage your brain no longer with my writing. I guess I just wanted you to know what I'm going through at the moment. No doubt an exhilarating time, but also a fairly scary one. If my nerves don't get the better of me within the coming days I'll update this blog to show that I'm still ticking. Hopefully, at the right rhythm.