I had my first mentally taxing week as a musician these past five days.

First, on Tuesday I realized I left my notebook at work and therefore left the assignment for theory there. So I had to dig into the deep recessed of my cerebral cortex to try and remember the assignment. Luckily I did find it but it took about 30 minutes for me to remember.

Then on Wednesday, my friend asked me to arrange a 'Happy Birthday' type song for treble [women's voices] for her friend. She actually asked me a couple of weeks ago but said there was no rush. Then on Wednesday, she said 'ASAP'. So I went into a practice room and made up a bluesy, simple, but cool song called 'Birthday Blues.' But I did it in about 20 minutes so I fried my brain for the day.

Then Thursday I went to go turn in part II of the theory assignment only to realize that I did the assignment wrong - so I ran into a practice room and wrote, erased, and rewrote like a madman so that I would have something to show to the teacher.

Then Friday another friend told me that I needed to come up with an arrangement of the 'Star Spangled Banner' because we are performing it this Thursday at SF State's March Madness kickoff for the hoops season. So I did that all day at work. (Shh!)

Luckily Friday night was full of drinks and fun at a friend's house. The perfect way to end the week.

But I'm still tired.

Makin' Mine Music

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