{"id":5026,"date":"2013-05-20T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:10:03","slug":"song-of-the-day-imaginary-girl-by-the-silver-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/20\/song-of-the-day-imaginary-girl-by-the-silver-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day: “Imaginary Girl” by The Silver Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually I’ve learned a couple others since the last “Song of the Day”, but they both took a couple or three days for the lyrics to really sink into \u00a0the “officially” memorized zone, and by that time, like the irony of life itself, I sort of lose interest in them, and end up not blogging about them. But I really do need to put them down in a blog post, or something that tells my subconscious that “This song is official. You can put it in the books. I know it by heart, and I can play it live.”<\/p>\n

Anyway there are a ton of songs that I’ve learned in the past and I know at the present moment, say 75%. But I sort of need a spark to get me to actually learn it 100%.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of such a spark: I was watching the video of Daniel Tashian’s “I’m the One”<\/a> song, and I was learning the chords, and writing down the lyrics. I was getting it down, but I was getting a little depressed because I actually couldn’t sing the Chorus. The high notes. That was discouraging. I’d always thought I could imitate Daniel’s voice pretty well. I hate to make excuses, but it could be that he just knows how to do “Falsetto” and I don’t know how to do that. I don’t know. Or maybe its just a bad day for my voice. Anyway that discouraged me from blogging about that song today at least. I will still learn that song and get it down 100% even if I can’t ever play it live, because it’s just such a good song.<\/p>\n

Oh, I forgot about the spark. When I was watching that video, I noticed in the recommended videos a video of the lyrics of the Silver Seas song, “Imaginary Girl” from their 2nd album. That was one of those “75%” songs for me. And I knew I could sing it pretty well. Also, I knew there was one or two little pieces of lyrics for that song, that I wasn’t sure about, and it looked like this video had them right. So that was all the spark I needed. I’ll post that video below. I’ve gone through the song 3 or 4 times now on the live P.A. system, and I feel like I’ve got it down now, that I can put it in the “100% Club.”<\/p>\n

I’ll probably post a video of me playing it live at some point. Until then, if you’re reading this and you would like to know the chords, let me know, and that might be the “Spark” I need to publish those.<\/p>\n

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