The future is written

The future (and indeed the past)
Is written
In the pattern of coloured scales
Adorning the skin of the world serpent
(Who has no beginning and no end).
It lies under the skin of the past that is shed when the present
Happens

Thus the future becomes the moment
And past
in turn
is lost
to obscurity

Bass Lesson No. 2

Well, my second bass lesson went well but the music theory has me a little worried as it is not easy to wrap my scientist's brain around (why is it not decimalised?). But I am not overly stressed about that. I now have the Peter Gunn theme to practice and what I have discovered in praticing since this lesson is that unless you get the tempo fast enough it doesn't sound anything like the theme, even if you do get the notes right. It is somewhat frustrating. Still I am patient and persistant. Plus I am finding learning the bass to be a lot of fun so it never seems like work.

I was at a birthday party on the weekend for a guy I know in a band and I realised that he knows a lot of musos. Half the people I met asked me either what instrument I played or what band I was in. I was even invited to join a band (that only has one member at this point) in spite of the fact that I have had only 2 lessons (apparently that's enough).

My actual goal is to be in a band in 12 months and performing within 2 years. I can and will do this. Watch me.