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 It's so easy now, that you've got friends you can trust...
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May. 24th, 2009 @ 07:04 pm 
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It's entirely possible music is necessary to my survival.
I spent a chunk of this afternoon kind of broken. I was home alone, and I forgot to take my ADHD meds this afternoon, which... is kind of a problem, in terms of maintenance of mental stability. Eventually, I put on a DVD of Queen (Live at Wembley Stadium) for background to my afternoon.
Queen helps my mood really a lot. DVDs also have the advantage of sometimes having closeups of Brian May playing guitar, as well - which, since I started learning guitar, means I watch his hands. I want to be able to play like he can one day.
Recently, Chas was watching me try to get the fingering for a really, really tricky variant chord. (Because I practice from a book of Queen sheet music, and Brian May not only uses tricky chords, he uses subtle variations on those chords that are sheer hell to try and play.) Chas suggested that it probably wasn't possible unless you were double-jointed - making the necessary bridge requires being able to bend the last joint of your finger backwards a bit.
Me: "... But I am double-jointed."
I could sort of do what he was thinking, but not really. We worked out the problem: at current degree of skill, at least, my fingers aren't long enough to do it. And that I can't fix. But I might be able to get it as my hands get more flexible with practice.
I only found out I'm double-jointed last year, disconcertingly enough. A doctor I was sent to regarding this whole insurance thing commented on it. I had no idea, until then, that the degree of flexibility my joints have isn't normal. So, ADHD and hypermobility... my body just does not conform to spec. The doctor found it odd that the hypermobility diagnosis came as a surprise to me.
Anyway, this is why I'm learning guitar, and why I intend to get a keyboard to work on learning to play piano too (because a piano, even a digital one, can not be propped in a corner, so I want a good-quality keyboard instead). Music helps a lot with my depression.Current Music: Queen - Friends Will Be Friends
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