Music Tag

I was going to do a Picture Saturday, but I haven't had time to draw more than like three things this week, and I feel like I ought to wait until I can give you guys a quality post. (Unless you guys would rather start seeing like... single pictures with more detail? I DON'T KNOW.)

So instead! I'm going to answer a bunch of questions about music, which ought to be fun and interesting. (Because I'm a very interesting person, dang it!)

I promise to have a fun Picture Saturday next week, just you wait! But until then, here we go!

1.) Do you play any instruments?

Well. I don't currently. I used to play French horn in middle school, and I was fairly good, but once I hit high school, that fell to the wayside while I started taking singing classes at the college.

I would really like to learn how to play guitar or piano... or both! So that I could sing and play at the same time, that would be freaking fantastic, am I right?

2.) What is your favorite music genre?

Ehe. I like a lot of different styles of music, depending on my mood. I mean I'll listen to whatever's popular on the radio, and then turn around and listen to full on opera.

But I would have to say that the music that I listen to and it... resonates in my soul... is classical crossover. I like music with full voices, and more skill than your average pop.

3.) Is there a music genre that you absolutely can't stand?

Uugh. I cannot listen to screaming heavy metal. Or rap. Rap is so obnoxious. 

But the kind of "music" where the singer is just screaming into the microphone, I get physically pained, like, "YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUR VOCAL CHORDS! YOU FOOL! NODULES, MAN! NODUUULES."

4.) What is your favorite way to listen to music? (CD, Vinyl, mp3, radio, etc..)

Ohh... either on CD or plugged into my phone. I like it when I can turn on the music and it just absorbs into my bloodstream and I can feel it pulsing inside me. Yassss.

5.) Top three favorite bands/singers?

*facepalm* Probably Il Volo, Josh Groban, and Anthony Warlow. They have this type of tone-quality that make my cold, cold heart go pitter-pat.

6.) What are your three favorite chords?

Ehm, seeing as I don't play any instrument that uses chords, I'm gonna just...

 

7.) What do you think about TV and Movie Soundtracks?

    

 *Pauses Magnificent Seven soundtrack* What?

8.) Ever made a mixed CD?

Hasn't everyone?

9.) The old days of music were the better ones. Do you agree?

I don't know. I think mostly yes? There was a lot more soul in old music than there is now... I mean...

Because you know I'm all about that bass,

'bout that bass, no treble

I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, 

no treble....
I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass..

AD NAUSEAM 

 

But I think some music now is better than music then. I don't know. I think there's good and bad in both ages. I'm kind of under the opinion that we need to stop comparing the different times. Like music changes. Get over it.

this is my new favorite gif.

10.) Have a ever covered a song and recorded it? Which one?

Ehem. Here is a handy-dandy link to my youtube channel where I sing covers. Sometimes. Intermittently. Rarely. But I do sing.

Handy-dandy link.

11.) The saddest love song is?

Oh. Ehm. I'm gonna be super cheesy and say "When I Look at You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel Musical, cause... IT HOLDS SPECIAL MEANING TO ME OKAY?

Honorable mentions:

*Happy in my Heartache

*Caruso

*Always Hate Me

I can't chose. There are lots. They are sad. 

12.) The happiest love song is?

*Crazed Treskie laughter* Right at this particular moment I'm going to say, "When You Say You Love Me." By Josh Groban because yes. 

Honorable Mentions:

Be My Forever

Still Fallin'

We Are Love

13.) What makes you like a song?

Typically it starts with the lyrics, then the voice, then the melody.

I can't like music if I don't like the lyrics.

I don't tend to like music if I don't like the singer's voice... like, I'll find a cover or something that is tolerable to my ears. lol. 

14.) What song best represents you?

I sat here and thought about this one for like...a whole three minutes. (That's a very long time, as I am easily distracted.)

Gonna have to say... Let Me In, from Rigoletto, is pretty much me. 

15.) What do you love about music?

Oh man.

Music is something else. Music is like seeing someone's heart and soul. Very few things are as personal and emotional as music.

Music can make you happy, or sad, or wistful.

A single song can bring back a flood of memories from ages and ages ago.
Music can tell stories.
Music communicates things in ways ordinary words and actions can't.

Music connects people.

Music can be a window to someone's soul the same way eyes are.

Music is so powerful.

Music is like a piece of heaven on earth. It's magical and wonderful and absolutely necessary.

They say people who pray with song pray twice.

That's amazing.

Music is amazing.

Alrighty everyone, that's all I have for tonight.

Question Time
Have you heard any of my song suggestions already?
What do you think about music? 
Can you answer three of the tag questions for me? 

I love you all!

Pretend it's Saturday.

Well, so much for my epic idea of posting more often. It's been a week. Again.

It has been a very long, very difficult, roller-coaster of a week, and I don't want to talk about it.

This post was supposed to be up on Saturday, but things were chaotic on Saturday.... and Sunday.... and I worked all day Monday. Today is the first time I've really been able to catch my breath.

So now we have more to share, because it's been a bit since I last posted, and I've been drawing rather a lot.

1.) Le Elven Queen. Am I the only one who thinks she looks a little bit like Amanda Seyfried?

Just me?

2.) Le boys from Jack's book. I actually kind of hate this picture. Something about it is off  and I can't put my finger on what. Just overall it did not turn out the way I envisioned and it bugs  me.

3.) Le sketch I did that reminded me a lot of my sister, so... here, Bella, that's for you.

4.) Le All Seeing Eyeball.

5.) Le girl that reminded me of Katniss. If Katniss was... happy.

6.) Le Franz from Brother's In Arms. (Yeah, you guessed it. Jack's book. Which I have read and you have not. Suckers.)

7.) LE ADORABLE HAPPY GIRL. I dunno. I just love her so much. I think she is adorable and cute and exuberant. I giggled when I drew her. She reminds me of a grown up Vanellope von Schweetz.

8.) Le Creepy Smiley Girl that I can't decide if I like or not. I like some about her. I don't know though. She's funny.

9.) More art for Brothers In Arms. (FYI, B.I.A. is not a romance. It is... a war story that.... it's a war story. Romance is not in it. At. All.)

10.) Le two minute sketch that I did when I was reminiscing about the ending scene from Mark of Athena. (Thus meaning, yeah, it's really rough, don't judge me.)

11.) Le other rough sketch I did was I really wanted to kill someone. 

12.) Le Studious Snakey.

13.) Even more from Brothers In Arms. (Please note how I'm trying to break them up so they're not all in one clump....)

14.) TOUCH IT I SAAAAAAY.

15.) Le Angsty One. To Dad.

16.) Le Other Angsty one. Also to Dad

AND THAT IS ALL.

I think I'm going to draw a signature for put at the end of all my posts. What think you?

Which drawing is your favorite?

Until I get my signature drawn, this'll have to do. Cheers and God bless.