#67 -I swear I'll get to doing something productive!

My cover of "Whatever You Want" is mostly performable at this point. I still have to work on the timing for the second set of lyrics, but I can fumble my way through well enough...I think.

Amazingly, I've also managed to piece together the main chords for Evanescence's "Give Unto Me." I had the opening melody figured out by memory a few days ago, and with my iPod at my side, I picked out the rest of the chords. I just need a couple more hours at the piano to figure out and practice the arrangement of the chords, and then I could probably perform that song too. Luckily for me, Amy Lee's vocals in "Give Unto Me" are very much within my singing range - none of her usual screaming like you get in "Lithium" or "Bring Me to Life" or whatever.

I'm also working on Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." The chords for that are mostly figured out; arrangement is the scary part, though I have a decent idea of what I could do for it. I found out that the chords I'd Googled for this song were a half-step lower than what was originally written, so I had to spend time messing around to get the right chords. I can't even name half of these chords, though - I indicate them on the paper by writing the main triad of notes that are involved. (I plan to do some study of music theory during the summer. Srsly.)

In two days I've got my Japanese final, so I need to get cracking on studying for that, because otherwise I will seriously fail that class.

-Reileen
but distance sees through your disguise