Can't stress it enough

I realize, again, that I've been repeating myself over the same points over and over again. It’s probably a curse; being only able to spot weakness and not strength.

Well, here’s something fresh for a change.

Don’t know if he knew it when he first played it for the class, but the song 手紙 ～拝啓 十五の君へ～ by Angela Aki was initially a song for the 75th NHK National School Music Contest in 2008, Junior High School (12–15 years old) Division. It became such a hit that from that point on, many schools use it as their graduation song.

And it’s surprising in 2 ways, to me at least. First is that it’s not a hard song to play if it were in C major. Second is that because it is NOT in C major, it’s unexpectedly frustrating. So to anyone who wants to try it but has an incompetent ear like mine, it’s in A♭ major.

That’s probably one of the many weaknesses of being musically trained with the harmonica: too focused on C, that every other scale you hear it as a C and only realize it is not when you actually try it out.

An equally good graduating song would be Nickelback’s Photograph. A little old and inappropriate at some parts, but nothing says ‘missing the memories’ like it.

This is actually a bad thing. If I keep this up, I’ll be just like people of the past generation who listen to old tracks and think new ones like the totally terrible ****** ****** or **** **** etc. are the killers of music.

But whatever. That isn’t quite the main issue. What is is that I’ve always wanted to die before I get old, but based on how things are going, I already am.

And on that bombshell, adieu to y’all.