Flexing your Music Ear

Last night on our Saturday dinner date, my SIO and I were half way through our Margaritas, when Ben Harper’s “Steal My kisses” started playing overhead.   I began swinging in my seat and singing along when suddenly I decided to change the lyrics.  I do this often.  Something SIO finds extremely funny.  It was my kind of music and I intended to enjoy fully.  Changing the lyrics just adds to the fun.

“You know, we are going to have to start hanging out in more bars that have live music.”  I grinned.  He laughed and told me he knew he was a bad influence. “Why?” he asked.  “It’s for this new project I have started.”  He went on to tell me how picky I was about my music taste, it’s one of the reasons I  change the lyrics to songs.

Picky?  Me? 

Every Thursday we go to a particular bar that has karaoke and we sit there and judge the performances, judge mind you, never perform.  He has some training and so do I.  He always threatens to get up and sing but hasn’t yet.  I won’t. I refuse. I’m a chicken. <Cluck Cluck>   I am very vocal about what I don’t like: most country (There is a ton of karaoke country…why?), bluegrass, heavy metal, not a huge Janis Joplin fan (he wants to call off the relationship over this statement), the list goes on. 

He asked how I could possibly make an unbiased decision about music that I dislike?  I went on to explain that he knew my musical background ground:  piano, organ, voice and choir.  I know my music.  I know talent when I hear it. I still know what it means to be musically talented. It doesn’t mean I have to like it.  Cut me some slack here. 

His area of expertise is much farther into the  general talent area than mine.  He sees it on a daily basis, on a broader spectrum too.  He is the perfect partner to accompany me on the journeys into the musical night live of our town and beyond.

So were going to flex our musical ears together.  Hopefully I am going to be swinging in my seat, and if he gets bored he can start up the Soundhound app on his iPhone to see just how good the band is really playing.  I think we are in for some serious  Ear Flexing of the Musical kind.

  Peace. NEPB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQdeKWDjNQ    ( Ben Harper- Steal My Kisses )  be prepared to Dance!!!