Crack your back and your khaki checked Rocksaxx you jam packed slatteries. Welcome to the blind by podcast.

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If you're a regular listener what's the crack? I'm a blade record in this one. I've just used a retinal eye cream.

I'm an eye lids to lubricate my blinking. So this week's podcast is it's kind of a music podcast and it's kind of a philosophical heart take podcast.

I'm not quite sure. I think it's going to be a sharp dish podcast but I always say that and then they're not. But we'll see how it goes.

This is going to be part music podcast, part philosophy podcast, 100% podcast hug. Okay. So my days are currently taking up mostly with my Twitch stream.

Which is my latest venture. My latest venture drawn this pandemic.

Several times a week I live stream at night times. I make music playing video games.

Playing a video game called Red Dead Redemption and I'm writing and performing a live musical to the events that are happening in the game.

I'm recording this live and putting out live to an audience. Twitch.tv forward slash the blind by podcast. You can see it's tonight at half nine if you want.

I'm doing this Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday tuning. But anyway, most of you have probably gotten a squinted. It's so far or seen some of the videos about what I'm doing.

And what one thing it's making me notice is so I'm I'm able to play music instruments life. Okay. So I can play guitar. I can play bass.

I wish I was better at piano. I'm okay at piano. I wish I was better. I can do percussion.

But because I'm doing this as a live stream and people are watching, I have to the scale I have to develop is I have to become more rapid and quicker as how quickly I reach the desired set of notes.

If I'm right in the fucking song live, I'm trying to write a song live song writing as a process it takes a long time because I've got a guitar or a keyboard and I'm messing around with cards to find the right ones to make a song.

But watching someone messing around with cards isn't particularly entertaining to watch. So I have to write songs, but also make it entertaining to write songs, which is something new.

And the key to that is how can I get to the best cards as quick as possible.

So what I've been doing is relearning music theory, especially with piano, just sharpening up my skills and thinking back to when I first learned how to play guitar and first learned how to play piano in order to do it.

And it was in doing this in learning music theory and learning about things like scales, learning about cards on the piano, stuff that I hadn't thought about in many, many years because I didn't have to go on back to that, brought up like childhood memories for me in particular with guitar.

So I first learned how to play guitar when I was about four or five years of age because one of my older brothers who was very much into their music and was a musician just made sure I was able to play guitar.

He himself was a musician and he used to notice that I would as a little child I would respond quite actively to music. I would get very excited about hearing T-Rex or Dave a Bowie or whatever was playing on the radio.

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