Plastic Cups! Who Knew?

I recently learned to play a new instrument in two days! Sort of. Plastic cups:) I know what your thinking. How in the world can plastic cups be used as an instrument? They are sort of like a percussion instrument. It started with a simple little cup pattern that a friend showed me. But now I can put a cup pattern to practically any song:) I'm very proud of myself because, although I can keep a beat, I am absolutely no good on the drums. My brother used to have a set and when I would try to play them I sounded really bad! But the cups are soo easy! It's like when your listening to a song and you start tapping your foot to the beat or tap beats on your legs or on a table. Only with this you have plastic cups that your using to tap that beat, with extra little slides or unstacking and stacking the cups however you want:) I feel very accomplished having taught myself this:) If you know how to play the cups send me a vid:)

Jam Sessions and Anthem Lights:)

Today started out pretty yucky. It had been raining all night and it still was until about three this afternoon. But when Dad got home from work we had a little jam session which was really fun:) There's something you've gotta understand about my family: we live and breath music. Dad plays guitar, my brother, Peyton, is learning, I play piano, and we all sing. We're currently trying to get mom to learn bass:) Or at least use one of those shaker egg things:) Right now we're kind of hooked on this band called Anthem Lights:) They do a lot of covers but they also write their own christian music:) Everything they sing is clean!:) That's definately one thing we like about them:) So our jam session consisted of a lot of their videos:) We played them on youtube on out Wii with the surround sound:) It sounded amazing!:) Check out their videos:) I attached some:) The first four are covers:)  The others are originals:)

A Little About Me And My Blog

Hi!:) This is a post all about me:)
    -I have no idea how to work this blog!
    -I started trying to type this up on my Kindle but failed miserably.
    -I resorted to my wonderful iPhone 5:)
    -I don't know what I'm doing with a blog. It's not like anything interesting happens in my life:P
    -I have a best friend who has been helping me:)
    -I'm watching the Wizard of Oz right now:)
    -I love the Cowardly Lion's song:) The one he sings right before they see the Wizard:)
    -The flying monkeys used to freak me out.
    -Now they just look fake.
    -I love to read:)
    -And write fiction:)
    -I play piano and sing:)
    -I love music:)
    -I'm home schooled:)
    -I'm very weird.
    -But not the "Stay away from her kids!" kind of weird:P
    -This blog is going to be very random
    -I like to use smiley faces:) (obviously) :)
    -I love scary movies:)
    -But not real violent ones.
    -I don't scare easily.
    -I love old shows:) (Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, the Twilight Zone, and more)
    -I think J. R. R. Tolkien was one of the greatest authors to have lived:)
    -J. K. Rowling is amazing too:)
    -And C. S. Lewis:)
    -Steven Spielberg is an amazing director:)
    -I cried when Dumbledore died.
    -And Sirius
    -And Fred
    -And Remus and Tonks
    -I think this is getting very long
    -I'm going to stop now.
    -I hope that now that I have posted something more people will follow me:)
    -My only follower is my best friend:)
    -She has a blog too! My future followers should go follow hers:) formyownsatisfaction.blogspot.com
    -That didn't do a link thingy so you'll have to type it in yourselves.
    -I say thingy a lot when I don't know what something called
    -When I can't remember some one's name I call them what's his/her face
    -I'm a night owl
    -My mother doesn't like it. Especially when she tries to get me up in the morning.
    -I never realized I could say this much about myself!
    -I feel self-centered now!
    -I'm going to stop for real now!
Goodbye!
         -Jordan:)