I wanted to make some cupcakes today, but I had no confectioners sugar for the frosting. So I threw together some blueberry yogurt, neufchatel cheese, sugar, butter, corn starch and salt. Then I put it all in a blender because I don’t have a hand mixer. They turned out really delicious!
I thought I’d “follow instructions” by sitting down at the piano and following along with some sheet music. I ended up playing several Chopin pieces out of the book my favorite piano teacher gave me for my high school graduation. (She inscribed it “To Jess, for your passionate nature,” which still made me a little weepy after all these years.) A couple of them I’d played before, a very long time ago, but I also tried to dig my way through two I’d never tried.
After that I figured it was time to make my own music, so I set up a mike and recorded three one-minute improvisations. If you’re hearing similarities between them, it’s because I was deliberately trying to improvise on a very simple theme!
Links:
Improvisation 1
Improvisation 2
Improvisation 3
(Apologies for the terrible mike quality!)
What I learned? I’m damn rusty when it comes to making music, but I really enjoyed doing it, too.