Easter "Holidays" and Plastic Drums (aka Handy Headsets)

School has wrapped up for 2 weeks now, good times.

Or is it?

Suppose it must be but there is the little matter of studying and easter school to contend with.

First exam (music) is 26 days away. A scary thought.

Gotta get studying, but that will happen at the start of next week.
After such a horrendous week i feel i am due a break.
What with feeling ill and the mutiple tests....

So i did absolutely nothing today, still trying to get back to 100% really, and i've decided that i'm having the weekend off too.
Enjoy the weekend, stuff my face with chocolate eggs on Sunday and get my head down on Monday.

Then Tuesday, i will be going to easter school.
I have an english class in the morning (9am - noon) then maths class in the afternoon (12:30pm - 15:30) so all of that and i only getting a half an hour break :/
I will have a modern studies class and a biology class too i think but i will find that out for sure on tuesday.
It's all for a good cause tho, mainly for maths, coz i'm ok on english and modies.

I'm noticing a slight improvement in maths tbh.
The first test i did on Tuesday was fairly easy, even for me, but there was a question in it i dont think i could have even attempted a few weeks ago.
Second paper on Wednesday was more difficult tho and the one yesterday was difficult too but i think i'll get an extra 10 minutes to finish it, maybe on Tuesday, coz school finished 10 mins early yesterday.
Got good feedback from the 1st paper tho, not the final mark, but the teacher said i done well in it! :D

But back to these holidays.
I don't have many plans apart from studying and easter school. I'm sure there'll be a day or two tho for some footy with some of my friends and i think i'm going round to Alex's house with my bass one day.

....

Have i ever mentioned that i do that sometimes?
Have i even mentioned Alex plays guitar?

Well, if not, i'll say it now, Alex plays guitar and sometimes i go round to his and we mess about on the bass and guitar, playing along to songs.
Will be a bit more difficult now coz of my new big amp (that causes too much fugging noise :P) and also coz of upcoming exams which is why i havent been over for a while.

So apart from studying, school, maybe football and maybe some guitar, my holiday doesn't consist of much.


A cool thing happened last night tho that i want to talk about.
I've never had a headset for my computer and i never, until last night, intended to get one.
So i was browsing ebay, amazon etc. and then out of the corner of my eye i spot my xbox headset lying on my desk.

Hmmmm.....

So i did some research online and tried using my brother's play and charge kit to plug the controller into the PC. This did work but it has to be a fully wired controller to work properly, of which i dont have.
Back to ebay, amazon etc.

And then out of the corner of my eye i spot my rock band drum set lying in the corner of the room.

Hmmmm.....

They're wired, they have a headset socket and a USB connection so i tried.

And it worked!

Lol thats right, i have my headset working on my computer via a set of plastic drums....

What? I saved money!
Don't need to buy the headset now.
Although it does mean i need to have the drum set sitting next to me to use the headset so i suppose i can pick up a cheap wired xbox controller instead.
But i'm still really happy that i got it working, without asking anybody's help and did it for free.

....Also....managed to.... send...some....voice clips....to....somebody :D

Hehe

So that worked out great.
Those plastic drums really are useful.
I am rather good on them too :P
I play expert on Rock Band, probably coz i'm quite sad but at the same time its still is quite a skill, one that i have managed to convert onto real drums too.

So saying that, i shall leave with what is my favourite song to play on Rock Band at the moment. Not just is it fun to play but it has a great bassline, great drum solo, great guitar solo.....blah, blah, blah :P

It's Tom Sawyer by Rush :)

Cheers,
Rowan




Here's a better video but it doesn't allow you to embed it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA

You can see the whole drum solo on tht video and it just amazes me....

Need to listen to more Rush me thinks :P


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