Let voice be your signature
May 2nd, 2007 by Ashley
At the end of House s3e20 House Training, a familiar voice sang Follow the Leader while Forman saturated in his guilt (and House was doing the autopsy.) His way of whispering the music was so unique that I was almost sure that it was the lead singer of Strays Don’t Sleep. And I was right. It was Matthew Ryan.
Chun’s always able to guess the band or the singer by their voice. I can’t. I have to know who the performer of the song is so that when I recognize the song, I’d know the singer/band. Therefore, this time, I was pretty impressed by myself, even though Matthew Ryan’s voice is hard to be mistaken. I think I’m better at this little by little, among other things.
I used to believe, in my subconscious if not conscious, that you can’t do certain things if you’re not born with certain talents/abilities/skills. That’s the main reason why I convinced myself that it’s impossible to be things I once consider being, such as a drummer, writer, and many else. I know that practice makes perfect, blah blah blah, but I guess this instilled idea of life and reality failed to overturn my god-knows-when/where-it-started belief, you are what you are but not what you can be, which engraved in me.
For me, learning stuffs should be natural. If I cannot master something within a snap of fingers, I’d declare that I’m not good at it, it’s not meant to be. But lately I learned, slowly and painfully (because it’s kinda hard to erase engraving using an eraser), that efforts help. Above experience for one, and I’ve also been able to tell different instruments in a piece of music when in the past I can only listen to it as a whole. Even though I am not able to decided whether it’s really a good thing or not. Then again, now I can practice a song without reading the music; for example, Muse’s Starlight, I think I can get bass, keyboard and vocal down. :p
It’s fun, isn’t it? Another ray of hope in life.