I have been staying at home jobless-ly for more than a month. Other than doing the usual dinner music on a ship that provides buffet dinner to its customer and I provide the music as part of a Trio, I basically am a good-for-nothing, not-earning-anything bum.
I think I should take the free time before I get a job to equip myslf with some skills. Perhaps I should build up more songs in my gig repertoire, choose more of those English, Jazzy, Lounge music kind. I should just grab some ready scores with jazz notation, learn how to read jazz chords and first practise a few popular songs, then transpose from my piano scores some of the more upbeat dance songs like tango, cha-cha, flameco and stuffs like that, since my aim to to get a better gig environment such as a hotel lounge.
Also since it would be too late to register for driving lesson now (reason being that there will be a little lag time between registration and actually starting of lesson, so I should always try to speculate in advance when is my free period that I can learn the fastest and get it done.) Hence, the best thing I might be able to do to build up some grounding might be to read on my own first, and also decide whether I want to do manual or auto, and also which kind of car I would like to save $ for, a hunchback or a bigger one that can transport my yangqin? The yangqin part might depend on whether I'd still want to be earning from gigs. The manual gear might mean I can drive daddy's van.
Anyone has ideas? or comment?
Well said.
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