So tonight kicked all kinds of ass.

Today we did a lot of little stuff for the house, none of which really added up to much, but mostly (for my part) I got a little homework done on people I need to make phone calls to.

Then, we got a dinner visit from the always jafosmite  and the always lovely C came by to record the music from ms_violet  's wedding so that they could have a copy. I can say with absolute certainty that it will never get old hearing xtingu  and company perform here in the house in which we live. Good times with good friends.

Then? The pièce de résistance.

Yours truly learned a thing or two about music. Yes me. The guy whose voice could kill large herd animals came one step closer to not being a complete musical moron. I owe this entirely to the unwavering teaching skills of the lovely and talented xtingu . I assure you all that I had nothing to do with it.

To summarize, this is the range of things that she managed to squeeze into my brain. While I can't promise that I will retain all of it, I have the advantage of living with my teacher. (I plan to pick her brain a lot.)

1. How to play a G chord on a guitar, using two different fingerings.
2. How to tune a guitar both to a piano and to itself.
3. How to read guitar tablature.
4. How to tell the difference between when a pitch is too high or too low, using the oscillations between the pitches.
5. How to read treble clef.
6. What a key signature is, and also what accidentals do.
7. What a time signature is, and what it represents.
8. How to sight read rhythms in both 3/4 and 4/4 time (including eighth rests and sixteenth notes).
9. How to play a major scale on a piano by understanding the whole step/ half step sequence, and how to apply the pattern so I can play a major scale in any key.
10. How to make a major triad.
11. How to play a minor triad (flat the third).
12. What relative minor is (A minor is the relative minor of C major).
13. Sight read a little bit of a melody on the piano.

Not bad for two hours.

I got it pretty damn good.