stress.. stress.. stress..

Geez, school sure is stressful right now!

Last night, I spent a pretty big chunk of time in the MPL (the Music Production Lab) at school working on an assignment.  I was there until 2am and had 8am class this morning.  I felt good thought because I got about half way through the assignment and I finally felt like I had at least accomplished a little bit of the work that needed to be done.  Between lift projects, editing projects, essays and presentations, I literally have 7 different projects on the go at the moment.  SO BRUTAL.

So as I was saying, last night I came home and felt that I had accomplished something.  Well that feeling vanished quickly when I was working on my Jack's Mannequin lift today.  I was working on learning the song on the piano with the sheet music.  I then decided to stop and listen to the actual recording to make sure everything was matching up.  Was it?  Of course not.  The sheet music is definitely different than the recording of the song.  All day, I couldn't understand why it would be different.  When I got home I decided to look up the sheet music on the Jack's Mannequin website.  It says beside where you can purchase the book that it is a beginner's book and that therefore the music is not fully transcribed.  Perfect.  If only I knew this to begin with, because all of the other instruments have been played by ear exactly with the recording.  So basically, I need a game plan.. and fast.

Jenny and I came up with a brilliant idea of course!  We decided that since we are going to see Jack's Mannequin in concert in Toronto next Friday, that I will just ask Andrew personally if he has or knows of any sheet music that I could get my hands on that matches the recording of the song exactly.  He will for sure have an answer for me, considering he wrote the song.

So, more on how that goes next weekend.  Wish me luck.. 'cause if I don't get an answer.. it's either sit and learn the song by ear (which for a classical player who is used to having sheet music for her songs at all times, is super hard!), or I don't get to play on my lift.. which would really suck because half the reason I chose to do this song was because I wanted to play the piano part myself.  It's so pretty!
Anyways, if anyone has any alternate ideas for me.. please do not be shy to share!

All I can say at this time is.. I can't wait for reading week so I can relax for a bit!

Hopefully things will work out.

♥