the simultaneous birth and death of my music career

[jordfallsmotet]

I just spent an inordinate amount of time fooling around with GarageBand on my Mac, trying to put some shit together so I could possibly figure out how to play at least a bit of Hoppipolla on the piano. then I realised that GarageBand is a pretty cool program because I could fool around with the on-screen keyboard, move some notes around, and I wouldn't sound like a retarded five-year-old who's never seen a piano before. so then I spent even more time trying to recreate the song (keep in mind, with all the horrible MIDI sounds files as instruments... although I've definitely heard worse). I basically got the first fifteen to twenty seconds of the song down and was pretty proud, because it took a lot of messing around and screwing up just to get the notes to sound right. it wasn't too bad, but then right after I played a particularly complicated (and well-worked, I might add!) bit from my... rendition, I started playing the real version at the same point, and it just couldn't even compare. mine was actually pretty good, except for the sound being a little weird and the tempo being off, but as it gets into the actual song there are harmonies and things that musically inclined people know all about but that just make me cross-eyed.

I basically made this post so I could be like, THIS SONG IS SO AMAZING, and my proof was that my dinky Mac program couldn't recreate it with the less-than-ingenious help of a tone deaf piano quitter, that's how amazing it is.it's so amazing, and yet, along with every other Sigur Ros song, it could probably be used in the intense and emotional ending of every rom-com ever made. BUT I LOVE IT.