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I sit down on my bed in the house and take the bass guitar in my hands again. I have to get the riff into my head by now. It's been two days since we talked to Liam and started practicing for O.D.D. but I still haven't gotten the hang of it and it's pissing me off.
Yesterday Harry went shopping and when he came home we immeadiatly dyed mine and Day's hair, and we touched up Emely's and Alex' hair, which meant we all have vibrant coloured hair, expect for me because we didn't have bleach, so the green turned out a mossy dark green. I can get used to it trough.
I start playing once again. The first part goes well, but I mess up the forelast bar again. I groan and start over. The notes sound clear and loud trough the room.
One two three four one two three four one two three..
I keep track of the count in my head but it isn't working. At all. And I can't go to Niall, I think. We have practice scheduled tomorrow and I don't think he'd want me to mess up his schedule.
From the room next to mine I hear the familiar sounds of Alex drumming. The walls are quite soundproof, but you can still hear the drums vaguely trough the walls. I get up to go check on him. I lay the guitar on my bed and then walk over to the next room.
Alex doesn't notice at first, completely disappearing into the drums. They get like that often. So into the music they don't even have think about where to slam their sticks. It just happens and it sounds good.
I subconsciously start smiling, and lean against the doorway. When they finally look up and see me, they smile. "What's up?"
"The riff still isn't working out and I heard you starting again so I thought I'd check it out."
"Can you bring your guitar over here? We can practice together, maybe it helps."
"I guess I could try. Can you help? I need to bring a speaker over so I can't carry it alone."
They nod and get up from behind the drums, then we get back to my room to get the guitar and speaker. I disconnect everything, just to be sure I don't ruin it.
After we carried everything over to Alex' room, I start connecting it all again. Alex starts playing his part once before I fall in, so I know what beat to follow.
I join in, and still manage to mess up the same part. Alex doesn't give up, so we start again.
But after ten times, and an hour of practice and I still mess up the same tone, Alex says I should just go ahead and talk to Niall. It's still 1 pm so it should be fine, and maybe then tomorrow we can do the finishing touches so we can start putting everything together.
I sigh while walking down the stairs to the practicing hallway. When I get to Niall's room, all I hear is rustling of papers. I wait outside a while to be sure there's only one person in there, but when after a minute still no one's talking and I haven't heard any guitars I knock on the door.
"Come in!" Niall shouts from the room.
I open the room. "Hey."
"Mike, what's up? I thought our practice was tomorrow?"
"It is, but I keep messing up this note so I thought I'd come over and see if you could help."
