It was an exciting week. Olomwaay was prepping to open for Jake Shimabukuro's concert, which was scheduled to take place in a matter of days. Every chance I'd get, I would rehearse on my own. Jun was just being his usual happy six year old self - running in and out of the house, making noise here and there. I got my guitar from the storage room to get it all polished up. New strings were bought to replace the old and rusty ones I had on the guitar. Afterwards, I decided to go ahead and set up rehearsal in the living room. I hooked up the guitar into my new guitar amplifier - a gift from a member of Olomwaay now residing in the U.S. Mainland, Mr. Gus Litulumar, and started getting my fingers warmed up. It was a good feeling. It's been a while since Olomwaay's last jam session.
As soon as he heard me playing the intro to the song titled "Won't you listen to me (Ow woloo)", Jun came running into the living room, and went straight for the uke case. With the uke in one hand, Jun turned the guitar amplifier so that the speaker would face where he was going to sit. I was laughing in my head because this was totally unexpected. I had to stop to wait for him. After making adjustments to the amp, he came and sat down next to me. I said, "OK, Jun on the count of three..." I counted, then I started playing the intro. To my amazement, Jun's strumming was pretty good! I repeated the song several times just to see how he would react to changes in the tempo. Every time I'd change the tempo, Jun would go along with the rhythm. I'd speed up the song, or slow it down, but Jun was right on track.
I stopped and asked him, "Jun, would you like to perform with Olomwaay at the benefit concert?" Jun's response was, "Is it OK?" I said, "I think it's OK..." LOL! Anyway, Jun did well that night. You can view his performance with Olomwaay below on this short video I prepared for my sister, Cinta. Please enjoy this magical time with Jun! :D
As soon as he heard me playing the intro to the song titled "Won't you listen to me (Ow woloo)", Jun came running into the living room, and went straight for the uke case. With the uke in one hand, Jun turned the guitar amplifier so that the speaker would face where he was going to sit. I was laughing in my head because this was totally unexpected. I had to stop to wait for him. After making adjustments to the amp, he came and sat down next to me. I said, "OK, Jun on the count of three..." I counted, then I started playing the intro. To my amazement, Jun's strumming was pretty good! I repeated the song several times just to see how he would react to changes in the tempo. Every time I'd change the tempo, Jun would go along with the rhythm. I'd speed up the song, or slow it down, but Jun was right on track.
I stopped and asked him, "Jun, would you like to perform with Olomwaay at the benefit concert?" Jun's response was, "Is it OK?" I said, "I think it's OK..." LOL! Anyway, Jun did well that night. You can view his performance with Olomwaay below on this short video I prepared for my sister, Cinta. Please enjoy this magical time with Jun! :D
4 comments:
I knew I'd witness this great event one way or another!!! Nobody says "no" to Lex, ever ;)
Anyways, being so far from home, this short but very sweet clip brought tears to the eyes...
I know the feeling.
The crowd was going crazy when he went up on stage. The video doesn't capture that well.
That's true. The vid didn't capture it all, but I hope that someone out there with a better camera would post their version on YouTube. I wish I were like Jun when I was his age. :D
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