MARCH 22, 2010 - Bass, bass, bass!

Today I got a hold of Steven's brand new bass guitar. A cherry red Fernando Stratocaster, I think. It cost him P19,000. (This was pretty amazing of him 'cause he produced that amount within only 3 days. That just shows you how rich Steven is. Haha.) It was packaged with a guitar strap, a tuner, and an 15 watt amplifier. Playing it was a treat as it was my first ever time to play the bass. The first thing I noticed was the weight of this instrument, then its size. It's definitely larger than an ordinary guitar. Eager to learn my first bass song, I searched the bass tab for 21 Guns by Green Day. (Whew, saying bass is tiring…) Lucky for me, the song was undeniably easy to play. I just applied my knowledge of reading tabs and put my hand-eye coordination to the test. A few minutes in and I found myself nodding my head to the beat of the bass. Something didn't sound right, though, literally. The guitar was out of tune. We put out the included tuner and attempted to tune the bass guitar. The first string was okay. The second one needed a little tightening. Then the A string. The bloody A string. It took us minutes if not hours to TRY to tune it, but frustratingly we couldn't so we gave up. The last and thickest string was also a bit of a struggle. Eventually, we were able to make it sound correctly. Both of us managed to learn some songs (I Can Wait Forever, and Mr. Brightside to name a few) but there was this feeling of incompleteness. That one string that wasn't correctly tuned made the song sound bad. I just told Steven to let some professional tune it one day. At around 4PM we had unplanned visitors crash Steven's place. Namely Kim Roxas, and Vernice Domingo. They spent most of the time in the other room where there was air-conditioning. They took pictures of Steven's 'uncensored' baby pictures. LOL. (As seen in this link here Steven exposed!  ) The two also managed to acquire new shirts from Steven's cabinet. Afterwards, the two went home. I did as well, after half an hour of playing the bass.

BEHOLD Steven Villegas!