[VIDEO] Me and My Cajon: Cover Your Ears Like A Kid

SO.

I'm now playing the cajon. LOL!

Where.

WHERE can you find such a musically gifted woman like me?

Just a little backgrounder, I have always wanted to learn to play drums since I saw the movie That Thing You Do in 1996. I was in 6th grade then (yes, I'm that old). It was a time when my parents set a limit to which whims of mine they gave in to because:

1) no money, and
2) walang karapatang maging spoiled

A drum set was expensive and I can't possibly play it in our neighborhood without earning a subpoena from the barangay hall. So I let that go and just settled for rock band drum games at the arcade (#kawawa).

In college, a friend and I watched an underground acoustic band and that was the first time I was introduced to the existence of the cajon. I immediately got one as soon as I went home for the holidays. It costs way cheaper than a drum set and is less noisy (papa really insists it's all just noise *sad face*), so my parents hesitantly approved. But since I've bought it, I have only been able to use it maybe five times. Everytime I tried to play it I'd get reprimanded for disturbing the peace. :) One time, my mama was singing videoke and I took the cajon out and accompanied the songs...and I got shooed away. Hahaha! Okay.

Since then, the cajon was left to collect dust in the attic.

But recently I've been watching AlDub's videos (yes, I'm a fan, too) and I saw one of Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza) playing drums. The wave of pent up frustrations flooded my whole being and suddenly I had an urge to hit something. Anything. And voila! My cajon was there, waiting like a loyal lover.

These days I've also been watching dance choreographies on Youtube and I loved this video by 1Million Dance Studio. That's how I knew about Pentatonix, and when I reunited with my cajon, La La Latch was the first song that came to mind.

SO. I know you're all excited (lol) so I won't make you wait any longer. May I present, my first full cajon performance. I know I look so macho so please just try to concentrate on the song? I already covered my face so you won't get too horrified distracted.

P.S. How cute is my dog Max? He is obviously my [only] fan. Haha.