I’ve been playing a bunch of games on iPad. Stevie gets free apps from Starbucks, and Apple puts out a free app every week, so I’ve been able to mostly snag games for free the last few months.

The only game I’ve shelled out for was Bastion. I was eyeing it for a long time. When it went on sale for only a dollar, I bought it without hesitation. Not only is the game fantastic, it has excellent music. The publisher put the sheet music (piano and guitar) on their website for free. As of now, I’ve pretty much memorized Zulf’s song. I can sing and play piano at the same time.

Before that, I learned Bruno Mars’s When I Was Your Man and (part of) Muse’s Explorers. Those songs I learned via YouTube rather than sheet music. It’s amazing how many free piano tutorials there are. This kind of stuff is new to me, since I’ve mostly stuck to classical music. Even though I’ve played some jazz and some Disney — by the way, Gaston is the greatest song ever — I haven’t done much singing. I’ve also learned that my singing range is balls.

The next song to learn is Setting Sail, Coming Home from the Bastion soundtrack, and do it as a duet with Stevie. The piano rhythm’s more complicated than previous pieces I’ve tried to sing with. It’ll be quite the challenge.