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Jul. 31st, 2008 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metztlimoonMy recorders arrived today.
YAY. Descant, tenor and treble :)
So yeah, it may be a sucky school instrument with virtually zero kudos, but if I can make nice noises - who the fuck cares? Once they have finished filming a Hovis advert in the street outside (no, really they are, there are people in period costume marching up and down the street, we get a couple of film crews a year) I'm going into town to try and find some appropriate music to get back into this.
And a vacuum cleaner and some step ladders. But that's not connected.
Heh- 2 days ago I was miserable as sin. Today I'm full of motivation to tidy stuff up and learn to play again. My head- it worries me sometimes.
YAY. Descant, tenor and treble :)
Why recorders, you may ask.
Well, although they have a rather negative connotation (hoards of off key squeeky kids) they are a great folk instrument for playing at LARP and the like, and I actually used to be quite good.
I don't mean like super brilliant good - never really had the desire to Master an instrument to those levels (which requires a passion I lack for most things)- and probably , given the dyspraxia, not sure I could have stuck it anyway. (Actually, if I'd known about the dyspraxia stuff back then maybe I 'd not have felt so shit compared to the other kids who were very very good County / National musicians with a distinct talent for music in *all* ways.)
But anyway, I was better than your average 'blow and see what happens'.
After a gap of a vast number of years, it may seem a little odd to be doing this. However, there are several reasons.
1) After I did my finger in, and it was looking like I might not get the use back, it struck me that for ages I'd been meaning to get back into it- so I told myself I was going to relearn anyhow- as it turned out the finger is mostly fully functional so I have NO excuse.
2) I have a few friends who play instruments and do a lot of singing at LRP events- it's great fun, I miss playing in a group. Learning a new instrument would take me a long time, but picking up something that I did for ten years- hopefully it will come back to me. And who needs to be brilliant to play along or kick off some familiar songs? Somehow I don't think the fact I fail at sight reading is going to be relevant there.
3) Back then I always wondered why it was so much harder for me to get the fingering, music reading and tempo all together than everyone else. Now I know why, I can forgive. I also have more patience, and the joy of being able to pick my own stuff. I can write fingerings all over my music without feeling like a fraud, and happily say- sorry, I really need to HEAR something before I can play it, coz my timing sucks- this is why-, but then I'll be fine!
4) I never learned how to play the Treble back then, the different fingerings flummoxed me, and I had no reason to learn because there were others who could do it better. Now I reckon I have the patience, and frankly, just me. Also, going into teaching, it might be something to throw at the useful extra curricular activities list.
5) Yeah, 5 is an EDIT, but Playing a wind instrument again will also help massively with my breathing. And it's something to put in my mouth that isn't a cigarette.
Well, although they have a rather negative connotation (hoards of off key squeeky kids) they are a great folk instrument for playing at LARP and the like, and I actually used to be quite good.
I don't mean like super brilliant good - never really had the desire to Master an instrument to those levels (which requires a passion I lack for most things)- and probably , given the dyspraxia, not sure I could have stuck it anyway. (Actually, if I'd known about the dyspraxia stuff back then maybe I 'd not have felt so shit compared to the other kids who were very very good County / National musicians with a distinct talent for music in *all* ways.)
But anyway, I was better than your average 'blow and see what happens'.
After a gap of a vast number of years, it may seem a little odd to be doing this. However, there are several reasons.
1) After I did my finger in, and it was looking like I might not get the use back, it struck me that for ages I'd been meaning to get back into it- so I told myself I was going to relearn anyhow- as it turned out the finger is mostly fully functional so I have NO excuse.
2) I have a few friends who play instruments and do a lot of singing at LRP events- it's great fun, I miss playing in a group. Learning a new instrument would take me a long time, but picking up something that I did for ten years- hopefully it will come back to me. And who needs to be brilliant to play along or kick off some familiar songs? Somehow I don't think the fact I fail at sight reading is going to be relevant there.
3) Back then I always wondered why it was so much harder for me to get the fingering, music reading and tempo all together than everyone else. Now I know why, I can forgive. I also have more patience, and the joy of being able to pick my own stuff. I can write fingerings all over my music without feeling like a fraud, and happily say- sorry, I really need to HEAR something before I can play it, coz my timing sucks- this is why-, but then I'll be fine!
4) I never learned how to play the Treble back then, the different fingerings flummoxed me, and I had no reason to learn because there were others who could do it better. Now I reckon I have the patience, and frankly, just me. Also, going into teaching, it might be something to throw at the useful extra curricular activities list.
5) Yeah, 5 is an EDIT, but Playing a wind instrument again will also help massively with my breathing. And it's something to put in my mouth that isn't a cigarette.
So yeah, it may be a sucky school instrument with virtually zero kudos, but if I can make nice noises - who the fuck cares? Once they have finished filming a Hovis advert in the street outside (no, really they are, there are people in period costume marching up and down the street, we get a couple of film crews a year) I'm going into town to try and find some appropriate music to get back into this.
And a vacuum cleaner and some step ladders. But that's not connected.
Heh- 2 days ago I was miserable as sin. Today I'm full of motivation to tidy stuff up and learn to play again. My head- it worries me sometimes.
