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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject:
I wish! right now, I can sort of play Mary Had a Little Lamb, Bile Dem Cabbage Down, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and am working on Amazing Grace and some other song, I think its called "Ida Red", if I can read my fiddle teachers writing.
it will be a long while before I am actually awesome. gonna take lots of hard work. I am willing to do what it takes though.
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:38 am Post subject:
I didn't like it!
Nowdays I play the bass guitar, which I'd be quite good at if I took the time to practice - infact, not more excuses. I'm going to start today!
(although bear in mind I've been saying that for well over a year now! :s) _________________ Let's all google bomb scientology!!!
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 15983 Local time: 2:47 AM Location: Denver Colorado.
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:
Strafio wrote:
I didn't like it!
Nowdays I play the bass guitar, which I'd be quite good at if I took the time to practice - infact, not more excuses. I'm going to start today!
(although bear in mind I've been saying that for well over a year now! :s)
the cello sounds like a hard instrument to play. I mean the fiddle isn't easy, so imagining a HUGE fiddle, whew! they sound pretty though.
did you dislike the cello because of its difficulty or because it doesn't really fit the genre of music you prefer?
I like the fiddle both because its pretty sounding, and is played often in country and various folk music, as well as classical, all of which I like. its also not as hard as I thought it was going to be.
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 10:13 am Post subject:
It was a bit of both.
It was basically a case that I was about 8 years old and was at the time when the parent encourages a child to pick an instrument to learn, and I almost arbitrarily chose the Cello. I sort of liked the music I was playing, but not enough to put the effort in and naturally my mother wasn't going to stand for that and used to force me to practice...
When I finally decided to have the courage to give it up, it felt like such a relief!
I think it's perhaps a bit easier to play than the Violin in some ways, that although you have to stretch your fingers a little more but it's not as fiddly either. You also get to sit down rather than having to hold the thing to your chin!
The Bass Guitar is a lot easier with its Frets and with the strings being closer in tone so you don't have to move up and down the neck so much, but when I get a lot better at the Fretted one I'm thinking of getting a frettless, and maybe even try a proper double bass.
Perhaps the Cello just wasn't big enough for me! _________________ Let's all google bomb scientology!!!
Maybe you should work with them and blow those old fashioned electric guitars out of the water.
Infact I can already see the headlines; hillbillyatheist feat. Apocalyptica goes triple platinum. _________________ "God is an invention of Man. So the nature of God is a shallow mystery. The deep mystery is the nature of man." - Nanrei Kobori
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
Maybe you should work with them and blow those old fashioned electric guitars out of the water.
Infact I can already see the headlines; hillbillyatheist feat. Apocalyptica goes triple platinum.
well I'd prefer to make it big in country music, but nothing says I couldn't do some kickass stuff with this cello band! pipe-dreams make life worth living don't they?
Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 15983 Local time: 2:47 AM Location: Denver Colorado.
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:
Strafio wrote:
It was a bit of both.
It was basically a case that I was about 8 years old and was at the time when the parent encourages a child to pick an instrument to learn, and I almost arbitrarily chose the Cello. I sort of liked the music I was playing, but not enough to put the effort in and naturally my mother wasn't going to stand for that and used to force me to practice...
When I finally decided to have the courage to give it up, it felt like such a relief!
yeah your mom made it into a chore which turned you off to it. for me it was the opposite. I always wanted to play something but when I was a kid all I had was a very shitty pawnshop guitar that wasn't worth the wood it was made out of. I tried too learn some chords on it but the action was so high I couldn't do anything with it and gave up. I have since tried learning the guitar again, but with a better one and it's just not my thing. I have started he fiddle and I love it. I have found my musical home with the fiddle.
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I think it's perhaps a bit easier to play than the Violin in some ways, that although you have to stretch your fingers a little more but it's not as fiddly either. You also get to sit down rather than having to hold the thing to your chin!
the violin isn't easy and takes practice but I don't have to move my hand at all. I can go up two octaves and then a few notes more with my hand in the same position.
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The Bass Guitar is a lot easier with its Frets and with the strings being closer in tone so you don't have to move up and down the neck so much, but when I get a lot better at the Fretted one I'm thinking of getting a frettless, and maybe even try a proper double bass.
Perhaps the Cello just wasn't big enough for me!
frets make it easier at first but then I deal with the lack of frets with a sticker on the fingerboard to tell me where the notes are. I will soon be able to hit the notes without the sticker. it just takes practice.
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:
hillbillyatheist wrote:
I wish! right now, I can sort of play Mary Had a Little Lamb, Bile Dem Cabbage Down, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and am working on Amazing Grace and some other song, I think its called "Ida Red", if I can read my fiddle teachers writing.
What, no Yellow Rose 'o Texas?! _________________ "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
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Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 15983 Local time: 2:47 AM Location: Denver Colorado.
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:
Unbeliever wrote:
hillbillyatheist wrote:
I wish! right now, I can sort of play Mary Had a Little Lamb, Bile Dem Cabbage Down, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and am working on Amazing Grace and some other song, I think its called "Ida Red", if I can read my fiddle teachers writing.
What, no Yellow Rose 'o Texas?!
not yet. it's certainly a song I plan to learn though.
Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 2557 Local time: 12:47 AM Location: The exact center of my observable universe
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:
I played a fiddle as a kid - well, a viola, which is very similar. So I've some idea of the fun you must be having! _________________ "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
Akhenaton?( c. B.P. 1575)
Science is a lighthouse,
Faith is the rocks below.
God Not Found - resources for atheist/agnostics
"the universe is under no obligation to be easy for us to comprehend."
moloth
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