Have you played one of the little table harps or Bardic harps? I used to play one of the full-sized Celtic harps, but as my hands have crippled up with rheumatoid arthritis, that got too painful to bear. Last year my husband got me one of the little table harps, which I can hold on my knee to play. It doesn't sound as good, but my hands can manage.
If any of you have any tips for me, I would love to get back into it. Play some more stuff. Find that joy I used to get.
Anybody here play Cello? I do, it's such a wonderful instrument!
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Ohh, this is a thing here. No percussion instrument experience so far, but quite a lot of woodwind experience.
I've been playing the alto and baritone saxophone since P.4, and it's pretty enjoyable.
I don't know if this is standard in other countries or regions, but we were forced to learn the recorder in primary school, and I remember hating its sound because it just sounded so sharp and mechanical. You have not known hell until you listen to a whole class of 32 people play on squeaky recorders.
Welp. Hello there, fine People of the Internet.
I used to take piano lessons but stopped after I moved out of the country for 7.5 months and didn't have anything to practice with and my piano teacher moved just a few months after we came back. I tried to pick it up again but couldn't. I've been trying to teach myself guitar off-and-on but don't seem to be very good at it, though I'm going to try again once school is out for the summer (does anyone have tips for learning the guitar?). I played the clarinet through elementary school and into middle school but in 7th grade I switched to the bass clarinet which I now play. I would like to sing but can't sing on key and own a fife and an ocarina, neither of which I can play very well. I think that's everything?
For a guitar? Get a guitar that feels good in your hands. If you try them out in the music store, buy the one you tried, not another one. After that, it's like anything else. Practice practice practice.Thank you for the tip. :) (Gonna have to step up my game with the whole "practicing" part of it... I tend to forget to do important details like that... XD )
I played bass clarinet as a kid!
My favorite harpist is Gwen Knighton Raftery, of Three Weird Sisters, and Box of Fairies fame. (http://www.threeweirdsisters.com/discography.html) If you listen to anything by 3WS, listen to Iowa. ^-^
As highschool finished up however, I was pretty depressed from other things, and I got kinda burned out on all the music stuff I was doing. I slowly started dropping out of ensembles and various lessons and stopped signing up for things. I kind of overwhelmed myself and I regret that. There was a time when playing viola gave me so much joy, and I lost that. Now I am here trying to get that back.Ah eeeee sorry this took me forever to respond to even though I intended to weeks ago.
If any of you have any tips for me, I would love to get back into it. Play some more stuff. Find that joy I used to get.
Juniper, that definitely makes me want to smack your music department - way to put a kid off music! I'd say do it for yourself, that makes for good music and a happy soul.To be fair not everyone was like that, I'm still friends with a few people who were pretty supportive and had similar circumstances. I think I'd just fallen in with a crowd of people who were, idk, I don't even think they intended to be de-validating or they had malicious intentions, I think they didn't know what they were saying or doing had that affect on me, they mostly seemed to kinda have "big fish in a small pond" syndrome, it was a pretty small department, and I guess I was a small fish in a small pond ?
Ooooh, just spotted this thread, so I'll show up I guess.
I started with piano when I was reeeal little (I think my mom has a really funny picture of me using a toy piano when I was one lol) and have kept up with it until now, though I do more fake-booking and rhythmic piano than actual music reading. I started trombone in grade 6 too, and have kept up with that. I also play ukulele, and I teach recorder to a pretty crazy class of 3rd grade boys. Oh, and I also play drums.
I have music you can listen to at my bandcamp, https://dominiquecottrell.bandcamp.com/ (if you want to listen to pop music) and on my soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/dominique-cottrell-682109890 (if you want instrumentals). My originals aren't professional level or anything, but it's fun to write music so... yeah. I released my first album in 10th grade for my personal project, and music has sort of been trickling out since then.
Right now I'm kind of on hiatus because I'm taking exams and it's crazy, but usually I practice as a way to lose stress, etc.
Nice to meet you all!
Ooooh, just spotted this thread, so I'll show up I guess.
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I have music you can listen to at my bandcamp, https://dominiquecottrell.bandcamp.com/ (if you want to listen to pop music) and on my soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/dominique-cottrell-682109890 (if you want instrumentals). My originals aren't professional level or anything, but it's fun to write music so... yeah. I released my first album in 10th grade for my personal project, and music has sort of been trickling out since then.
Right now I'm kind of on hiatus because I'm taking exams and it's crazy, but usually I practice as a way to lose stress, etc.
Nice to meet you all!
Oooh, may I join the fun? :D
I'm primarily a vocalist, having sung chorally for the past three years in two singing groups, with musical theatre interspersed here and there, as that is likely my favorite thing to do. My favorite genres of music: show tunes, folk music, occasionally pop, k-pop, and...I guess a little bit of everything? But country. Country is regrettable almost entirely (with very few exceptions).
I have a ukulele who has been sorely neglected and needs some love. *glances wistfully to uke perch at top of bookshelf*
I'm also learning piano and conducting! Both rather slowly, but learning them nonetheless. In piano, I can read rather slowly in an easy key (working on reading with more and more accidentals in the key signature but ;__;). As far as conducting goes, I'm learning choral conducting more so than instrumental (I get the feeling there are some differences, including the baton and all that jazz) and can currently conduct in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/2, but learning how to subdivide the beats as well (which is more difficult).
Anyhow, since I'm only three years into this adventure, (have been doing musical theatre for seven years or so, but began that with virtually no theory knowledge and just listened to pitches until I could mimic them) I definitely have much to learn! But, gaining some more music literacy over the years has been really nice, as it has enabled me to both sing better and conduct musical conversations on chat with you lovely folks!
I'm also learning piano and conducting! Both rather slowly, but learning them nonetheless. In piano, I can read rather slowly in an easy key (working on reading with more and more accidentals in the key signature but ;__;). As far as conducting goes, I'm learning choral conducting more so than instrumental (I get the feeling there are some differences, including the baton and all that jazz) and can currently conduct in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/2, but learning how to subdivide the beats as well (which is more difficult).
... Someday, I'll be rich and make a new try for learning an instrument. Someday.Any idea on what new instrument you'd like to try and learn ?
(http://1.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/20/34/add14636ec1efa7b3d09b400ce56141c-wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-conductor.jpg)
Ahhh conducting I'm jealous !! I've never conducted anything but I've been kind of taught how to during lessons and gotten to hold one of my friend's conducting batons and wave it around a bit :3 but it also makes me think of this fun picture:
(http://1.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/20/34/add14636ec1efa7b3d09b400ce56141c-wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-conductor.jpg)
I'd like to hear this orchestra, conducted by the weird yellow thing(? is there a proper name?)
Speaking of marching band, (I saw someone say drum major) the Drumline tryouts were today, and I made it into pit! >snip!<
Go you!!! ;D I'm glad I noticed a new post when my browser opened, that's such great news. ^-^Hmm, I'm actually not too far from Ohio, just a few hour's dive away . . if nothing else it might be fun just to check out while visiting some pals in Ohio !
For a moment, I thought the Yellow Inflato-Conductor was a PaGAGnini skit. They would totally do that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmoYsHoYpZs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmoYsHoYpZs)
ADDENDUM: OBTW!! :D The Ohio Valley Filk Festival (OVFF) is beginning to see who is interested in attending, and performing in, the Sort-of-Annual "ChamberFilk," where (mostly) non-guitar instrumentalists practice and perform a set of Filk song airs. (Let's face it, it's hard to accompany yourself with a horn or woodwind while singing ;) .) It is considered a performance workshop covered by con membership. NOV 4-6, 2016 http://ovff.org/ovff32/workshops.html (http://ovff.org/ovff32/workshops.html)
If you are interested, they will try to send out rehearsal arrangements via a workspace.
Oops, gotta wrap....
Speaking of marching band, (I saw someone say drum major) the Drumline tryouts were today, and I made it into pit! I was hoping to get into pit because I like the keyboards better than snare, bass, or tenor , possibly maybe somewhat because of not having the pressure of the tempo and there are literally two snares. So I'm happy! Even though my hands were shaking so bad I couldn't play right, I still made it...
Congrats! My marching band never had much of a pit, but I saw some other bands pull it off really well! Do you know what kind of songs you'll be doing for the coming season?
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Then I have a different cat, it's kind of the same thing except with violin. .., Now whenever I play violin he sits at my feet and stares at me, except he doesn't purr instead he makes this whining meow every once in a while and if I put my bow down where he can reach it he either smacks at it or tries to bite it :c >snip!<
I've had several cats who responded to music. One I had as a little girl used to snuggle right up to me if I was singing, which was funny because he was normally a quite aloof catI think some animals just like music even if it something simple, I mean 'music tamed the savage beast' is probably a saying for a reason.
You need to sit him down and have The Catgut Talk, and reassure him (a) it's not really catgut, and (b) if it is, it's no one he knows.Mostly he needs to know his people's guts are actually apparently too small and weak to use for catgut strings. His tiny frail guts are safe :P
You need to sit him down and have The Catgut Talk, and reassure him (a) it's not really catgut, and (b) if it is, it's no one he knows.And c) if there's any catgut, it's the strings; the bow uses horse hair, if anything.
(On a more serious note, I'ld guess that the cat "blames" the bow because that's the part moving the most, and in sync with theYeah I've thought about that, I was wondering why it's just him though who has to make such a fuss about me playing the violin and not any of the other cats. I think it's just because as much as I love him he's a pretty whiny cat and has to make a fuss about everything :P he's one of those cats who will get mad if you're sleeping when he wants attention because "why are you sleeping instead of petting me !? Unacceptable !" or maybe just like people some noises are pleasant or acceptable to one cat but totally intolerable to another.musiccaterwascreecaudio experience to boot, of course.)
"Catgut" is short for "cattle gut" anyway. Cats were never used in the making of violins. They have been used in the making of shamisens, though not to make the strings, but rather the thin resonating membrane of the instrument.Yeahhh I made sure to look that up as soon as I started taking violin lessons and heard about catgut strings to make sure they weren't using actual kitty guts. That's interesting that cat parts have been used in another instrument though. Kind of like how the talons of birds of prey used to be used in the making of harpsichords (or more infamously how piano keys used to be made out of actual ivory) But then that makes me wonder, what drove people to just, take a cow's intestines and go "hmm yes, I'm going to string this over a wooden box and run some hairs from a horse's tail over it, I bet it'll make a neat sound." then again, people used to use animal parts more back before modern inventions and would actually use the whole animal instead of letting it go to waste, and I'm guessing they were more familiar with what parts could do what.
Oooh! Didn't know Wellman's stuff had bee set to music.If it's not available from Joe's website, I think Random Factors (http://www.random-factors.com/ (http://www.random-factors.com/) sorry, under renovation) sells his recordings as well as Leslie Fish. ;D
Does anyone else have animals who are very responsive to you playing your instrument ? I have a cat who's about 15
My ex's dog is very responsive to someone playing an instrument in her house. Usually, he responds by barking loudly at them until they stop.
I'm perhaps disproportionately :sparkle: infatuated :sparkle: with :sparkle: the :sparkle: hardingfele :sparkle: (one summer I made a habit of popping into a museum near my office just to stare at theirs, even behind glass with no one playing or anything) but they're so pretty :-* and sound amazing <3 and I also just enjoy reading about the different tunings, their names and when you're meant to use them and stuff (as a conventional violinist, multi-tunable violins feel like a Big Deal, lol.) So many strings, so overwhemingly beautiful, etc. <3 :-* :sparkle:
That' a wonderful quote, and I agree with all that you've said. It's something that I think non-musicians hear, but they don't exactly understand. I'm in a never-ending argument with my dad, who doesn't play music, to convince him that computers as they are just can't manufacture all the qualities of a well played piece of music. There's too much nuance to it, and things that the musicians do that they probably aren't even able to explain completely, and those little things really make the music. A computer, so far, can only do what you tell it to do, and I don't think we know enough about how and why music affects us to tell computers to do the right things. Anyway, rant over, I really liked that quote ;D
I ordered the sticker set and now my ukulele is SO PRETTY :)) :)) :)) <3Spoiler: look at how cute tuuri is. THE MOST CUTE • show
Awww that's adorable and some of my favorite sticker usage I've seen yet ! I also really love the color of your ukulele :D
Thank you! It was my one ukulele that doesn't crack when it's dry...
Oh, yikes D: I know I use a dampit on my violin during the winter, but I'm not sure if they're commonly used with ukuleles. Do you use a dampit with your ukuleles or have you considered using one ?
Honestly I don't even know what a dampit is :V I've left my main ukulele in the (slightly) more humid weather, but that's it for the measures I've taken. Can you like- buy a dampit on amazon? Would you recommend one?
Dampits are kind of hard to explain, they're kind of rubbery sponge ropes that you attach to the inside of your instrument that acts as a mini humidifier for it. Maybe once a week add more water to it. It's very important though to make sure you're not putting too much water in the dampit and over-humidifying your instrument and that you're consistent with when your re-dampen your dampit or else it'll end up doing more harm than good. You just gotta run it under the faucet for a few seconds then make sure you ring it out really well. I see stories on the internet of people complaining about dampits hurting their instruments from over-humidifying, but that's because they over-saturated it and weren't consistent. For me I always pick a specific day of the week to re-dampen my dampit to keep consistency. I think they come with instructions though about that stuff.
But yes I do recommend it :D they're super cheap too and you can totally get them off of amazon.
The marching season is finally over now that our schools football team lost a playoff game, and I have... I have this weird thing now called free time? I'm not sure what it is really, or how to use it. Most of the time I'll be trying to do something productive WHEN SUDDENLY one of our songs starts blaring full volume in my head. Even though we won't be playing them anymore. They'll probably just haunt me forever.
The marching season is finally over now that our schools football team lost a playoff game, and I have... I have this weird thing now called free time? I'm not sure what it is really, or how to use it. Most of the time I'll be trying to do something productive WHEN SUDDENLY one of our songs starts blaring full volume in my head. Even though we won't be playing them anymore. They'll probably just haunt me forever.
SAME. I was trying to do calculus in class today when suddenly our show just started playing in my head. Our football team is in the playoffs, but we're pretty much just focusing on the Veteran's Day and Christmas Parades at this point, and are done marching our show. We had a really great last show. I hit the tam tam really really hard. It was incredible.I'm in pit! All keyboard parts this year, though, because we had the honor guard play the cymbals and stuff. Our pit isn't that fancy though, 2 marimbas, 2 vibes, a set of bells, a bass (drum and a trumpet who doubles as a guitar player), and a bunch of cymbals. I've seen all these huge bands with timpanis and crotales and electric pianos. One band had two!
How long have you been marching? And do you do pit percussion, or march drumline or some other exciting possibility I've not yet considered?!
Yeah, tunes do haunt you forever. Not just musical and marching-band stuff either. A few years back I was part of a group performing in old folks' homes (yes, some of the clients were younger than I was), and I was a little shocked at how some of their song requests sparked memories - show tunes from the thirties and forties that I had heard my aunts singing when I was a really little kid.
The really odd thing was that those particular songs didn't come out in my usual rough folksinger/reciter voice, but in the much sweeter and smoother style in which my aunts used to sing them.
Music is very closely connected to memory, almost as much as smell is. You know how sometimes you'll smell something and be like "What is that? That smells so familiar..."? Thats because the olfactory lobe of the brain is very close to the hippocampus, that part which processes and replays memories. The part which processes sound is very close to the hippocampus as well. (sorry for just random trivia, just thought it was interesting :P)
All the time I'll have a song in my head, or be humming it when its a song that I last heard years ago and I don't even recognize it, I just have that music always with me. It's pretty cool, I think!
Music is very closely connected to memory, almost as much as smell is. You know how sometimes you'll smell something and be like "What is that? That smells so familiar..."? Thats because the olfactory lobe of the brain is very close to the hippocampus, that part which processes and replays memories. The part which processes sound is very close to the hippocampus as well. (sorry for just random trivia, just thought it was interesting :P)
All the time I'll have a song in my head, or be humming it when its a song that I last heard years ago and I don't even recognize it, I just have that music always with me. It's pretty cool, I think!
They probably will haunt you forever. I can still hum the tunes to marching band shows I played six years ago. Not that I mind ;D
YAY, other percussionists! And *gasp* Roisin, someone else finally knows what a bodhrán is!!! I’ve never played one but have always wanted to (and I LOVE the sound).
I am absolutely in love with percussion, my favorite instrument to play being the classic: timpani. I’m also very psyched at being taught how to do the tambourine thumb roll thing (should really find out what that’s called). Overall, the most best thing about percussion (gosh, I’ve said that word so many times here) is that there’s just INFINITELY many instruments to learn!! You could know how to play all the ones in your Highschool cabinet but there’s still be hundreds of other drums to learn to play.
Well, that was a bit all over the place, but yeah! Music yayy
Forgot to mention: I also dabble in Ukulele and enjoy it greatly
Alkia, if you are ever in South Australia on a last Saturday of the month, you would be welcome to one of my monthly music nights. We have several percussionists, a few singers, a mandolin and whistle player (who is also, like me, a teller of folktales), plus whoever else comes by with whatever instruments. I can no longer play my big harp, my hands are too damaged, but my friend Liz can play it, as well as guitar and that little spindle-shaped Arabic drum, the name of which I forget. And although she can’t often get there (she travels a lot), one of my sisters plays ukulele.ahh, this sounds SO fun!! I'm more used to classical, indoor rehearsal spaces, so this more casual-sounding thing sounds great (also, !!folktales!! Never enough old stories *glances at book shelf dedicated to fables and myths from too many cultures*). Also, when you say whistle, you mean tin whistle, right? (I'm trying to get more into Celtic music because, well, I really love it!)
There are heaps of bodhrán players among the folk clubs here, and at any festival you can find people willing to show you how (and I daresay a vendor or two to set you up with your very own!). I may be considering learning myself. Yet another reason to come to NZ.If I'm ever in the Southern Hemisphere, I'm going to make sure to get to New Zealand and South Australia!
woa, I didn't know bodhrans varied in size like that!
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Just one percussion instrument can be very versatile indeed. It looks kind of simple, but is anything but!
I totally didn’t understand anything the guy in the green shirt said :D I could just about make out it’s probably English of some kind. :lalli:
Ugly stick? Hmm. Does it sound anything like a lagerphone? So called because the upright stick is studded with beer bottle caps, and makes an interesting noise when another stick is drawn across it. Common in Australian bush bands, and sometimes found in jug bands.they're definitely very similar, although the lagerphone sounds more, hmm, tambourine like? to my ears.
I was at the beach today and I saw the remnants of a bird carcass washed up in the waves and my brain immediately jumped into poetry mode except this time it decided to put it to a melody. And I recorded it. It's only about 10 seconds long, and I cannot guarantee that my singing is any good, but it isn't awful, and there are appropriate crow noises at the end if you listen hard enough (the crows' contribution, not mine).oo, that sounds like an excellent start to a possibly longer song!
https://soundcloud.com/user-621540133/dead-bird
oo, that sounds like an excellent start to a possibly longer song!
*percussion nerd rant mode on*
today as a band assignment, I watched a two hour long video about Percussion!! And it was actually really fun!!!! My personal highlights of new knowledge:
- So many fun percussion words like paradiddle, paradiddlediddle, zzot, ratamascue, flam, and pataflafla
- Learned there's at least 26 drum rudiments to learn (thats a loooot)
- who knew there were so many different ways to play a triangle? or a tambourine?
- apparently the chimes part in the 1812 overture is never loud enough
- even if you're not interested in watching the whole demonstration thing (which i wouldn't blame you for, I only did it for school and found it interesting after I started. Never mind how darn long it is :))), there's a very cool performance at 1:34:20
Anyways, for anyone who's interested enough, here 'tis the video:
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Every year at the NZ National Contest for brass bands (well, not this year) there is also a solo competition, with musicians competing within their instrument (cornet, baritone, euphonium, etc), and percussionists have to present three different apparatuses. Then there is a Champion of Champions event, with the top soloists for each instrument competing against one another.Woah, that's so cool with the snare! one of of the delightful things about percussion iS that it's so very versatile; you can use almost anything (like not using only the snare head, but also the surroundings and other parts of the instrument). Heh, that does sound quite vexing to the brass players, though (especially if she's training for the medical field, not to be a musician-- she's got talent for that only being a hobby!)
The brass band Champion of Champions over the last few years has often been a percussionist (much to the chagrin of all those *brass* players). She usually contests CoC on marimba, but once I saw her do a full 8-minute piece on a single snare drum, using the drum, frame, floor, drumsticks, and her own body. She is not a music professional, she's in med school.
Percussion rules.
Woah, that's so cool with the snare! one of of the delightful things about percussion iS that it's so very versatile; you can use almost anything (like not using only the snare head, but also the surroundings and other parts of the instrument). Heh, that does sound quite vexing to the brass players, though (especially if she's training for the medical field, not to be a musician-- she's got talent for that only being a hobby!)
in other news: i found an old harmonica, and have decided that learning how to play it can be my new quarantine past time!
😱I'm shook! that's sO cool!!!!!! I love the, is that bongos?, percussion!! and the strings and flute melody!!!! aaAH!!!!!! Don't hide, I want more XoX
What Alkia said! That is lovely!
It's a really lovely piece of music!
I hereby promise to come back and listen to these after the "live" streaming of the Australian brass band championship is over.
I am no musician so I can only comment as a listener: very beautiful!
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I never know how to start posts...
Anyway: I managed to finish my first complete song today/yesterday technically, shh/ - a feet I am actually really proud of:
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/we81eg2f5y3p0kd/Life.mp3?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/we81eg2f5y3p0kd/Life.mp3?dl=0) <<<
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I've been taking advantage of being stuck at home to reteach myself guitar. Though I suppose "reteaching" might be generous, since I only knew the most basic of songs and about 4 chords. I've been planning on practicing piano more, but since I used to practice at around 9pm and that's around when my mother goes to bed, that's sort of not exactly gone as planned. I also finally got my hands on a(n incredibly cheap but decent sounding!) bass clarinet, but who knows when I'll have space to play it in. The struggles of living with so many people in the house is that there's no good time to practice instruments.i can commiserate with wanting to practice late at night, but not being able to because your family is asleep (why must musical inspiration strike just before i want to go to bed?!)! that's exciting with the bass clarinet, though!! yay new instrument acquisitions
Oh, this is a thread that exists! Great!thank you!! and yayy, fellow ukulele player!! (i guess it is a fairly common instrument to learn)
Alkia, that song is so beautiful and calming! Your friend´s voice truly is beautiful, and the ukulele-strumming fits to it very well!
I too play the ukulele, I started to teach myself about a year ago, but never really got to any complicated strumming-patterns. I still enjoy it very much though, and will play it at any possible and impossible time. What that brought me so far was being officialy forbidden to play past 11pm on a weekday and past midnight on a weekend by my parents. Whoops...
yes, i do miss that too!! playing in groups, being able to follow what other are doing in the music, having a conductor-- though I think the thing I miss most about playing in a big group is being surrounded by live music. It's so cool to be in the middle of all those beautiful sounds, and to contribute to the piece of music they make together.
And let me join you in the more or less serious complaining:
I can luckily play all the instruments I play at home (ukulele and violin), but especially with the violin I really miss playing with other people. I can with my dad, but I personally think it´s the most fun to play in really big groups. I´m not much of a solist, I prefer it when multiple people are able to play the same voice and sort of keep each other on track, while still having the experience of many different voices and instruments to be heard without the pressure of having to get everything totally right.
That´s why I was playing in two orchestras before the entire pandemic-thing started. At this point, one of them is allowed to practice again at least (but without wind instruments), and a friend of mine from the other orchestra (who I´ve been playing together with in various orchestras since primary school) joined this one now too so we can play together again!yay, orchestra!! i guess the upside of stringed instruments is that you can play them without spewing air all over the place (not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that wind instruments are not suited for a pandemic)
Just the one (occasionally for specific projects two) choir(s) I´m in are not allowed to practice anymore and probably won´t for a good while longer.
Of course there are much worse things to be missing, but music is and has always been a big part of my life, so I do miss it quite a bit.
Anyway, may you have access to your percussion instruments very soon again!
yes, i do miss that too!! playing in groups, being able to follow what other are doing in the music, having a conductor-- though I think the thing I miss most about playing in a big group is being surrounded by live music. It's so cool to be in the middle of all those beautiful sounds, and to contribute to the piece of music they make together.
yay, orchestra!! i guess the upside of stringed instruments is that you can play them without spewing air all over the place (not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that wind instruments are not suited for a pandemic)It is really an upside. A shame though that I probably won´t see the members of my orchestras who usually play the wind instruments´ solos for the forseeable future.
that's too bad about the choir, though. I hope that that will be resolved somehow and you can get back to singing!
I so much miss singing! Especially with friends. I love to sing.It's a pity that singing over video/audio chat doesn't work very well. My friends and I have tried it and it always ends in chaos (and laughter).