Ganny

Pizzza liked a post in a topic by Ganny in Talk 27 Jun 2015

We're counting on you LL DON'T mess this up for us

LLmao ?✊? liked a post in a topic by Ganny in Talk 27 Jun 2015

We're counting on you LL DON'T mess this up for us

pheonix561 liked a post in a topic by Ganny in Talk 25 Jun 2015

But if Glenn Gould sits way down low and puts his face in the keys, why shouldn't I?

pheonix561 liked a post in a topic by Ganny in Talk 24 Jun 2015

A violin sings, but a fiddle dances.
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A violin has a brown neck, but a fiddle has a red neck.

(there's no difference)

I played violin on and off for a while, maybe eight years? and stayed at same skill level after the first couple of years, in part because my instructors pretty much just gave me things to try playing instead of teaching proper technique, and also because I was a kid who lacked the discipline to practice and didn't care too much about it anyway. They mostly tried to get me to play arrangements of popular music and scores from movies I hadn't seen, which wasn't great...

I didn't play at all during college, but ever since I came home for the summer, I've been idly practicing every day and working through some old exercise books. I've improved more in the past month grinding etudes and paying close attention to my technique than in maybe four years of spotty (admittedly on-and-off) instruction - it also helps that I've developed a greater appreciation for classical music since I stopped, and most (exercise-level, too) violin material is in that vein.

But man, every time I catch myself in the middle of a bad habit I think "man, why didn't they ever tell me not to do that?" and get frustrated because now I have to un-train it

big tip for self-practice: take a video of yourself playing, then watch it and you'll say "wow, THAT doesn't look right", then try to fix the thing

LLmao ?✊? liked a post in a topic by Ganny in Talk 24 Jun 2015

A violin sings, but a fiddle dances.
/
A violin has a brown neck, but a fiddle has a red neck.

(there's no difference)

I played violin on and off for a while, maybe eight years? and stayed at same skill level after the first couple of years, in part because my instructors pretty much just gave me things to try playing instead of teaching proper technique, and also because I was a kid who lacked the discipline to practice and didn't care too much about it anyway. They mostly tried to get me to play arrangements of popular music and scores from movies I hadn't seen, which wasn't great...

I didn't play at all during college, but ever since I came home for the summer, I've been idly practicing every day and working through some old exercise books. I've improved more in the past month grinding etudes and paying close attention to my technique than in maybe four years of spotty (admittedly on-and-off) instruction - it also helps that I've developed a greater appreciation for classical music since I stopped, and most (exercise-level, too) violin material is in that vein.

But man, every time I catch myself in the middle of a bad habit I think "man, why didn't they ever tell me not to do that?" and get frustrated because now I have to un-train it

big tip for self-practice: take a video of yourself playing, then watch it and you'll say "wow, THAT doesn't look right", then try to fix the thing

Ganny liked a post in a topic by LLmao ?✊? in Talk 24 Jun 2015

That's lame :< Keep trying

Also, I have had a violin for a while. I gave it to my dad because he wanted to learn how to play. He calls it the fiddle, though. I think the only difference is how far apart the strings are from the neck? If there is even any difference? Also, my dad has two of them. I will probably let him keep mine and see if I can use the less good one that he also owns.

But anyway, I dicked around with it for a while. I could only go so far with no actual instructor. So I kind of just stopped. But my friend played viola at Carnegie Hall and knows a lot about music. Actually three different people at my job are into music a lot. One of them plays brass, but his major is teaching music. My friend who plays viola is gonna give me lessons for FREEEEEEE. I'll try to pay her, though. I'm excited.

T1g liked a post in a topic by Ganny in American Cartoon About a Stack of Bears Is Appropriation with the Highest Degree of Gall 24 Jun 2015