feel better. thanks melv and daryl.
ima do better. work harder. i know i can. pray and keep the faith.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
in a mess....
im broke. im confused. i''m lost. im lazy. im unfit. im sick. im annoyed. im hungry. im bored. im unstable. im a wuss. im.... always moping around.
im trying to find the mood. for jazz. that extra bit more in the other band. being more trusted. more reliable. more open. hardworking. fun.
ive made changes. im bored. thats why. tired too. perhaps i could fall asleep immediately.
im trying to find the mood. for jazz. that extra bit more in the other band. being more trusted. more reliable. more open. hardworking. fun.
ive made changes. im bored. thats why. tired too. perhaps i could fall asleep immediately.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Worthwhile.....
Came across this article...
Being a musician is a pretty hard job. Firstly, the process usually starts when you’re in primary school, and you have to go through a very long period of “playing” something which, if truth be told, you can’t really make a very nice noise on. However, the noise gradually improves, and you eventually appeal to people other than your parents and your instrumental teacher.
But why are we just the absolute best?
The amount of time it takes us. Not many people would be prepared to put years and years of practice into their hobby. Musicians have to practice for anything upto 5 hours per day to make sure that they don’t lose their technique. This is true dedication.
We have to learn a new language. Unless you’re latin/french/italian/german all rolled into one, you probably couldn’t read musical terms before you started playing. At the back of any theory book, there are hundreds of these words that we have to learn just to make our music make sense. If we didn’t take the time to learn these words, your listening experience would be very dull indeed.
We can play complex music based upon where dots are placed on a couple of lines. If you’re not a musician and have ever actually seen a piece of music, you probably wondered how on Earth we could make sense of these notes. Right from being small, we have been taught that certain lines mean certain notes, and similar. Not only this, but we also have to read these dots very quickly, and the “colouring in” of the dot tells us how long to play it for, along with the type of stick. We also have to read a lot of foreign words at the same time to tell us how to play the notes.
If that isn’t hard enough, when we’re a bit more advanced, we come across clefs. Pianists will have been used to two of these, but will soon come to realise that they are never ending. Which clef happens to be present could change everything. And, we have to remember for the whole piece of music which clef it’s in, and somehow manage to play the right notes, remembering which notes sit on which line for this particular clef.
We bring people happiness. Whether it’s a drummer at a rock concert, or a brass band in a park, people enjoy music. The music industry would be nothing without the people who take the time to learn the ins and outs of music, and Simon Cowell would be living in a one bedroom apartment in a London backstreet. So, for all of you who have ever calld musicians “nerds” or “geeks”, remember that your world would be nothing without them.
We give children something to aim for. When I was a young child, just starting to play my instrument, I remember wondering whether it would all be worth it in the end. I used to search for videos on the internet of people who could oplay my instrument well, and I decided that if there was even the smallest amount of chance that I would one day be able to play like those people, that it would be well worth carrying on with it.
So, musicians are clearly a special breed of people. No matter what instrument we play, or to what standard, we are contributing to the music industry just the same, and will one day make some people truely happy. That’s something for all of us to be proud of, and work towards when we’re wondering whether it is worth the effort.
Hmmm... Worth the effort eh?
Being a musician is a pretty hard job. Firstly, the process usually starts when you’re in primary school, and you have to go through a very long period of “playing” something which, if truth be told, you can’t really make a very nice noise on. However, the noise gradually improves, and you eventually appeal to people other than your parents and your instrumental teacher.
But why are we just the absolute best?
The amount of time it takes us. Not many people would be prepared to put years and years of practice into their hobby. Musicians have to practice for anything upto 5 hours per day to make sure that they don’t lose their technique. This is true dedication.
We have to learn a new language. Unless you’re latin/french/italian/german all rolled into one, you probably couldn’t read musical terms before you started playing. At the back of any theory book, there are hundreds of these words that we have to learn just to make our music make sense. If we didn’t take the time to learn these words, your listening experience would be very dull indeed.
We can play complex music based upon where dots are placed on a couple of lines. If you’re not a musician and have ever actually seen a piece of music, you probably wondered how on Earth we could make sense of these notes. Right from being small, we have been taught that certain lines mean certain notes, and similar. Not only this, but we also have to read these dots very quickly, and the “colouring in” of the dot tells us how long to play it for, along with the type of stick. We also have to read a lot of foreign words at the same time to tell us how to play the notes.
If that isn’t hard enough, when we’re a bit more advanced, we come across clefs. Pianists will have been used to two of these, but will soon come to realise that they are never ending. Which clef happens to be present could change everything. And, we have to remember for the whole piece of music which clef it’s in, and somehow manage to play the right notes, remembering which notes sit on which line for this particular clef.
We bring people happiness. Whether it’s a drummer at a rock concert, or a brass band in a park, people enjoy music. The music industry would be nothing without the people who take the time to learn the ins and outs of music, and Simon Cowell would be living in a one bedroom apartment in a London backstreet. So, for all of you who have ever calld musicians “nerds” or “geeks”, remember that your world would be nothing without them.
We give children something to aim for. When I was a young child, just starting to play my instrument, I remember wondering whether it would all be worth it in the end. I used to search for videos on the internet of people who could oplay my instrument well, and I decided that if there was even the smallest amount of chance that I would one day be able to play like those people, that it would be well worth carrying on with it.
So, musicians are clearly a special breed of people. No matter what instrument we play, or to what standard, we are contributing to the music industry just the same, and will one day make some people truely happy. That’s something for all of us to be proud of, and work towards when we’re wondering whether it is worth the effort.
Hmmm... Worth the effort eh?
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