(no subject)
Dec. 24th, 2009 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI think I mentioned that I'm getting into music lately.
Last night, I tuned up my guitar again and played the three songs I have the chords printed out for. Then I fired up the theremin and played the whole Dark Side of the Moon whileaccompanying attempting to accompany it. (Boy were my arms sore after that!)
Then, this morning, I went back out to Goodwill to pick up something I saw yesterday and wanted to do more research on. I have a Casio LK-100 complete with stand, and I got it cheap. The power supply was missing so I was concerned that it might not work, but I found a Belkin 2 port KVM power supply that fits it perfectly and it fires right up.
I decided a little while ago, after reading about music theory and chord formation, that I wanted a keyboard. Chords can be really tricky to learn on a guitar, especially if you're working outside the key of C. On a keyboard though, you basically just learn the layout and apply math to form chords. A root, a third a fifth. Boom.
There are some things I've always wanted to be able to play on a piano. Well, that goes for a guitar too, but I'm not sure how realistic some of those things are on a guitar. But on a piano...maybe I'll finally be able to teach myself to play my single all time favorite piece of music; Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. You know, I might even teach myself to read music.
I know what you're thinking...the dog is getting ahead of himself again. Maybe. For me, having a new interest is like having Paul Erdős as a house guest. He shows up, collaborates on some project until he feels like he's done, then leaves. But I was talking to Moira about that last night. If I don't keep investigating the things that interest me, however briefly, just because it may not last forever, then I'm missing out on a great deal of joy and wonder and possibility in my life. So if music is what my brain is pushing me toward right now, music it will be!
Though actually, I'd be in Gary photographing today if it wasn't for the fact that my car really shouldn't go that far right now....
============
Just for fun, here's Clementine the Cow, the mascot of the departed Kiddieland amusement park. (I almost wrote Harmilda the Cow, but that's a whole other friendly bovine.)
Clementine the Cow at Kiddieland
It's funny what pictures get views and which don't. One of my favorites from the whole trip, a shot of the little steam locomotive coming around the bend with whistle screaming and blasts of steam rising overhead has one view. Clementine here is up to fifteen already. Not that I begrudge her the popularity; it's just a little inexplicable to me sometimes.
Last night, I tuned up my guitar again and played the three songs I have the chords printed out for. Then I fired up the theremin and played the whole Dark Side of the Moon while
Then, this morning, I went back out to Goodwill to pick up something I saw yesterday and wanted to do more research on. I have a Casio LK-100 complete with stand, and I got it cheap. The power supply was missing so I was concerned that it might not work, but I found a Belkin 2 port KVM power supply that fits it perfectly and it fires right up.
I decided a little while ago, after reading about music theory and chord formation, that I wanted a keyboard. Chords can be really tricky to learn on a guitar, especially if you're working outside the key of C. On a keyboard though, you basically just learn the layout and apply math to form chords. A root, a third a fifth. Boom.
There are some things I've always wanted to be able to play on a piano. Well, that goes for a guitar too, but I'm not sure how realistic some of those things are on a guitar. But on a piano...maybe I'll finally be able to teach myself to play my single all time favorite piece of music; Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. You know, I might even teach myself to read music.
I know what you're thinking...the dog is getting ahead of himself again. Maybe. For me, having a new interest is like having Paul Erdős as a house guest. He shows up, collaborates on some project until he feels like he's done, then leaves. But I was talking to Moira about that last night. If I don't keep investigating the things that interest me, however briefly, just because it may not last forever, then I'm missing out on a great deal of joy and wonder and possibility in my life. So if music is what my brain is pushing me toward right now, music it will be!
Though actually, I'd be in Gary photographing today if it wasn't for the fact that my car really shouldn't go that far right now....
============
Just for fun, here's Clementine the Cow, the mascot of the departed Kiddieland amusement park. (I almost wrote Harmilda the Cow, but that's a whole other friendly bovine.)
Clementine the Cow at Kiddieland
It's funny what pictures get views and which don't. One of my favorites from the whole trip, a shot of the little steam locomotive coming around the bend with whistle screaming and blasts of steam rising overhead has one view. Clementine here is up to fifteen already. Not that I begrudge her the popularity; it's just a little inexplicable to me sometimes.
