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Music Stories
Oct. 21st, 2006 10:44 pmToday I jogged again, 18 minutes like last weekend. I watered my new plants. I went to guitar class and used the pick R. gave me.
And our instructor told us a story about when he was playing a gig back when he was first starting. For some reason he had decided that one of the tables was full of musicians, and he was pretty nervous. Afterwards he saw that they were communicating using sign language. He concluded that he would not trust vibes in the future. (Although they could have been hearing musicians who knew sign language--which I think is great for noisy places like bars and places where you're supposed to be quiet like performances--or deaf musicians, most likely percussionists.)
At a later performance he got the same vibe feeling but decided not to trust it. During the break someone explained that the person he felt a vibe about was Willy Nelson. During the second half, he still didn't feel nervous, though, because Willy was very appreciative.
This afternoon we went to a music and games party where people tried to play each other's musical instruments and a game based on a cartoon about people exploring a dungeon.
I also got to learn about a concertina. This is an accordion-like instrument with buttons on each side. The buttons on the different sides do different things from each other and also do different things when you're going in than when you're going out. You generally learn what the buttons mean in the outbound direction first. The owner knew everything going out and only half the things going in. The owner also explained that the buttons on the right made an accordion-like sound, but those on the left made a completely different sound. Someone else told me these instruments haven't been manufactured in decades.
My favorite player was a student playing the saxophone, especially during "Twilight Time." I also liked the concertina player, but he kept quitting in the middle of songs. There was a recorder duet that was nice, but not my favorite kind of music. Most people were just playing with other people's instruments. I least liked the trumpet being passed around. I most enjoyed a percussion instrument made of a handle on the end of a tube shaped like a giant spool of thread with chains going around the tube. I liked using this for a while, but then got bored with it because I couldn't do any intricate rhythms with it.
I showed off my ceramic recorder, but didn't play it--I played the theme from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" on my regular recorder. It's much harder to play on the ceramic recorder.
And our instructor told us a story about when he was playing a gig back when he was first starting. For some reason he had decided that one of the tables was full of musicians, and he was pretty nervous. Afterwards he saw that they were communicating using sign language. He concluded that he would not trust vibes in the future. (Although they could have been hearing musicians who knew sign language--which I think is great for noisy places like bars and places where you're supposed to be quiet like performances--or deaf musicians, most likely percussionists.)
At a later performance he got the same vibe feeling but decided not to trust it. During the break someone explained that the person he felt a vibe about was Willy Nelson. During the second half, he still didn't feel nervous, though, because Willy was very appreciative.
This afternoon we went to a music and games party where people tried to play each other's musical instruments and a game based on a cartoon about people exploring a dungeon.
I also got to learn about a concertina. This is an accordion-like instrument with buttons on each side. The buttons on the different sides do different things from each other and also do different things when you're going in than when you're going out. You generally learn what the buttons mean in the outbound direction first. The owner knew everything going out and only half the things going in. The owner also explained that the buttons on the right made an accordion-like sound, but those on the left made a completely different sound. Someone else told me these instruments haven't been manufactured in decades.
My favorite player was a student playing the saxophone, especially during "Twilight Time." I also liked the concertina player, but he kept quitting in the middle of songs. There was a recorder duet that was nice, but not my favorite kind of music. Most people were just playing with other people's instruments. I least liked the trumpet being passed around. I most enjoyed a percussion instrument made of a handle on the end of a tube shaped like a giant spool of thread with chains going around the tube. I liked using this for a while, but then got bored with it because I couldn't do any intricate rhythms with it.
I showed off my ceramic recorder, but didn't play it--I played the theme from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" on my regular recorder. It's much harder to play on the ceramic recorder.