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I won the digital piano. I've decided that the keyboard needs a home other than my dining room table, so I bought a relatively cheap stand for it. (I'm not even sure if my table is stressed to hold it because it's 50 pounds. However, I hope that the table can hold it because I'd like to hook it up to my laptop.) Now my challenge is to clear a spot for it. I have a plan that I hope will work, but it'll require a lot of work on my part. I need to spend most of my time this weekend moving and clearing stuff. Both the stand and keyboard have shipped, so I have a pretty tight deadline.
I also want to have the laptop's sound card fixed, so I'm likely to be off of LJ for the next few days.
I'm trying to figure out how I want to manage my time this fall. I have some work to do before I take private voice lessons--mainly practice sight-reading, but I've come up with a whole list of ways that I can improve my voice without having a teacher. There is a local adult education class in group voice, and I'm wondering if I should take it. In order to practice and check my sight-reading, I need to be able to read music on the keyboard. (I wish that I remembered how I learned to sight-read in the first place!) There's also an adult education class in beginning piano/keyboards, and I'm wondering if I should do that too, but that's sounding like too much. The class time doesn't worry me so much as the practice time. I still have a little time to figure out what I'm going to do.
I had a small moment of triumph with the guitar. I was messing around with it, and it sounded to me like one of the strings was really off tune. However, I didn't have the tuner yet to check. When I got the tuner, I checked, and sure enough, the string was really off. I'm pleased that I was able to hear that. I'm looking forward to the classes. I've contacted the guitar teacher, but apparently he's been out because of a new baby. He said that he'd get back to me soon.
I've been enjoying the guitar CDs. The flamenco music is fun; it's perfect driving music (preferably if you have someone waiting for you at your destination!) I've also been enjoying the more classical classical guitar music (as it were); some of the music is so beautiful that it rips me up. A lot of it doesn't match my idea of what a guitar sounds like, so I'm getting a good education. That started me thinking about other stringed instruments and how cool it it would be to learn to play the harp too....no, no, no, so far, I've been quelling myself. However, I did spring for a couple of harp CDs, and a flute and harp combo CD, to educate myself about the harp as well.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
protozoa was writing about the soundtrack of his life. Mine has always tended toward torch songs/blues. It's heading in an interesting direction now!
The music and some of the material that I've been reading about singing got me thinking about resonance, both the physical phenomenon and what we mean when we say something has resonance to us. It seems like good fodder for writing; now I just need to take the time to write. It's ironic that I always find the time to write about the inconsequential (most of my journal entries), but, over the past few years, most of the time that I've had an idea that was worth exploring, I haven't found or taken the time, or made the emotional commitment. That has got to stop. Life is to be lived.
I also want to have the laptop's sound card fixed, so I'm likely to be off of LJ for the next few days.
I'm trying to figure out how I want to manage my time this fall. I have some work to do before I take private voice lessons--mainly practice sight-reading, but I've come up with a whole list of ways that I can improve my voice without having a teacher. There is a local adult education class in group voice, and I'm wondering if I should take it. In order to practice and check my sight-reading, I need to be able to read music on the keyboard. (I wish that I remembered how I learned to sight-read in the first place!) There's also an adult education class in beginning piano/keyboards, and I'm wondering if I should do that too, but that's sounding like too much. The class time doesn't worry me so much as the practice time. I still have a little time to figure out what I'm going to do.
I had a small moment of triumph with the guitar. I was messing around with it, and it sounded to me like one of the strings was really off tune. However, I didn't have the tuner yet to check. When I got the tuner, I checked, and sure enough, the string was really off. I'm pleased that I was able to hear that. I'm looking forward to the classes. I've contacted the guitar teacher, but apparently he's been out because of a new baby. He said that he'd get back to me soon.
I've been enjoying the guitar CDs. The flamenco music is fun; it's perfect driving music (preferably if you have someone waiting for you at your destination!) I've also been enjoying the more classical classical guitar music (as it were); some of the music is so beautiful that it rips me up. A lot of it doesn't match my idea of what a guitar sounds like, so I'm getting a good education. That started me thinking about other stringed instruments and how cool it it would be to learn to play the harp too....no, no, no, so far, I've been quelling myself. However, I did spring for a couple of harp CDs, and a flute and harp combo CD, to educate myself about the harp as well.
protozoa was writing about the soundtrack of his life. Mine has always tended toward torch songs/blues. It's heading in an interesting direction now!The music and some of the material that I've been reading about singing got me thinking about resonance, both the physical phenomenon and what we mean when we say something has resonance to us. It seems like good fodder for writing; now I just need to take the time to write. It's ironic that I always find the time to write about the inconsequential (most of my journal entries), but, over the past few years, most of the time that I've had an idea that was worth exploring, I haven't found or taken the time, or made the emotional commitment. That has got to stop. Life is to be lived.
