Here it is, I've had this blog up and running for just over a week and the only one who has visited the site is my wife, and she didn't post a comment. Although we have a running commentary at home. I know the content is esoteric and not aimed at any group that I would want to belong. So, why don't I just rationalize and say, "This is a test to see if I could post and play in blogagog. So welcome to the playground". I can work with that definition.
For fiddle content. I've just gotten under my hat and fingers all the tunes in a 20 song Irish set. I play with a group named "Celtic Ties". There are three of us in the group. I'm on fiddle. Hollis a multi-instrumentalist is on penny whistle, mountain Dulcimer, hammer dulcimer, concertina, banjo, and guitar. Ed plays Bodrhan and bowed psalter. We are playing coffee houses, museums, weddings, schools and retirement villas all very tame venues. No vocals yet but we will be workin' them in.
Calluses on your thumb, stiff fingers and hands, mind numbing practice, horse hair and pine tar, ebony and spruce, fretless intonation, lilt and swing, joy and embarrassment, diminished scale and rhythm changes never enough practice time, more than a lifetime of learning.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
To publish a video blog using a how to book has got to be one of the most convoluted journeys I have been on recently. The directions, contrary to the writer of this how to book, are written in a dialect uncommon to most English speaking travelers and written by guides who have been over the ground but cannot and should not attempt technical writing. Assume you are guiding a blind and deaf beggar when you take on the task of writing an "easy guide" to video blogging. You have sent me over a cliff. Lucky for me there was a branch I was able to grab before I hit the ground.
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