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Topic: music
Posted By: Chovynz
Subject: music
Date Posted: 01 September 2007 at 9:44pm
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Do you guys compose? how many songs have you finished? ------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 10:49pm
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DH plays guitar and composes -- he's finished 6 songs and has about 30 more in various stages on the go. He's playing his first open mic night tomorrow night. |
What do you play, Chovynz? Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 10:53pm
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Katherine, that is seriously exciting - first open mic night! Where is he playing? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 10:58pm
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Heehee, I am pretty excited for him, Sterryn! He's playing someplace in Ponsonby called Grand Central. I can't go (babysitter is sick) but the outlaws are going to be there to give him support. He's in a band -- well, sort of, it's just him and a singer -- and they're hoping to do open mics every fortnight or so, to get more experience. He's got this great song called "Wrecking Ball" that I've been singing in the shower, I love it so much. Cross your fingers and toes for him! |
Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 02 September 2007 at 11:28pm
That is so awesome!!! Break a leg to your DH  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 1:08am
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How did your DH go last night Katherine? ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 9:12am
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It's tonight, kezplanet -- and I am more nervous than he is! Thanks for asking! I will let you know when it's over... |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 7:02pm
Oh that's cool! let us know how he got on. I play guitar, drums, keyboard. Neither of them very well. I do mostly digital music. Music is in my blood but I haven't developed the skill very much. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Katherine wrote:Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 7:22pm
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Dh is very musical. He wrote and recorded a song about me for our first xmas together - it is very sweet. he did the Dunedin band thing when a student, played loads of gigs. Then he tried it out as a career up here - singing at bars etc, but didn't enjoy it so much. Now he doesn't write songs but he gets to play music a lot as he is a teacher. -------------  
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 9:27pm
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You sound like my DH, Chovynz... he always puts himself down, when his music is actually really good. I bet you're much better than you give yourself credit for! By the way, DH is looking for a drummer or bassist for his band... In case you feel like pursuing the music thing further... |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 9:38pm
hehe ... I've done my stints in a band.  I think I'll pass on this one. Thanks though.
Maybe your right Kathrine. Maybe I am better than I give myself credit for. I just feel down about my skillz, because, 1) I have music inside but on piano at least ... it's difficult to get the music out, and it takes forever to get it out right. 2) I haven't really done anything musically for a very long time. I think I'm rusty...and at best amatuerish at the mo. 3) I've had one year. One year of formal piano lessons...back when i was 12? gosh. I can't even remember when it was. The rest has been self taught. I guess on the guitar it doesn't help that i never really learned how to hold it properly so my fingers hurt after a while of holding the fret. 4) It's ... iono. shrug. whatever. I'm disappointed that im not better at it. This was actually one of the focal points of one of my recent depression stages (ask Busymum.  ). I was saying stuff like "...tell me one thing im good at?? I have so many things I can try and can do so much stuff, I can't do any of it excellently! I'm not good at blah blah blah."
I dunno. It's hard to say what im thinking at the mo about all this. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 03 September 2007 at 10:00pm
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Chovynz, DH is self-taught too. And it took him years to build up the disgusting calluses on his fingertips from finger-picking -- but now they're there, and if he goes for too long without playing, they get soft again and he has to grit his way through a practice session. He did time in a band in high school as well, so I suppose this is a return to that dream, a good decade-and-a-bit later. I can understand your feeling down about your skills, especially when your formal training is minimal, but I think you have to decide what you want from making music. Pure pleasure? A career? To record a couple of songs for your child? A sense of accomplishment? To play for an audience? To entertain the family at reunions? A mixture of those? Maybe once you can pinpoint what you actually get from your love of music, or what you want to get from it, you can use that as a starting point for committing time and energy to it. |