Setting sail for exploration of something completely new

Gerald · 06-28-22, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by em2nought

After 57 years, I have this odd desire to go on a python hunt in the Everglades. If you can't bag the real swamp creatures, maybe you can at least dispatch the slithering kind.

If Hannah Barron could go with me to hold my hand that would be even better because I'm not that fond of swamps.

https://www.fox13news.com/news/large...eveloping-eggs

I think I can handle Hannah but not sure the ONE she carry on her back.

mapuc · 06-28-22, 08:40 AM

This thread reminded me about my good FB-friend I have.

She's blind since birth and one of her side effect from this is that she has absolutely music ears(can't remember the exact English word for it)

She work with piano voice/sound-There must be an English word for this. Well she tuned the strings and other things.

I said to her I wish I could play on piano and create beautiful classic music like Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, a.s.o

But as I am totally tone deaf....

Markus

u crank · 06-28-22, 09:13 AM

It is a good idea Sky. Go for it. I have been playing guitar since I was 14 years old. It is still a joy and lots of fun.

Skybird · 06-28-22, 10:34 AM

Long-term committment (years, not months) is what is needed, and an attitude of "everyday a bit practice", even if only for short - practically EVERY day. The piano will arrive next week. I bought today the course I intend to run with. Its a steal, and it absolutely connects to me in the way the man leads his students through. For the cost of one lesson with a live tutor I got all the material, in form of 9 ebup books with integrated videos . And very viosually, for me that is important, take the following exmaple. My ftaher once tried to explai8n it to me, in talking, and I wa sleft mostkly unimpressed, and just thoght "Hu...?" But this brief little video, nothing special, made all the difference. Theory goes not first, but second if not third, instead: visual pattern recognition, and curious playing. Many say piano is easier to leanr than amny other instruments, my father also agrees with that. Becasue all tones it cna amke are laid out before youreyes, each toine has one key. A violine, a guitar , worse: wind instruments, you have nothing fixed and visible before you, the tones are "invisible". Try to see the geometry from this video in a - trombone! Its not possible.

There are 200 such video lessons included, and then severla hundred pages of text, with plenty of keyboard illustrations to lead you through. I checked it out and iemdoately knew: this one is my way.

https://pianoforall.com/

However, the aim of this course is what it is, and it is not any different. That is good if your intentions match with the direction the course aims at, and its bad if you have expectations that the course does not care for. The guy in this video expkains it, and leaves no doubt that it does not teach you evertyhing - but he is fair enough to say that what it actually does teach, it probably teaches in a better way than any other. I had a first look at the books, and I am absolutely attracted to the method. I also like that it is not ignorrant of the needed necessity of also knpowing a bit about music theory, but it doe snot kill the mtovaiton in students by pushign it before anythign else and borign people to death, it lets it drip in more playfully, en passant, and always interuroted by plewnty of excersising opportunity. When i think of the music classes at school, I still feel pure horror today! Absolutely thoerteical, abstract, dry and disconnected form - wlel, from usic'S reality when hearing of doing it. How can they kill the curiosity in young people so carelessly?

Skybird · 06-28-22, 10:50 AM

And to complete my soul strip, this is the actual piano, explaining the reasons why I decided for this one (1: key action, 2. quality of tones/samples, 3. blutooth interface). The keyboard comes with 12 piano, 20 e-piano, and 24 other voices, but via app you can access several HUNDRED voices that it nevertheless already has on board. When I tried it in the shop, I was blown away, a "player" like me cannot feel the difference betweee this and a real mechnaical piano's hammer action. The salesman said that even very good and professional players get fooled by the action. Forget the "e"in "e-piano". This is a piano, basta.

The coating of the kys is also such that it absoklutely fools your senses.

I bought the one they had on display at a reduced price, but then we found it had an issue. They ordered a new one - but will sell it with that price bonus. I therefore get a factory-new piano with that reduced price for 500 coins. The usual retail price most traders have is in the range of 700 to 850 coins. Excellent deal!

I would have been stupid to go with the Roland FD-10 (550 coins) or even cheaper Yamaha 45P. (450-500 coins)

Skybird · 06-28-22, 11:47 AM

Tutors versus Apps, pros and cons. All valid, one should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages. But by the end of the day it comes down to calculating the costs of live tutoring versus your personal aims and what you actually want to acchieve. One thing it all has in common: You must actually do the firts step to get started.

Gerald · 06-28-22, 12:37 PM

Very moving clips about to play piano. Piano music is still on my favorite list and I listen to it almost every day.

06-28-22, 08:40 AM	#2
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,545 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	This thread reminded me about my good FB-friend I have. She's blind since birth and one of her side effect from this is that she has absolutely music ears(can't remember the exact English word for it) She work with piano voice/sound-There must be an English word for this. Well she tuned the strings and other things. I said to her I wish I could play on piano and create beautiful classic music like Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, a.s.o But as I am totally tone deaf.... Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

06-28-22, 09:13 AM	#3
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,747 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	It is a good idea Sky. Go for it. I have been playing guitar since I was 14 years old. It is still a joy and lots of fun. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

06-28-22, 10:34 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,693 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Long-term committment (years, not months) is what is needed, and an attitude of "everyday a bit practice", even if only for short - practically EVERY day. The piano will arrive next week. I bought today the course I intend to run with. Its a steal, and it absolutely connects to me in the way the man leads his students through. For the cost of one lesson with a live tutor I got all the material, in form of 9 ebup books with integrated videos . And very viosually, for me that is important, take the following exmaple. My ftaher once tried to explai8n it to me, in talking, and I wa sleft mostkly unimpressed, and just thoght "Hu...?" But this brief little video, nothing special, made all the difference. Theory goes not first, but second if not third, instead: visual pattern recognition, and curious playing. Many say piano is easier to leanr than amny other instruments, my father also agrees with that. Becasue all tones it cna amke are laid out before youreyes, each toine has one key. A violine, a guitar , worse: wind instruments, you have nothing fixed and visible before you, the tones are "invisible". Try to see the geometry from this video in a - trombone! Its not possible. There are 200 such video lessons included, and then severla hundred pages of text, with plenty of keyboard illustrations to lead you through. I checked it out and iemdoately knew: this one is my way. https://pianoforall.com/ However, the aim of this course is what it is, and it is not any different. That is good if your intentions match with the direction the course aims at, and its bad if you have expectations that the course does not care for. The guy in this video expkains it, and leaves no doubt that it does not teach you evertyhing - but he is fair enough to say that what it actually does teach, it probably teaches in a better way than any other. I had a first look at the books, and I am absolutely attracted to the method. I also like that it is not ignorrant of the needed necessity of also knpowing a bit about music theory, but it doe snot kill the mtovaiton in students by pushign it before anythign else and borign people to death, it lets it drip in more playfully, en passant, and always interuroted by plewnty of excersising opportunity. When i think of the music classes at school, I still feel pure horror today! Absolutely thoerteical, abstract, dry and disconnected form - wlel, from usic'S reality when hearing of doing it. How can they kill the curiosity in young people so carelessly? __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

06-28-22, 10:50 AM	#5
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,693 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	And to complete my soul strip, this is the actual piano, explaining the reasons why I decided for this one (1: key action, 2. quality of tones/samples, 3. blutooth interface). The keyboard comes with 12 piano, 20 e-piano, and 24 other voices, but via app you can access several HUNDRED voices that it nevertheless already has on board. When I tried it in the shop, I was blown away, a "player" like me cannot feel the difference betweee this and a real mechnaical piano's hammer action. The salesman said that even very good and professional players get fooled by the action. Forget the "e"in "e-piano". This is a piano, basta. The coating of the kys is also such that it absoklutely fools your senses. I bought the one they had on display at a reduced price, but then we found it had an issue. They ordered a new one - but will sell it with that price bonus. I therefore get a factory-new piano with that reduced price for 500 coins. The usual retail price most traders have is in the range of 700 to 850 coins. Excellent deal! I would have been stupid to go with the Roland FD-10 (550 coins) or even cheaper Yamaha 45P. (450-500 coins) __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

06-28-22, 11:47 AM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,693 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Tutors versus Apps, pros and cons. All valid, one should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages. But by the end of the day it comes down to calculating the costs of live tutoring versus your personal aims and what you actually want to acchieve. One thing it all has in common: You must actually do the firts step to get started. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

06-28-22, 12:37 PM	#7
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Very moving clips about to play piano. Piano music is still on my favorite list and I listen to it almost every day. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie