A Violist

Isabella - 20 years - USA - @chiavettesociety - @mayor-of is my Animal Crossing blog

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just a lil reminder @onision

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Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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pick your battles. pick… pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that’s too many 

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me: [vibrating slightly because I had too much caffeine] everything in the world is my fault

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The Magic of Music: 8 Musical Phenomena Explained

Full size infographic - http://infographicjournal.com/the-magic-of-music-8-musical-phenomena-explained/

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Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop-down menu)

Intro to Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Arabe (taught in French)

Catalan

Intro to Catalan Language & Society

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese I. II, III, IV , V

Basic Mandarin Chinese I & II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for HSK 1

Chinese for HSK 2

Chinese for HSK 3 I & II

HSK Level 1

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Chino Básico (Taught in Spanish)

Intermediate

Chinese Stories

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French Language Studies I, II, III

French: Ouverture

Intermediate & Advanced

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout 

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Vivre en France - A2

Vivre en France - B1

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

German

Beginner

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I, II, III, IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

German at Work

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Intermediate

German: Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Teach Me Hebrew

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Irish 101

Irish 102

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Italian for Beginners 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5, 6 

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Letteratura italiana

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Sing and Learn Japanese

Tufs JpLang

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Portuguese

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros 

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Advanced

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish: Food & Drink

Introduction to Spanish

Restaurants and Dining Out

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Intermediate

Spanish: Ciudades con Historia

Spanish: Espacios Públicos

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Swedish Made Easy 1, 2, & 3

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: April 1, 2018

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[anarcho-bard]

Some things I’ve learnt about perfect pitch from studying music psychology

Also disclaimer: many of these are still theories, but at the current point in time are widely accepted

I also don’t have perfect pitch, I just find it interesting tbh

(Absolute pitch is just another name for perfect pitch)

First of all, everyone is born with perfect pitch. Everyone. Over time, our brains process that this isn’t necessary, so we instead process pitch relatively. Only those who have made use of their absolute pitch (through early musical training or whatever) keep it

As fantastic as perfect pitch may seem, it can be an obstacle for musicians. Because melodies are defined by pitch and duration relations, relative pitch is the more musical way of processing music. That’s why we can all sing, for example, happy birthday, in different keys but still be able to recognise it as happy birthday. Because of the different ways people with absolute pitch process music, this is much harder and more abstract for them

By extension, while it may not be harder, aural skills would definitely be processed very differently for someone with perfect pitch. My guess is that, when recognising intervals, while someone with relative pitch, once trained, can hear and intervals and recognise it for what it is, someone with absolute pitch would probably identify the note names and then figure out the interval the same way you would if you were reading the interval in sheet music.

Anyway that’s just all I read about in my psychology text, feel free to add on/ comment or whatever

[howtomusicmajor]

Do you keep a practice journal? You should. Here’s a template for keeping your own practice journal. It also works for recording what happens during your lesson.

Goals:

Warmups:

Thoughts:

Technical practice:

Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

Aspect to work on:

Measures to work on:

Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

Aspect to work on:

Measures to work on:

Thoughts:

Piece to work on:

Aspect to work on:

Measures to work on:

Thoughts:

Goal reflection:

Goals for next practice:

A filled example might look like this:

Goals: Work on tone - keep everything grounded and “below the water line”

Warmups: Mi-me-mi-me 8-5-3-1–3-5-8-5-3-1. Flooey: 5-4-3-2-1

Thoughts: Thinking about singing out the bottom of my spine keeps me more grounded.

Technical practice: [scales, arpeggios, and any technical work would go here.]

Thoughts: [Reflect on how the practice felt and what went well/not well]

Piece to work on: “Man sagt mir”

Aspect to work on: Memorization, legato

Measures to work on: Whole piece

Thoughts: The end went better today. Remember to breath early and low, prepping for the high note before the start of the phrase.

Piece to work on: “Allez-moi, laissez moi seul”

Aspect to work on: Singing lower in the body, while keeping diction

Measures to work on: 2nd half

Thoughts: Leaps and dynamic changes catch me up - practice more on a drone and in a single dynamic, that helped today.

Goal reflection: There was improvement today, I need to keep that base of spine in mind!

Goals for next practice: Diction diction diction

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Me looking at my bank account

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Mods are asleep post forbidden tits

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Huh

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Hhhhhhh

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Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

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oh nooooooo

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last time i reblogged this it wasnt balanced I’m glad it’s ok now!!!

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everything should be balanced Yinyang

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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

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Just so you know, this is just my username blog. Don’t really post here anymore. All of my activity goes on over at @mayor-of. 💕☺️