Practicing on Red today.
It’s only Day 2, and I’m still getting used to the fingering, to holding on to it, and everything.
Somebody said that it’s okay to allow myself to suck when learning a new skill, particularly when that skill is playing a musical instrument. They also said that the time you learn quickest is during sleep, when your unconscious mind processes what you have learned.
I can tell you that I have learned something new today, and brushed up on something I’d almost forgotten.
To come:-
- Learning the fingering.
- Learning how to get the octave range.
- Understanding the flats and sharps.
- Reading sheet music.
- The tunes.
- Learning to play by ear.
It’s all starting now, for me. A new skill. Okay, I’ll never be a virtuoso, but to be able to pick up a musical instrument and pick out a tune is still one of the coolest skills going.
