#music instruments

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Alvaro Pires d'Evora - Virgin and Child with Angels. Detail. 1430

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Wooden Melodies

Honolulu, Hawai’i

Bob Cronk

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Music exercises – course at three hours

Rather long time, there were no news about music exercises. By different reasons. First of all, there were no nothing positive. There was no positive movement. So, for some time, it was all time, with some minimum level. Very low. Even to write about it. And even more - to play something. Even, if this something, it is something really stupid. So, it was no some positive result. So, I, even, start to think, that music things are going rather – like a dead end.

Well, I think, it was really like this. Anyway, I will continue, even in this case, but with so minimal steps – very small result can be achieved.

Some kind of miracle does not happens. But, well, something musical is happened. And positive. And there is something to write about. So, even today, I still do not have a music skills for a simple things. Yes, it is stable, same. And some goals, lets say, for a year ago. Something start to play. Still in category of just a dreams. This is stay at that place, as it was.

But. Some thing I receive. As, I can say, it is, already, about something. So, I start, with something little negative, you know. So, at last, about music exercises. I can to play bass guitar for three hours. During one day. And half of an hour in a second day. And by hour I spent on electro guitar and hour on synthesizer. So, this is my main result!

So, right now, I understand, that music - it is skills. Fantasies – it is very good. It is a things, you need. But, also it requires a skills. So, for some time, I think about music as a some kind of magic. Or, I cannot to solve this puzzle into my head, about what music is. Music - it is fantasies and skills. Fantasies, it is good and right direction. It is a level of a music listener, dreamer. It is ok. But next, you need a skills. Skills to play guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar. For example. Some exercises. Melodies and rhymes. This is a music for me, how I get it now.

OF course, music it is not a first things, music does not have a priority, it is not primary, in casual life. And, it is simply, a point of interest. So, it is good to have a regular interest. From another hand. Lots of us, like to listen something. So, let it be, in middle case, some rock music. There are lots of musicians in this genre. And from this point, you get a regular interest.

Positive side, it is goes, things goes, even if - it is not well correct absolutely, so-so things, and slow. And, anyway, it is not enough. Even, for a simple things. But, something, starts to be better in this plan. So, first of all, I add much more time to play music instruments. It is most valuable thing.

With bass guitar, one day, I start some exercises. Which I find in internet. Simple. Well, you know, just to pull strings. Later, some tracks, that I like, during that time. It is something from Sisters of Mercy. Very cool gothic band. And, also, few rhymes from songs, which are simply from few notes. And, for example, how simple bass guitar can be. So, right now, I can write this, at least.

About electro guitar. It is, again, about chords, and, I try to remember chords and try to exchange chords, one to another. And one track. Hawkwind. It is loud such a rock. Space, I call it space music.

By synthesizers. It is one music exercise, and chords. Once again, chords. It is valuable thing. And, first two pages from book “To Music with a Joy”. So, this is achievement.

It is about, what I try to do. It does not mean I do it good! Once again. Not enough time, I put into these. It is good, as I get, it lots of time everyday to put in playing music. Then it will be a big results. So, I have results like these now. So, in such state. About to my own tracks, I can say this is not a time to speak about my own tracks, in this case. So, right now, I need to get to absorb a thing I call musicality, musicalismus, musical, music skill. It is fantasies and music skills. There are fantasies. And there are no skills. So, these things, I am doing now!

So, this is my phase, I start to understand it better. And, I call it, as a course at three hours. Because of, it is my first achievement. With bass guitar, I played for three hours. It does not matter, what, certain things, I play. Course 1 hour at electro guitar and synthesizer. And plus half of an hour for bass guitar at second day. So, such results for now. I need to get some musicality, musicalismus, musical, music skills.

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『 Diplar 』

Double whistle player from the Dalmatian Hinterland

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I will see this and go hell yeah

(Vishes, from December)

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Flute is life

Piano is life

Music instruments are life

Music theory is life

History of music is life

Band is life

Orchestra is life

Music School is life

Music is life

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Johannes Vermeer Jeune Fille jouant du Virginal 1673-75

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Drums #4 (white)   -   Arjan van Helmond ,  2008.

Dutch, b. 1971 -

Ink , gouache and acrylic on paper ,  50 x 65 cm.

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[onmymusicstand]

The weather has changed where I live: the wind is blowing and the rain is drumming against the windows since several days... ☔️ This weather makes me feel melancholic and I miss the sun and walks. Hopefully I also enjoy to curl up under a blanket with my cat... when family life allows it! 😅

It’s in this mood that I share my latest recording: a short piece which reflects the melancholy I've been feeling these days.

It’s Myosotis by Michel Vergnault, a piece likely written for educational purposes. It's short but I find it truly beautiful: it’s one of my favorite pieces.

Enjoy!

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Le Sitar est un instrument de musique typique des musiques Hindoustanie (style de musique phare indienne avec la musique Carnatique.) l’invention viendrait du XIIIe siècle et aurait été inventée par le musicien Amir Khusrau. Il est à l’époque un simple instrument à cordes dérivé du Tambur perse et sera modifié lentement au cours des siècles. Tandis qu'il évolue petit à petit au fil des siècles pour devenir sa version actuelle vers le XIXe siècle, il sera abondamment utilisé notamment par des musiciens dans la culture musicale Hindoustanie. Instrument à cordes de la famille des luths, il mesure 1.2 m de longueur et possède une caisse de résonance piriforme (en forme de poire.) profonde, faite de bois et de calebasse, d’un manche en bois long, assez large et évidé, ainsi que des chevilles frontales et latérales et vingt frettes arquées et qui sont mobiles. Généralement muni d’entre deux à cinq cordes servant pour les variations rythmique, puis de neuf à treize cordes métalliques placées sous les frettes tout en étant accordées sur les notes du Rāga (cadre mélodique de la musique classique indienne) et qui sont placée donc directement sous les frettes, dans le manche. Les frettes qui sont convexes, sont fixés par des liens tendus le long du manche, permettant ainsi le déplacement de ces dernières en fonction des besoins. Bien que les origines de l’instrument sont controversées, oscillant entre un descendant des luths à long manche en provenance d’Asie Central ou bien issue d’une variation du Vînâ à trois cordes de l’Inde du Sud, on peut situer que son nom en lui-même, le “Sitar” provient du persan “Sihtar” qui signifie “À trois cordes”. l’Âge d’or du Sitar se situe entre le XVIe siècle et le XVIIe siècle, tandis que sa forme actuelle date elle du XVIIIe siècle. Il est aujourd’hui l’instrument dominant la musique dans l’Inde du Nord et est utilisé comme un instrument soliste accompagnée Tambura (Luth à bourdon) ainsi que les tambours Tabla, mais aussi dans des ensembles pour les drames dansés nommée “Kathak”, issue aussi de l’Inde du Nord. Ainsi, pour le Sitar, il existe deux écoles modernes situées en Inde : Celle de Ravi Shankar, Sitariste et Compositeur Indien ayant vécu de 1920 à 2012 et celle de Vilayat Khan, Sitariste Indien ayant vécu de 1928 à 2004. Chacune de ses écoles possède son propre style de jeu, de type de Sitar (qui se résume par une taille, une forme et un nombre de cordes différentes) ainsi que le même système d’accord. Mais comment joue t’on du Sitar ? L’instrument est joué en étant assis en tailleur par terre et calé sous le coude droit et reposant sur le pied. Tenu de façon oblique comme la Guitare Flamenco et non pas de façon droite ou couché comme le Tampura, le sitariste use d’un onglet de métal du nom de Mezrab mis sur l’index droit pour pincer les cordes. Puis dans un mouvement de va-et-vient, comme dans la manière de jouer du le Setar, l'ancêtre du Sitar. Il y joue alternativement les cordes principales et rythmiques. L’utilisation dans la culture populaire se développe dans les années 1960 en piquant l’intérêt des Occidentaux dans les domaines de la spiritualité et de la musique Indienne. C’est avec le mouvement psychédélique en particulier que des sonorités asiatiques, ainsi que le sitar sont intégrées et font leur apparition dans la musique populaire, notamment chez les Beatles. On peut aussi nommer George Harrison qui sera l’élève de Ravi Shankar en 1966, puis son ami et l’utilisera dans de nombreux titres des Beatles tels que Norwegian Wood (1965), Love You To (1966), Withing You Without You (1966) ou encore The Inner Light (1968).