start playing music again

I started playing music again now when Im not here thats what I am doing.

Ok, so I’m not as good as I was before, but I will be now I’ve gone back to basics…my top tip for this is to setup your stall, get your chosen instrument down into the living space (my wife has helped a great deal with this and been so understanding, I love her to bits). She really has pushed me, and made me understand it was stupid to think I was going to pick up the guitar and play at the same standard I was at before, I just need to take it steady and see where it all goes!

I realised that I was doing it for all the wrong reasons before…to make a living, get famous whatever it was in my teenage mind. Now I just want to have FUN! A very good musician friend has started setting up a new band Rhythm Voodoo Devils he ’s already in two gigging bands so just wants something to fill in the empty slots here and there – as and when for a bit of FUN so it sounds good to me…hopefully it’ll come off, the name has already inspired my playing so lovin’ it!

So the top tips for achieving this goal are to :-

Ensure your chosen instrument / practice aids are close to hand in the centre of your living space.

Go back to your basics, work back up into where you were before.

Think real hard…and find out deep down why you want to do this…then write it down in big letters and put it in your practice space, to remind you at the times when the going gets tough to have fun, enjoy the relase whatever your reason.

Cheers.

Hey,

used to play regular, I rather stupidly – and definitely do not recommend this – bunked off school to learn guitar, I thought nothing of practicing 12-15 hrs a day, whilst other kids were out socialising learning for their exams, I was putting blood sweat and tears into the fretboard…in the end I decided to get some education first…did that I now am bored to tears day in day out working in IT…but I just bought a new guitar…it’s such a shame that my fingers won’t go into the positions they used to I’m finding that real frustrating…I can’t play what I’d think is basic stuff whereas I used to fly through it at the height of it…

I know…I know that I can’t really expect it to come over-night…but you know how it is?

Anyhoo…I’m playing more, I met up with the bass player from my high school band recently and he has said we can jam from time to time, I’m looking forward to that and not but more on that laters!

it has been a long time since i have really played. i left the band i played with in the summer of 2004. we had just recorded a cd and had just come back from writing 3 new songs. there was a strong difference in musical styles between myself and the rest of the group. (myself and one other had played together on and off for 10 years) i miss it. it was a release and a sort of therapy for me. the sooner the better.

I think I might start playing music again, considering my mother and step-father just gave me a violin for my birthday.

..I went back to playing music and quickly started recording again. It’s well worth it, and while I hate that I stopped, I’m finding that I’m actually much better at it now than I was before.

Not playing as often as I’d like. But it’s great to be playing again non the less.

..nor should it be! I have tended in the past to see this as something i should be doing. My issue is that for my entire violining life I have heard that my talent means I should play more. But I hate performing! The good part is when I am in my room and playing just for myself..and this as well is what leads to the fun part of playing with others. My first official gig is coming up next week and I am determined to make it a night of fun, not nerves and fear.

got a call from James in a fix last week, needing a fiddle track on his demo recording, so in pops liz! we had a blast ripping through Django tunes and a couple traditional instrumentals. lots of fun, and a repeat planned for tomorrow!

I played Clarinet in band in high school and junior high, and I usually sat at least second chair. I really miss playing, but Montgomery doesn’t really have anywhere that I could take it back up again. There is a Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, but it’s been five years since I played regularly and I don’t feel like I’m good enough for it. I wish there was some sort of community band made up of younger people where I could get my musical legs back under me agaain.