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If it weren't for Netflix.... and ...What are you working on right now ?
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joevidetto
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 If it weren't for Netflix.... and .....
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If it weren't for Netflix, I might actually have been able to bring some of the pieces I've worked on to performance level lol
But I do have to give Netflix some credit - because while I'm watching, I kind of like to read through the text (the notes and the rhythms - in an earlier post I was unclear people thought I just meant the notes) of some of the transcribed pieces I purchased. Those damn addictive shows leave enough room in between the dialog to allow me to do this in a reasonably productive manner....the trouble is - I never get to the computer and metronome to use my ear and learn to play along with and/or practice performing the piece.
Recently - I've broken out my Riqueni Fauche book, and started working on one of my favorite "easy, hard" pieces - Chicuelina, a modern tanguillos. The transcription seems to be really good - spot on or at least very close. At first, I really could NOT get the feel from reading the music, but after a while it started to make sense. The piece itself is really a great composition imho - it sounds relatively easy, and the melody is really easy to hum - but when you go to play it, with the timing and tempo it's not so easy. And the rhythm is really driving...
What are you working on right now, enjoying, and garnering some insights about ?
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Date Mar. 19 2021 1:17:18
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ernandez R
Posts: 769
Joined: Mar. 25 2019
From: Alaska USA
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RE: If it weren't for Netflix.... an... (in reply to Fluknu)
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ORIGINAL: Fluknu
Since four days I have a total absence of motivation to play. I don't even listen to music, and that really seldom happens. It's usually when my stress level is to high and I need quiet. But these days I feel good. So I wonder what's happening.
It's sunny here in Switzerland and the weather is starting to warm up. They opened bars and reastaurants only in the open., this monday. So I just want to be outside I guess. My goal, is to have a glass of white wine tomorrow on a nice terrasse by the lake.
But music and flamenco is like... nowhere to be seen. I'm going with the flow for once and not pushing myself.
The only cool thing that I often do in summer would be to go by the lake and play with people. That would make me happy.
Anyone suffering from the same post-lockdown-where-the-f...- am I syndrome ?
Fluknu,
It's a a known thing. Post coved, or not post. I was ass jacked by a moose last April, couch and bed bound for many months. Dog what a fluk... Last few weeks have been tough, I'm Vmax for a couple weeks now, but like you, I'm like what now? I'm an odd case, major life change with new partner a few years ago, put away my cash cow hat for another and all the sudden its been pulled down over my eyes and holding it out for our federal gov to toss in it a few shekels. Think the maker for music, for the guitars I'm building, Flamenco, and world wide strangers on a forum here and there.
The music will come back. I promise. Revisiting Rigena Spector, I know not flamenco, this evening but fitting, her sensibility, her post Russian Jewish sensibility, she gets it but not with a guitar but a piano. She kills it. I started the day with Rosalia, did a few hours of Diago del Castor and the boss, cooked up a quick dinner, black beans garlic and some fresh eggs from our hens, killed a bottle of bad white wine, then Rigina and crushing strings following her piano best I could, after a couple years of compas and Phrygian-esc Flamenco her Lidian seemed almost childlike in its simplicity. Oh ya, the music will come back, my buddy Jonas who posts here once in a whole says take one or two day a week off, leave your guitar in the case and just live, head to that lake, have that glass of wine at the lakeside, rejoin the living...
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But I have a lot of work at the moment, so I've been playing it a bit in the evening just to have some fun and relax. It basically means that the neighbours have had to listen to sh1tty renditions of Zelda themes or simple movie themes like the last of the Mohicans over and over again 
But hey, it's payback. Their kid has to practice recorder for school and he sucks even more than I do 
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