Categories: uncategorized
Date: 06 February 2003 16:41:00
i think i just typed all this but then managed to lose it. Ah well. Here is a summary:
i just sneezed hideously loudly in a very quiet computer room and not one person said 'bless you'. or acknowledged that anything at all happened. i found this very funny.
last night i stayed up till 3 emailing and am now tired cos i got up not that much after... errrr, normal time, whatever that may be.
i need to go to the doctors because having completely lost my voice last week i am finding that my sympotoms are persisting... i can talk now, but only kind of, and i am coughing up stuff which suggests there are Bad Things going on somewhere inside. Also i have had a knee problem which has been going on for months which i keep thinking will get better by itself. it's not. I HAVE to go to the doctors tomorrow, and i hate that, which is why i have been putting it off until i can't possibly not go.
am starting 'cello lessons next week. very excited! still haven't picked up the bow, will get it on tuesday, am enjoying playing it with the viola bow though although it's not quite 'right' (and also have played more viola than ever lately especially after breaking one of the cello strings. i do have a special talent for breaking strings which i must break because it's an expensive mistake on a 'cello!). Am a lot better at viola since taking up the cello. Discovered today that there is a bit of tenor clef sometimes in cello music (i had noticed that the peice you dropped off ness is all in tenor!), although mostly it's in bass. Pants. This all means i will have to learn tenor clef properly, therefore i might as well just learn viola properly at the same time, eh. Although it isn't, it seems kind of easy in comparison to cello where you have to move your left hand about to land it in the right place. So there you have it, a detailed comparison of the relative ease of learning cello and viola. Just do both at the same time, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble.