For love of Bach
I'm glad to have gotten back into playing my guitar again. It's just been collecting dust for, uh, 10+ years, and then one day I just decided to pick it up again and start playing. Oh, it was out of tune. Really out of tune. But that didn't stop me.
You know, I blame Piano no Mori for this.
It had me thinking of playing my piano again, but my piano is all the way at my old house. So my guitar is the next best thing.
Talking of Piano no Mori, I ended up dropping the show.
It just wasn't what I wanted to see. I wanted to see the little kid rise to greatness through being a musical prodigy, playing in all these concerts, overcoming obstacles and developing as a really good character despite coming from humble beginnings.
Instead, what did I get?
The ghosts of Mozart. And that's "ghosts" in the plural sense, there being multiple ghosts of Mozart which taunt this kid because he's apparently been fucking chosen by Mozart to...to...I don't know, to play the goddamn piano.
Yeah, that's him playing with this fricking GHOST OF MOZART right next to him. Please give me strength.
Oh, and by the way, he can play one of Chopin's pieces perfectly from memory.
I recognise the piece, too. I spent 2 years trying to play it. I still struggle with it.
But this 8-year old blond kid just hears it once, he doesn't even know how to play sheet music, and hallelujah he can play the whole fricking piece in one setting and nobody blinks an eyelid.
But yeah, I guess it's a good show but it's just a little bit far-fetched in that department.
Apparently it misses out a lot of stuff from the manga, so maybe I should pick that up instead since the anime just doesn't sit right with me.
Fucking ghosts of Mozart. I swear to god. If you start seeing a dozen Mozart ghosts sitting on a piano just moments before your big moment at a concert, you're not a child prodigy, you're just bloody delusional.
Anyway, I didn't come here to rant about Piano no Mori and the ghosts of Mozart.
I'm severely lacking in some music pieces, so I printed off some guitar pieces at work.
Mainly Bach - and I'm surprised how much I enjoy it.
I don't remember really enjoying Bach as much as I do now...
Like, I don't even listen to music anymore. I don't give a shit.
I used to listen to rock and metal all the time at school and at uni, and now everything just sounds the same.
Sometimes I hear something I used to love, and then I switch it off after 60 seconds because I know the rest of the song just repeats itself and I won't get any further enjoyment from it.
Which is fine, really. But it's a bit weird when you love playing music and not actually listening to it.
Anyway, I adored the Bach pieces I took home and intend to practice on them further. Any Bach piece is a musician's paradise.
I also found the notation for Romanza, quite a famous piece of classical guitar. It's not too hard either.
And I also discovered I need to cut the nails on my fretting hand because I can't actually do some of the positions properly.
Even though my nails are already pretty short.
Not short enough for Bach, apparently.
Bach didn't even write for classical guitar. Or for piano. I think he wrote it for lute, or as a chorale?...since the piano wasn't even invented at the time, being the Baroque period.
But it's still wonderful to play it out like that.
You know, I blame Piano no Mori for this.
It had me thinking of playing my piano again, but my piano is all the way at my old house. So my guitar is the next best thing.
Talking of Piano no Mori, I ended up dropping the show.
It just wasn't what I wanted to see. I wanted to see the little kid rise to greatness through being a musical prodigy, playing in all these concerts, overcoming obstacles and developing as a really good character despite coming from humble beginnings.
Instead, what did I get?
The ghosts of Mozart. And that's "ghosts" in the plural sense, there being multiple ghosts of Mozart which taunt this kid because he's apparently been fucking chosen by Mozart to...to...I don't know, to play the goddamn piano.
Yeah, that's him playing with this fricking GHOST OF MOZART right next to him. Please give me strength.
Oh, and by the way, he can play one of Chopin's pieces perfectly from memory.
I recognise the piece, too. I spent 2 years trying to play it. I still struggle with it.
But this 8-year old blond kid just hears it once, he doesn't even know how to play sheet music, and hallelujah he can play the whole fricking piece in one setting and nobody blinks an eyelid.
But yeah, I guess it's a good show but it's just a little bit far-fetched in that department.
Apparently it misses out a lot of stuff from the manga, so maybe I should pick that up instead since the anime just doesn't sit right with me.
Fucking ghosts of Mozart. I swear to god. If you start seeing a dozen Mozart ghosts sitting on a piano just moments before your big moment at a concert, you're not a child prodigy, you're just bloody delusional.
Anyway, I didn't come here to rant about Piano no Mori and the ghosts of Mozart.
I'm severely lacking in some music pieces, so I printed off some guitar pieces at work.
Mainly Bach - and I'm surprised how much I enjoy it.
I don't remember really enjoying Bach as much as I do now...
Click to viewLike, I don't even listen to music anymore. I don't give a shit.
I used to listen to rock and metal all the time at school and at uni, and now everything just sounds the same.
Sometimes I hear something I used to love, and then I switch it off after 60 seconds because I know the rest of the song just repeats itself and I won't get any further enjoyment from it.
Which is fine, really. But it's a bit weird when you love playing music and not actually listening to it.
Anyway, I adored the Bach pieces I took home and intend to practice on them further. Any Bach piece is a musician's paradise.
I also found the notation for Romanza, quite a famous piece of classical guitar. It's not too hard either.
And I also discovered I need to cut the nails on my fretting hand because I can't actually do some of the positions properly.
Even though my nails are already pretty short.
Not short enough for Bach, apparently.
Bach didn't even write for classical guitar. Or for piano. I think he wrote it for lute, or as a chorale?...since the piano wasn't even invented at the time, being the Baroque period.
But it's still wonderful to play it out like that.