On music and a bit of shameless plugging

[melodyofmysoul]

Real life's been trying to kill me slowly, so I'll distract myself for a while. :P (Yes, it's around 3am where I am right now and I don't feel sleepy at all.)

First off, I'm now a co-moderator of G Clef no Arashi! It hasn't even been a year since I became part of the Arashi fandom, but when thefortysecond created this community I knew I had to become active

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[thefortysecond]

It's interesting, I had a very different musical upbringing from you. I had always been interested in music, and my parents bought a small Casio keyboard when I was around ten. The thing is, we could never afford lessons, so I did everything by ear- I never learned to read music, or anything formal. I kind of plateaued after a while- I could only get so far on my own, without a clue about cords or notes. When I was sixteen I moved to a high school that offered a music-major program, and there I started learning about theory and notation. Now I'm in college, majoring in Musicology. I'm very good at theory, but I'm terrible at reading scores- I can, it's just agonizingly slow, and God save anyone who asks me to sight-read

[thefortysecond]

Wow, wall of text. Sorry!!

[melodyofmysoul]

Wall of text is very much appreciated, really. :D

Musicology sounds very interesting! My high school actually has a very good music program for college students but for some reason I was not inclined to pursue further studies in music. It's probably because my parents wished for me to go for a more practical college degree while still staying true to one of my interests (in my case it's Computer Science).

Ah, sight-reading is a pain for me most of the time, too. Mostly I can't get the timing right. Actually, it's more appropriate to say that I can hardly sight-read haha!

I'm now trying to work on notating the piano solo of the Ooku theme, and it does seem that doing stuff bit by bit is the best way to go. :) Hopefully I'll be able to churn out something substantial soon.

[boohaysaging]

wow! congrats sa pagiging co-mod :) napansin ko nga yang com na yan eh~

ako gusto ko matuto ng piano after ko marinig/mapanuod si Joe Hisaishi.

Wala naman akong masabing iba kasi wala nga akong experience jan. Pero matanong ko lang, ano/sino ba inspiration mo sa pagppiano? :)

[melodyofmysoul]

Salamat! Seryoso, hindi ko akalaing magiging co-mod ako this soon haha! :P Actually at first gusto ko sana mag-work with a subbing group as QC (kasi sobrang OC ako sa grammar) pero mas time-consuming siya and wala akong experience.

Nung bata ako mahilig si Papa makinig sa classical music, so na-influence ako. Tapos sobrang nagandahan ako sa way ng pag-play ng pianists. Sa tinagal-tagal ko ng piano studies parang hindi ko na-achieve yun haha! Recently ko lang napansin na ang weird ng form ng fingers ko pag tumutugtog ako. Pero yun nga, may use pa rin naman yung skills na meron ako so I guess more practice lang talaga kailangan ko.