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Cloverbooks - Music
Mar. 5th, 2011 01:27 pmI skipped the last two days out of lack of interest in the prompts and being distracted with other things, but today asks about music so uh. Good luck getting me to shut up.
For starters I should mention that I very much enjoy playing instruments and singing as well as listening to music. When I was young I took up piano, which I later quit due to plateauing in progress and my dad pressuring me to practice stressing me out and making it feel like I was playing for him and not for me. I wish I hadn't quit, looking back, but at the same time I know it wasn't really the instrument for me. I tried saxophone in middle school and my freshman year of high school as part of the band, but the saxophone was very much an instrument that I enjoy listening to much more than I enjoy playing. I did choir and voice lessons in my junior year and part of my senior year, which I only stopped because of an AP English class eating my time and I just never got back to the lessons because I took up something else later that year. My true love. My violin. I loved the piano and I loved singing, I still love both and I poke at them both still. But the violin is the instrument I'm meant to play. I never get sick of practicing it, and the only reason I stop my practices when I do is because after a while I can't hold the posture anymore due to the physical pain I'm constantly in. The pain practicing causes is worth it, though. I love my violin so much.
When it comes to the kind of music I want to play it's pretty much strictly classical, but I'll listen to pretty much anything. I adore classical, but I also love electronic music, soundtracks from musicals, some American pop music, and tons and tons of foreign music, namely Jpop, Kpop, and German music, but I have music in countless languages. Including Slovak. With my foreign stuff, I do like looking up the lyrics, but I generally think it's unnecessary. Words aren't necessary for music to carry meaning. Why do you think so much classical is purely instrumental?
For starters I should mention that I very much enjoy playing instruments and singing as well as listening to music. When I was young I took up piano, which I later quit due to plateauing in progress and my dad pressuring me to practice stressing me out and making it feel like I was playing for him and not for me. I wish I hadn't quit, looking back, but at the same time I know it wasn't really the instrument for me. I tried saxophone in middle school and my freshman year of high school as part of the band, but the saxophone was very much an instrument that I enjoy listening to much more than I enjoy playing. I did choir and voice lessons in my junior year and part of my senior year, which I only stopped because of an AP English class eating my time and I just never got back to the lessons because I took up something else later that year. My true love. My violin. I loved the piano and I loved singing, I still love both and I poke at them both still. But the violin is the instrument I'm meant to play. I never get sick of practicing it, and the only reason I stop my practices when I do is because after a while I can't hold the posture anymore due to the physical pain I'm constantly in. The pain practicing causes is worth it, though. I love my violin so much.
When it comes to the kind of music I want to play it's pretty much strictly classical, but I'll listen to pretty much anything. I adore classical, but I also love electronic music, soundtracks from musicals, some American pop music, and tons and tons of foreign music, namely Jpop, Kpop, and German music, but I have music in countless languages. Including Slovak. With my foreign stuff, I do like looking up the lyrics, but I generally think it's unnecessary. Words aren't necessary for music to carry meaning. Why do you think so much classical is purely instrumental?
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