I have just completed 200 hours of music practice!
148 1/2 hours of violin.
29 1/2 hours of double bass.
22 hours of guitar.
These are concentrated hours of serious practice. They don't include gigs, band rehearsals or jams.
200 hours.
I keep the double bass going for old time's sake and the guitar is a bit of a hobby.
The violin gets priority treatment.
I had my first violin lesson in 1961 when I was eight years old. My mother bought two violins at a local school fair. She brought them home and asked her three sons (the younger two were still a way off being born) who would like to learn to play them. My younger brother and I were quick to put our hands up. We attended lessons with a Catholic nun named Sister Joachim. I think she was a good teacher. I stayed with her until I attended Victoria University and studied with a guy named Gavin Saunders. I didn't do much practice because I spent more time trying to get a girlfriend. I did scrape through level one but then turned to musical composition as my major. I did gain a B.Mus(hons) degree. I failed at getting girlfriends.
I got into playing the bass guitar and, a short time after, started studying the double bass. A bit earlier, around when I was fourteen, I had started fooling around on the guitar.
The bass guitar and double bass became my main instruments for most of my life.
In 2012 I started practising the violin again.
At present I teach violin (and a bit of double bass and viola) at two secondary schools, but my main efforts go into picking up my elder grandson, feeding my younger grandson and music practice. In the practice department the violin comes first. In the greater scheme of things my grandsons (and my wife and children) come first.
Well, there you have it.
At some point I hope to get out and play my 30 tune solo violin repertoire.
I guess we'll have to see how that unfolds.
Ah well, chi va piano va sano e va lontano, e arriva in ritardo.
Ciao.
6 commenti:
"Well done that man" would have said Father McCann if he'd taught music instead of science.
Never mind - I'll find some sort of participation certificate for you and post it tomorrow,
I just can't wait!
Interesting. But "Slow and steady wins the race but arrives late" has me scratching my head.. Is that an allusion to "the first shall be last' in the Bible?
It's just an old Italian joke.
Nothing to do with the silly Bible.
I read The Bible, not that other one you mention.
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