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Seven years ago today
Wednesday, 3 September 2003
DP 4.1 is finally out.
Random blast from the past
The hard part of school for me will be over on Monday, so I’ll get to relax a bit at that point and get back to making music.
Friday, 5 December 2003
I don’t think I can say enough nice things about Panther. It’s an essential upgrade to OS X. And unlike with MS, a system upgrade means things get faster. Can you tell I really like this upgrade?
Tuesday, 17 August 2010.
Got in a bit of piano practice today, mostly sight reading through a setting of the Our Father. I did discover that I have a cable gone bad (time to toss it, I suppose). I think that I would profit from spending some time doing a thorough check on all of my cables and discarding those which have poor signal throughput and replacing them. The monster cable that I had running from the mono out on the mixer to my KC500 was working fine, though. I hate to say it, but that might be the route to go for cabling everything up.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010.
Played the Catholic Worker seder and came home exhausted. Jackson is all grown up and playing drums and trumpet, which makes things a bit more fun, although the band was a bit spread out.
My fingertips are sore now, courtesy of a lack of callous development.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010.
Got a very small amount of bass practice in, but found that my fingers are feeling very weak. I need to do better with this.
Monday, 22 February 2010.
Got a small amount of bass practice in, but my fingers were too weak to make it as much as a page into Simandl. It’s a pity since my tone was sounding fantastic. But better to come at these things slowly and re-build my strength. From the fact that my case was still on the bass with the music binder in the back pocket, I can deduce that the last time I played the DB was for the December Pax Christi mass.
Wednesday, 17 February 2010.
Ash Wednesday. Took my banjo and a bowl of green curry with winter vegetables to the Catholic Worker. I thought I might be able to play with the finger picks but quickly disabused myself of that notion. My fingerstyle banjo is, I’m realizing, rather defined by my self-taught classical technique, using the thumb and three fingers to play the strings. A few people complimented my banjo playing, but I think that I have a lot of work to do yet.
Monday, 25 January 2010.
Started working on the Clawhammer Banjo from scratch DVD. Only got about 15 minutes in on the first bout, much of which was especially basic, although I did get a touch of RH technique for frailing.
Thursday, 21 January 2010.
Got some mandolin practice in tonight, working on the Beethoven Sonatina for Mandolin. I feel somewhat listless and directionless in my mandolin practice at the moment. I really should find an instructional book to work through.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010.
Spent some time on the first lesson of the Victor Wooten bass CD. Not terribly impressed so far, at this stage, it’s mostly working on getting the skills to use the right thumb kind of like a guitarist uses a pick. Still, it’s a useful discipline to work on, and I think will be handy for using the thumb pick on the banjo.
Sunday, 18 October 2009.
Ended up being the solo musician providing music for Pax Christi again today. Brought the keyboard and a guitar. I remembered a mic, but forgot the mic stand (oops). Played fairly. I really need to spend more time on keys to deal with my sloppiness there.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009.
Got a couple birthday presents early: A Deering Goodtime 2 banjo and an Eastman A505 Mandolin.