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Jun. 6th, 2019 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7well. so. it's been a week. this week has been, anyway. i thought all week it was a day later in the week than it was, which meant tuesday night was spent working really hard on my long-neglected banjo playing because i thought the next night was our lesson.
it wasn't, but. now i've worked hard for two nights on banjo. i was set back last week by getting a big slice cut out of my pinky finger right through the string-fretting callus on chicken day, and that's healed now so i have to work hard. current frustration is the thing we were supposed to practice this week, the teacher played into dude's phone, and he played it super-haltingly, so there are a bunch of errors and missing bits (clearly, he's used to playing it much faster, and had trouble missing notes, and when we reconstructed it and strung it together, combined with the bit we had learned before, it's... it's about a bar and a half too short, and there's a bit that's clearly meant to match another bit and they're different lengths.
it's the sort of thing i think i could resolve by just playing it through, but I have not been able to master any of the fingerings enough to play it through smoothly on my own, and Dude's brain doesn't work that way, he's playing it exactly as he understands it and can't figure out how to make it match the other part. It's frustrating both of us and we're not making any progress.
So instead we worked on backup chords. I can hear what they're supposed to be and when they're supposed to change; I don't know why. He can't, and has to be told. I can't master the fingerings to play the lead parts of the songs well, but I always know the chords. The teacher doesn't like that it looks like we're self-segregating ourselves into lead and backup playing, so. I spent a bunch of time explaining what chords go where, so at least one of us will look competent. I can't master the lead stuff.
Oh well.
I'm not doing banjo because I think I'm going to be good at it.
Been trying to work out the logistics of, like, the rest of the summer, too. It's a lot.
And I brought all these plants back to Buffalo with me so I'm really really trying to get them into the ground and it is going slowly. But I have some beds prepared. I just have to get everything into the ground. Argh. At least there's ground. I cleared out literally a decade of built-up undergrowth, though. It's kind of gross.
I'm so tired, I haven't been sleeping well this week. I really just want several days off, to garden and write, but there's no time.
My current project is evaluating a damaged/defective drone that the dealer won't take back. if it's usable, I can buy it cheap, which would be fantastic, but I have a feeling it's really pretty broken and so can't be used. We'll see.
it wasn't, but. now i've worked hard for two nights on banjo. i was set back last week by getting a big slice cut out of my pinky finger right through the string-fretting callus on chicken day, and that's healed now so i have to work hard. current frustration is the thing we were supposed to practice this week, the teacher played into dude's phone, and he played it super-haltingly, so there are a bunch of errors and missing bits (clearly, he's used to playing it much faster, and had trouble missing notes, and when we reconstructed it and strung it together, combined with the bit we had learned before, it's... it's about a bar and a half too short, and there's a bit that's clearly meant to match another bit and they're different lengths.
it's the sort of thing i think i could resolve by just playing it through, but I have not been able to master any of the fingerings enough to play it through smoothly on my own, and Dude's brain doesn't work that way, he's playing it exactly as he understands it and can't figure out how to make it match the other part. It's frustrating both of us and we're not making any progress.
So instead we worked on backup chords. I can hear what they're supposed to be and when they're supposed to change; I don't know why. He can't, and has to be told. I can't master the fingerings to play the lead parts of the songs well, but I always know the chords. The teacher doesn't like that it looks like we're self-segregating ourselves into lead and backup playing, so. I spent a bunch of time explaining what chords go where, so at least one of us will look competent. I can't master the lead stuff.
Oh well.
I'm not doing banjo because I think I'm going to be good at it.
Been trying to work out the logistics of, like, the rest of the summer, too. It's a lot.
And I brought all these plants back to Buffalo with me so I'm really really trying to get them into the ground and it is going slowly. But I have some beds prepared. I just have to get everything into the ground. Argh. At least there's ground. I cleared out literally a decade of built-up undergrowth, though. It's kind of gross.
I'm so tired, I haven't been sleeping well this week. I really just want several days off, to garden and write, but there's no time.
My current project is evaluating a damaged/defective drone that the dealer won't take back. if it's usable, I can buy it cheap, which would be fantastic, but I have a feeling it's really pretty broken and so can't be used. We'll see.
