« Guitar: Absolute Beginners’/Bluffers’ Lesson #1 | Main | Choosing What Instrument to Learn #5: Violin/Fiddle (part 1) »
New Instrument!
By Rick | August 26, 2008
Well, new to me, that is.I recently started learning fiddle. I figured that, as I have now spent several years sucking at guitar, bass, mandolin, bodhran and tin whistle, I might as well be useless at something really different and interesting. And it is really interesting. This is an instrument that manages to be fun and really frustrating at the same time.
To be honest, that’s one of the reasons for the hideously extended hiatus that you’ll have noticed between this post and the last one. I’ve been spending so much time learning and playing music that I’ve spent next to no time writing about it! But even though I totally need to practice for a couple of hours a day if I’m ever going to get competent on this violin thing, I hereby undertake to get a freakin’ grip and post regularly to this blog.
Since I last wrote I’ve had a rethink about a couple of things. The gig-guide thing, for example. With plenty of guides already existing (Lemonrock, for example) it seems a bit futile to reinvent the wheel. I’ll still be happy to post to publicise gigs, but I’m not going to bother pushing a structured guide.
On the other hand, the bluffers’ guide thing still appeals, so I’ll be putting together ones for mandolin and ukulele in the next few days.
Sorry about the lull. Please keep coming back!
Topics: Acoustic, Getting Started, Instruments, News and Announcements, Uncategorized |