Fiddle Playing as Therapy?
Thoughts on Music as Therapy The last few weeks I’ve writing notes about my practices in a diary, mostly to see if I could discern some kind of pattern or at least put my poor 2020 diary to some positive use (spoiler alert: writing in a dedicated journal about your feelings, I’ve decided, is for…
Music Memories
Does music exit your brain when you haven’t practiced in a while? I’ve recently had a very busy period at work, and so haven’t been practicing as much as normal. I’m also trying out running at the moment and spoiler alert: two hobbies take up a lot of time. Double spoiler alert: I can’t run.…
Online Resources to help you learn Irish Fiddle Part 1
I so very nearly didn’t post today. Stressful Monday equals no desire to write. But then I thought about how I promised myself I would do this, and also contemplated how I could’ve thought the whole ‘posting on Mondays’ thing through – there are literally 6 other days to pick from, Kate! Anyway, to get…
Beginnings
Just Play that Damn Banjo Starting out in learning a musical instrument, especially as an adult, is a very strange thing. Think about how weird it is to bang things together and make sounds out of it, and then repeat that action a million times, while reading another language and also trying to stay in…
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Hi, I’m Kate. I’m on a mission to learn as much about music (and in particular the violin) as I can. The realm of music learning and making is absolutely endless. I post on practice, genres and styles I’m testing out, things I’m learning and musical setbacks and wins. New posts every Monday and Thursday!
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