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Diary — 24 April 2017:
I wish I had practiced the guitar better. Not more, but better. I wish I had practiced the 5 instruments I picked up, better. Not more, but better.
I haven’t always been playing the guitar. It’s only been about 9 years since I started. Before that, I was singing. I never realised back then, but I was paying a lot of…
It’s easy to think of singing or playing an instrument as needing some sort of effort. With time though, you begin to see that it is about flow.
I’m sure many of us have covered and uncovered our phone’s (or even our radio’s) speakers in rapid succession to create a wah-wah sound. The music sounds dull and bass-filled, and then turns up the higher…
“To be a ninja, first learn to move like a ninja.”
I was informally learning martial arts from a much older friend and those were the words he said to get a 9-year old excited…
I was so used to the pitches that I sang in Hindustani classical music that it never even occurred to me to listen to the actual pitches being used in other styles like Indonesian or Persian or even pop.
About two years ago, I injured my left index finger from over-practicing. It was quite crushing, to say the least. I was practicing playing the flute too much (the metre-long Indian bansuri) and the resulting…
It was when I was composing a piece on the guitar recently that I thought to include a natural source for the rhythm section instead of using a drum machine in the intro. What I had in mind…
