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skye the pigeon fairy

15 May, 10 tweets, 2 min read

violin progress day 9!

this was not the best run of this song but the only one with #OhMyOllie so I'm posting this one.

I'm sick of this song now so tomorrow I'll learn another. gotta keep moving to make my ADHD happy

as always everyone who plays anything similar is invited to give me advice, but, well this is day 9 😂 I am painfully aware of how often I don't hit the right note and pluck a string that's supposed to be quiet

somehow I was expecting it to take longer before I can produce something that resembles a song

I need to find something that's a little bit more difficult than this while still being playable 🤔

I don't know what factors make a song difficult on the violin lol. I still think in "black keys are hard"

(which tells you more about my childhood piano teacher than anything else)

so far I have not needed to use my pinky finger and I don't like that. I want to use my pinky finger

I know I should be happy but there's still this deep sense of jealously of everyone who can just hold the instrument normally. like I'm somehow automatically less because I can't. exhausting disability feels. I don't want to deal with this right now :(

I keep thinking like what if I just do it anyway, it can't be that hard... no. we've tried. over and over. yesterday I held my hand up like that, just for a second, and my fingers went numb immediately. today I turned the wrist like that just to verify, and it still hurts

why is this so hard? I know my body. I have a solution. the solution WORKS. why

anyway my fingertips are getting really nice and hard, which makes me unreasonably happy

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