wow I have progressed from trying to recite the alphabet to numbers ranging from 1 to 4... 🎻 if anyone were listening to me that would be so hilarious
like I am trying to establish the connection between blobs and lines and sounds and finger positions and letters and numbers and that *is* difficult but what I end up saying out loud is like "so this is four... no this is three. and next to three is two. and this is.. two? no"
trying really hard to resist the temptation to just write the numbers on the respective fingers
I just don't know how the same finger is supposed to be in two places with no time in between. this was easier when I *didn't* care which finger went in which position because I'd just have used whichever was handy and I may just do that again because the numbers don't help!
this song is a lot of fun because it's *fast* which I wanted to practice but I expected that to be more work for the fingers than the brain and oh boy, was I wrong about that
unfortunately pressing two strings with one finger is not as easy as it should be unless I pretend it's a guitar and do a quick barré which I still MIGHT because I do not care about the rules
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sooo attaching a strap to the head of the violin made a much bigger difference than I expected! this is awesome!
this is what I did:
I used an elastic shoelace with a fastener,
and a strap with a clip that's the right length to wear around my neck.
wrap the shoelace around the scroll three times with the strap in between, and done! it is very stable and doesn't touch the pegs at all.
I've found that wearing it like this allows for a better sitting position.
this was my previous position, I was very leaned back and let the violin rest against my breastbone and on top of my knees. it's very horizontal that way which is playable but honestly exhausting.
I checked that thread I wrote a few days and found not only multiple people calling me a pedo but also several queers misgendering me. good thing I have deactivated mentions from people who don't follow me because yikes
and the casual anti-queerness from within the community like there's absolutely no issue calling kinky queers "dogshit".
I'm too tired for this but wow
this is so far away from anything reasonable that I don't even feel attacked. I'm just exhausted.
how did we even get here? seriously, where did we go wrong?
I'm so proud of myself!! I think I'm doing alright for week 3 🎻
but I've realised that you can hear the noise of the bow on the strings even when I'm not scratching it and now I don't know if I'm doing something extremely wrong or if you can always hear that???
unfortunately now I have to find another song to play even though I really really love this one and I could just play it forever
as a CSA victim it always pisses me off beyond belief when people post this picture as a way to illustrate how they think that sex-centric and kinky queer activism is harmful to children.
the picture shows a little kid with a rainbow flag in a pink dress at a pride event, showing visible curiosity and touching the leather harness of one of several people on all fours dressed in nothing but underwear, leather harness, dog snout leather mask and wearing leashes.
there is nothing harmful happening in this picture. children can see barely dressed and - *gasp* - even fully naked adults without experiencing any harm.
there is no sexuality in this interaction. the kid probably thinks they're just especially weird dog costumes.