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Unlike The Arbourist, I have very little musical talent. I cannot play any instrument, keep time, or even step in rhythm (my dancing has been described as “dangerous”, and not in a good way). On occasion I fantasize about how awesome it would be were I actually a classic guitar virtuoso, percussion prodigy, or mad-skilled pianist. Once the dream fades, I am left wondering what instrument would actually befit a person like me.
Today I happened upon this delightful little article on the CBC music blog and thought it would be fun to share it. It seems that, depending on my mood on a given day, I ought to take up the Viola, the Timpani, or the Cello.
Perhaps you’d like to start playing a musical instrument, or your five-year-old is begging for lessons. But you’re wondering: With so many musical instruments out there, how do I choose?
It’s simple really. Ask anyone in the music business and they’ll tell you that musicians have personalities matched to the instruments they play. So we’ve come up with a little way to figure out the instrument that’s right for you. (Click the image below to enlarge it.)
CBC article here
Ask any cellist. They’ll tell you about what’s it’s like to play the cello part of Pachebel’s Canon in D. It’s the same 8 notes over and over and over again. The good news is, it’s easy to memorize. The bad news is you don’t know when to stop. There’s a rumor floating around that says Pachelbel either died while writing it, never finishing the cello part, or that he dated a cellist and it did NOT go well. This arrangement is dedicated to all the cellists that have fallen asleep while playing this song…or at least wanted to fall asleep. Steven Sharp Nelson actually began writing this arrangment while bored at a wedding.
Ahem…all the bitter cello-malice aside, Pachelbel’s Canon in D (written in the 1600’s) has stood the test of time — celebrated as the most recognizable piece of classical music. We like to call it the “one-hit wonder of the 1600’s.” It really is an amazingly-catchy piece of music. It demonstrates the musical form of the “canon,” when a melody is played and then repeated in a round by other voices. (watch how the melodies are passed from one cello to the next — right to left)
ALL THE SOUNDS YOU HEAR WERE CREATED BY THE CELLO — bowing, plucking, strumming, and beating the cello any way possible.
The bane of many musicians gets the Piano Guys tender treatment. Enjoy. :)
One way of understanding Jazz.
Mathematics and music are inseparable.
“Pearls Before Breakfast”
From the details on the Ytube vid.
“Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
It was 9 minutes to eight in the morning on Friday, January 12 in 2007, the middle of the morning rush hour. L’Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job.
On that Friday, outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators one of the finest classical musicians in the world played some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by.”
So, next performance you take in consider what makes a performance “great”, because it may not be just the music.
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