Unusual talent..fun question

Timewise 60+ said:
Holly, I thought I was always too busy to try learning a new instrument, but I missed playing music. I thought about renting a French Horn (they are expensive) as I can play that, but my neighbors and wife would not appreciate that, as the Horn is not much of a solo instrument.

Therefore, after I retired, I decided to get a Classical Guitar. It is not called a classical guitar because of the type of music it is used for, but because it is a little wider in the neck and has nylon strings, giving it a softer sound which is more of a classical sound. I think it is easier to play than an acoustic guitar or electric guitar that both have steel strings.

I am trying to learn how to play each note independently as I already know how to play most of the cords used on a guitar. But, if you can play single notes and blend in some cords, you can pretty much play the guitar for any type of music. Slowly I am getting to where I can pluck out a song as I read the music. It is relaxing when I practice, and I am glad I am doing it. It breaks up my day and gives me to time to focus completely on one thing...playing music.

The guitar neck and associated frets are laid out exactly like a piano keyboard. People who learn one, can then adapt fairly easily to the other...
If you have time, rent a keyboard for a while and see if it brings you relaxation and enjoyment...you might find it to be something you really enjoy! Good Luck...
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Sounds ideal.. ..my daughter plays classical, acoustic, and Bass guitar.. her speciality is the Bass... she also plays a range of woodwind instruments.. including the Bass recorder.. which when she was just learning at around 8 years old was almost as big as she was... :D

My days are past being able to play anything stringed due to the OA in my fingers now.. once upon a time I would have loved to have learned to play Steel Guitar.. but again never had the opportunity or the money to learn back in the day...

I'm pleased you've redicovered your love of the guitar.. isntruments have a way of taking you out of the current world.. and really I should seriously start looking for some type of easy on the hands instrument...
 

i guess my talent would be that i can type 120 words per minute. i entered a fastest typing contest and won a 4 foot yellow plastic paper clip and had to bring it home on a bus. everyone was staring at me.

I used to be able to bend my index finger to the back of my hand. Even showed the kids at show & tell. they oohed and ahh'd. the teacher cringed i am sure. yep.
 
  1. Able to see and hear people from beyond the veil. I was totally clairvoyant until my teens, I do only occasionally now. I'm still clairaudient.
  2. In my childhood, if upset, I moved chalks and brushes from blackboard and spin a pencil upstanding. It was discovered I had the ability called "Telekinesis", it stopped after my father died in front of me in my mid-teens.
  3. I can read Tarot cards. I don't give personal readings.
  4. I've received accurate predictions from time to time. The last one being that an unbelievable accident was going to happen on the east coast of USA. This was 4 years before 9/11. The part where the towers fell was what I'd seen in 97...
 

I don't know how I forgot to include this in my reply #11 but reading @Supernatural's post reminded me.
I can do psychometry readings with about 80% accuracy. Psychometry is when the reader holds a person's personal object in his or her hand and gets images and information from those items. Sometimes I predicted future events, other times I accurately described something that already happened. Sometimes I described places I saw them in. Here's the link of my post that goes into further detail about some of the readings. I have more to add at some point. After I accepted Islam, I stopped giving readings.
I Held Their Jewelry In My Hands And Did Psychometry Readings
Currently, additional readings in that thread as of are in replies #8, 14 & 28
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
I don't know how I forgot to include this in my reply #11 but reading @Supernatural's post reminded me.
I can do psychometry readings with about 80% accuracy. Psychometry is when the reader holds a person's personal object in his or her hand and gets images and information from those items. Sometimes I predicted future events, other times I accurately described something that already happened. Sometimes I described places I saw them in. Here's the link of my post that goes into further detail about some of the readings. I have more to add at some point. After I accepted Islam, I stopped giving readings.
I Held Their Jewelry In My Hands And Did Psychometry Readings
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Oh that's what its called... Thanks @OneEyedDiva ... I do psychometry slightly differently. Walking into a second hand shop, I can feel without touching, if an item is haunted by the original owner.

The items retain impressions from previous ownership. It came in useful in days where daughter collected Porcelain Dolls. I could tell her which ones to leave alone and which ones were safe.

Lastly, jewellery... Diamond rings pawned which didn't bring the receiver happiness, are usually found with dark auras... Quite a few found that way. With a bit of research, you discover by luck what happened... Bad vibes, I recall one, where I saw the lady buried with it but stolen from her coffin afterwards. Shocking!

Thanks!
 
birdy said:
I used to play piano but it's been a long time. I actually have a piano in my living room but I only rarely sit and play anything. My skills have deteriorated.

I can type very fast. Maybe from all those piano lessons and moving my fingers. Mostly cause I am impatient.
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Mine is a portable one, which hasn't been played or taken out the box since my son went into hospital, so since 2016.

We always took it out and installed it on the base during the Christmas holidays. I've had lessons but I prefer playing by ears, much easier šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
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Supernatural said:
Mine is a portable one, which hasn't been played or taken out the box since my son went into hospital, so since 2016.

We always took it out and installed it on the base during the Christmas holidays. I've had lessons but I prefer playing by ears, much easier šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
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What type of songs did you like playing?
Whatā€™s your favourite song you learned how to play. ? Do you sing too?
 
old medic said:
I have played a multitude of instruments since I picked up my Grandfathers Mandolin. Then as time went on, guitar 6 and 12 string, Bass Drums Banjo Fiddle. Played Bass in a high school garage band, and several different String bands for square dances.
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Which did you enjoy playing more and why?
Iā€™m guessing the banjo and fiddle were the string bands. Quartets?
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Which did you enjoy playing more and why?
Iā€™m guessing the banjo and fiddle were the string bands. Quartets?
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Well Thats really a toss up. Playing Bass and Drums in the late 70s provided many friendly female friends and great memories. You know the old saying "Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll."
But I grew up listening to the Old-Time music. The stuff that been carried and played by families for generations. My Grandfather had a Square Dance Band and played about every weekend. His Uncle was a well-known Irish Fiddler. So after the rebellious teen years I went back to my roots. At this time, Banjo is my main instrument, Harmonica next. Ill still pick up a fiddle for the couple tunes I can scratch out. It is amazing that there are very few "Professonal" Old-Time bands. You don't find it played on the radio or in stores. Its more social music as one old fiddler said. This video will give you an Idea of the music and how its passed along. . Its from a festival we have gone to for over 25 years.
 
old medic said:
Well Thats really a toss up. Playing Bass and Drums in the late 70s provided many friendly female friends and great memories. You know the old saying "Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll."
But I grew up listening to the Old-Time music. The stuff that been carried and played by families for generations. My Grandfather had a Square Dance Band and played about every weekend. His Uncle was a well-known Irish Fiddler. So after the rebellious teen years I went back to my roots. At this time, Banjo is my main instrument, Harmonica next. Ill still pick up a fiddle for the couple tunes I can scratch out. It is amazing that there are very few "Professonal" Old-Time bands. You don't find it played on the radio or in stores. Its more social music as one old fiddler said. This video will give you an Idea of the music and how its passed along. . Its from a festival we have gone to for over 25 years.
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That sounds similar to my experience when I moved to Mid-Missouri. I met the old time fiddlers and the whole bunch at small ( sometimes pretty big ) gatherings . The jams were so fun. I learned to play guitar with them. I never could touch the better players who had grown up with that tradition. That hillbilly bluegrass myth is not quite a myth but an active part of many peoples' culture.
 
Paco Dennis said:
That sounds similar to my experience when I moved to Mid-Missouri. I met the old time fiddlers
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Missouri has a lot of the OT Fiddlers/Musicians
Paco Dennis said:
That hillbilly bluegrass myth is not quite a myth but an active part of many peoples' culture.
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Its funny you use the term Bluegrass. There's tons of Bluegrass tunes that have been played for 100s of years before "Bluegrass" existed.
As for Hillbilly, Some folks call that a derogatory comment, I wear it as a badge of honor.
 
old medic said:
Well Thats really a toss up. Playing Bass and Drums in the late 70s provided many friendly female friends and great memories. You know the old saying "Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll."
But I grew up listening to the Old-Time music. The stuff that been carried and played by families for generations. My Grandfather had a Square Dance Band and played about every weekend. His Uncle was a well-known Irish Fiddler. So after the rebellious teen years I went back to my roots. At this time, Banjo is my main instrument, Harmonica next. Ill still pick up a fiddle for the couple tunes I can scratch out. It is amazing that there are very few "Professonal" Old-Time bands. You don't find it played on the radio or in stores. Its more social music as one old fiddler said. This video will give you an Idea of the music and how its passed along. . Its from a festival we have gone to for over 25 years.
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Thanks for that info. I knew thereā€™d be a story somewhere and a great one involving family at that. Itā€™s taken me almost my entire life to discover that a fiddle and violin are the same instrument. What itā€™s called depends on how itā€™s used.

Groups and good musicians ARE indeed still out there. Society now has such fabulous choice of varied options in music now making small town groups feel, almost, obsolete. Trying to make a living as a musician is super tough in todayā€™s society. I think we will get overrun with AI one day.

Iā€™m familiar with the 70ā€™s. I was very much a party of that ā€˜sex, drugs and rock ā€˜n rolls.ā€™

Whatā€™s your favourite song to play?
 
Supernatural said:
All the Christmas book and the Beatles collection.

Oh Holy Night. Yes, I was in a choir. Still sing along with any songs when the mood strikes šŸ˜‚
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Some of my absolute favourite.
Christmas music is what Iā€™m listening to right now. I have Bells Stingrays Holiday favourites on which is a lovely variety of old to new pop songs. Some old time classics too.

Another singer. Yayyyy.

The Beatles hold a special place in my heart. When I was younger Iā€™d skip school and sneak into my brothers room to listen to their Beatles collection on their turntable. It was a grand experience.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Itā€™s taken me almost my entire life to discover that a fiddle and violin are the same instrument. What itā€™s called depends on how itā€™s used.
Whatā€™s your favourite song to play?
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The best definition I ever heard, You play a violin from sheet music, You play a Fiddle from your heart. There actually is a physical small difference between them. Most fiddlers will flatten the bridge.
This time of year... Breakin up Christmas....
 
old medic said:
The best definition I ever heard, You play a violin from sheet music, You play a Fiddle from your heart. There actually is a physical small difference between them. Most fiddlers will flatten the bridge.
This time of year... Breakin up Christmas....
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Thatā€™s a stereotypical answer but Iā€™ve known violin players who also play by ear. You are describing ā€˜classā€™ instead of personal preference. Most fiddlers probably donā€™t know how to read music but that doesnā€™t take away from their creativity.


A while ago on another forum I saw a post that was criticizing musicians who used music stands, claiming they werenā€™t true musicians.

Why do humans need to conquer and divide.

The world needs ALL types of musicians equally.

Most of my music is played by ear but I still appreciate sight reading when the mood strikes.
 
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I'm good at:
1. wasting time worrying about things that happened long ago or that will never happen
2. finding cheap and easy work-arounds to appliance repairs and mechanical problems
3. being polite and diplomatic when speaking about sensitive matters
4. being kind to animals.
 

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