Jazz Night
May. 8th, 2017 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeeteaandmeOne of the gifts of Scarborough Faire is the lively music community, largely maintained by Jim Hancock. Sunday night jam, Monday night jazz night, Thursday night acoustic jam at Peter's glass booth,Saturday night concerts from on site artists. Heard there's a blues night at the hammock booth, but I don't know the crowd.
Tonight I brought the upright bass to the jazz night. Seriously intimidating crowd, everyone there is really good, but bass is, shall we say, not rocket surgery. :) It's still hard and embarrassing to be such a rank beginner, but it's obvious no one expects virtuosity,and Jim has been picking a lot of easy numbers so I can get my feet under me with the open strings. My left arm is super tired, but I feel like I'm contributing and learning, so I'm happy. :)
Other things I'm doing: ditching the $300 Rosetta stone Italian course my aunt sent me in favor of daily drills on Duo Lingo (Man, that is fun!), occasionally going over violin drills that I learned from TJ up in WI, and learning new songs for our new project, the BTM. :)
Tonight I brought the upright bass to the jazz night. Seriously intimidating crowd, everyone there is really good, but bass is, shall we say, not rocket surgery. :) It's still hard and embarrassing to be such a rank beginner, but it's obvious no one expects virtuosity,and Jim has been picking a lot of easy numbers so I can get my feet under me with the open strings. My left arm is super tired, but I feel like I'm contributing and learning, so I'm happy. :)
Other things I'm doing: ditching the $300 Rosetta stone Italian course my aunt sent me in favor of daily drills on Duo Lingo (Man, that is fun!), occasionally going over violin drills that I learned from TJ up in WI, and learning new songs for our new project, the BTM. :)
