Re: Stick as first instrument ever???
stickyfingers wrote:
not a musician just a hobbyist having fun.i heard someone say often ;"Happy Tapping"
Well said.
Till around 4 years ago I thought I was a no hoper musically.
I had a pretty good bunch of teachers through my school days so when they said I was tone deaf & thus 'unmusical' I believed them.
It took me till I was nearly 60 years to discover they were
wrong!
Then I discovered that no one who loves listening to music (as I always have) can be tone deaf. To the very small percentage of people who really are tone deaf (i.e those who have a medical condition known as
Amusia), music essentially comes across as meaningless noise.
Armed with that knowledge I discovered that the reason I couldn't sing in tune was that I'd never picked up that matching pitch was something you could learn to do (provided you don't have Amusia). Previously I'd believed it was a thing that "just happened", but only for certain people. Apparently my teachers believed that too.
That discovery changed everything & I've been catching up ever since.
It's all still very much a work in progress but I can now sing moderately enough that if I say to my wife (who has an excellent 'ear') "
You know the song, it goes like this", she can actually tell what I'm trying to sing (the first time that happened was a big day for me). I've also started to learn several instruments.
I discovered Stick about 18 months ago and was lucky enough to find a used one a bit over a year ago. I don't claim to be a player, but I can make increasingly musical noises.
I've not had any formal musical training, or any direct 'lessons'. I've just used books & on-line materials & courses.
My aim is not to impress others, it's just to have fun making music(al noises).
Go on. Try it.