I'm at a plateau in my fiddle learning. For the last year I've been around the same level in playing. There were some set backs associated with anticipated decrease in hearing and getting used to new hearing aids, and I've faced those challenges head on. But it's a thankless task…
Mandy Harvey talking about her recent journey with a cochlear implant. https://www.facebook.com/mandyharveymusic/videos/863685561407521…
About eleven days ago I embarked on a new journey with my hearing. I am upgrading my hearing aids to a new generation of device, and I am still in the middle of the shadow, in the darkness where I am grasping at straws. I have yet to really gel…
I left this blog for a long time because I packed up my life and moved from Toronto to Vancouver! The first 6 months of 2022 was a moving adventure, and I've only now started to unwind from the move and getting settled for real. This year all of the…
Haven't posted for a long while. I've moved to Vancouver and started on a series of Music Theory Rudiments and Harmony / Listening courses. They are breaking my brain, but at least there's some kind of learning by osmosis going on.…
In practice I feel better.…
One of the most fascinating things about musical learning is that my sound changes from time to time. While I originally thought that my sound is just my sound, I realise now that my sound is changing! I don't know how to quantify that or how to describe it, but…
At the beginning of the pandemic I started evolving my recording setup for getting the sounds from my instrument into the computer and out through Zoom/Facetime for lessons and into a file for recording. Indeed, all musicians have to figure out what works best for them online, and there…