what i did today and asking myself what musical instrument to learn?
Today I didn't really do much, at least for the first half of the day i did nothing worth mentioning, i slept in the afternoon, got up and contemplated on whom to call and where to go/what to do. then a friend and me went for a walk in Sankey tank despite the light drizzle all the time. after a couple of rounds we rode home and stopped by at Shanti Sagar for some coffee. the conversation got around me learning a musical instrument. especially after we passed a shop window with guitars on sale near Bashyam circle. i certainly did want to learn an instrument but was confused on which one to learn.
i had kind of made up my mind on 3 instruments: either a guitar or a percussive instrument(drum set) or a mridangam. percussion and mrudangam seemed ok since i liked rhythm but after looking thru a few websites and listening to some drum solos by dream theater, ozzy osbourne and slip knot my impression of drums began to fall, the fast drum solos didn't seem very melodious or rhythmic in a sense that i had envisioned. mrudangam seemed pretty good by what i learnt from wikipedia but the thought that it seemed too ethnic and me learning it in a very Indian gurukool style under some teacher of old school attitude didn't seem to go well with me, it also seemed a little too different from my musical interests. sure it was a really good instrument its just that i would like to experiment later when i (hopefully) have more time to explore my interests.
so that leaves only one instrument! the oh-so-popular guitar, the instrument most people who knew a musical instrument knew! that would make me just another guy knowing it, but hey! i am playing for myself right?? i shall be clear on this ...that i'm learning and playing it for my pleasure alone! so guitar it is!
ok! apart from this, i spoke to my brother and R today both seemed really excited about my placement, i was happy that they were really happy and i also got scraps from S & M congratulating me on it. its good to see people happy!
that was today. will sign out now, and i must mention this cool Mozilla Firefox plug in that makes it really easy to blog, its called ScribeFire. I'm blogging right out of my browser now and all it takes is one click to publish the text.
i had kind of made up my mind on 3 instruments: either a guitar or a percussive instrument(drum set) or a mridangam. percussion and mrudangam seemed ok since i liked rhythm but after looking thru a few websites and listening to some drum solos by dream theater, ozzy osbourne and slip knot my impression of drums began to fall, the fast drum solos didn't seem very melodious or rhythmic in a sense that i had envisioned. mrudangam seemed pretty good by what i learnt from wikipedia but the thought that it seemed too ethnic and me learning it in a very Indian gurukool style under some teacher of old school attitude didn't seem to go well with me, it also seemed a little too different from my musical interests. sure it was a really good instrument its just that i would like to experiment later when i (hopefully) have more time to explore my interests.
so that leaves only one instrument! the oh-so-popular guitar, the instrument most people who knew a musical instrument knew! that would make me just another guy knowing it, but hey! i am playing for myself right?? i shall be clear on this ...that i'm learning and playing it for my pleasure alone! so guitar it is!
ok! apart from this, i spoke to my brother and R today both seemed really excited about my placement, i was happy that they were really happy and i also got scraps from S & M congratulating me on it. its good to see people happy!
that was today. will sign out now, and i must mention this cool Mozilla Firefox plug in that makes it really easy to blog, its called ScribeFire. I'm blogging right out of my browser now and all it takes is one click to publish the text.
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