One of the things I decided to do for myself was to learn how to play the fiddle. I always wanted to do rock/jazz violin, and I think you learn how to play the fiddle instead of the violin to learn how to do that. Actually the fiddle and the violin are the same instrument, you just play them a little differently.
It's difficult to "find time" to practice, but I think that would be the case whether I was caretaking or not. What is holding me back is my sound is really bad, which is common for beginning players.
I went to my lesson this morning, and it really showed that I didn't practice too much this week. I think it's kind of interesting that you need to build up "brain memory" between your eyes, brain, and hands in order to find the right positions for fingering because there are no frets on a violin. I'm also relearning how to read music, I haven't done that since I was 11 or so
Practice, practice, practice! Now I'm off to see my brother to see if my husband was really right that he was feeling better. I need to see if he's good enough to take him our for a smoothie or juice drink, he really likes it when I get him out of his building. The problem is that it's super cold today and I don't want to make his cold worse. Tonight we are going out to a performance of Second City for my daughter's high school. Life goes on, one way or another.
Ciao!
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