Music Homework

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I'm doing my music homework which involves listening to drums and writing down the rhythms. The dog thinks someone is at the door. :) I'm going to have to use headphones. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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kristina l s's picture

Sounds like fun. I don't want to think how my two would react to that. I have enough trouble with ads where there's a doorbell. Not to mention Nature doco's with wolves howling. Oh dear. Must be genetic memory or something. Happy counting.

Kristina

I DO use headphones

and the people next door still think I'm out there chopping wood. They must be mental thinking I can chop that fast :)

Curious--even electronic drums make a hell of a racket (I have a little Yamaha DTII Express kit).

I'm alright with triplets, paradiddles and flams, but I still have a few problems with the Moeller method. I don't get the bounce off the pads I'd like and using carbon fibre sticks--which as expensive as they were, don't give the response I'd like, but they are almost bomb proof--by Christ they need to be at $30 a pair.

Still, for banging out a bit of Rainbow or Whitesnake or G'n'R, they're fine. I just need to practice more...

Happy tapping, Erin

Jessica
I don't just look it, I really AM that bad...

Music Practice and Pets...

Our dog is very curious, when it comes to clarinet/oboe sounds, and sticks her nose in the bell to sniff... Oooo the surprised jump, when the instrument makes a sound. She also likes to sing with the other girls in the house that are capable of singing on key (Spouse & daughters). Sadly, she does better than I do, I think.

Interestingly, she has no curiosity at all about the french horn the youngest is learning to play. Nor did she have any interest in the piano. Go figure. I guess even our pets have opinions on music. (Of course they do.)

Annette

Pitch

erin's picture

Dogs can hear very high pitched sounds, I suspect that the woodwinds make some such noise that intrigues your dog. Mine ignores the piano unless I play a descending major third, C# to A above middle C. With the right rhythm, it sounds like the doorbell. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.