LDT

Did the sweep burst into song and dance? "Chim-chiminy-chim-chim cheri....I sweep is as lucky as lucky can be..." No snow just very wet horrible rain here.

I think you mean virtual. erm..not born yet. Yeah they always show snow on the news and I'm thinking its not fair. I live in one of the dryest parts of the country apparently...ironic as were by the sea..well estuary really. Last snow was I think febuary 2007 and it was a light dusting like powder on a donut..hardly anything.

(OT means Off Topic for those wondering) So apparently its supposed to snow in the UK tonight.... seems to me round here its just gonna be cold an icy..no snow again. I want a snowball fight.

How does that as a name describe the item? Do you squeeze it? Although I suppose you can play tunes on it....

Shouldn't that be "LDT"? She has long fingernails! Not guilty M'Lud

All very well if I've got about 10mns in between every note to work it out....but I don't so I just work it out before hand and write down the buttons.....I can't grasp music written down if it doesn't relate to how the instrument it played. I'm just musically challenged.

I hope its not too badly damaged.

Hm, I don't think so. Nobody's ever tipped me! Well favoriting and rating with stars could count as tipping. And I've faved your vids before.

The problem has been sorted...it was maintenance.

I thought the change in name was something to do with Herman Munster

Wish UK rules were that simple. lol! I'm soo not good enough though and I get petrified when I play in front of people. So is youtube 'virtual' busking?

Going a little off tangent here but I always wondered in the UK whether you have to ask permission/get a licence to busk. Coz there is always loads down the high street.

I tried to upload tosay and just got this message

I don't know if its just me but on soundlantern every time I click on 'upload' it says the page doesn't exist or has been deleted. Anyone else getting this 'error'?

just wondering....What criteria makes someone a professional rather than an amateur?

That's okay. It'll come. I have pictures of the sheet music in my head too, I can see the Icelandic fisherman on the Loguivy-de-la-Mer page so clearly I could reach out and pull him into my living room! I'd love to know who he was. Anyway, I digress. Do you want to be able to play without sheet music? If you want to, but think you can't, go back to the easiest beginner tune you know - Three Blind Mice, or whatever it is - and try to play that without looking. Find your own method - say out loud "this begins with B-A-G", or whatever provides that stepping stone between the printed notes and your fingers on the buttons. Once you've done one, you can do them all. Bon courage! Its not the 'dots' I'm reading....its the tablature (what number button to push or pull) that I see. I'm worried that's kinda cheating. But I can't read the dots and I can't learn by ear. Oh try this method to remember (c1) doesn't like (c2) because its friends with (c3) and c4 and c5 are best friends...etc. so I say the little story in my mind.

Now that should be on a T-shirt. You made me spit out my drink when I read that.

Given time, you will be able to associate the noises in your head with the noises made by the buttons of your instrument. If that ever happens I'll throw a party to celebrate. Are we all invited? Yep..but its an online party with virtual drinks and nibbles....oh and I'll need a virtual band to play music. I can do the chorus bit...but I'm not knowing ah that note must come next its more I've visulised the tablature as a 'image' in my head. So what about Bella Notte (song from Lady and the Tramp)? What does everyone think of that?

I keep mine in a patchwork quilted bag either on top of or inside the cardboard box the concertina came in, next to my bed.

I used to be quite muddle headed and dozy...then I gave up cola and suddenly its like a curtain got lifted. Now I'm slowly reducing the amount of tea I drink. So I have 2 mugs normal tea in the day and rest of the time its herbal tea (raspberry and echinatia).

Given time, you will be able to associate the noises in your head with the noises made by the buttons of your instrument. If that ever happens I'll throw a party to celebrate.

I've had it stuck in my head for 3 days. lol! If it' sufficiently 'stuck in your head' LTD put the printed score to one side and have a go at playing it straight from the head and the heart. *laughs heartily* How's having the song going round my head in rapidly decreasing circles going to tell me what buttons to use?

listening to evenessence http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cEoP43Pv57k I would like to play that song but I know its just out of my league. (btw. I sooo want a dress like the red tartan one in the vid)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEraxj559Y everybody wants to be a cat...what plays concertina and little mermaid http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLo8AXPFAU peter pan http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-3s0xx_RP84

I did its just they have a nasty habit of growing. I keep my thumbnails long so I can open things...