Thursday, April 28, 2011

Get out of my Comfort Zone!

            For the first time in my life, I got the chance to play with other violinist together with my teacher! He listed me to join on one of the instrumentalist in Balanga Cathedral. I'm so glad that he choose me! Of course I'm so excited when I heard that news and most especially to jam with other violinist!

            Day 1: I met 3 of the members. The girl was a beginner like me but she plays piano really good. The other one was, I can say that he's an intermediate already because the way he played the songs..he knows vibrato! Haha! But the only problem was, he forgot how to read notes! A major problem! And the last one was another an intermediate player because he can read notes very well and knew how to do vibrato..a little I think. So it was a fun day for the three of us; practice, practice and practice! =P

            Day 2: We went to the cathedral to meet other players. There were 3 of them again. One was a violin teacher, so I can expect that he's good! The other two was his students. So, all in all we're 7 violinist who played on that event. We practice a lot but honestly speaking, it's kinda hard for me because I didn't used to read notes that fast without hearing the melody first. Awww..I struggled there! But of course, my teacher always motivates me and cheered me. I remember that night, he said: "It's okay if your tone's not perfect, at least you enjoyed what you are doing and in HIM, your tone is always superb" I nearly cried when I heard that from him!

            Day 3: It's grand assembly and general practice. We met the pianist, flutist and the grand choir. We practiced almost a day! I was nervous at first because of the crowd..Haha!

            Day 4: The event. We got there early in the morning for tuning and practice a 'lil bit. By the time came, almost every corner of the cathedral were flooded by the people! The time we entered our seats, all of the people were staring at us. I guess, that's the first time they encountered violinist in the cathedral. We felt like professionals! =))) The performances were good..nearly great! We had good feedback coming from selected guest and priest. They wanted to perform us again..Wow!
            And the day ended with a delicious salo-salo meal. We really had fun! Cheers!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Invasion of La Corda D'Oro! (Kiniro No Corda)

         Have you watched it already? If not, go watch it or you'll miss half of your life! =p
My high school classmate introduced me to watch this anime. First I was hesitant to watch it but when I google it..the first thing that comes from my mind was..Oh great! Definitely must watch it! Thanks to some free anime website, I had the opportunity to watch it! Really enjoy every part of it! And of course, because of La Corda D'Oro, I gotten much inspiration to play and play the violin! As Hino Kahoko said: "Moto moto!" means more more! Haha! This really inspires me until now. Oh and by the way, this anime influenced me to try and play Ave Maria and Tristesse. Hmmm..it's not very well played because I did it on my 3rd month of playing my violin but I'll definitely redo it!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Presenting..my own Youtube account!

         It's getting more and more interesting whenever I played violin especially when I had a lesson. I really enjoyed Suzukis' exercises piece and Wohlfahrt book because it's a duet between me and my teacher.
        Whenever I don't play violin, I used to surf the net but most part of surfing was watching others on YT playing their own songs or pieces on violin. Sometimes, I imagined myself that I look like them, superb and awesome! But of course, I also enjoyed watching beginners' video, sometimes I totally laughed at them (sorry for saying that, but I had a reason for laughing! It's because of thinking that how come if I'm on that video and others saw my cruel sound? Oops!) Anyway, it's for fun and getting attention to others and getting criticism to others was way too healthy I think?
        To my frustration and excitement, I did sign-up in YT! Yes you read it right! Hahaha! Well I think it was fun though! Most especially when you're getting friends and subscribers. Yipeee! =D
www.youtube.com/blackcantabile

Stiff neck! Help!!!

       So the story goes as a beginner violinist. My first lesson was bowing the 4 strings without getting scratchy. I said to myself that "this is it??" I thought it was so simple and easy but I'm wrong! Hahahaha! It was totally hard the first time I tried it. All I got was scratttcchhyyy sound from my violin! I want to jump from another lesson but I need to perfect my bowing so I can move on with another one. My lesson ended with just bowing back and forth..pretty boring huh? (^_^)
      Another day has passed. Oh my God! Why did I felt like this early in the morning?? I had a stiff neck that day! Plus my collar bone was a 'lil numb too! "What will I do?" That's what I thought that day. So I searched and searched the caused of my pain. Answer? The position of my violin on my shoulder. Tsk! "Is there a solution? I asked to  myself. So I hurriedly texted my friend who plays violin for almost years already. Then he suggested that I should buy some shoulder rest. "what's that?" I asked. It's an accessory for easy carrying violin on your shoulder and to feel much comfortable.
DADI shoulder rest
      Thank God that I bought that thing. Now my problem had solved! Stiff neck? Bye-bye!!

Monday, April 18, 2011

First time blogging my violin career!

        Yeah, you heard it right! It's not my first time making a blog but it's my first time blogging my violin career. Haha! So for today, I would like to share how I ended up on this violin drama.
        Remember the series "Nodame Cantabile"
 not the anime but the live-action series. I got hooked on that drama! So one day, it's just happened that I wanna learn how to play violin! It's funny though because Nodame plays piano not the violin..hahaha! (but I really love Nodames' character). After how many days, I decided to buy violin..yes the cheap one or famously called the machine made violin "Mozart brand"
"that's my first picture with my first violin with my first lesson"
And then I asked my mother if she know someone that teaches violin then it happened! Yay! I have a lesson once a week in my own home and we used Suzuki Violin book and Wohlfahrt book.
       That's it for now. I have so many stories to tell but I really have something to do now. So, see you again tomorrows' for another stories and update! Ja!