What are you not doing, that maybe you should be?

[Patient]

Hey,

I was just inspired by some music and drum videos and realized how long it has been since I have turned up the beats downstairs myself.

I have also neglected to find the time to pull out my acoustic guitar - even after seeing the post/thread about tuning into a different frequency! (sorry, can't remember exactly, but I will come back to that).

My point is - I am sure that I am not alone with this situation during these scamdemic times! I think it would do us all some good to get to some of those things that we have not done recently.

Painting? Any art at all?

Gardening is a big one with spring trying to show itself. I have some wood prepped for a raised garden bed. (my own list is getting larger lol)

Wood work anyone? Something I have always wanted to dive into but never had the tools. Terrible excuse, I know. :)

Do what you do! I am posting this to keep myself honest with myself.

Anyone else? :)

[Satori]

Hey,

I was just inspired by some music and drum videos and realized how long it has been since I have turned up the beats downstairs myself.

I have also neglected to find the time to pull out my acoustic guitar - even after seeing the post/thread about tuning into a different frequency! (sorry, can't remember exactly, but I will come back to that).

My point is - I am sure that I am not alone with this situation during these scamdemic times! I think it would do us all some good to get to some of those things that we have not done recently.

Painting? Any art at all?

Gardening is a big one with spring trying to show itself. I have some wood prepped for a raised garden bed. (my own list is getting larger lol)

Wood work anyone? Something I have always wanted to dive into but never had the tools. Terrible excuse, I know. :)

Do what you do! I am posting this to keep myself honest with myself.

Anyone else? :)

Very good question. It is also a question that has been asked throughout recorded history.

With your permission, I would like to pose the reciprocal to your very good question: What are you doing, that maybe you should not be doing?

I’ve often thought of the question you raise and it always led me to think of and ponder the opposite. What I should not do.

I’ve come to believe that the list of what I (personally) should not do, is typically shorter than the list of what I should do. Although I am not religious, but I am spiritual, the Ten Commandments sums up pretty well the does and don’ts for getting along on this plane. (Or was it Fifteen Amendments as Mel Brooks joked?)

Much depends on the object of the discussion. That is, what one should or should not do is a function of what one is confronted or involved with, engaged in, focused on etc...

What I’m saying is self evident no doubt. But your post got me thinking along those lines again.

Much thanks.

[Sadieblue]

What I have not been doing is keeping myself moving more. I have recently changed that, and now, weather permitting I stay outside walking more, working in my flowers, and when you brought up gardening that gave me an idea. I have a stack of old lumber covered and just laying there in the corner of the yard. Think I will get my son in law to make a raised garden bed for me, will be easier for me to grow some veggies in. Now I am inspired.

[heretogrow]

I have so many interests it’s not funny. I wish I had a she shed! It is hard to start projects because I really need a room where I could keep all my supplies together and not have to put them away. I find that once I clean them up they get put on the back burner.

Right now I am getting the flower beds ready to plant. At the end of May we will put in our vegetable garden. I like to paint, watercolors and oils are my favorite mediums. During the winter I tried my hand at nuno felting and fell in love with the textures and colors. Last fall I dyed the silk used in nuno felting using acid dyes. My man made me a frame to stretch silk scarves and I painted one for my mom. I process and can our harvest from August through October. I like to sew but lately I have just been mending and yes, there is a sewing machine set up on the kitchen table at the moment.

When I was younger I used to have many different projects going on at once. It seems like since Covid all I really do is clean.

You have inspired me to dig out a purse I started to sew before Easter. It was put away when I cleaned for Easter dinner. Thank you for this thread and your inspiration!

Much Love,
Julia

PS- I should add that not everything I make turns out. When my grandson was born I made him a fleece teddy bear snow suit for his car seat. Because I had to cut a hole for the seatbelt to go between his legs I reinforced around the cut so it wouldn’t fray. After I did that there was no more room for his little legs! We had a good laugh about that!

[Patient]

I have so many interests it’s not funny. I wish I had a she shed! It is hard to start projects because I really need a room where I could keep all my supplies together and not have to put them away. I find that once I clean them up they get put on the back burner.

Right now I am getting the flower beds ready to plant. At the end of May we will put in our vegetable garden. I like to paint, watercolors and oils are my favorite mediums. During the winter I tried my hand at nuno felting and fell in love with the textures and colors. Last fall I dyed the silk used in nuno felting using acid dyes. My man made me a frame to stretch silk scarves and I painted one for my mom. I process and can our harvest from August through October. I like to sew but lately I have just been mending and yes, there is a sewing machine set up on the kitchen table at the moment.

When I was younger I used to have many different projects going on at once. It seems like since Covid all I really do is clean.

You have inspired me to dig out a purse I started to sew before Easter. It was put away when I cleaned for Easter dinner. Thank you for this thread and your inspiration!

Much Love,
Julia

Heretogrow, believe this - I had sewing pop into my mind when I was writing that, but I didn't add it!

I guess it's because I didn't need to, that was left for you! :)

[heretogrow]

Patient are you hinting that you want me to do your sewing,lol!Before you say yes please read the edit of my post above,lol!

Now pull out that sewing machine and let’s get started!

[Matthew]

I haven't been half as frantic in my little projects as I used to be. I should have at least two or three more unfinished projects than I do at the moment :ohwell:

Yeeeaah, you've reminded me, I've got a violin I need to get out, and muck about with. I don't like to think of it as bow practice but that's what it is. I'll put some music on like Booka Shade and play along best I can, hit the right note with the right bow expression and its a triumph. I'm a percussion guy at heart, the bow is really hard but that little triumph sometimes when playing along to something, it's a good hit/buzz

Rx-3LRDbWVk

[pyrangello]

Welding on commercial work daily when i should be doing more in my artistic side, i just dont want to be a starving artist , but i do have a plan i say oh yes i do :)

[Patient]

Alright, enough of my electric kit - I need a new acoustic drum kit. Electronic cymbals will never cut it. ...and I love working the hi-hat!

My acoustic kit was stolen years back! It's time!

[wondering]

Yesterday was rainy and cold here, so I spent some time working on a quilt that has been in progress for a while. My sewing space is in our unfinished basement, which is not that great, but when I go to that area where I have created jewelry, cards, quilts, masks 😝, and more quilts, I am so aware of the energy that has been created there and I immediately feel peaceful. Good times! 😊

[Brigantia]

I have so many paper books to read but I spend too much time online, it's a bit addictive though and there's so much interesting news... However I've scolded myself into getting those books read, I keep buying more whenever I go to the car boot sale and see an interesting title for next to nothing!

Paper books are so much easier on the eyes, when helping a friend out with babysitting a couple of years ago I would sit in her lovely garden and read (little one was fast asleep and his window was open so I could hear if he woke up). I would watch planes go overhead, but they always looked a bit blurry whenever I was using my Kindle. When reading a paper book, they were crystal clear.

An email with a free £5 book token from the Caboodle site also popped into my inbox the other day; I fancy another addition to my small Joseph P Farrell collection...

[Open Minded Dude]

Resume arranging my music again and not caring a jot about the fact that no one gives a **** about it as long as I like (creating) it.
:lalala::cheer2::music::dance3::horn:

[Mark]

I recently purchased an updated copy of Acid Pro, I make music, use beats and put them to my poetry, do a bit of singing as well. It has been some years, since 2014, since I made a piece, so I've been feeling the urge to do so and to re-open that avenue of expression as I am feeling that all artistic endeavors are needed right now by the global human family and anything that incorporates vibration, sound, vision and feelings that we can contribute can and will help us all in some way, perhaps small, perhaps large, who knows?

Here's the last piece I made, before the world changed.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzoaXpHLHww

[Mike]

Very cool stuff Mark! It felt like a benevolent, poetic DMT trip or something. I can't describe it very well but I know I liked it. Thanks for sharing.

One thing I used to do frequently is exchange rhymes with a friend of mine on the west coast, via text. We're both huge hip hop fans.. and although it was sort of unspoken, what we did amounted to what you might call rap battles lol. We were always trying to outdo each other. And it was an awesome creative exercise. He'll still send me one occasionally but I've gotten away from it, and my creativity has suffered for it. I need to start getting back to that.

And also, writing. Or maybe not so much writing but submitting the stuff that I do write. I've always talked myself out of it for one reason or another, but it's mostly insecurity and fear of rejection. So I gotta get a little more courageous in that area

[Matthew]

Very cool stuff, to frame a poem like that Mark/Rahkyt... awesome

Mike, ... first time go, sucking is ok; much underrated imho. That failure iceberg doesn't even show the true ratio sometimes.. even more sucking than THAT. Come on man, suck at things more

http://www.masontech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Success-Iceberg.jpg

[Patient]

I took some time and watched a bunch of drum videos to try to figure out what drum kit to get. If I had an unlimited budget, this would be easy - DW maple, 7 piece. :)

Probably gonna go with a mid-range Pearl kit. That way I can get all of the cymbals I want as well.

Now a new challenge - due to the lockdown, the store is not open to allow people inside. I have to make my order over the phone and pick it up at the curb. Now any musician of practically any instrument will tell you how difficult it is to buy something online. Maybe a brand new synth if you were familiar with the exact model you wanted would be ok?

But anything on the acoustic side - yikes...I will find my way through this. :)

[Mark]

Very cool stuff Mark! It felt like a benevolent, poetic DMT trip or something.

Highest accolades, man, thanks. :happythumbsup:

All of my stuff is on the spiritual tip for the most part, there's a lot of it out there on my YT pages. For about a decade or so I was pretty prolific, but when shiza got really real in the world I grounded hard, got married, involved in politics, etc., and my artistic side suffered as a result.


I can't describe it very well but I know I liked it. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for being present to the strangeness. :) I'm cool with being undefined, I really like how it seems a lot of artforms have become a lot less programmatic and boilerplate in the last 5 years or so as well.


One thing I used to do frequently is exchange rhymes with a friend of mine on the west coast, via text. We're both huge hip hop fans.. and although it was sort of unspoken, what we did amounted to what you might call rap battles lol. We were always trying to outdo each other. And it was an awesome creative exercise. He'll still send me one occasionally but I've gotten away from it, and my creativity has suffered for it. I need to start getting back to that.

Yes! Absolutely. Would love to see your efforts on that front! They are needed!


And also, writing. Or maybe not so much writing but submitting the stuff that I do write. I've always talked myself out of it for one reason or another, but it's mostly insecurity and fear of rejection. So I gotta get a little more courageous in that area

YOu can let that go easily, just turn it off and send stuff out en masse. You're an awesome writer, I think you'll be surprised at the responses you get.


Very cool stuff, to frame a poem like that Mark/Rahkyt... awesome

Thank you! I think any music I make now will be different from back in the day, it has been so long.

[Mike]

Hey Mark thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it.

What I envy about you is that you have a great voice to go along with your talent. My voice sucks. At least for rapping lol.


Matthew, thanks for the encouragement. I did write something recently, about this kid's fb posts (an old acquaintance) and for the most part the reaction was lukewarm. I'm so neurotic and touchy about stuff i create that the reactions really affect me. It's a terrible, crippling flaw of mine. But i am getting better. At least i showed some people! In the past i wouldn't have been able to do even that

[Patient]

I recently purchased an updated copy of Acid Pro, I make music, use beats and put them to my poetry, do a bit of singing as well. It has been some years, since 2014, since I made a piece, so I've been feeling the urge to do so and to re-open that avenue of expression as I am feeling that all artistic endeavors are needed right now by the global human family and anything that incorporates vibration, sound, vision and feelings that we can contribute can and will help us all in some way, perhaps small, perhaps large, who knows?

Here's the last piece I made, before the world changed.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzoaXpHLHww

A cool and unique (at least to me) piece of work!

[Antagenet]

I recently purchased an updated copy of Acid Pro, I make music, use beats and put them to my poetry, do a bit of singing as well. It has been some years, since 2014, since I made a piece, so I've been feeling the urge to do so and to re-open that avenue of expression as I am feeling that all artistic endeavors are needed right now by the global human family and anything that incorporates vibration, sound, vision and feelings that we can contribute can and will help us all in some way, perhaps small, perhaps large, who knows?

Here's the last piece I made, before the world changed.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzoaXpHLHww

What a Great VOICE you have.. and so much originality!!!!! applause applause!!

[Matthew]

Hey Mark thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it.

What I envy about you is that you have a great voice to go along with your talent. My voice sucks. At least for rapping lol.


Matthew, thanks for the encouragement. I did write something recently, about this kid's fb posts (an old acquaintance) and for the most part the reaction was lukewarm. I'm so neurotic and touchy about stuff i create that the reactions really affect me. It's a terrible, crippling flaw of mine. But i am getting better. At least i showed some people! In the past i wouldn't have been able to do even that

❤️ I'm honoured to be shared with this. I want to credit you, humbly - my opinion your conversation style of writing (that I've seen) is second to none.. relaxed, personal and has a spark of life that jumps out of the page; is your turbulence you describe the cost of that? I'm jealous and I want your flaws so I can have your power. But I'll stop picking on you, because I bet you will find the complement difficult and I'm sorry about that. If it helps I'm an idiot ;)

[I am B]

I took some time and watched a bunch of drum videos to try to figure out what drum kit to get. If I had an unlimited budget, this would be easy - DW maple, 7 piece. :)

Probably gonna go with a mid-range Pearl kit. That way I can get all of the cymbals I want as well.

Now a new challenge - due to the lockdown, the store is not open to allow people inside. I have to make my order over the phone and pick it up at the curb. Now any musician of practically any instrument will tell you how difficult it is to buy something online. Maybe a brand new synth if you were familiar with the exact model you wanted would be ok?

But anything on the acoustic side - yikes...I will find my way through this. :)

Thats a struggle :P

If you are thinking on getting some nice cymbals too, I recommend the Paiste 201 3 piece set. Super good when it comes to quality-price. And they sound way more balanced than any other low budget set I've tried so far. ^^

[ExomatrixTV]

Music & art ... to me, both are food for the Soul ... when making/producing it being "100% in the now" flow of creativity (aka "muse") something magical happens ...

I played many times Djembé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe)on the streets & plaza's of Amsterdam mid 1990s sharing joy with strangers from all over the world having their own instruments ... the spontaneous interactions were priceless to me ... every time was different and was surprised how we can find back & forth harmony playing in "sync" without any preparations ... no spoken language just let the instruments do the talking and FINE-TUNE in the moment with other gifted people is a reward in itself. Plus it heals my Soul feeling alive again.

cheers,
John

ps. I already played professional percussion when I was 11 years old in 1977

lIbRuIm9MxI


I listed to videos/cd's like this 100s of times, and tried to play along with it ... not always easy to do by the way:
sqdrP1rVscs

[Open Minded Dude]

Probably gonna go with a mid-range Pearl kit. That way I can get all of the cymbals I want as well.

Pearl (Export) was my first drum kit I bought 1983 when I started drumming , bought it from a normal music instrument trader of course, what a great moment when I saw it first in their garage and then they brought it home to me the next day. Things you never forget. I still have it stored away today in my cellar becuase my first drum teacher back then in the 80ies told me 'you never sell your first drum kit'. So I stuck with it. Only sold the second one (I only had two).
YES!

[Patient]

I took some time and watched a bunch of drum videos to try to figure out what drum kit to get. If I had an unlimited budget, this would be easy - DW maple, 7 piece. :)

Probably gonna go with a mid-range Pearl kit. That way I can get all of the cymbals I want as well.

Now a new challenge - due to the lockdown, the store is not open to allow people inside. I have to make my order over the phone and pick it up at the curb. Now any musician of practically any instrument will tell you how difficult it is to buy something online. Maybe a brand new synth if you were familiar with the exact model you wanted would be ok?

But anything on the acoustic side - yikes...I will find my way through this. :)

Thats a struggle :P

If you are thinking on getting some nice cymbals too, I recommend the Paiste 201 3 piece set. Super good when it comes to quality-price. And they sound way more balanced than any other low budget set I've tried so far. ^^

Thanks for that - I don't know what I am going to end up with at this point. I want a good snare and hi-hat to start. Some decent cymbols for some good textures. There is always another cymbal to add!!

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Music & art ... to me, both are food for the Soul ... when making/producing it being "100% in the now" flow of creativity (aka "muse") something magical happens ...

I played many times Djembé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe)on the streets & plaza's of Amsterdam mid 1990s sharing joy with strangers from all over the world having their own instruments ... the spontaneous interactions were priceless to me ... every time was different and was surprised how we can find back & forth harmony playing in "sync" without any preparations ... no spoken language just let the instruments do the talking and FINE-TUNE on the moment with other gifted people is a reward in itself. Plus it heals my Soul feeling alive again.

cheers,
John

ps. I already played professional percussion when I was 11 years old in 1977

lIbRuIm9MxI


I listed to videos/cd's like this 100s of times, and tried to play along with it ... not always easy to do by the way:
sqdrP1rVscs

I had a couple congo drums that were lifted as well! I should pick up a djembe drum as I always liked the sound of those!

¤=[Post Update]=¤



Probably gonna go with a mid-range Pearl kit. That way I can get all of the cymbals I want as well.

Pearl (Export) was my first drum kit I bought 1983 when I started drumming , bought it from a normal music instrument trader of course, what a great moment when I saw it first in their garage and then they brought it home to me the next day. Things you never forget. I still have it stored away today in my cellar becuase my first drum teacher back then in the 80ies told me 'you never sell your first drum kit'. So I stuck with it. Only sold the second one (I only had two).
YES!

Pearl has some nice mid range drums out now. I was thinking of going with and mid (maybe a bit higher) maple pearl kit. There are so many choices - and again, over the phone and the internet!!! Not fair, but I am making it happen.

I will post a pic once I finally decide on what I am getting and have it here set up. :)

[RunningDeer]

What am I doing?



Walks on the country road
Tai Chi cane form
Tai Chi
Chi Kung
Simple yoga
Read
Listen to music
Just sit and breath
Feed the birds
Listen to nature
Remember to invite the wind to blow through me (chi, prana)
Creative meditation i.e. visual exercises
Feel the chi/prana around, through, and within, flow and regenerate
Experience the me that's greater than the physical
Pay attention to the synchronicities, and pass along a thank you bunches
Express thanks & gratitude for the peace, joy, and love

What am I not doing? How can I do it better?



Cut back on multi-tasking
Balance out the above activities and/or be okay if it doesn’t happen as desired that day.


♡

[Hym]

A note to an awesome soul.....
Paula,

When I was living on praanuh, drinking just enough good water as I felt I wanted, I would have these moments of full body joy.
I had spontaneous moments of laughter. It all was very natural.
Just sharing here to confirm the things everyone experiences getting back to the essence when making those choices. A strong affirmation here on your journey.

It is a very natural state of being, since I had not planned any of the weeks, 5 or 6 total, that I would go without food or remain absorbed in that deep healing. In fact, it would have seemed very unnatural to have stopped and gone outside of the connection to nature, when closeness and interaction with nature is the basis of nurturing our entire being.

This journey only ended when I had to go back to work. I needed more food fuel, though I had done well with sitali praanuhyaam/breathing thru only a small space between the lips where we feel the cool, concentrated energy....not just a survival method when there is very little food available and a great way to cool the body off in the heat, but a habitual energetic that should be in everyone's life.

Though I was practicing a combination of two t'ai chi forms beforehand until I had this switch when I felt the energy all of the time, it would be inaccurate to say that I was practicing any form of t'ai chi, because there wasn't a waking moment that I didn't feel the energy. I also began to see the praanic energy when I meditated early in the morning after doing ishnaan and began to see a deep blue while going in and out of the water, and for a short while thereafter.

So powerful is the healing method done with cold water that I accidentally woke up a brother in law of mine one early morning while going in and out of the water, him upstairs sleeping.

I would take a cold shower from a faucet outdoors, actually...a cool shower at that time in SoCal, while chanting a prayer....but whispering it. This one morning, at around 3:45 a.m., while doing just this energetic form of waking up on a deeper level, I saw the upstairs light go on in his room. Dang. I thought I was being really quiet.

That morning I saw him and apologized for waking him up and shared that I was doing my best to be quiet. His answer was "You were quiet. It was that blue light that woke me up."

Another time I was up in Sequoia for a friends wedding. Very early in the morning, just after 4 a.m. I went from our tent down to the stream nearby. I was extra careful, being in public, to be as soundless as possible. I thought since the path to the stream was very soft, all I would be aware of was my breath. That, again, was not the case.

I went in and out of the water, but it was too cold to stay in for any length of time beyond saying those prayers...in a whisper of course, and not a very powerful one as I often do. As I came back from ishnaan, and now some misogi as I added in some Shinto prayers from O'Sensei Ueshiba, "Sheentaaee O Sheeray"/"Seen and the Unseen are One".......

On my way back to the tent, I heard a voice from inside another tent. "Oh, that Blue Light. Come and see me in the morning after breakfast." Well, whoever that was I know that he could see...deeper...to the inside that shows outside. It was only me and him up at that time.

The stories he told me about visiting pyramids worldwide, the real history of the Maya, and how the prayers I was doing sounded very close to theirs, the Maya's description of the roof of the mouth as the connections to the heavens inside,.....were a deeper sharing that I appreciated.


I hesitate to suggest things that you are likely already doing, but if you haven't there is another level that uses the method of ishnaan, at times in Shinto called misogi. In and out of the cool to cold water, warming up a bit in between each of the 3 or more inserts per area, extremities first...arms and legs, then the back....then the front of the torso....then the head last....always the head last.

When the energy rushes to the skin to warm it up, it travels from capillaries to the entire blood stream, loaded with oxygen waiting to energize the inner organs.

Beyond the inspiring practices and teaching of Wim Hoff, it has been known in all native cultures, forever as a primal and daily practice for continued health. In western cultures, once the science arrived to measure the effects, it has been known to cure many illnesses, some seemingly incurable.

Hymn

[RunningDeer]

Thank you for your kind words, Hymn, and for sharing your experiences and helpful tips. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hug-two.gif

:heart:


A note to an awesome soul.....
Paula,

When I was living on praanuh, drinking just enough good water as I felt I wanted, I would have these moments of full body joy.
I had spontaneous moments of laughter. It all was very natural.
Just sharing here to confirm the things everyone experiences getting back to the essence when making those choices. A strong affirmation here on your journey.

It is a very natural state of being, since I had not planned any of the weeks, 5 or 6 total, that I would go without food or remain absorbed in that deep healing. In fact, it would have seemed very unnatural to have stopped and gone outside of the connection to nature, when closeness and interaction with nature is the basis of nurturing our entire being.

This journey only ended when I had to go back to work. I needed more food fuel, though I had done well with sitali praanuhyaam/breathing thru only a small space between the lips where we feel the cool, concentrated energy....not just a survival method when there is very little food available and a great way to cool the body off in the heat, but a habitual energetic that should be in everyone's life.
{snip}
Hymn

[sunwings]

Living in the present moment. The last 400 days have really shaken us up!

[rgray222]

Have been doing a fair amount of wood work. Made my son some night tables for his new home.

https://i.imgur.com/0YlAwh4.jpg

My daughter got married last year so I made them a dining room table out reclaimed barn wood as a house warming gift.

https://i.imgur.com/60M3D2i.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sy2a4wM.jpg

[Patient]

Have been doing a fair amount of wood work. Made my son some night tables for his new home.

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My daughter got married last year so I made them a dining room table out reclaimed barn wood as a house warming gift.

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Very nice!

[RunningDeer]

Have been doing a fair amount of wood work. Made my son some night tables for his new home.

Lots of talent, rgray222. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hat-baseball.gif And an inviting home and land.

♡

[Eva2]

Have been doing a fair amount of wood work. Made my son some night tables for his new home.

Lots of talent, rgray222. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hat-baseball.gif And an inviting home and land.

♡

Wow, spectacular work and a beautiful home!

[Matthew]

...
I played many times Djembé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe)on the streets & plaza's of Amsterdam mid 1990s sharing joy with strangers from all over the world having their own instruments ... the spontaneous interactions were priceless to me ...
...played professional percussion when I was 11 years old...


My first instrument is Djembe!!1 No professional accolades here (kudos to you btw) and I started late (in my 20's - 1990's) - drum circles then playing in small-time acoustic bands for fifteen years. It was a gateway to other instruments, which was a total surprise. I pretty much woke up one morning and accidentally started playing keyboards. After keyboards it lead to anything I could get my hands on.

I'm no master on Djembe, but I'm ok and what I have gave me legs so to speak; many bands, much comradery, new experiences coming out my ears, ..kind of a licence or a doorway to a special hidden kind of world. But I feel it's an inherently human trait, to be musical. Like, musical aptitude doesn't feel personal - a general human ability.

People say "I don't have rhythm" or "I;m not musical" but I suspect it's just words of deflection, to evade criticism from the judgemental (only from my own limited understanding of myself, projecting outwards), because we humans are musical to even be able to form a sentence. Cadence, and pitch variation in a spoken sentence; it's not in any musical key but look twice at spoken word, cadence and pitch are key pieces of information we wield without thinking. I'm convinced, that you dear reader, are an inherently musical creature.

I did Ivory Coast rhythms - I think I still remember Pineapple and Cuckoo. I regularly, easily, got at least five notes out the drum so the shift to keyboard, with twelve, isn't such a huge leap. The physical memory of the hand drum timings; flanges, off-beats, poly-rhythms ... it carries to other instruments which invisibly reduces the learning curve (I'm thinking). But I'm not talking about me being able to play classical piano here, which I couldn't just 'shift' to :-D .. I'm talking inde bounce and keys that go ahhhhhhhhh and that amazing, glorious Hammond B percussion (little bit of me using it (https://soundcloud.com/mrbennhundred/i-wish-it-was-2017))

I didn't like piano lessons as a kid, so they didn't last long. But as soon as I discovered music on my own terms, as an adult, in the privacy and safety on my own terms, it went from a chore to becoming like Gods free and awesome gift to us. I'm a very young musician, I just LOVE mucking about with instruments

[Patient]

...
I played many times Djembé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe)on the streets & plaza's of Amsterdam mid 1990s sharing joy with strangers from all over the world having their own instruments ... the spontaneous interactions were priceless to me ...
...played professional percussion when I was 11 years old...


My first instrument is Djembe!!1 No professional accolades here (kudos to you btw) and I started late (in my 20's - 1990's) - drum circles then playing in small-time acoustic bands for fifteen years. It was a gateway to other instruments, which was a total surprise. I pretty much woke up one morning and accidentally started playing keyboards. After keyboards it lead to anything I could get my hands on.

I'm no master on Djembe, but I'm ok and what I have gave me legs so to speak; many bands, much comradery, new experiences coming out my ears, ..kind of a licence or a doorway to a special hidden kind of world. But I feel it's an inherently human trait, to be musical. Like, musical aptitude doesn't feel personal - a general human ability.

People say "I don't have rhythm" or "I;m not musical" but I suspect it's just words of deflection, to evade criticism from the judgemental (only from my own limited understanding of myself, projecting outwards), because we humans are musical to even be able to form a sentence. Cadence, and pitch variation in a spoken sentence; it's not in any musical key but look twice at spoken word, cadence and pitch are key pieces of information we wield without thinking. I'm convinced, that you dear reader, are an inherently musical creature.

I did Ivory Coast rhythms - I think I still remember Pineapple and Cuckoo. I regularly, easily, got at least five notes out the drum so the shift to keyboard, with twelve, isn't such a huge leap. The physical memory of the hand drum timings; flanges, off-beats, poly-rhythms ... it carries to other instruments which invisibly reduces the learning curve (I'm thinking). But I'm not talking about me being able to play classical piano here, which I couldn't just 'shift' to :-D .. I'm talking inde bounce and keys that go ahhhhhhhhh and that amazing, glorious Hammond B percussion (little bit of me using it (https://soundcloud.com/mrbennhundred/i-wish-it-was-2017))

I didn't like piano lessons as a kid, so they didn't last long. But as soon as I discovered music on my own terms, as an adult, in the privacy and safety on my own terms, it went from a chore to becoming like Gods free and awesome gift to us. I'm a very young musician, I just LOVE mucking about with instruments

Yes! To play an instrument - the key word is "play". Having fun with it - letting yourself enjoy whatever happens with it.

The quiet evening and sitting at a piano and letting go...whether I hit a couple chords or just a few resonating notes. Or banging away on an acoustic guitar! I have played guitar for years off and on. I have never learned a song from start to finish - I just enjoy the moment!