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I finally did it

YaYaYaYa Decent.Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Social Entropy++
dudes I've always wanted to play the harmonica

but I've never been able to find any music stores that stock proper harmonicas or any real lessons, so I figured it was a silly pipe dream

just today I discovered and registered for a 5 hour harmonica workshop with one of the best players in Australia, complete with your own free proper harmonica

talk about any silly dreams you managed to fulfill here

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Did it, or doing it?

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    My life is empty of dreams.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    along the same lines

    I've always wanted to play an instrument but never really caught on any in spite of learning at them pretty quick

    now I bought myself a keyboard and utilizing what I already know about music and free sheet music am improving pretty quickly! my hands found their own way around the keys sight-reading something today and I was like "shit, yes"

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    They say dreamers never live...they only dream of it

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    My life is empty of dreams.

    That's funny because my life is full of them.

    Big dreams

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  • TrueHereticXTrueHereticX We are the future Charles, not them. They no longer matter. Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    YaYa wrote: »
    dudes I've always wanted to play the harmonica

    but I've never been able to find any music stores that stock proper harmonicas or any real lessons, so I figured it was a silly pipe dream

    just today I discovered and registered for a 5 hour harmonica workshop with one of the best players in Australia, complete with your own free proper harmonica

    talk about any silly dreams you managed to fulfill here


    I would so get in on that, if i had an ounce of musical talent D:

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    "Australia's best harmonica player" seems like a really sad thing to have at the top of one's resume

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Yaya, you should accompany me on the keyboard and we could play The Piano Man. :D

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  • matthias00matthias00 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I still wanna learn to play guitar. I was gonna get a free beginner guitar class this semester but I had a scheduling conflict :(

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    "Australia's best harmonica player" seems like a really sad thing to have at the top of one's resume

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  • scarlet st.scarlet st. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    They say dreamers never live...they only dream of it

    :^:

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    fuck i need to pick up the guitar again

    i wanna get a feel for some chords and moving my fingers around and stuff and after that find a teacher

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  • the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I dream about getting my bone on


    someday

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I've been thinking about learning the harp too

    it's one of those things that's easy to be ok at but really hard to be good at

    #pipe on
  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm not gonna lie, yaya, this OP is really disappointing

    "I finally registered to take a harmonica lesson!"

    I was expecting, you know

    something else?

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    pipe why is my shitty ibanez acoustic way fatter than the other acoustics i've held

    'sup with that

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    redhead wrote: »
    I'm not gonna lie, yaya, this OP is really disappointing

    "I finally registered to take a harmonica lesson!"

    I was expecting, you know

    something else?

    well look it's something dumb enough that I never thought I'd get the courage to do or go out and find and rare enough that it'd be hard to find

    I still have my big dreams of course but it's neat that a little one happened

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Learn some neil young

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    pipe why is my shitty ibanez acoustic way fatter than the other acoustics i've held

    'sup with that

    do you mean Fat as in wide or fat as in good?

    cause Ibanez make good acoustics man

    #pipe on
  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    #pipe wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    pipe why is my shitty ibanez acoustic way fatter than the other acoustics i've held

    'sup with that

    do you mean Fat as in wide or fat as in good?

    cause Ibanez make good acoustics man
    deep, somewhat awkward to play :P

    mine cost like

    90 bucks

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  • matthias00matthias00 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh, and learning how to fly a plane would be rockin' too.

    If I could do it, I'd do anything to become a fighter pilot.

    It doesn't help that my cousin can play the guitar and is learning to fly a plane as we speak.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Do you know what's better then the harmonica? Any other instrument.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Meiz wrote: »
    Do you know what's better then the harmonica? Any other instrument.
    hey man

    harmonica's got the blues

    that shit is sacred

    lay off

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    And the Kazoo is far more limited than the harmonica


    (the kazoo should only ever play national anthems and yakkety sax

    unless somebody suggests some other good things to play on a kazoo)

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    you are banned from the blues, cynic

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    you are banned from the blues, cynic

    Whom whom whom whoooooom.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It's funny because a commercial popped up for lessons on how to beatbox when he had his hands to his face like that.

    No, you want sad music, here's some sad fucking music...

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

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    L|ama wrote: »
    And the Kazoo is far more limited than the harmonica


    (the kazoo should only ever play national anthems and yakkety sax

    unless somebody suggests some other good things to play on a kazoo)

    This is all I could think of that has a kazoo in it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C3m5Lno_20

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    yeah no please refer to Sonny for proper blues

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Thats good if you like the blues Fari, because the blues is like the easiest kind of music to improv, I've always thought.
    With a few scales, decent picking skills, and a backround jamtrack you can just sit and play for hours.

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Did it, or doing it?

    already did it

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    done.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    "Australia's best harmonica player" seems like a really sad thing to have at the top of one's resume

    Shit Pooro, you'd be the best Harmonica player in the Southern hemisphere because I mean it's not like there is anything else in the half of the world of worth.

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    So I was thinking about picking up a pair of bongos.

    I was wondering since I can get my hands on some decent looking ones if I would notice a big difference between sounds right now, as I dont have a huge variety to pick from locally.

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    30 minutes ago

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    One time I was sitting in my local mall, eating shitty chinese food with Whippy. I was sitting facing the main entrance, and as I brought a bite of burned chow mein up to my lips, a guy walked in. This guy was heavyset, big, and had a mane of dreadlocks and a big ol' black beard. This guy was also playing a dijeridoo. Just walking around, playing a dijeridoo. He was really into it, too, like any second he was going to sniff, miss the scent of nag champa, then look up and realize that he wasn't in his apartment anymore.

    Just then, Whippy looks up at me, and notices that I've been holding this bite of chow mein for like ten seconds and staring open-mouthed at something behind him. He looks at what I'm looking at, and then turns back to me with a look on his face. Here is an artist's rendition of the look on his face:

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    We called him, of course, The Dijeridude.

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    I guess I'm a bad multiculturalist because I think the didj is so-so. :(

    edit: Sorry, that whole story and all you get from me is some ancillary comment.

    Hm

    Man that kind of shit is an everyday thing here. I get acosted by street people every day...and half of them have a story about why, 'hey, I just need 1.34$ more and I can afford the gas to drive home!' The other half are playing music.

    Some are fucking horrible...like laughably bad where it's like, why are out here doing this? You're just making shit up and there isn't even any rhythm or semblance to what you're doing with those bongos. Some, on the other hand, are fucking amazing.

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