have no musical talent at all?

Or the times when you went to run around screaming holding your violin above your head in frustration that the tone is screechy/the C minor/major scale sounds way distorted/you can't get that note/have no musical memory.

Yeah.

Most definiately. There are times when I sit at a Piano and I feel as if all my music talent has suddenly gone. I can't read notes, i don't get a simple time signature or key and I can't remember the music i've been practising.

Thankfully I haven't felt like this during an exam!

Craig.

yes definately!

infact just 2 days ago, i sat at my piano and then i started playing piece which i was practising and then suddenly i had a mind block and i was like O_O

because i couldnt get any notes right but ive been playing the piece like alot of times!

sometimes when i play my flute, the notes just wont come out..esp on cold days

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sometimes when i play my flute, the notes just wont come out..esp on cold days

Especially the top register... ie, above high D to top C.

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have no musical talent at all? Or the times when you went to run around screaming holding your violin above your head in frustration that the tone is screechy/the C minor/major scale sounds way distorted/you can't get that note/have no musical memory.

Oh yeah. ALL the time! especially C major/minor in second position...

AARGHHHHHH!!!! The violin. That instrument can really get on my nerves sometimes. and the flute. stupid brace. grrrrrrrrr.

but when it actually sounds nice, it is so rewarding.

I was just thinking earlier today that Jade had gone missing and then she returned!

I think that we all have good and bad days, sometimes we're despairing at how awful we are and sometimes we're really happy about how good we are! If we didn't have any times when we were bad we wouldn't ever feel that we were good though as we'd have nothing to compare it to.

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If we didn't have any times when we were bad we wouldn't ever feel that we were good though as we'd have nothing to compare it to.

Hmmm... might run that one by my teacher next time everything collapses

i get really frustrated when i can't play well....people will just say i'm mad....

Yes, I feel like that quite a lot.

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If we didn't have any times when we were bad we wouldn't ever feel that we were good though as we'd have nothing to compare it to.

I completely agree with that! It makes me feel a lot better.

QUOTE (AnotherPianist @ Oct 5 2004, 03:12 PM)

I was just thinking earlier today that Jade had gone missing and then she returned!

yeah i'm back lol.

Been so busy since starting GCSE's, only just had a chance to come on here.

I totally agree with what you said AnotherPianist- some days when i practice it can sound really bad and i can't seem to be able to play anything, and other days i am really pleased with what i have done and feel really happy!

QUOTE (AnotherPianist @ Oct 5 2004, 03:12 PM)

I think that we all have good and bad days, sometimes we're despairing at how awful we are and sometimes we're really happy about how good we are!

Do you think this has a lot to do with the way we are feeling? If we feel a little tired or sad we may struggle to play our pieces (we get irritable and stroppy.) If things are going well for us (we are feeling happy and alert) we play our pieces well?

Just a thought...

I find the reverse... If I'm playing well I fell contented and relaxed and if I'm not then I am
not so good tempered.

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Or the times when you went to run around screaming holding your violin above your head in frustration that the tone is screechy/the C minor/major scale sounds way distorted/you can't get that note/have no musical memory

My violin always sounds like that - thats why it stays in its case most of the time, while I concentrate on the piano

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My violin always sounds like that - thats why it stays in its case most of the time, while I concentrate on the piano

Likewise lol

Sometimes I will be practising and it will be so easy to make whatever I'm playing sound lovely and so full of life... and then sometimes it's like "well, I'm playing the notes but that's it"... and there's nothing I can do about it.

Always seems to be the latter on exam and concert days...

i kno

i try 2 play my pieces for my exam in december

i can do it sometimes but others i m just useless!!!

Scales r even worse - but u can't blame me they r the most boringest thing there is
well they r when i m only 14

luv Lucy xxxxxx

It happened to me last night. I completely lost all ability to read music.

I had been practising a song all week and was becoming much more comfortable with it. I Came home from work last night and I couldn't play it. I went to my Piano Lesson and couldn't play it there either.

At this point my music teacher said to me, "leave it. If you try to remember it or play it, you will create more problems and perhaps some doubt." We moved onto some Sight Reading tests and I was fine!

I got up this morning and played the song (I couldn't play lastnight) ok. Weird...

Craig