DoubleBlade
New member
Dear SOFTies ,
It seems that a couple of you guys out here who certain purges against me to an extent that profanities were being hurled at me behind my back. It seems that whenever I talk about pianos/keyboards , people would always have things against me concerning my posts. Some of my post I can truely acknowledge my mistakes but some I don't.
This I truely acknowledge my mistake...
http://www.soft.com.sg/new/modules....start=15&sid=221529b0066909423d82361d0834f623
"Haiz...am I the only surviving classical musician here?"
Allow me to share with you what was I thinking when I made the above remark. Chamin was right , A classical pianist playing on an electronic keyboard is still a classical pianist although if he/she may not be playing on an acoustic piano. The idea of a classical pianist playing on a keyboard did not come to my mind. Another thing is I should have changed the word "musician" to "pianist" to at least soften the impact because I know you other SOFTies play some form of classical instruments in your school band as well as guitar/drums/bass at the same time and by saying "musician" it might give the wrong signal to the crowd....
There was one post I posted about 2 months back concerning me complaining about my teacher giving me too much music homework. Okay so some of you might think "bloody hell , people got no money to find a teacher and you got teacher still can complain." All I have to say is that , music lessons is not what most of us self taught musicians might think of. Yes you learn new stuff along the way from the teacher BUT the teacher expects something from you in return which is of course improvement. Those of you taking lessons might know that scolding and lecturing for sloppish playing is nothing new right?
When the amount of stress piles up especially when you have a teacher who expects a lot from you , you will definitely wanna rant everything out right?
These are just a few of the many other points of contention against me in the SOFT database.
Then now I'll share with you about my personal life
I love playing the piano and in fact it has been the greatest moment that has ever happened in my life so far. I know it's weird to someone to that addicted to playing the piano. If it was the guitar/bass or drums it might be normal because trust me , I just started learning the guitar and I find it very hard to stop especially when you just want to get that simple riff mastered.
Although I would love to proclaim to people that I love playing the piano , I rather let them find out from themselves but in the context of chatting on SOFT , since it's all about music , then I guess there should no form of embarassement telling SOFTies I play the piano since it's still music after all. When they actually find out that I play the piano , I tend to get a bit uncomfortable mainly because piano playing is an expensive hobby and I don't want these people to view as some rich kid when I'm not and if there was one thing (being a rebelious kid) which I will appreciate most about my parents , is that they gave me the opportunity to learn the piano at such an "unripe" age according to the mainstream people.
Most of the time I'll bring my music theory assessment book to school and whenever I decide to practice on my theory , I'll do it in a quiet room away from my friends and if they so happen to see me doing my theory , I'll just smile and continue with my work. Some of you might think , why I got to be so "acedemic" by doing music assessment books? Because it's something which I enjoy doing and not for the sake of pleasing my teacher. In fact my teacher has completely neglected my theory drills but I'm continuing with it on my own accord.
Some of you also think ,"You play the piano and play classical music , so why are you trying to poke your nose into our rock music lifestyle? Go back to your chamber music lifestyle!" Yes I play piano but why can't I talk about rock/metal music? I listen to them too. In fact I listen to much more rock/metal music than classical....
The reason why I'm saying so much about my personal life is because I don't want you SOFTies to judge me as some snobbish and egostic fella based on what the cyberworld tells us because it's just ONLY words!
I can assure you that I am of a direct conturary as to what you see and "hear" in cyberworld....
My deepest apologies goes out to those whom I've offended in one way or another....
Best Regards
Julius
It seems that a couple of you guys out here who certain purges against me to an extent that profanities were being hurled at me behind my back. It seems that whenever I talk about pianos/keyboards , people would always have things against me concerning my posts. Some of my post I can truely acknowledge my mistakes but some I don't.
This I truely acknowledge my mistake...
http://www.soft.com.sg/new/modules....start=15&sid=221529b0066909423d82361d0834f623
"Haiz...am I the only surviving classical musician here?"
Allow me to share with you what was I thinking when I made the above remark. Chamin was right , A classical pianist playing on an electronic keyboard is still a classical pianist although if he/she may not be playing on an acoustic piano. The idea of a classical pianist playing on a keyboard did not come to my mind. Another thing is I should have changed the word "musician" to "pianist" to at least soften the impact because I know you other SOFTies play some form of classical instruments in your school band as well as guitar/drums/bass at the same time and by saying "musician" it might give the wrong signal to the crowd....
There was one post I posted about 2 months back concerning me complaining about my teacher giving me too much music homework. Okay so some of you might think "bloody hell , people got no money to find a teacher and you got teacher still can complain." All I have to say is that , music lessons is not what most of us self taught musicians might think of. Yes you learn new stuff along the way from the teacher BUT the teacher expects something from you in return which is of course improvement. Those of you taking lessons might know that scolding and lecturing for sloppish playing is nothing new right?
When the amount of stress piles up especially when you have a teacher who expects a lot from you , you will definitely wanna rant everything out right?
These are just a few of the many other points of contention against me in the SOFT database.
Then now I'll share with you about my personal life
I love playing the piano and in fact it has been the greatest moment that has ever happened in my life so far. I know it's weird to someone to that addicted to playing the piano. If it was the guitar/bass or drums it might be normal because trust me , I just started learning the guitar and I find it very hard to stop especially when you just want to get that simple riff mastered.
Although I would love to proclaim to people that I love playing the piano , I rather let them find out from themselves but in the context of chatting on SOFT , since it's all about music , then I guess there should no form of embarassement telling SOFTies I play the piano since it's still music after all. When they actually find out that I play the piano , I tend to get a bit uncomfortable mainly because piano playing is an expensive hobby and I don't want these people to view as some rich kid when I'm not and if there was one thing (being a rebelious kid) which I will appreciate most about my parents , is that they gave me the opportunity to learn the piano at such an "unripe" age according to the mainstream people.
Most of the time I'll bring my music theory assessment book to school and whenever I decide to practice on my theory , I'll do it in a quiet room away from my friends and if they so happen to see me doing my theory , I'll just smile and continue with my work. Some of you might think , why I got to be so "acedemic" by doing music assessment books? Because it's something which I enjoy doing and not for the sake of pleasing my teacher. In fact my teacher has completely neglected my theory drills but I'm continuing with it on my own accord.
Some of you also think ,"You play the piano and play classical music , so why are you trying to poke your nose into our rock music lifestyle? Go back to your chamber music lifestyle!" Yes I play piano but why can't I talk about rock/metal music? I listen to them too. In fact I listen to much more rock/metal music than classical....
The reason why I'm saying so much about my personal life is because I don't want you SOFTies to judge me as some snobbish and egostic fella based on what the cyberworld tells us because it's just ONLY words!
I can assure you that I am of a direct conturary as to what you see and "hear" in cyberworld....
My deepest apologies goes out to those whom I've offended in one way or another....
Best Regards
Julius
