Time Zone repost: Poll: if you’re a musician 🎵 (play an instrument 🎸🎷🥁🎹, sing 🎤, write 🎼, produce or anything related), professionally or as a hobby, please reply with what you do and a link, if you want to share. I’ll then collect and post a summary.
@jacob Hi Jacob. I'm a singer and harpist. I write songs too. Here's me playing harp to a swan 😃 Snow White Moment
@hollyhoneychurch This was a magical moment. Do the swans often approach you, if you don't play? Do you feel it was reacting to the music?
@jacob hi Jacob. The swan heard the music and doubled back to come listen. It's not a usual occurrence for me. Swans usually keep their distance but I’m not usually playing harp near them. I was in the woods doing a bit of recording and it heard me and came to watch and listen. It got so close. For 30 mins it sat there and got sleepy too, closing is eyes.
@hollyhoneychurch So cool. Not only the sweet sound of the harp and your singing, but also having captured the magical effect it was having on the swan (who apparently knew good music when it heard it). Bravo.
@joejenett it was all rather surprising and exciting Joe. A rare jewel in the fabric of the universe chose to shine on me that day : )
@Cassinato How do you compare sax and guitar. To me it feels like the sax is the closest to a guitar as far as solo instruments are concerned. Sax players can get so expressive.
@jacob Hey Jacob. I've played guitar for about 20 years now, and have been teaching over at Chasing Sound and with my newsletter Six String Sunday
@jacob I got into guitar in 1971 (in college) primarily inspired by Neil Young's Southern Man and other artists like Clapton and B.B. King. I've been dabbling in the Blues every since - writing, playing, singing. Was in a band in the mid-80s but never professionally. It's kept me sane through the years.
@Cassinato That interesting. I always wondered how sax players improvise. Do they go more from theory or can they still play by ear or is there anything like the patterns or box shapes that we learn on guitar. Because sax fingering seems less logical to me compared to a piano or a guitar, it's not even clear to me how easy it is to improvise, since it appears that you basically have to know which notes you're hitting (something that you may not know on guitar while still being in the scale).
@jacob Hi, just seen this. Classically trained pianist/organist here (music graduate). Accompanist for local choirs. I also dabble in piano accordion, flute, ukulele, violin, mandolin, folk/classical/electric guitar, recorder.
@Cassinato Thank you for the detailed response. It's interesting. And yes, there's no way around much theory knowledge in jazz.
