microphones, heat and strings

Well, this week wasn’t as hot as last week….partly due to being back at work in air conditioning, and partly due to it being actually not as hot….Hopefully we won’t have too many more weeks like that one. I can handle a single day or two getting hot, but a whole week of temperatures approaching 40 is a little more than I can stand.

I’ve decided to try to spend more time on music this year…try to get things finished and start making some real positive progress. We’ve got some good stuff just sitting on my hard drive that needs to be finished, but the last couple of years I’ve been very un motivated. I’ve ordered a new microphone to hopefully remove one aspect of my troubles with vocals – practice should hopefully remove the others – but it’s taking a long time to turn up, which is a little depressing, since I don’t really want to try any more vocals until I have it.

I got out Tessa’s violin the other day to experiment with – It was kind of bugging me that we had an instrument in the house that I don’t know how to play. I tuned it and messed around a bit, but I think that it’s probably not my thing…too small for a start, and I’m not sure if I have the patience for a frettless instrument, but I still wouldn’t mind learning Cello one day…..but then there’s a lot instruments I’d like to learn, and it’d probably be better use of my time trying to improve my guitar and singing skills, or even reaquainting myself with my sax.