Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Georgiegirl256

Izadora wrote: »

Hopefully, seeing as a lot of companies are heading towards having more people home working,.

I wish D's company were. They're moving away from it and into pod working.

People are leaving his company left, right and centre because they either don't want to work like that, or mainly because they don't live near an office where they can work like that. It's stupid, the company has not got a clue and wonders why everyone is leaving!

Looks like D's final leaving date (it kept on getting extended) will be in November. If they just let him carry on working from home then all would be good. I think they'll realise when he's gone and there's no one to do certain contracts.

Sorry to hear you're having work troubles too elsien.

Georgiegirl256

Had a good workout on the bike yesterday, and have already been for a walk this morning as I had to drop my car off for it's MOT....fingers crossed it doesn't need anything (or at least very little) doing to it!

tea_lover

Ooh you sound very active Georgie! I am..... less so :rotfl:. Is D still finding pokemon go is getting him out and about?

Georgiegirl256

tea_lover wrote: »

Ooh you sound very active Georgie! I am..... less so :rotfl:. Is D still finding pokemon go is getting him out and about?

No lol! :rotfl: Tbh, I haven't been on it as much either. Either the weather hasn't been good, or we've just forgot about it, the novelty soon wore off. Although, I had it open today on my walk as I'm trying to hatch an egg....the same one as a week or so ago!

Are you still playing it?

jobbingmusician

Bloody bloody site. Eats posts.

elsien - don't worry too much about your job. Qualified people in your field are sooo much in demand, TUPE is supposed to mean what it says (the 'P' bit) so I'm sure any sensible employer would let you continue to work from home. I will PM you after the weekend (just about to go away, yet again!)

ono - I wonder if you could do some useful music theory, or rhythm, before you start lessons, if you find yourself with time on your hands? Theory might be boring, but you could do some practical rhythm on youtube maybe? (Only warning - OF COURSE notes are called different things in the USA. A quarter note is a crotchet, measures are bars etc. But I was thinking more of some practical exercises to develop your rhythmic sense further, maybe?)

Pyxis

jobbingmusician wrote: »

Bloody bloody site. Eats posts.

elsien - don't worry too much about your job. Qualified people in your field are sooo much in demand, TUPE is supposed to mean what it says (the 'P' bit) so I'm sure any sensible employer would let you continue to work from home. I will PM you after the weekend (just about to go away, yet again!)

ono - I wonder if you could do some useful music theory, or rhythm, before you start lessons, if you find yourself with time on your hands? Theory might be boring, but you could do some practical rhythm on youtube maybe? (Only warning - OF COURSE notes are called different things in the USA. A quarter note is a crotchet, measures are bars etc. But I was thinking more of some practical exercises to develop your rhythmic sense further, maybe?)

Another big difference is that we tend to call the notes by their letter name, or by their position in the scale, eg. Root, second, third, fifth, seventh, etc., rather than Doh Re Me.

Aren't there any British theory sites?

Hang on! I've got one!........


toddles of to find it.......


No I don't. Thought I did, but I've got paper books of theory etc.

However, the Associated Boards of the Royals Schools of Music (ABRSM)do a number of helpful aids to learning......check them out here.....

http://gb.abrsm.org/en/exam-support/practice-tools-and-applications/

tea_lover

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Are you still playing it?

Very hit and miss. There's nothing around me, so it's really hard to keep stocked up with pokeballs. I do like going for a walk with it and hatching the eggs though so at least that's kind of holding my interest. I need a trip into town to get stocked up and then I'll be good to go for while again .

Aaargh music theory. I thought I understood at least the basics but the closer the exam gets (not even a MT one, but there are elements of it in the practical exams too), the more I realise I have no idea. Anyone else done an ABRSM exam recently? The style and period question is awful! Although the 'sing at the examiner' parts are comedy-terrible too.

jobbingmusician

Pyxis wrote: »

Another big difference is that we tend to call the notes by their letter name, or by their position in the scale, eg. Root, second, third, fifth, seventh, etc., rather than Doh Re Me.
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Worth learning this, if you think you are ever likely to do grade 5 theory.

Tonic; do
Supertonic; re (you get the idea...)
Mediant;
Subdominant;
Dominant;
Submediant;
Leading Note;
Tonic

onomatopoeia99

jobbingmusician wrote: »

ono - I wonder if you could do some useful music theory, or rhythm, before you start lessons, if you find yourself with time on your hands? Theory might be boring, but you could do some practical rhythm on youtube maybe? (Only warning - OF COURSE notes are called different things in the USA. A quarter note is a crotchet, measures are bars etc. But I was thinking more of some practical exercises to develop your rhythmic sense further, maybe?)

I do remember a little bit of how to read a musical score. Was looking at a site about reading music last night and reading about "half notes" etc, and then wondering what had happened to quavers (and crotchets and minims). Once again, the UK and US divided by a common language!


My bank holiday project is to construct a stud wall to divide my second bedroom in half. It was originally two rooms, but the previous owners knocked the wall through to form a big arch with about a foot of each end of the wall left holding up an RSJ at the top (not sure what it's holding up as I live in a bungalow, my surveyor didn't know either ). What they didn't do was remove one of the doors, so I have one big room with two doors from the hallway almost next to each other :rotfl: . At the moment one half is the study and the other half has the spare bed for guests. After it will be the same but I won't have to disturb a guest to get to my computer. Also thinking about throwing out the spare bed and moving the second sofa into the newly created spare bedroom, as it's a fold out sofa bed. Not going to decorate at this point as it's all covered in painted woodchip and removing that is too horrible to contemplate!

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

Very hit and miss. There's nothing around me, so it's really hard to keep stocked up with pokeballs. I do like going for a walk with it and hatching the eggs though so at least that's kind of holding my interest. I need a trip into town to get stocked up and then I'll be good to go for while again .

Aaargh music theory. I thought I understood at least the basics but the closer the exam gets (not even a MT one, but there are elements of it in the practical exams too), the more I realise I have no idea. Anyone else done an ABRSM exam recently? The style and period question is awful! Although the 'sing at the examiner' parts are comedy-terrible too.

Not done one recently! I did all mine in the 60s!
I shouldn't think the questions have changed much , though! Hahahahahaha!

Although, is it all done on computer these days?