Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24583896-20151230030240/@comment-24583896-20151230174701

Captain Sans Nightmare wrote: You're a musician!? Darn, you have a lot of talents.

What can I say? I'm a true artist at heart XD I'm gonna have what I like to call...A Moment of "Irrelevation" (brace yourself), LOL: It honestly doesn't take much to be a musician. Just knowing how to play an instrument and/or having some knowledge of how to read music makes you a musician! Even if you only manage to play a few notes or a simple phrase out of a composition, that musicianship! There are classifications for musicians, and of course, beginner is one of them. But you know what, you can't be a professional if you were never an armature :) In my case, I play several instruments, but I'm most skilled with the flute and the piccolo. I've been playing the flute for 5 years now, and I'll admit, I'm not quite where I need to be (blame the lack of dedication from my band directors and not having one private lesson). Similar to my (visual) artistic abilities, I'm pretty much self-taught in everything I know about the flute. I know all the scales, arpeggios, dynamics, you name it. It didn't take long for me to master the piccolo either because it's almost like the same instrument. With reading music, it's pretty much basic math (and I can barely count passed 4 anyway). Also, if you know even a few scales, you can play music! Put any composition of any complexity in front of me and I might not be able to play it correctly...but I promise you I can read it. Reading each rhythm is like poetry (though I'm not a huge fan of poetry), it has a flow. Now, I'll openly admit that I am an extremely slow reader, but I make up for it with accuracy. The same goes for common literature. It might take me days to read through a mere 20 pages of something, but I could give a full dissertation on it if I wanted to! Dwelling further into this, I've noticed that I can't help but pick out all the little details when reading through stuff. It's why it takes me such a long time to provide my own insight: I decipher all I can from the simplest of details! On top of this, I find a way to bring them all together (I am going to suffer through college, I suck at meeting deadlines) XD This could all have something to do with my interest in Classical literature (NERD MOMENT INCOMING): I've studied Latin longer than I've studied any other language. In fact, if you know Latin, you know the basics of all it's counterparts: The Romance languages. It's not easy to learn, but you can pick up on the fundamentals just by observing the history/roots and derivatives of many words (60%) of the English language! All you need is a standard English dictionary. To be honest, English is the most complicated language out there because it has no definite structure to it (unlike more developed tongues). Call me a geek, but I actually like deciphering ancient Roman texts and other philosophical works just to take all I can from ancient cultures (really for no particular reason at all...but they're free in Google Play Books XD). I swear our ancestors were much smarter than we give them credit for

Okay, I'm done rambling now. Promise XD