Monday, 7 April 2008

Item 21 - Learn to play the flute

One down, 29 to go!

I bought a flute on ebay last week and spent Friday night learning to play it. By 'play it' I mean I can make a pretty good sound and know the fingerings for all the notes, and can play songs from music and without, and know what notes I'm playing.

That might seem a bit excessive for what is in effect 2 days of playing the flute, but I'm a musical person so I could already read music and understand the theory behind playing before I picked it up. I played the recorder when I was younger as well, and the fingering isn't too different, so the only thing I really had to learn from scratch was how to hold it and blow it.

My goal now is to be able to play it in public (probably at church) in the next month.

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