I like to play unusual music for my students. One of my favorites to spring on them is violinist Vanessa Mae. At first they look like, "What is this!" and then some of them are truly intrigued by an electric violin.
GG, have you heard any Lucia Micarelli? Classically trained, but plays Led Zep and Queen. Playing Kashmir
Gaming peoplr--do you have any recs for Nintendo DS games that would be good for 9 year old girls?
Perkins, Lewis works at Gamestop and he's asking if the girl in question is really girly girl? If she is, in addition to Nintendogs, there is a whole line of Petz games. The Imagine Series is also really popular (stuff like Fashion Designer, Rock Star, Teacher). There's also an upcoming series called "EnerG" that focuses on sports-related stuff aimed at girls, so there's going to be gymnastics, equestrian, cheerleading.
From personal experience, Abby, who's about to turn eleven, has been happily playing Pokemon, My Sims, and anything Mario. If you have any other questions, let me know and I can ask Lewis.
Are historically accurate costumes more important in movies than in theatre?
There is certainly more budget for them.
Perkins, Lewis works at Gamestop and he's asking if the girl in question is really girly girl?
Thanks!
She (my niece) isn't really. I think the Imagine stuff would get usurped by her sister. I've heard Animal Crossing is good, so I'm going with that and then either Ninendogs or Mariokart, I think.
Cool-- Lewis is nodding his head and saying that Animal Crossing is definitely a good choice and started to mention it before. Plus, it has the Abby seal of approval.
I played the violin! Badly! 'Cause I was lazy and didn't practice as much as I should have.
I used to think learning violin would be extremely hard because they're fretless.
When I started the teacher put little strips of masking tape under the strings to mark where my fingers should go. It certainly takes a while, but eventually you develop muscle memory and just know where to hold the neck and how far to stretch your fingers, so that part isn't actually too bad. Well, if you have someone experienced, and some masking tape, I guess.
Actually, I think tuning the damned thing was the hardest part for me, but my sense of pitch is suboptimal.
I HEART Billytea's Beep Me.
All the best wishes to you and your family!
baby animals Almost as good as baby Buffistas...almost.
I played percussion in school band. Usually timpani or xylophone, but sometimes snare or bass drum. (I got assigned tuned percussion, even though I liked untuned better, because I was the only percussionist who could read music fluently -- the others could read it, but it took a while.) Also learned how to play a drum set, but then our basement flooded and it was ruined.
Well, never heard from Dr. Berry, tonight. Not that whatever couldn't wait anyways (MK getting IV food, drugs, appropriate insulin and hydration=BEST GOOD!)
So, tomorrow for the bandaid.
I need to reclaim the rest of my life. Work sucked it and then this crisis did and... need to get a little me alone back.
