Winter Woods II; Chat and Relax

stella_vigo · May 18, 2021, 4:40pm

When you go to a private school, learning to play an instrument is pretty much a requirement So basically in my primary school:

1st to 2nd grade: Keyboard (mandatory)

3rd to 4th grade: choose between keyboard or recorder

5th to 6th grade: choose between violin or recorder

and for the secondary division of that school (I moved school) 7th grade onwards, you can choose between guitar, recorder, or violin.

For my high school it keeps on changing because of the teacher, but for my first two years there (before the teacher left) guitar was mandatory for everyone.

So, we can play, because we have to

FourcedowErsert · May 18, 2021, 4:42pm

I knoww. When I was younger I didn’t mind it (and I told myself it was for defensive purposes) but now it feels awful.

Probably… Like not exactly directly into the finger, but like that outer portion.

Okay, good to know I’m not the only one. xD

I wish it was mandatory for my school >.<

48lexR · May 18, 2021, 4:44pm

My parents probably won’t let me do either

TheMidnightAssassin · May 18, 2021, 4:45pm

That’s sounds so different from here (even though I don:t even go to a private school-)

Ooh, for us it’s like… (they were optional but highly encouraged in my school, so almost everyone did them)

3rd: recorders

4th: handmade dulcimers and/or recorders

5th: ukulele, and there was band if you wanted to do it (orchestra for others)

6th to end-ish of highschool: band (to my knowledge)

Most people usually just do it because of school then drop the instrument after they’re done. Not much people are in band anymore (and it’s slowly getting boring for me because I’m way ahead of everyone in class…)

TheMidnightAssassin · May 18, 2021, 4:45pm

Aww, pooey

Do it when you get your freedom

48lexR · May 18, 2021, 4:46pm

We’ll see lol.

Zena · May 18, 2021, 4:46pm

it’s a deadly weapon
to both others and our mental state (at points where I don’t have scissors, etc, I would just bite them off, then rinse with 20 gulps of water)

noooooooo, not there!!! <.<

XD

FourcedowErsert · May 18, 2021, 4:49pm

Yes. xD True. Haha, I rarely bite my nails anymore now. I just rip them.
Wait, you cut your nails with scissors?

<.<

Zena · May 18, 2021, 4:51pm

effective 1000%

it’s like those clippy-thingies that looks like scissors

TheMidnightAssassin · May 18, 2021, 4:53pm

Nail clippers?

FourcedowErsert · May 18, 2021, 4:53pm

Yep!

Ohhh. Yeah that’s what I use. I thought you meant actual scissors

stella_vigo · May 18, 2021, 4:54pm

I’ve cut my nails with scissors before, because I was at school and didn’t have a nail cutter

FourcedowErsert · May 18, 2021, 4:55pm

Personally, I would never cut my nails at school-
xD

Zena · May 18, 2021, 4:55pm

YES THOSE THINGS- XD

oh, lol, nope, I’d probably cut off an inch of my fingertip

FourcedowErsert · May 18, 2021, 4:56pm

ouch

Manya707 · May 18, 2021, 5:03pm

I am wheezing

TheMidnightAssassin · May 18, 2021, 5:04pm

Hehe, glad you like them XD

stella_vigo · May 18, 2021, 5:32pm

You guys have no idea how many takes this took, and it still is full of mistakes (really, it’s not good)

Let me preface this by saying that I don’t know the full song.

Yeah, as you can hear, I’m still basic. That thing in the middle wasn’t a chord btw, it was my finger lifting off the fingerboard and the strings unsticking and therefore vibrating (it’s not supposed to do that). I made some mistakes, awkward pauses, and it doesn’t even sound like a guitar. The last part especially sounds more like violin pizzicato because I can’t press the strings enough to not mute them.

I would’ve recorded a better take but my right leg feels numb after I placed my guitar on it

this is what it’s supposed to sound like:

The difference is astounding

Zena · May 18, 2021, 5:35pm

warning

THAT IS SO PRETTY!!!

stella_vigo · May 18, 2021, 5:36pm

also warning lol

THANK YOU!