Louise Fowler

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Maybe we could keep each other accountable? Set a goal to try and practise 30 minutes everyday (or something to that affect)? I’m finding keeping my word-count accountable to someone every day very helpful.

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    XD Yeah, I used to be really consistent too. It’s quite terrible, actually. I need to get back into doing it more, especially now since I’m also learning a second instrument.

  • @emily-d That second one! XD

  • @emily-d Yesss! That last one is hilarious!

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Yeah, it can be hard. I haven’t been learning for quite that long (mid-2015, I think), but I started a whole lot later than most people would, so I was able to learn some of it pretty quickly. I don’t practice as often as I should, though. 😛 Twice a week at least with orchestra and lessons, but still, I should do it more.

  • @daeus That is a really interesting principle. How did you come about thinking of that?

  • @ethryndal Awe, yay!!! It’s been great getting to know you, and what a wonderful 1-Year-Anniversary post. 😀 *doesn’t cry* (What do you MBTI peeps say about INFPs here? 😛 )

    *dances around in glitter* So pretty! *sends you a kangaroo and a wallaby*

  • @eamily-d Oh, yeah, Teenager Posts. Some of those are quite funny. They’re all over Pinterest. 😀

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Yeah, before I got my first full-sized violin, I had to borrow one from the store I purchased it through, because it was taking forever to come. And that one had tape on the fingerboard, so by the time I had my own (many weeks later 😉 ) I didn’t need to put tape on because I had pretty much learned the fingerings.

    How long have you been playing…[Read more]

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Yeah, that’s right, I think it’s middle C. The third line is a C, either way. 😛 And yeah, a little bit farther apart, because the strings are longer. The viola I’m using is my conductor’s old one, and it has tape where the fingerings go, so I just have to put my fingers where the tape is. 😛

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Actually, it’s harder than you’d think to learn viola, even after learning violin, because the strings are different (C, G, D, A) and the clef is different, so the notes are in different places. *confusion* But yes, it is lovely. And my mum loves her cello. 😀

    • That’s true. (Alto clef…where Middle C is on the 3rd line. Or somewhere thereabouts. Not right. *raises eyebrows*) Also do you have to put your fingers further apart for each note? I tried out a friend’s viola once and it sounded slightly off at first because I’m used to the smaller amount of space between violin notes.

    • Yeah, that’s right, I think it’s middle C. The third line is a C, either way. 😛 And yeah, a little bit farther apart, because the strings are longer. The viola I’m using is my conductor’s old one, and it has tape where the fingerings go, so I just have to put my fingers where the tape is. 😛

    • Oh yeah, there was tape for the fingerings on the 3/4 violin I first learned on, and it made that part of learning a lot faster.

    • Yeah, before I got my first full-sized violin, I had to borrow one from the store I purchased it through, because it was taking forever to come. And that one had tape on the fingerboard, so by the time I had my own (many weeks later 😉 ) I didn’t need to put tape on because I had pretty much learned the fingerings.

      How long have you been playing…[Read more]

    • About…3 and a half years. I started in March 2014, along with my oldest sister Elizabeth.
      I’m not sorry I did, either. Even if it does get depressing sometimes. 😛

    • Yeah, it can be hard. I haven’t been learning for quite that long (mid-2015, I think), but I started a whole lot later than most people would, so I was able to learn some of it pretty quickly. I don’t practice as often as I should, though. 😛 Twice a week at least with orchestra and lessons, but still, I should do it more.

    • Twice a week…that makes me feel a little better about myself. XD I probably don’t even do that much currently though, not with consistency. I don’t have orchestra or lessons either. Being largely self-taught (and YOU-TUBE), I don’t have a whole bunch of accountability. :/
      But I used to play it like 6 days a week! I have so plummeted. 😛

    • XD Yeah, I used to be really consistent too. It’s quite terrible, actually. I need to get back into doing it more, especially now since I’m also learning a second instrument.

    • Yeah, I need to too.

    • Maybe we could keep each other accountable? Set a goal to try and practise 30 minutes everyday (or something to that affect)? I’m finding keeping my word-count accountable to someone every day very helpful.

  • @emily-d Yeah, I think so. 🙂

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    Wow, lovely short answer indeed! 😀 I get what you’re saying, and I agree, sometimes I don’t feel like I have to write either, and that just makes it more fun when I do, and less stressful when I don’t (like this month so far, I’ve written at least something everyday, and I hadn’t written for weeks). It’s a passion, but I think it’s now a smaller…[Read more]

    • Yup, that makes sense. 😀
      Oooooh, I LOVE the sound of viola, and would probably play it if we had one. That WONDERFUL middle-deep warm range it has. *shivers* Beautiful. And when you already know violin I’m sure it won’t be so difficult.
      And that’s hilarious you got your mom a cello! It’s our mom’s dream to have a cello someday, and we’ve thought…[Read more]

      • Actually, it’s harder than you’d think to learn viola, even after learning violin, because the strings are different (C, G, D, A) and the clef is different, so the notes are in different places. *confusion* But yes, it is lovely. And my mum loves her cello. 😀

        • That’s true. (Alto clef…where Middle C is on the 3rd line. Or somewhere thereabouts. Not right. *raises eyebrows*) Also do you have to put your fingers further apart for each note? I tried out a friend’s viola once and it sounded slightly off at first because I’m used to the smaller amount of space between violin notes.

        • Yeah, that’s right, I think it’s middle C. The third line is a C, either way. 😛 And yeah, a little bit farther apart, because the strings are longer. The viola I’m using is my conductor’s old one, and it has tape where the fingerings go, so I just have to put my fingers where the tape is. 😛

        • Oh yeah, there was tape for the fingerings on the 3/4 violin I first learned on, and it made that part of learning a lot faster.

        • Yeah, before I got my first full-sized violin, I had to borrow one from the store I purchased it through, because it was taking forever to come. And that one had tape on the fingerboard, so by the time I had my own (many weeks later 😉 ) I didn’t need to put tape on because I had pretty much learned the fingerings.

          How long have you been playing…[Read more]

        • About…3 and a half years. I started in March 2014, along with my oldest sister Elizabeth.
          I’m not sorry I did, either. Even if it does get depressing sometimes. 😛

        • Yeah, it can be hard. I haven’t been learning for quite that long (mid-2015, I think), but I started a whole lot later than most people would, so I was able to learn some of it pretty quickly. I don’t practice as often as I should, though. 😛 Twice a week at least with orchestra and lessons, but still, I should do it more.

        • Twice a week…that makes me feel a little better about myself. XD I probably don’t even do that much currently though, not with consistency. I don’t have orchestra or lessons either. Being largely self-taught (and YOU-TUBE), I don’t have a whole bunch of accountability. :/
          But I used to play it like 6 days a week! I have so plummeted. 😛

        • XD Yeah, I used to be really consistent too. It’s quite terrible, actually. I need to get back into doing it more, especially now since I’m also learning a second instrument.

        • Yeah, I need to too.

        • Maybe we could keep each other accountable? Set a goal to try and practise 30 minutes everyday (or something to that affect)? I’m finding keeping my word-count accountable to someone every day very helpful.

  • Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago

    XD

    Have you ever tried writing, or is it definitely 100% not your thing? 😀

  • @catwing @sarah-anson I use meaning-of-names.com and sometimes fantasynamegenerator.com

    You know when you’re a writer when you have several name generator sites bookmarked.

  • @ck4always Uh, what help? lol XD

  • @emily-d My brother’s read the Robot Wars series! I thought I knew the name of the author, but I had no idea what he’d written. 😛

  • Louise Fowler replied to the topic Haikus in the forum Poetry 7 years, 5 months ago

    @aislinn-mollisong lol, thanks! 😀

    @dekreel
    Yes, I do know that,
    I was merely doing
    What Catwing thought of.

    That is, speaking in
    Other forms of poem be-
    sides a Haiku form.

    That particular
    Form of poem is called a
    Limmerick, Dekreel.

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