Do other people buy albums and listen to them over and over on repeat? I know you might for an album that "really speaks to you" or something, but I'll do this for an album I just like. I have a Pandora account that I never use, but otherwise I only stream from, like, , or sometimes , when I'm considering buying the album it's on.

Is anyone else into change ringing? I started playing around with swapping adjacent characters in a sequence, and started graphing the edges so it's easier to trace out and play the sequence on my ukulele. It struck me that this is a similar sort of thing to change ringing, though the paths I'm following through the graph don't enumerate all the sequences available

I just *do not* understand how modes relate to actually playing music. I'm reading this liveukulele.com/lessons/theory and it talks about how you "end" or "start" on this or that note and that makes it in one mode or another...? I start on whatever note I start on and I don't just play notes in a given order. It really feels like there's some fundamental disconnect between how I think of playing and how music theorists want to describe it

I hope I can get to a level of mastery with that I can play things by ear the same way I can whistle songs I've heard. Actually reading is such an effort for me.

I'm sitting here watching Seinfeld thinking, "this Susan character looks familiar..." I look her up: I got my first ukulele lesson from one of her videos! Heidi Swedberg's videos are just delightful: I was leaning towards learning ukulele, but seeing how much fun she was having just making an instructional video, I went out and bought a ukulele the next day.

as I'm learning my first instrument (we shan't talk about those plastic recorders from grade school) I'm discovering that before the expressiveness and emotionality of playing music comes a lot of dead-eyed concentration and diagramming.

Is it weird to have a favorite chord? I'm just learning , and I'm digging the d-minor chord

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