Welcome to Episode 165 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest. It is Monday 30th of this December, November, 2020. Today what is today. Kathimerini much train this morning was hard going used weights the first time kind of hurt my shoulder a bit achy now, hamstrings killing me. But aside from that, I was doing stuff for clients today so not really so much stuff myself what I did manage to do is another one of my practices of my set. Because, have you been listening I recently then you know I've been trying to get myself back into a performing mode. And so I've been practising the same six songs for about the last two or three weeks and it's really really made a difference. You know vocally I feel much better and more confident and knowing the songs, etc. Today I added a seventh song to it, and I'll probably just stick with those seven now for at least a week or maybe two weeks, maybe just the week and then I'll add an eighth to it the week after and really try and cement these songs and work out how to play them. So, that's a positive and. Outside of that, that's basically my day. I don't really feel once again I don't really feel like I got anywhere today. I mean, apart from that, you know, and I definitely need to speed up my moving through of projects, because once again I'm feeling like I'm getting into a state that I've been in before where I'm basically just busy but not really getting anything really truly important done. I did kind of write a song today I guess it just came out. And I stuck with it, it wasn't that great. Probably won't keep the course that I've bought it might not even have a course at all. So at least there's some creativity there but I just, I feel like I'm going back into this routine of, you know, just being busy but not really doing too much. I did do some, again has spent some good time with meaner again today in terms of homeschooling terms of, you know, going through schooling stuff, and we will focus today on, we did some music before lunch, which was called just trying to work on getting a feel for the feeling of rhythm into the body which is something that they don't really teach, or they don't really teach something that I wasn't taught and I don't think is often expressly taught but is so fundamental to music. And the way that it sort of came to me was playing. When I started getting into and was introduced to funk and blues and the funk and blues players. They're all feeling it's all about feeling the music, and it's kind of different to classical players that a lot of classical players I met you put up some sheet music in front of them, they can play fine. You take it away and they've kind of got no feeling. You know they don't really feel what they're doing, they read it, and rockers are a bit can be a bit like that as well. They don't read but equally, they often don't feel as much because I'm generalising but you know they make. Everything's turned up too loud so it's all about being rocking and rolling out loud but actually you can lose the, the feeling and it's kind of an odd thing but a lot of musicians even guys who've been playing for 20 plus years haven't developed that sense of feeling and I'm not saying, I've developed it particularly strongly, but I realise how Paramount it is to really anything in a music so I really want to try and take that approach and instil that in the kids if they want to learn music so with Mina we were just, we were talking about rhythm and, you know, trying to clap, on the one or clap on the to the bar or the three etc. And then, to help kind of illustrate it and take it out of the theory zone, we would just played random songs on Spotify, and then we were trying to clap on the beat, clap on the, the two or three and sort of getting a try feel in the body in a very physical thing, it should be. Even if you're not moving, you should still feel it in the side. So that was before lunch and then after lunch we're working on maths, and she's really
