Tips for Learning an Instrument

Whenever music comes up in conversation, there seems to be an instant divide between people who do and don’t class themselves as musicians. Most of the time the people who don’t class themselves as musicians mumble something along the lines of “I wish I could play an instrument”.
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Take Five Covers

 

I’ve been thinking about covers of tunes recently, and have to say that 2 of my favourite covers are of Dave Brubeck’s tune, “Take Five”.

Tito Puente – Take Five in 4/4:

Val Bennet – Reggae Take Five Cover (from The Russians are Coming)

Just thought I should share those with you.

The Completely Unfinished Album

Uploaded some half-tunes on bandcamp. I seem to have lyrics block at the moment which is why they’re not finished. Hopefully I’ll finish them soon, but in the meantime I hope you like some of the bits I’ve made so far.


I’ll post updates on twitter @HannahSterry.

Photography

Buy my art

I decided to upload some of my better photos to redbubble, just to see how it goes. Once my new camera arrives and I’ve had a bit of a chance to play with it, I expect I’ll have plenty more images to add to this mini portfolio.

Waiting for Parcels

I realise I haven’t blogged anything in a while. Basically I’m waiting for my mandolin strings and shiny new camera to arrive so I can mess with some more instruments and do some more photography.

In the meantime I’ve been drawing cartoons like this one:

Nobody will sit in the bar with them.
Nobody will sit in the bar with them.

Anyway, soon I should be back to regularly recording and uploading nice fun bits of music about pirates and zombies and zeppelins! 😀

Why Public Toilets Should Be Soundproof

Toilet Humour

I’ve always thought that public toilets should be soundproofed. Very silly idea, but it seemed like good material for a cartoon!  🙂