{"id":6557,"date":"2019-09-18T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:46:34","slug":"cello-is-anybody-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/09\/18\/cello-is-anybody-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Cello, is anybody there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Ugh! The title is so good right? My mind! To the people who understand this joke, you are forever in my heart. The reason I picked this title is because of its relation to the video I&#8217;m going to share with you all today. I stumbled across this video a while back when I was trying to find a cello version of &#8220;Do I wanna Know?&#8221; by Arctic Monkeys (If you don&#8217;t know this band, I highly suggest giving them a listen.) After my long quest of trying to find the music for it, and eventually about to give up, I came across this video. I&#8217;d never heard of Rachel Lander prior to this video but I&#8217;m so glad I found her when did. I&#8217;ve played the cello since my 4th grade year in school. I played the viola for one year but ended up despising the instrument (no hate to the viola players here.) Since coming to MSA, I haven&#8217;t touched my instrument. Lately, I&#8217;ve been feeling a sense of longing to play my cello but I&#8217;m not confident in my skills anymore. I played the instrument for roughly 7 or 8 years, even going to an arts school for it, but even then I didn&#8217;t feel confident in my playing. I played some hard pieces, even being 2nd principle in the cello section of the school orchestra but I never felt my potential. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I knew how to switch positions, switch clefs, even played some of the hardest pieces, but I never felt I filled the &#8220;advanced&#8221; position I was told I was in. My fear of sounding terrible while playing my cello now is the only thing keeping me from picking it up. I used to love playing the cello in my beginner years. It was so satisfying telling people that I played the cello. I even considered it my party trick. I used to be ask to perform in different ensembles and play in different places but I was so scared of sounding bad, I would always decline. Looking back on it, it&#8217;s one of my biggest regrets in life. I never wanted to take cello playing into my adult life. I wanted it to be apart of my childhood only. I never really saw myself playing professionally so I never took it seriously. Even now, I can&#8217;t see myself playing professionally nor teaching it. I just like to do it, you know? I&#8217;ve never actually told anybody this but I felt a need to get it off my chest. Typing this now, I feel a weight has been lifted off me. So after my little spill, here is the video that I mentioned in the beginning of this post. Enjoy! (Don&#8217;t mind the color of the text. I&#8217;m trying to learn my way around the website and see what I can do and what I can&#8217;t. If it is distracting, please let me know!) Now you can really enjoy! *Listen with headphones*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpQpmLskDWE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh! The title is so good right? My mind! To the people who understand this joke, you are forever in my heart. The reason I picked this title is because of its relation to the video I&#8217;m going to share with you all today. I stumbled across this video a while back when I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/09\/18\/cello-is-anybody-there\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cello, is anybody there?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}