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Why am I avoiding practicing?

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Aug 9, 2024
1 min read

  1. I'm in film mode, not music mode.

  2. My strings are dead

  3. I refuse to practice if the goal is to be Tina for VUW.

  4. Given the lack of apologies, I'm really not keen to play classical guitar.

So, yeah, it's not critically important. The only people that are missing out on me and the vibe that I bring are the people that aren't comfortable around trannies. Plus I've always been quite flake-y when it comes to such things... my major at uni wasn't guitar; it was composition. Stop asking me to practice until you're prepared to apologise, and also prepared to accept that I refuse to enrol with VUW because I don't want to, and that's ok. Is that plain enough?

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Aug 08, 2024

Also, to be smug: the first page of Sultry is rubato. One thing I bloody hate about the approach that all the older guitar pros use is that it's so metronomic (and competitive). Feel is important, not just rhythmic accuracy.


Like, it's quite a cutthroat vibe that Jane brought back from the States. In general, the NZSM wasn't a fun place for me to be, so I've never really regretted leaving. As for the apologies, well, I'm very much keen to hear some stuff about how being the penis police ruined my life. If Jake used 'I could see the bulge' as a defence for what he did, and then you believed that, then that's actually a transphobic statement. It was…

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