kluczyczka (she/her)

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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • yup i’ve read about the math behind this. thing is i do not know what any of that refers to in reality. it seems totally arbitrary to me. yet i am supposed to hear a 5th. (note that i studied the most abstract shit for years. abstraction is not my enemy.) my plan is to expose myself to this using any instrument, that’s easy enough to learn, until i understand.

    i tried guitar now for a few days. rn i doubt this is gonna work out. my ellbow and shoulder hurt and i still get no fingerposition that works (i.e. enough pressure, on only one string per finger).

    keys are maybe the better choice since you can at least see the relations, and i dont have to wrap my arm around a stick but i doubt, that i will sit in front of a keyboard regularly after 8 hours of work …

    idk i need to cry maybe.





  • i gotta say, reading music theory is hard for me bc i do genuinly not know what ‘a note’ is. rather than ‘a concept of music theory’. 440 hz is something of meaning to me but “a” is not and i don’t really get why 880 hz should be a again. (i know. its super ‘harmonical’ bc the intervalls fit perfectly. but phenomenologically, in terms of hearing, i do not get, why tradition considers these two different frequencies to be ‘the same note’.)

    — in short i feel like i need to know the thing music theory refers to before that can start to make sense for me.

    i consider taking lessons, so i guess they will push etudes on me? ;)