Yeah, we really have a very unnatural relationship to cows, I’m the first to admit that!
For example, our national anthem has 15 strophes and eleven of them are about cows, while all of them mention milk or something made out of milk!
Fun fact: if you translate our national anthem to english, it goes on and on and on about King Willem van Oranje’s love affair with the Spanish king (google it!). But really it is about cows!
I worked at the Max Plack Institute for Psychologuitsics when I was young and innocent, but even there we could not find out, why the Dutch language is so alien!
About the cow “issue” - even our national flag looked like this before the Spanish war:
EDIT OK, I think they meant the dialects they speak in our remote alpine southern provinces and possibly Belgium.
I speak ABM (“Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands”, which translates to “General Civilised Dutch”), while the southern provinces speak something that sounds like Dutch (but you will recognize them by their soft “G”) - but is in fact gibberish to us.
Funny thing, Frisian is the closest living language to English (Frisian and Old English split during the Anglo Saxon migration in the 5th century). It’s still being spoken in parts of the Netherlands today.
I probably should have put migration in quotes. They pretty much came in and stomped the remnants of the Romano Brits that were left on the island after Rome pulled out of England. The Welsh got their name from this period, deriving from the Anglo Saxon word Wealas which is something like foreign people. Those were the native Brits being called "foreign people in their own home.
I have an acknowledgment since he participated on this thread. @Barney has been killing it. My most memorable cover that he did was “I want you back” by the Jackson 5. It’s one of the most technical song with syncopations and a bunch of finger twists. He just plowed it through like a champ. Kudos @Barney I was working on that song and I just skipped it. You did an awesome job on that song and the rest of your covers. Smiling through the covers and singing along is just infectious and I really enjoy the presentation throughout.
The discussion about introversion and perfectionism make me realize that many of you are still worries about making mistakes and embarrassing yourselves, well let me tell you Don’t!
I’m on a retainer on one of the monthly gig, it’s a private party with a lot of people and about half attendees are musicians which put the house band in a lot of pressure. We know that they know what’s going on but after a few years of playing I can tell you without any hesitation, they don’t know and they can’t tell when you fcuk up.
The only way they’d know is you panic and stop playing or shake your head. Even my band mates can’t tell when I miss a note or two. I once played a song in the wrong key altogether but I played it with conviction and good timing not even the singer knew it was in the wrong key.
That means the rest of the audience has no shot of knowing that you messed up. Play it and enjoy it. When you have the chance to play in front of the camera or live, take it and have fun. You’d only get better. Don’t worry about hitting the wrong notes or make mistakes. No one would know. They only see you putting in an awesome show.
Well we are all have to start somewhere. Mistakes is not something you need to get rid off, if you have a song that’s mistake free playing live you’d need a lot of time invested on the song. The difference between you and I is the comfort of knowing that 75% of people listening/ watching think that what I’m playing is good they other 25% just thought that’s a good noise, not everyone is musical, That and a few more years of experience in front of live audience.
Here’s the song I just finished editing for the Fodera strings thread. It’s one take through I left all of the mistake in so you can count them. It’s a couple of dozen mistakes, can you spot them all. I usually don’t tell people that but in this case let do it.
Honest to god, my first oh wait! My second live performance in high school I had chicken pox and I was not in a uniform I just ignored all eyes and just rocked on. I figured if they are all staring at my scabs on my face they’d missed my missing notes, lol.
Dommels is brewed in Dommelen, incidentally in one of our southern provinces. Not the Dutch alpine region (which is Zuid Limburg), more like a no-mans land between the civilized provinces and Belgium.
They have this issue with the “zachte G”, so the beer must be quite mellow…
That and a few more years of experience in front of live audience.
