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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If it's so update on the double bass journey, if
you don't know, I am now a committed double BASSI
I am so obsessed with this instrument. I'm going to
still carry on doing cello and viera, but only the
very you know, the first, probably the first Suzuki book
and maybe the second, and I suppose if I got
(00:21):
a student, I'd go on and do the third, because
obviously I can play those still, and you know, they're
really easy. They're quite easy for me. But I'm not
interested in practicing those instruments at all each day. And
this I don't need to practice because I'm not teaching
anybody those instruments. So what you know, all I'm doing
(00:41):
is actually sharing tools, and I don't play the tools.
I you know, I work tirelessly finding the tools and
creating the right equipment that people can use to progress
through those books, but I don't actually play them anymore.
Those days are gone. They were really through COVID and
what have You can still access all of the videos,
(01:03):
of course, on my in my music school, so over
at I servlan dot com that you can look there
and it'll guide you. And then I'm on gumrad dot
I think it's Gumra dot com forward sash I Servelan.
I think that's it, or it might be I Servelant. Well,
I won't. I won't even bother telling you because it's
ridiculous of me to try and muddle through anyway. I've
(01:27):
just so. I played for the orchestra, and I was
interested that, you know, I didn't play very well on
the night, and realized that the reason I didn't play
very well is because I couldn't play it. And the
reason I couldn't play it was because I'd learnt very
advanced music with none of the basic skills. So I
went right back to you know, level nought. And now
(01:50):
my daily practice involves the whole of Suzukibook one and
the whole of Suzukibook two. That's the given. I've worked
my way through George Advance as well, but I need
a store for it. I can't bend over the you know,
the body of the instrument without hurting myself, So I'm
still waiting for my stool. But I feel pretty sure
(02:13):
that I will be practicing those three books every day now.
The thing with Suzuki, which I love in terms of
the bricks and mortar of you know, the success that
you will achieve. It really gives you such a strong foundation.
(02:34):
And you're repeating the same ideas throughout the whole book.
But I say repeating, I mean reinforcing, and there's a difference.
So you're reinforcing the idea of repeating the tunes in
different places in the double bass is just masterful, absolutely
(02:54):
masterful when you play single pieces, and when you're doing
a BRSM exams, for example, you don't tend to find
that you're reinforcing other skills such as scales, site reading,
and I guess quite sophisticated advanced techniques for your grade,
(03:20):
because they really throw you in at the deep end
at the start of every grade. You don't do that
with Suzuki. Suzuki books take you very slowly, step by step,
and the repetition and the listening becomes such a part
of your progress that it's almost fool proof. You almost
can't go wrong. And that's why I love Suzuki. The
(03:44):
reinforcing is second to none. When you do another course
like ABRSM, you have to practice over and over again,
these quite long, difficult pieces, so you know, I would
say they are harder, but they're not quite so reliable
in terms of teaching you and you have to get
(04:07):
to grade date before you can play anything d half decent,
you know, whereas with Suzuki from the first lesson you
can play something half decent. So for that reason, I'm
absolutely certain that I want to continue my career as
an educator using Suzuki method for double bass. I think
(04:27):
it's spot on, really really good. But I will do
all of the books. Like I say, I'm going to
be practicing, you know, all of these things every day.
So in terms of joining the music school, there's one
particular work. Basically there's an overall music school which is
really for educators. So I'm trying to put all the
tools up that people can use to become educators and
(04:50):
to advance their journey, as you know, teachers professionals, but
educator professionals. So I'm putting a lot of stuff up
that is kind of interactive and all the different methods
that there are lots of essays and things like that.
So I would say it's a bit more academic. So
(05:10):
the I Serveland School of Music is quite academic, bizarrely,
because of course I serve Land is so much about
the band tell tele Club. But when I first came
up with that name, the eye was for Internet and
the Serverlan struck me as something futuristic and robotic and digital,
(05:31):
and that's where I came up with that name, and
I wanted that to represent the brand, which is a
digital brand. So it's a brand that uses digital tools.
That's really what that's all about. And that's worked fine
for me. I can get my head around it. So
today I finally worked out. I mean, I keep saying
this as I go along. I think I've worked out,
(05:53):
you know, which bit's going to be doing what, which,
what brand is doing, what school is doing what. Actually
I was researching author websites because I've set up my
new website, so dot com. By the way, sony Mare
if you find that easier to spell at it, and
if you will, they're spelled both the same, by the way,
(06:15):
but some people, depending on which country you come from,
just say Mare anyway, so it depends. So yes, I've
I've created that, but I was looking around. I was
actually looking at Squarespace for their website builder, so I'm
going to steal some ideas from them, because I didn't
know which website to use I've actually just stuck with
(06:37):
the blog. But it's son dot com, so it's all
you know, it's basically a blog, really using Blogger as
a one page website, and I like that the landing
page has a lot on it. There are links to
other pages, but most of the information is on that
front page, and I really like that. It's really useful.
(06:57):
But I and then I went to look at JK.
Rowling websites. It's a bit frumpy, actually, it's a bit
old fashioned and frumpy. But she has two doors in
so you can go in the kid's store or the
adult store. I say door its you just click on
a picture, and then I sort of that led me,
so I thought, well, I want to do that really actually,
(07:19):
so my website one side is you can press the
button to go for the kids page. This is books,
the kid's books, I should say, the kid's library of
books that I've written, which I haven't updated yet. There's
only one book on there. I've got more, but I
just haven't got around to doing it. And then the
other side is for the adults. So I was kind
of researching good websites for authors and people coming up
(07:44):
with you know, do you asking the question on Reddit
and what have you. I do a little research on
that bloody platform. Do you need different websites for the
different style books you do? And the verdict was no,
you just have to make things on the website you've got.
And I was thinking about this visa v you know
all the instruments I play, because I play so many
(08:06):
bloody instruments now, and I was thinking, well, surely if
I just, you know, if I have a single platform,
but it's clear where all the different bits go and
the different levels that they can go to, you know,
so I eventually I've foreseen me having early learners, intermediates,
(08:29):
and then advanced learners in each instrument. It's too much
to set it all up in one day. I'm going
to have to do it really slowly, but I think
that's the way to do it, and I'm not going
to rush myself. So today I just set up the
arservlan dot com, which is for educators, as I just said,
and understanding now that that word educators is so important
(08:52):
to how I market everything. How I you know, how
I how do you market music? You can market it
to students, you can market it to teachers, two completely
different ways. Of delivering, of engagement and of materials that
those two different groups are going to want. Then of
(09:15):
course there are subgroups. There are subgroups like beginner adults,
because beginner children and beginner adults are completely different. So
that's something in the future that I'll be looking at.
And these are all going to happen on my gum
road account, but they're all going to be linked really beautifully,
she said hopefully on the ice avaland dot com blog.
(09:38):
So it was really nice to get some clarity. And
it all happened because I set up solid Andamara dot
com and I needed to set that up because guys,
the Autism Caravan Project is afloat, but I need to
be Internet ready for when I apply for grants and things.
I have to have, you know, my website set up,
(10:02):
my experience set up. So in view of that, I
am going to write some autism essays. I'm not going
to write a whole book. I thought yesterday, I'm going
to write a whole book about being a grandma with
you know, an autistic grandchild and who comes to stay
in the wonder of it, in the beauty. But there's
(10:22):
a lot of people putting a lot of their own
experiences up. So I'm not going to do that. I'm
just going to it's maybe slightly more kind of academic essays,
really curious and interesting essays that are I guess, you know,
I don't want to be in competition with all the
Facebook groups and a point, you know, so I'm looking
at something a little bit more. I don't want to
(10:45):
use the word a highbrow, but you know, research, I guess,
research papers. I'm really interested in research papers into autism,
into specifically autism and girls. My daughter's just been diagnosed.
I'm going for my diagnosis in a few months. I'm
on a waiting list. I'm really interested in all that.
(11:06):
I'm curious about. How, you know, my daughters in her thirties,
I'm in my sixties. How have we managed to get
through life? You know with these you know? Is it
a disability? I don't know. I don't know what you'd
call it. It's a neurodivergent condition. I think it might
(11:26):
be a disability in terms of trying to fit in,
you know, to a structured social network. Are a structured
social paradigm that's really inflexible. How do you know it
is a disability? Isn't it, you're not going to fit in.
You have to be accepting that it causes disabling factors
(11:49):
and issues when you try to engage or try to
be part of it, whatever that is, even if it's
the masking and causing you deep depression and you know,
three suicide attempts and all of these things that you
know happened because you're not feeling ordinary or normal. So yeah,
(12:13):
I'm really interested in all of that, all of that,
and I don't want to get into you know, the
problem with Facebook groups is because I was on these
punk ones yesterday and they're quite competitive, so you know,
they'll say, I mean, somebody had put up a picture
of my album cover and somebody had said they're probably
(12:34):
all in local government now, and I thought all the
thing to say. I mean, I'm not brutally incensed at that,
because I did consider it, but I just think, you know,
what are what are they saying? Are they saying? I
mean what they were saying is I bet they've sold out,
That's what they were saying. And there are other people saying, oh,
(12:56):
plastic punks or oh this or oh that. And it's
the same with the auto you know, who's more autistic
than who who's a better autistic or a worse autistic,
or who's a good autistic parent? Do you know what
I mean? I don't want to be that puerile. It's
not part of you know what my any of my
(13:16):
platforms are about remembering that as a musician, I believe
in encompassing and that music starts, you know, very small,
in the small areas of the home or the village.
You know, that's where music starts. So yeah, more a
bit more academic, a little bit more investigative, I think
(13:38):
as well, and you know, a bit more activist because
sort of moaning about things, or being competitive about things,
or you know, some of these other manifestations in online forums,
they're not going to be very helpful to my activism,
(14:00):
my personal way of activism or activating. No, that can't
be right being an activist, you know, my personal method.
That's not conducive with it at all. So I want
to be all knowledgeable. That's really important to me. So
follow this Please follow this podcast because this podcast is
(14:22):
all about music primarily, but also about the autism Caravan
and how that would fit in. And of course it's
linked to my new website which is fabulous, isn't it.
I better go and change all the links and what
have you. That's the trouble. When you start something new,
you've got to do all that stuff. It's a bit boring,
to be honest.
If it's so update on the double bass journey, if
you don't know, I am now a committed double BASSI
I am so obsessed with this instrument. I'm going to
still carry on doing cello and viera, but only the
very you know, the first, probably the first Suzuki book
and maybe the second, and I suppose if I got
(00:21):
a student, I'd go on and do the third, because
obviously I can play those still, and you know, they're
really easy. They're quite easy for me. But I'm not
interested in practicing those instruments at all each day. And
this I don't need to practice because I'm not teaching
anybody those instruments. So what you know, all I'm doing
(00:41):
is actually sharing tools, and I don't play the tools.
I you know, I work tirelessly finding the tools and
creating the right equipment that people can use to progress
through those books, but I don't actually play them anymore.
Those days are gone. They were really through COVID and
what have You can still access all of the videos,
(01:03):
of course, on my in my music school, so over
at I servlan dot com that you can look there
and it'll guide you. And then I'm on gumrad dot
I think it's Gumra dot com forward sash I Servelan.
I think that's it, or it might be I Servelant. Well,
I won't. I won't even bother telling you because it's
ridiculous of me to try and muddle through anyway. I've
(01:27):
just so. I played for the orchestra, and I was
interested that, you know, I didn't play very well on
the night, and realized that the reason I didn't play
very well is because I couldn't play it. And the
reason I couldn't play it was because I'd learnt very
advanced music with none of the basic skills. So I
went right back to you know, level nought. And now
(01:50):
my daily practice involves the whole of Suzukibook one and
the whole of Suzukibook two. That's the given. I've worked
my way through George Advance as well, but I need
a store for it. I can't bend over the you know,
the body of the instrument without hurting myself, So I'm
still waiting for my stool. But I feel pretty sure
(02:13):
that I will be practicing those three books every day now.
The thing with Suzuki, which I love in terms of
the bricks and mortar of you know, the success that
you will achieve. It really gives you such a strong foundation.
(02:34):
And you're repeating the same ideas throughout the whole book.
But I say repeating, I mean reinforcing, and there's a difference.
So you're reinforcing the idea of repeating the tunes in
different places in the double bass is just masterful, absolutely
(02:54):
masterful when you play single pieces, and when you're doing
a BRSM exams, for example, you don't tend to find
that you're reinforcing other skills such as scales, site reading,
and I guess quite sophisticated advanced techniques for your grade,
(03:20):
because they really throw you in at the deep end
at the start of every grade. You don't do that
with Suzuki. Suzuki books take you very slowly, step by step,
and the repetition and the listening becomes such a part
of your progress that it's almost fool proof. You almost
can't go wrong. And that's why I love Suzuki. The
(03:44):
reinforcing is second to none. When you do another course
like ABRSM, you have to practice over and over again,
these quite long, difficult pieces, so you know, I would
say they are harder, but they're not quite so reliable
in terms of teaching you and you have to get
(04:07):
to grade date before you can play anything d half decent,
you know, whereas with Suzuki from the first lesson you
can play something half decent. So for that reason, I'm
absolutely certain that I want to continue my career as
an educator using Suzuki method for double bass. I think
(04:27):
it's spot on, really really good. But I will do
all of the books. Like I say, I'm going to
be practicing, you know, all of these things every day.
So in terms of joining the music school, there's one
particular work. Basically there's an overall music school which is
really for educators. So I'm trying to put all the
tools up that people can use to become educators and
(04:50):
to advance their journey, as you know, teachers professionals, but
educator professionals. So I'm putting a lot of stuff up
that is kind of interactive and all the different methods
that there are lots of essays and things like that.
So I would say it's a bit more academic. So
(05:10):
the I Serveland School of Music is quite academic, bizarrely,
because of course I serve Land is so much about
the band tell tele Club. But when I first came
up with that name, the eye was for Internet and
the Serverlan struck me as something futuristic and robotic and digital,
(05:31):
and that's where I came up with that name, and
I wanted that to represent the brand, which is a
digital brand. So it's a brand that uses digital tools.
That's really what that's all about. And that's worked fine
for me. I can get my head around it. So
today I finally worked out. I mean, I keep saying
this as I go along. I think I've worked out,
(05:53):
you know, which bit's going to be doing what, which,
what brand is doing, what school is doing what. Actually
I was researching author websites because I've set up my
new website, so dot com. By the way, sony Mare
if you find that easier to spell at it, and
if you will, they're spelled both the same, by the way,
(06:15):
but some people, depending on which country you come from,
just say Mare anyway, so it depends. So yes, I've
I've created that, but I was looking around. I was
actually looking at Squarespace for their website builder, so I'm
going to steal some ideas from them, because I didn't
know which website to use I've actually just stuck with
(06:37):
the blog. But it's son dot com, so it's all
you know, it's basically a blog, really using Blogger as
a one page website, and I like that the landing
page has a lot on it. There are links to
other pages, but most of the information is on that
front page, and I really like that. It's really useful.
(06:57):
But I and then I went to look at JK.
Rowling websites. It's a bit frumpy, actually, it's a bit
old fashioned and frumpy. But she has two doors in
so you can go in the kid's store or the
adult store. I say door its you just click on
a picture, and then I sort of that led me,
so I thought, well, I want to do that really actually,
(07:19):
so my website one side is you can press the
button to go for the kids page. This is books,
the kid's books, I should say, the kid's library of
books that I've written, which I haven't updated yet. There's
only one book on there. I've got more, but I
just haven't got around to doing it. And then the
other side is for the adults. So I was kind
of researching good websites for authors and people coming up
(07:44):
with you know, do you asking the question on Reddit
and what have you. I do a little research on
that bloody platform. Do you need different websites for the
different style books you do? And the verdict was no,
you just have to make things on the website you've got.
And I was thinking about this visa v you know
all the instruments I play, because I play so many
(08:06):
bloody instruments now, and I was thinking, well, surely if
I just, you know, if I have a single platform,
but it's clear where all the different bits go and
the different levels that they can go to, you know,
so I eventually I've foreseen me having early learners, intermediates,
(08:29):
and then advanced learners in each instrument. It's too much
to set it all up in one day. I'm going
to have to do it really slowly, but I think
that's the way to do it, and I'm not going
to rush myself. So today I just set up the
arservlan dot com, which is for educators, as I just said,
and understanding now that that word educators is so important
(08:52):
to how I market everything. How I you know, how
I how do you market music? You can market it
to students, you can market it to teachers, two completely
different ways. Of delivering, of engagement and of materials that
those two different groups are going to want. Then of
(09:15):
course there are subgroups. There are subgroups like beginner adults,
because beginner children and beginner adults are completely different. So
that's something in the future that I'll be looking at.
And these are all going to happen on my gum
road account, but they're all going to be linked really beautifully,
she said hopefully on the ice avaland dot com blog.
(09:38):
So it was really nice to get some clarity. And
it all happened because I set up solid Andamara dot
com and I needed to set that up because guys,
the Autism Caravan Project is afloat, but I need to
be Internet ready for when I apply for grants and things.
I have to have, you know, my website set up,
(10:02):
my experience set up. So in view of that, I
am going to write some autism essays. I'm not going
to write a whole book. I thought yesterday, I'm going
to write a whole book about being a grandma with
you know, an autistic grandchild and who comes to stay
in the wonder of it, in the beauty. But there's
(10:22):
a lot of people putting a lot of their own
experiences up. So I'm not going to do that. I'm
just going to it's maybe slightly more kind of academic essays,
really curious and interesting essays that are I guess, you know,
I don't want to be in competition with all the
Facebook groups and a point, you know, so I'm looking
at something a little bit more. I don't want to
(10:45):
use the word a highbrow, but you know, research, I guess,
research papers. I'm really interested in research papers into autism,
into specifically autism and girls. My daughter's just been diagnosed.
I'm going for my diagnosis in a few months. I'm
on a waiting list. I'm really interested in all that.
(11:06):
I'm curious about. How, you know, my daughters in her thirties,
I'm in my sixties. How have we managed to get
through life? You know with these you know? Is it
a disability? I don't know. I don't know what you'd
call it. It's a neurodivergent condition. I think it might
(11:26):
be a disability in terms of trying to fit in,
you know, to a structured social network. Are a structured
social paradigm that's really inflexible. How do you know it
is a disability? Isn't it, you're not going to fit in.
You have to be accepting that it causes disabling factors
(11:49):
and issues when you try to engage or try to
be part of it, whatever that is, even if it's
the masking and causing you deep depression and you know,
three suicide attempts and all of these things that you
know happened because you're not feeling ordinary or normal. So yeah,
(12:13):
I'm really interested in all of that, all of that,
and I don't want to get into you know, the
problem with Facebook groups is because I was on these
punk ones yesterday and they're quite competitive, so you know,
they'll say, I mean, somebody had put up a picture
of my album cover and somebody had said they're probably
(12:34):
all in local government now, and I thought all the
thing to say. I mean, I'm not brutally incensed at that,
because I did consider it, but I just think, you know,
what are what are they saying? Are they saying? I
mean what they were saying is I bet they've sold out,
That's what they were saying. And there are other people saying, oh,
(12:56):
plastic punks or oh this or oh that. And it's
the same with the auto you know, who's more autistic
than who who's a better autistic or a worse autistic,
or who's a good autistic parent? Do you know what
I mean? I don't want to be that puerile. It's
not part of you know what my any of my
(13:16):
platforms are about remembering that as a musician, I believe
in encompassing and that music starts, you know, very small,
in the small areas of the home or the village.
You know, that's where music starts. So yeah, more a
bit more academic, a little bit more investigative, I think
(13:38):
as well, and you know, a bit more activist because
sort of moaning about things, or being competitive about things,
or you know, some of these other manifestations in online forums,
they're not going to be very helpful to my activism,
(14:00):
my personal way of activism or activating. No, that can't
be right being an activist, you know, my personal method.
That's not conducive with it at all. So I want
to be all knowledgeable. That's really important to me. So
follow this Please follow this podcast because this podcast is
(14:22):
all about music primarily, but also about the autism Caravan
and how that would fit in. And of course it's
linked to my new website which is fabulous, isn't it.
I better go and change all the links and what
have you. That's the trouble. When you start something new,
you've got to do all that stuff. It's a bit boring,
to be honest.
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