My cousin played the fiddle years back , he began when he was about seven and he was a little feller holding a fiddle and trying to reckon how to grasp the bow
he looked the part was cute because the riddle was an adult one his daddy scraped up the money for somehow . But boy how die when that boy hit them strings with that bow , it sounded like a whining train that had some busted gears and parts in the engine and was simultaneously tugging an out of tune whistle hesr and there it really was an offensive sound
but none the less he was playing the fiddle not well at all in any way but he was what they talked a fiddler at that point. In his mind he thought he should make it sound great and he took to the instruments mechanics , he went and earned some money with us picking cotton for a week and got himself a music book and “a fiddle for dummies “ kind of beginners book and spent some time learning the right information and also practicing the mechanics and rythym of the tunes he was trying to play
He learned sheet music right away what it meant and what was written each symbol the time signatures ect having a banjo myself I had helped him with the sheet music.
after just a short time of that aweful sound he made , you could here and there , hear a tune sort of you could hear short sections hat were in tune and time and rhythm . But then one of those aweful train notes would intervene and just make it so hard to listen to but none the less he was growing in his capacity to play the fiddle d had been a fiddler for out a year now , still got alot of wrong notes and tones but after awhile it became pretty pleasant when he would come by and play some tune song with me or even just solo he had began to write his own beautiful sounding tunes and Melodie’s and had began to offer original sounding orginazstions and rythyms even began to write music at this point
for me it was just a hobby but for him he had a passion for it he’s been a fiddler for almost ten years when I went into service and we eternal of lost our closer connection at that point when I returned he had gone out west to pursue music so I hadn’t seen him for years talked to him a couple times but
when I was about 35 I was drinking alot and was at a honkey Tonk sort of bar house in Memphis and there was this just incredible fiddle player playing on stage I was sitting up at the bar sort of feeling down and out at the time because of my drinking and a relapse I was going through and I wasn’t looking at the musicians but the riddle was just touching my heart it was outstanding I had never heard such beautiful and original well played and written tunes
of course I need not finish the story before you understand who it was when I looked , but the point is that Christianity is much the same you might pick up the fiddle for Jesus and not be able to play note properly but , in his eyes your a fiddler for Jesus already and then as you grow up and pursue and learn the right information ( the gospel ) you start to be able to play prettier tunes and more in time with the heavenly band he’s growing
eventually your just a lifetime fiddler but you’ve grown up alot and matured as one , so the times coming of them strings and bow is more complete and sounds much better to the esrs
If you love Jesus and know that you fail alot still , remember that he’s already with you nd already said he’ll never forsake you , now he’s with you to lead you and lift you when you fail and fall
keep playing that tune of life with gratitude in his name and truly because he loves you and he will refine the music that comes from our hearts and make beauty from ashes and success from failures
God bless Jesus loves us even before we can play a note remember that when some professional is trying to judge you just keep pressing towards the prize trusting the lord
he looked the part was cute because the riddle was an adult one his daddy scraped up the money for somehow . But boy how die when that boy hit them strings with that bow , it sounded like a whining train that had some busted gears and parts in the engine and was simultaneously tugging an out of tune whistle hesr and there it really was an offensive sound
but none the less he was playing the fiddle not well at all in any way but he was what they talked a fiddler at that point. In his mind he thought he should make it sound great and he took to the instruments mechanics , he went and earned some money with us picking cotton for a week and got himself a music book and “a fiddle for dummies “ kind of beginners book and spent some time learning the right information and also practicing the mechanics and rythym of the tunes he was trying to play
He learned sheet music right away what it meant and what was written each symbol the time signatures ect having a banjo myself I had helped him with the sheet music.
after just a short time of that aweful sound he made , you could here and there , hear a tune sort of you could hear short sections hat were in tune and time and rhythm . But then one of those aweful train notes would intervene and just make it so hard to listen to but none the less he was growing in his capacity to play the fiddle d had been a fiddler for out a year now , still got alot of wrong notes and tones but after awhile it became pretty pleasant when he would come by and play some tune song with me or even just solo he had began to write his own beautiful sounding tunes and Melodie’s and had began to offer original sounding orginazstions and rythyms even began to write music at this point
for me it was just a hobby but for him he had a passion for it he’s been a fiddler for almost ten years when I went into service and we eternal of lost our closer connection at that point when I returned he had gone out west to pursue music so I hadn’t seen him for years talked to him a couple times but
when I was about 35 I was drinking alot and was at a honkey Tonk sort of bar house in Memphis and there was this just incredible fiddle player playing on stage I was sitting up at the bar sort of feeling down and out at the time because of my drinking and a relapse I was going through and I wasn’t looking at the musicians but the riddle was just touching my heart it was outstanding I had never heard such beautiful and original well played and written tunes
of course I need not finish the story before you understand who it was when I looked , but the point is that Christianity is much the same you might pick up the fiddle for Jesus and not be able to play note properly but , in his eyes your a fiddler for Jesus already and then as you grow up and pursue and learn the right information ( the gospel ) you start to be able to play prettier tunes and more in time with the heavenly band he’s growing
eventually your just a lifetime fiddler but you’ve grown up alot and matured as one , so the times coming of them strings and bow is more complete and sounds much better to the esrs
If you love Jesus and know that you fail alot still , remember that he’s already with you nd already said he’ll never forsake you , now he’s with you to lead you and lift you when you fail and fall
keep playing that tune of life with gratitude in his name and truly because he loves you and he will refine the music that comes from our hearts and make beauty from ashes and success from failures
God bless Jesus loves us even before we can play a note remember that when some professional is trying to judge you just keep pressing towards the prize trusting the lord
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