"Ask for help when you need it" sounds simple enough huh? But not everyone finds it that way.
Sometimes, I don't know if it's pride, insecurities, or even embarrassment that causes it, but I find it hard at times to ask for help.
Even from people who are close to me. Does that make me foolish or weird or something?
Nice of your neighbors to help you out though. Ha! You'd definitely be getting more O2 now that those plants are in the studio. Heck, it might even help with your playing!
P.S: What's COPD?
Oh @zeraton , if you don't know what it is, I would sure wish you never find out by experience.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, is a gradual and irreversible build up of scar tissue in the lungs.
Inhalers and other meds can slow it down once it starts, but there is no cure.
Not yet, but one can always hope!
Damn, sounds really rough. Is it deadly in anyway? Or just a dread to have?
As far as I know it is generally progressive and in the end deadly.
You may die of something else first, but....
I met and became friends with a GRAND fellow back around 2016, he was in stage 4 COPD, he would get out of breath just walking around his house.
He couldn't DO anything without his oxygen tube (like drive to the store or church etc.)
He finally gave up and died about 2019. Such a loss, he was a great musician, a lawyer and just a good friend to have.
I still miss him
Goddamn! That's sounds terrible!
Jeez, and the melancholy just keeps coming. A loss indeed. Was he a pianist like you too?
No but he was a damned good guitarist and could learn a song by ear in a second, I suspect he had perfect pitch
Perfect pitch huh? Most likely yeah.
Lol, I always envied people like that actually. Lucky bastards.
Ha! And then there's the rest of us, who have to settle for less like relative pitch.
Oh well...
I sometimes think I have perfect pitch, but in practical usage, it is more like extremely long pitch memory.
I've talked with some who had perfect pitch, who said it was a curse; imagine trying to play music or listen to it being played, when every instrument you touch was SLIGHTLY (or more) out of tune, it would be like fingernails on a blackbaord