So, a friend started a group on a prominent social networking site to motivate us in practicing our instruments that have been slowly collecting dust in our tiny Vancouver apartments.
I had the idea of encouraging people to post .mp3 files of their current stage of practice for posted songs with available sheet music or recordings to work from. That was a Great Idea, I thought... and then found out that that social networking site did not support posting just sound files in the group.
This website aims to give me and others a place to post their practice files; it may develop into more or less as times go on, but we'll see. None of these files are going to be particularly polished, and some will even have parts that may cause wincing. The point is to show that things don't have to be perfect, or done, or whatever, to share them; that some progress is better than none.
As Batman once said.... WORK ON YOUR ART.
A little about the name: Buttercup is the name of my fiddle, and I figured that instrument karaoke is about what we're doing... posting our versions with the voices of our instruments of songs/Celtic ditties that someone else composed.
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