Friday, November 13, 2009

Short practice time because of fantastically killer headache, but got one more measure learned. Two more until repeats!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Excellent practice, but then everything fell apart when I tried to put it all together.

And 'yay' for repetitions: I don't need to learn most of the last page, so I'm almost done!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

No practice today, new volunteer meeting, plus aching thumb joints.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Talk about procrastination! It's true, if I want to do something, but don't really want to, I won't. I do prefer playing later at night, so that's probably a factor.

Did figure out the D♭7, just needs an earlier pedal change.

Because Finale is so intuitive, I need to start transcribing Notturno again, but this time put the document settings in before. No other Windoze program works this way, why this one?

Tricky pedals in meas 38.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

15 minutes, w00t. But did work on a previously difficult measure and it seems to have finally sunk in to some degree.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

No practicing tonight due to extremely sore finger pads, finger joints, and finger muscles from changing brake cables and trying to adjust my caliper brakes.

I did get them adjusted, just so's you know.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Need to work on moving the G pedal in general. Use the ball of your foot and aim laterally.

Finale is annoying me. Actually, my brain's lack of retaining the ability to use it is annoying me.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Re-learned measures, trying to break bad habits from sight-reading.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Not really time enough to practice, played other stuff. I always forget how much I love the Grey Donkeys.

Monday, October 26, 2009

More measures learned, but difficult w/o pedal markings. Taking time to re-re-learn Finale so I can get the music in readable/playable format.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

I don't have to play this as fast as I think I do. Maybe. Maybe dotted quarter=48?

When learning new measures, hook on last 2 notes of previous measure.

Practicing after all-day knitting session not as hard as I thought, but still not easy. Biceps and delts sore.

Did I not play yesterday? Can't remember. Aha. No.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Decide (again) how measures should flow. Hey, maybe pay attention to phrasing?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Depressed. Apparently, I still need to be on vacation.

But up and moving enough to cringe and laugh at zombies, and strangely feeling much better.