Playing with Audacity is fun!

I've recorded enough stuff I think I can do something with the bits and pieces. I hope. I will be doing some audacity tutorials, that's for sure.

Took out 3rd and 4th finger slides in (Flight) since my tendons allow my fingers to just bend backwards instead of sliding. Nice.

More exercising. Record one thing a month no matter the quality. Details close up, messy pieces further away. Try dresser.

Harold Budd: "Haru Spring" from 'In The Mist'

More exercising and remembering to bend my thumbs.

Flighty exercises.

Back to things I can play with harmonics in them. My free time has been eaten up so I will not be practicing as much.

Another version of Here Comes the Flood is here: http://www.motorharp.com/music.html#PeterGabriel

On a whim, I emailed L&H to ask if they could tell me anything about my harp. I knew it was a style 21, but I now know it was definitely made in the early 1890s and the original owner was Mabelle Lynn Childs. I researched a little at work today and asked a couple Library Assistants to find out a little more about her, but no luck. She may have owned a longhaired female cat named Tootsie in 1906, but that is not confirmed.

I can play harmonics again! Well, sort of. Modified harmonics.

Last version of Flood - need to get hands together, practice trouble spots and pedal changes. And try to get it not-so-clunky.

Recorded individual tracks. Wish I knew how to match them up in Audacity. I tried eying them and got cacophony.

Recorded 1st track, played 2nd track with it - need to see if I can print out individual parts as the page turns are inconvenient.

Editing two versions of Flood.

Put in pedal markings.
Practice trouble spots and page turns.
Record the multi-part in separate files.

1 hour of Notturno in the 4 bar section/pg 2. More thumb slides in Gagliardiandia.

Strengthening thumb for 20 min.

Bacon Palms

I realized halfway through playing that harmonics are not an option at this point.

Yowza.

I played a little Gagliarda by Mortari to get my hands moving again. I'm still twisting my entire arm when playing thumb slides. Are there more robust exercises I can do for thumbs?

Took another tumble off my bike and ripped skin off my palm so no practicing today!

Note to self: Get biking gloves!

Notturno is finally corrected and printed out. !

Eyeball-stabby headache. Could either be from trying to deal with Finale again (thanks for changing my note spacing again) or because of the Archives Crawl yesterday.

Went through Notturno to see if I could play it more efficiently, and I can. I took out some notes and transferred others to my right hand.

Played Zarabanda and my mind is still blanking in places, so I guess I will not be able to play it without the music.

Worked on (flight) a bit. My thumb joints are really jiggly.