Showing posts with label (Flight). Show all posts
Showing posts with label (Flight). Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Blister better at beginning of practice, but then had to stop after 1.5 hours.

Worked on muscle strength for Chaconne and 2nd Arabsque with both of those and (Flight) and (Inquietude).

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Warm-up with random excerpt from (Flight).

Prelude 3 - 3 more notes

LGR - time to speed up to 100.

Berceuse - tested at 50, most is easy-peasy, but ran into trouble in faster runs.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Warmup with (Flight).
LGR - Left hand is flowing and has dynamic separate from right hand. sounds good sped up.
Everything aches.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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

Friday, November 25, 2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Stretched before playing.

Warm-up with Lariviere.

Played everything quietly and focused on relaxing and playing longer amount of time rather than loudly and for a short time. More of an aerobic thing than weight-lifting thing?

Friday, October 15, 2010

Voice warm-up.

(Mirage) scrunching rt fingers. Good bicep workout.

(Flight) will need to drill in sets of 16th notes.

Clementi need to identify problem spots in third movement and work on those, waste of time to work on whole thing.

make performance list vs. recording list

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Itchy cranky swelly. I hope this is the last hot spell for a while. Hard to hold hand position when hands are swollen.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Playing (flight) in sections of 4 16th notes, both hands. Great one click before goal tempo, at goal tempo, kablooey.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Detail work on lt and rt hand (Flight) bottom pg 2. Need to practice matching them up.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Probably have to keep up detail work on (Flight) until even playing is habit. Maybe 2 wks? 30 days? How long does it take to form good habits vs. bad? Also, my harp does not have enough room for my hand in higher registers, which is causing my hand to bounce of soundboard and miss notes. >:|

Donkeys is ok until I start working on it. I just do NOT want to play the higher chords in the rt hand, what is going on?

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sat back the past couple days and listened to someone else play the harp for a change. Joanna Newsom was spectacular and I feel lucky I was able to go both nights.

Also chewed my cuticles (bad!) and played much less tonight due to swollen and painful finger.

AAAAND helped a friend who locked herself out back into her place by taking her front door off its hinges, which cut into my practice time. A girl's gotta help her friends, though, ya know? Priorities!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Took an unexpected nap that cut into practice time which left me groggy enough that I walked full tilt into my sewing table afterward, leading with my hand. I cannot type with the ice pack balanced on my hand.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Brain is clogged. Detail work on (Flight) was going fine, then fell apart.

Tournier was undoable.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

More detail work on (Flight) seems to be helping.

Lt hand on Donkeys is falling apart. Why, also, can I not remember the higher rt hand chords?

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Detail work on (Flight) 2nd page. Need to do this several times so that clean playing becomes habit, not the fast sloppy current habit.

Donkeys slowly getting better. Keep working up to ♩=108.

Read a little of (Poem)

Friday, July 30, 2010

Itchy and sore from moving stuff, surprisingly distracting.

45 min?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Still working on (Flight) to =104. It's becoming memorized, but at the slower speed.

Donkeys fell apart, but the memorization is coming back to me quickly. Didn't realized I had memorized it.

Poem looks like another good one, left hand is already getting used to tricky interval changes.