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

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.

Messed around with Flood - I had to adjust the measures, then played with formatting. It's now much more readable.

But I still need to practice!

Looked through different version of Flood. Need to write it out enharmonically. Or figure out which parts M wants, then write it out.

Tried the cassette tape thingy. It is interesting, but for any constant drone purposes would probably need to be recorded and looped.

Listened to more versions of Peter Gabriel for friend. Waiting to find out what next direction is.

Exercised.

Practiced Insónia. Not sure if I like it when I play it. And I need to focus on playing hands together. In unison!

Here Comes the Flood is mostly done. I finished transcribing it, transposed it up a 1/2 step, and recorded it. It is on my website under Peter Gabriel. However, I forgot to tune before recording and I was still trying to figure out what chords I was hearing while playing. So it's a bit bumpy.

Almost finished with PG. Some chords are still not quite right.

Recorded Zarabanda cold, then practiced a bit and recorded again. Dynamics way better than first time.
Things I liked:
Quiet dynamics are the right level.
Notes I emphasized are emphasized.
Mistakes covered by counting.

Things to improve:
Tempo - it's not a race.
Despite not playing in rhythm, it sounds like I'm playing with a metronome.
Loud sections are not loud enough and sound flat.

And I have blisters?

Did music things for 3 hours, but not consecutively. Do I like that? My right arm gave out at the end of the 3rd hour.

I got more PG done.

I am at the nit-picky point with Z.

Prelude 1 is impossible to play cold. That will probably not be a recital piece.

Getting Partita in C from ILL to check if E♭ is really E♭ and not D♯.

PG - I hear something different every time I listen to it. Determining what the bass note is a process of elimination - It is not in an octave with the treble F, therefore it must be the A♮.

Prelude 1: apparently the same muscles I was using to wash the car.

Spent an hour working on Here Comes the Flood, which seems to be my limit. I think once I get the first verse completed, the rest will click into place. I still can't tell if the lower notes are D, A or F.

More attempts at transcribing - what I learned in school about how I listen is still holding up. I can listen to one voice at a time. I can listen to the bass OR soprano OR treble, but not all at once. And I can't transcribe for longer than an hour or everything starts to jumble together.

Worked on 1st 3 Preludes. Gave myself 2nd finger blisters - both hands!

Figured out I need to lean back from my harp in order to play the top register without doing weird (and double-jointed) things to my fingers.

Started trying to transcribe Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood". In order to be in tune with the recording I have, I have to be in all flats. However, the chords (I think) are D♭m7 and B♭♭m7 (playing A♮). It would make more sense these would be Dm7 and B♭m7 in the realm of sensible chords. Are these sensible chords? I guess if you're Peter Gabriel, you can do whatever the heck you want.

I also canNOT hear notes in the lower registers. I could not distinguish between 5th octave A and D. My music theory instructor said that would come with practice, but I'm not so sure.