For next time, start 3rd piece.

Rest day, or "had to go see Star Trek again" day.

Bolts ordered.

4ths are still confusing, slightly better.

Continue to play new pieces and mark problem spots.

Stretch!

Weather cooler, hands slightly better.

Played for 1.75 hours, elbow ok. Back and me tired.

Zarabanda trouble spots on 3rd page 4ths.

Finally started Notturno, yay! Need to purchase sheet music, scan, and rearrange. Thanks to Stephen Main, I'm well on my way.

Need to play everything learned everyday.

Bolts pending.

Really, really need to remember to do PT.

1st song learned.

Zarabanda slightly better today, still need to play everyday.

I took an ibuprofen last night because both my hands hurt so much, which has consequently left me lethargic and depressed today. But my hands hurt less, even after working. We will see if it was worth it.
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Slightly better mood, but hands hurt worse. I could feel them swelling as a played. 94º is apparently still too hot for me.

Need to play Zarabanda EVERY DAY from memory.

1 hour of new music is about all I can cram into my head.

Stretch break was useful?

Thank god for repeating themes.

Incredibly frustrating harp day

These are the 3 out of 6 bolts for my harp. They are all different sizes. ::sigh::









And the remaining holes for the missing bolts don't line up with the base, which you can't really see from these pictures, and therefore getting bolts probably wouldn't be any help anyway.















Now my F pedal is randomly sticking, my rt hand hurts again, though not as bad as yesterday, and I can't remember the stupid Zarabanda. And I have only two pieces marked as ok in the other two Chinese books, so I have only about 7 pieces total. Yay.

Daniel Burton's Chinese Folk Songs. Maybe a few others?

No problem with amount of classical. Elbow hurt after .5 hour and especially after faster pieces, but calmed down with slow stuff, so can switch for bcb. However, joints in rt hand hurt tremendously. What does that mean!

Maybe... Don't forget your PT exercises?

Ok, after not having played the past 2 days, how is it I have a blister on my thumb?

Played for 1 hour, classical, no elbow problems, but felt there could have been, looks promising for bcb.

Need to work up FF, Chinese, and classical.

Keep memorizing Zarabanda, one more day!

Interesting wardrobe choice for today's practice, hee.

Harp practicing preempted by Sonic Youth at the Roseland last night, which was NOT air-conditioned, despite what the website says. They lie! They lie like a pack of lying... things that... lie for a living! >:|

And harp practicing was preempted this morning by the necessity of buying a decent fan.

Mental functions decreasing rapidly due to heat and lack of practicing.

Too hot by far again. Worked on more memorization. It's amazing how fast my brain un-memorizes things. There is a weird problem spot 2nd line on 3rd page.

Aha! moment: the chords before the 4ths are the same as for the 4ths. Go figure!

Slight schedule change: asked to play 1st weekend in Oct, will need to work on appropriate music for one week to judge condition of elbow. Will call back Monday.

Heard back from L&H, need to take photo of bolts and measure. Will move harp when not so hot. Jeezy creezy.

Too hot, didn't practice, sung to the tune of "People Mover".

Kidding aside, I got about 10 min work on problem memorization spots before my arms refused to do any more.

Now to go lounge on my un-air-conditioned couch with a watermelon mint popsicle.

It takes 5 minutes to tune when the top half is out of tune.

Taking a stretch break seems to help, 1.5 hours today.

I have 2.5 pages solidly memorized, last 1.5 should be pretty easy, a few spots need work.

ETA: I just realized I played for 1.5 hours today! 1.5 hours and my elbow didn't bother me at all!

On to memorizing.

Back to the old bench, but adding pillow, to see if my foot stops hurting.

Definite "yes" on playing octaves w/rt hand.

Every single one of the joints in my hands hurts from work, so it's a rest day.

I cannot form complete sentences, or spell, to save my life after practicing. I always have to edit these posts the next day so I can actually practice the right things.

First X, play entire measure w/ rt hand?

My gods, getsomecontinuity!

Tried to record on my phone. Now I know what it sounds like when I play Happy Birthday over the phone and I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE to everyone who has ever gotten one of those phone calls.

Too hot to play decently.

Same items for next time:
X's, octaves, and that stupid last harmonic. 4ths are still ok.

Test voice note.

And remember PT, both neck and elbow.

Ugh! Sweaty feet.

X marks the spot, all of them, LOOK FOR THEM.

How will you pay attention to get consistency?

Call L&H to find out how to order bolts.

Short attention span day, sheesh!

Good job on the 4ths and the harmonics, although the one on the last page still needs work. You know which one.

The legs on my new harp bench unscrew themselves.

Also, it is a little to high for me to sit comfortably (it cuts into my hamstrings) and I think it's maybe causing the pain in my foot. I tried my old bench, but it now feels too low because I feel like I have to hold my arms up too high. It's an old bench, so it was probably made when all the ladies wore high heels, so I'm going to try practicing with heels (Ugh! (even though I love my shoes, again I say UGH!)), which means I need to relearn all my pedals. Ahyup.

Oh, and sorry to Ms. Spider, you can uncurl from your scared cringy ball now as I'm done being frustrated at having to tune every. single. day. Thanks, weather.