All of prelude 1 up to ♪=104.

Prelude 1: Both sections up to ♪=104. Take it in two measures at a time and work up to ♪=192. Dynamics nice. Work on clean placements and minimal pedal noise.

Prelude 1: 1st half up to ♪ =104, 2nd half ♪ =88. Tried going +3 -1 and that did not work. Need to practice jumping to chords and paying attention to dynamics. Dynamics almost there.

Passacaille: Apparently just needed proper fingerings written in for the chord inversions in order to make that section playable. Got it up to ♪ =144

Got another blister and ripped a callus off.

Prelude 1, 2nd half. work on prob spots 2+ 1-.

Vanderbilt has a replacement policy for strings that break within 2 weeks of use. Nice!

Arms too tired from brutal day at work yesterday. Blister gone already, though. Passacaille work (B E, A D, G C, F B) to get up to ♪ = 144. 3rd to the last line on last page is particularly difficult for some reason. It's inverted chords and I can't seem to get my fingers to remember the combinations.

Run through of Rumba and Sreb's Prelude 1.

Practicing may have been easier had I not been trying to do so while wearing fluffy bunny slippers. Also, I was completely wiped today. Also, it's the first day of classes. Also, I have a blister. But it sounded good!

And my 4th octave D broke at precisely 3:03 am this morning.

Passacaille is B E, A D, G C, F B. Ha.

Worked on Prelude 1 by Alojz Srebotnjak (and if anyone knows how to pronounce that, please tell me!). Got up to ♪ =88 and need to play either +2 -1 or +4 -2. Trying to play it as fast as it's written I totally get it. It's almost noodling around like I would do when I was younger - need to keep that feeling.

Passacaille cut short because of gliss blister. But working on yet another line. If I can do this from memory: A E, G D, F ... C?, no... F A.


And after seeing this guy on pbs last night, I've been obsessed:

The new strings are so much easier on the hands.

Same goals as last year: Record harp solos and work on list for show.

The new strings feel amazing! Smooth surfaces, even tension, lighter tension. No more slicing of the thumb on harmonics.

I spent 3 hours replacing 75% of the strings, and that's not including the multiple tunings.

Christmas music! Blisters!

Noël nouvelet!

Exercises. Wrenched my thumb on harmonics. Everything stiff and sore.

Used a BIG chunk of change to order strings. Now I just need to find 4 consecutive hours to restring this bad boy.

I seriously need to order new strings. Like, seriously.

Hands cramping from knitting, so kinda pathetic practice today.

Trying to stick to my list, in order, therefore worked on:

Passacaille: first and last measure (on 2nd page) to ♪=144

Danses: Gavotte, Siciliana, Tango, Rumba - worked on problem spots two up one down.

Exactly what I was looking for: a table listing songs that start with different ascending and descending intervals!

The three that I'd been using - perfect 4th: Auld Lang Syne, perfect 5th: Star Wars, and major 6th: NBC jingle - were helpful only for ascending and only for those three.

Thanks, Footprints, whoever you are.

OR! You can make your own!

Rumba - quickness in getting to chords.

Passacaille - More speed in more sections

Exercises.

Working Passacaille up to ♩=69. Or ♪ =140, whichever comes first.

Rumba is almost playable at ♬=80.

I seem to be no longer able to play Clementi. I do not understand. It should be in my muscle memory from college. My fingers just collapse and flop all over the place. :(

Starting around 6:50, this made me giggle uncontrollably.

Note in the list of adjectives, "brown-noise" is not included.