Played through more.

Played more music from my repertoire (and wore myself out - surprise nap on the couch!). I think I'm good for quantity. Need to go through the rest and sort for quality. Then come up with a program. Then find a place/places to perform. And RELAX!

But before all that, my harp needs some regulating to take care of the creaks that have crept back in, and the jumpy pedals, and the sour notes.

Timed things and I have about 45 min of music. And that's not even everything. Try to be ready in 2 mos?

Got sucked down the Finale hole again - And why is my computer playing Sean Penn?!? - so didn't really practice today. Spent most of my time trying to figure out if the scale I'm listening to is really chromatic. I don't think it is, but at the same time it really sounds like it. So I'm trying to figure it out with math, without actually using math, which is probably why it's taking me so long.

I'm really concerned about my recording guy - shoulder issues in both shoulders. Send positive healing thoughts his way, please, dear readers.

Played a skosh, but mostly cleaned up and organized. Waiting to hear from recording person about their health. I hope he's ok!

There is a new crack in my harp. *sob*

Next step is to take detailed pictures and send to L&H for an estimate.

Or not, because I'm hallucinating. The crack I just saw that I could insert my fingernail in has closed up?

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!

I think I may have possibly discovered that ignoring the order I've been taught to place helps stabilize my thumbs. Placing everything all at once helps. Possibly. It needs further testing.

This is exciting news, people!

Back to playing today. I feel a little lost without massive amounts of cordura, flannel and foam lying around waiting for me to stitch them together.

Zarabanda is still mostly memorized, woohoo!

Fingers are stiff as expected. Maybe do some exercises later.

Hmm... last publish 14 Sept. I've been busy poking holes in my fingers. You can read about that over at the old motorharp lj. I jammed my thumb (hard!) against the floor in addition to all the slicing and dicing. And since I have the bendy thumbs, I actually jammed it backwards. Ow.

I hope I play tomorrow. Lots of work to do.

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

Short play-through of Zarabanda with memorization work.

Visited a St. Patrick's this morning while it was still cool. The highway noise is incredibly loud, but the space sounds amazing.

Zarabanda: I cannot frakking memorize this thing! I forget the page-turn section on the 2nd play-through.

Prelude : Problem spots. Need to place both thumb and 1st fingers together not separate.

Prelude 2: Need to build up muscles for small glisses.

Prelude 3: Count!

Zarabanda: Almost memorized - work on page turn and last two major sections.

I want my Amhrán Slán!

Skipping things because of hotness and just now getting to harp stuff. Excitedly ordered sheet music of Amhrán Slán to download, but email servers are down. Rrrrrrr!

Got a call back about a location. Need to contact sound engineer.

Insónia and Zarabanda. I just need to memorize the last page and a half.

http://socialmusicrecords.com/: find "Portland.
http://paullaxer.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/summer-round-up/
http://jackpotrecording.com/engineers/

http://www.uprecords.com/discography/072/
http://www.orartswatch.org/portland-cello-project-these-are-the-voyages/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mariner%27s_Revenge_Song
recorded portland or
record harp in portland oregon

Analyzing Zarabanda did help. Probably from having to look at it so closely, and the 2nd half of the piece is almost identically third down from the first half.

Singing (ow) and chords.

Zarabanda: Analyzed it. As best I could anyway. Probably not going to help me memorize it since I was unable to identify many of the chords. Em11 or Em + D? Are there Maj, Min, Dim, and Aug 9ths? Urgh.

The discussion/article by Phillip Magnuson may be helpful.

Or not. Also got a hold of an actual person when calling for recording spaces. No luck, though.

Zarabanda: memorizing.