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These get hard after you practice them for several minutes.

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Believe it or not, this is one of the variations I actually feel better about. It needs to feel 20x better, but that’s the point of this blog. Documenting progress.

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I had not planned on posting a video on Thanksgiving Day. I really thought I’d be too tired, or busy. However, I got good bit of practice in so I thought ‘what the heck’.

This is second of Luis Milan’s six Pavans. I realize that I have been focusing entirely too much on pieces that I am not very good at yet. I think that my time between now and when I play my final doctoral recital (on January 31, g-d willing), will be better spent on making the things that I’m already good at playing even better*.

Happy Thanksgiving!

*this doesn’t mean I won’t continue to spend way too much time on increasing my speed and making the very hard stuff less difficult in my practice. I’ll just be spending more time polishing up the “easier” stuff.

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Meant to post this one last night. Still been a little too busy to mane a decent video. In the moving-back-to-school process. Stressed.

Day 11

Feeling kind of sick, like I’m coming down with something. I hope this is not the case, but I really feel very weak and my throat is a little bit sore.

This is an excerpt from Harold Blanchard’s Innocent Meandering. I only listened once, and the recording itself seemed a little bit buzzy, as if I had distortion turned on or something. Maybe one day I’ll learn how to make a better recording with this telephone.

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Trying a technique that I have never used in a performance. Plucking the strings with the back of the nails. It’s a possible solution to playing this variation up to speed with greater ease. If I were to pluck all of the strings normally, my right hand would bounce around a lot more.

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Working on an unusual right hand pattern. Thumb, ring finger, pinky.

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Starting this variation has been one of the hardest things. P and I on the same string is the hardest thing about, so I’ve experimented with just playing with P alone, and sometimes just P and I, with no A finger.

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A little bit of the introduction from Carnaval de Venecia

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Working on the first variation of Sor’s variations on La Folias.

Just in case you wonder about my shirt in this video and the last one, my shirt was washed. Today. A friend let me go to get house use her washer and dryer. I still don’t have hot water (as a result of continued recovery efforts brought on by Hurricane Michael which damaged my home over a year ago). My wardrobe is kinda limited for now.