This Is From Today’s Faculty Recital I Played On At GCSC. Corranda By Agustí Grau. I Think Overall

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Changed my strings and cleaned my fretboard with mineral oil today. Not pleased with this performance, but I have to move on to other pieces.

Had a lot of trouble with squeaking and intonation today. It rained a little while ago.

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This is a little better than last night.

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Back to work on Milan’s Pavan No. 2.

Trying to do my dynamic contrasts as opposed to the contrast with tone color that I was working on in last night’s video.

*Not related to the piece*

I am staying in a hotel and got my first ever noise complaint! Thankfully, there is a nice lady who works at the reception desk was very helpful. She allowed me to move to a different room so that I could practice. How great!

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Patching this minuetto by Francisco Tárrega. Says to play the entire piece with pizz. It’s so tempting to play normally.

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Recording two variations today. It is challenging enough to make a recording of one variation that qualifies as blog-worthy. Even then, you take what you can get sometimes when you’re blogging about everyday practice, on a daily basis.

It is more intimidating to record anything than it is to just play it by yourself. I’m just practicing going from one variation to the next here, with the added stressor of having the camera rolling. I can tell the nerves are there, but the transition wasn’t a as bad as it could be.

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Feeling better about this excerpt of the piece here.

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After posting a video, and mentioning how frustrated and displeased I was with the recording, I decided to make another recording of the same Pavan. I’m slightly more pleased here.

Back to other pieces now.

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Final variation on Milan’s sixth pavan by Joaquin Nin-Culmell.

I’m less than half pleased with this recording, but, given the duties I have taken on lately, that’s all I had time for today.

Enjoy my suffering. Lol

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Excerpt from Zarabanda lejana by Rodrigo