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Another way of playing this variation with mainly slurs. Less right hand involvement. It makes the variation a lot more slurry, but it is smoother than some other solutions I’ve tried. Still needs much improvement, but it’s getting better at least.
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Day 5
Attempting to post another video of myself performing an excerpt from Harold Blanchard’s Innocent Meandering, since my previous attempt was flagged as inappropriate as soon as the excerpt was published. This is frustrating, especially when one considers the amount of time it takes to make a decent recording of a piece of music. I chose to use Tumblr as a platform for sharing my daily music videos, because I’m just not comfortable using FB, IG, and YouTube. I liked how Tumblr worked. If this video is immediately mistaken for having inappropriate content, and flagged, I just might have to look for another outlet if Tumblr thinks my music is inappropriate.
There’s a lot of shifting in this part of the piece that requires a lot of work to make the timing work out right. . .
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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.
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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.
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Had a lot to say about this video, but also had several issues while trying up upload the video to Tumblr. Annoying.
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The introduction from Carnaval de Venecia.
It still feels like I just learned it, but I think I’m getting better with it. It’s a tricky introduction.
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Don’t have much to much to about my playing here. But, I did play the A section and the B section. That’s pretty much all I have here.
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Strings are old. Nails also need to be changed. I have no thumb nail.
This is the hardest variation. I put quite a bit of time into it before recording it this evening. It’s hard.
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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.
Pondering on which fingers to use with this passage. One idea is to do a slur with the fourth finger. The sections idea is to slur with the first. I think I like slurring with 4 better, but I’m going to listen to this recording to help determine what I like better.
