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

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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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Today’s uploading is of two recordings I made of the second variation from Carnaval. I noticed my slurs could have more of a triplet feel, so I tried to add that to my performance. I need to clean the ending up.

Practice Interruption from Hurricane Michael

In my old blog I had began this “post some of your practice everyday” challenge. I got a couple of weeks into it and we were finally able to get a work crew (227days after Hurricane Michael) to begin the demo on the house. This disrupted things because I had to move completely out of my home and help around the house moving boxes, making sure pets are safe, etc. Well, it’s day 306 and I am still displaced by Hurricane Michael, and decent available practice-time comes and goes. But, I’m still trying.

The Darkness that Followed Hurricane Michael

Earlier this month, the southeastern United States was struck by Hurricane Michael. After the category 4 storm made landfall on Oct. 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael proceeded to knock out power for at least 2.5 million customers across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. 

In this data visualization, you can clearly see where the lights were taken out in Panama City, Florida. A team of our scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center processed and corrected the raw data to filter out stray light from the Moon, fires, airglow, and any other sources that are not electric lights. They also removed atmosphere interference from dust, haze, and clouds. 

In the visualization above, you can see a natural view of the night lights—and a step of the filtering process in an effort to clean up some of the cloud cover. The line through the middle is the path Hurricane Michael took. 

Although the damage was severe, tens of thousands of electric power industry workers from all over the country—and even Canada—worked together to restore power to the affected areas. Most of the power was restored by Oct. 15, but some people still need to wait a little longer for the power grids to be rebuilt. Read more here. 

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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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Trying out some left-hand ideas in Agustí Grau’s Corranda.

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This is a little better than last night.

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This is an excerpt from Pavan No 1 by Luis Milan. In this video I stop at a scale that I am debating on whether to play with or without slurs. I think I like it with the slurs.

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Excerpt from Zarabanda lejana by Rodrigo