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Want please with my playing so I sat on this recording for a couple of days.

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Gonna try to make better recording of this variation tomorrow.

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The h armonic variation.

If your nails are too long, you are bound to be clicky with this technique. Notwithstanding, if you’re playing too strongly with ‘m’ the harmonic voice will be over shadowed. There is also the risk of tapping the feet board with ‘m’.

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I need to put slurs to this. However, I also want to keep practicing it without slurs because it is a great exercise for the right hand.

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.

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Playing entire passages with pizzicato can be challenging. Tarrega also has minuet in E major that’s supposed to be played primarily with pizzicato.

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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.

The Storm After the Storm

My life has completely changed. I used to wonder around the Internet for a few hours a day reblogging funny things, working, and my various hobbies.

Now I feel like I am living in the Capitol Wasteland of the Fallout universe.

Do not think people that our lives have gone on. This is the view from my driveway yesterday.

My place of employment has been destroyed, been working there since 2009. It was a small private dental office. Its gone. I was the primary income provider. I now collect $275 in unemployment. There are no jobs in my field for over 100 miles. It will take years before this area is even remotely economically where it was pre-Hurricane Michael.

We built our home in 2012. We have to sell our house in this wasteland before February because that is when the mortgage temporary hold is up. We got a hold on our utilities but health/car insurance, credit cards, and other non-house bills will not hold any payments. FEMA and D-SNAP is a joke.

My daughter turned 18 on 10/19, but is 2 years behind in school. She was on her way to getting her diploma but now she has to get her GED because its faster - she refuses to relocate with us. Oh yeah, we are relocating. Out of state. The economy in the panhandle of Florida is dead. We are moving to Denver CO because my wife, other adult household members, and I can get better paying jobs out there. It is also somewhere we always wanted to move to but not like this.

I am rebuilding from here but my life is forever changed. And I am one of the lucky ones. My house or cars sustained no damage. Some members of my household is able to return to work to hold us over until we relocate.

Please do not forget about us. The rest of the world is joking about the Trump umbrella thing but we are still in mourning. As I drive around in town there are more downed trees than standing trees. Blue tarps cover the majority of roofs. Many houses still have trees crashes through the living room.

This will take years for my home to recover. I cannot stay. Goodbye Panama City, I hope you can heal from this diaster. There are good people here who want to rebuild. I just cannot be one of them.

Day 7

Feeling better about my tone and volume control here. I need to be more aware random noises before I play the first note.

Variation 2 from Seis variaciones sobre un tema de Luis Milan by Nin-Culmell.

Just wanted to document the cracks in these nails. I just put them on yesterday, and they’re already cracking. They will eventually cause a bad tone.

There are many factors that could cause the cracking. I do a lot of work with my hands even when not playing the guitar. I also probably wash them too much. However, I still believe these nails crack really really fast.