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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.
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This is the fifth and sixth variations from Luis Milan by Joaquin Nin-Culmell. Wanted to redo the sixth one, because I was super tired when I made the recording last night.
Starting practice after you’ve already been up and doing things for 10-12 hours is hard and taxing on even hoping for decent practice.
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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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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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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 have been very busy and tired lately. I really hate that it is hard to find time to practice. This is extremely frustrating. It worries me.
I am learning Luis Milan’s six Pavans. I am getting this one (no 2) under memory here. Now that I know all the notes, I’m trying to decide what to do with repeated material. In the first example I played it all in my standard default tone color. When I restarted the piece, I went more ponticello on the repeated material. I believe that less-extreme color change with more dynamic changes may be what I need. I’ll try that in a later post. Probably tomorrow.
Day 3.
Trying to get better about posting videos with painful mistakes. Responsibility. Tarrega and Legnani here.
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Starting to run through several minutes of my pieces in these daily recordings. I feel that it ads some healthy stress to performing the piece. Playing through nerves will definitely help with the final recital.
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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.
