my sister's words about our efforts at this 2weeker. Sad, I know.
I think that while this 2weeker was, all-in-all, more interesting to write about than the last one (yup, just had water AGAIN today...), it was a lot more difficult--as evidenced by the waning posts over the second week. It's difficult in all of our busy lives to take time out for something different--creativity/art, in this case--and for many of us it meant one extra thing in the already long to-do list. but I imagine that's what this experiment is about--how feasible is it to make these changes? My mom sent me (in the mail) a NYTimes article that spoke to this issue--when I get back from lab I'll try to post it, since I think it's relevant.
In any case. My own failures at this 2weeker were mainly due to the reasons I just described, combined with a bunch of long experiments in lab over the past 2 weeks that made it difficult for me to get time in to practice carillon (since in my schedule carillon practice and sleep end up battling for the same hours, and inevitably sleep wins). But, I will report back on the little bit of practicing I was able to get in--I'm still working on Harmony of Zion; Prof. Zerlang (the university carillonneur here) thinks I need to play it much faster, and to keep the speed going throughout the piece (I get tired and slow down...). In an effort to be more methodical about my practicing I whipped out the metronome last night and discovered that the speed I've been trying to play it at is WAY faster than the tempo as marked on the score. What gives? I feel like I'm careening a little out of control at times, especially when those 16th notes move down to the pedal...ugh. But in any case, I think as I'm learning this piece and gradually figuring out my interpretation of it it's useful to try to incorporate different pieces of advice...and in this case I'm hoping to learn something from trying to play on the other end of the spectrum from how I usually play. (Prof. Zerlang plays much more....boisterously....than I do--it might improve my own playing to incorporate a little more force into it.) I'm also working on another new piece--more in romantic style, and am struggling a little with a passage that has triplets against duplets. It's also going to be my outlet to work on tremoloes, since I've never really played them before--a good opportunity!
Well, that's enough of an update for now. I'm hoping to try to bring a microphone up to record the carillon at some point and potentially post some of it as a belated part of this 2weeker. Thoughts for the next 2weeker?? :)
I think that while this 2weeker was, all-in-all, more interesting to write about than the last one (yup, just had water AGAIN today...), it was a lot more difficult--as evidenced by the waning posts over the second week. It's difficult in all of our busy lives to take time out for something different--creativity/art, in this case--and for many of us it meant one extra thing in the already long to-do list. but I imagine that's what this experiment is about--how feasible is it to make these changes? My mom sent me (in the mail) a NYTimes article that spoke to this issue--when I get back from lab I'll try to post it, since I think it's relevant.
In any case. My own failures at this 2weeker were mainly due to the reasons I just described, combined with a bunch of long experiments in lab over the past 2 weeks that made it difficult for me to get time in to practice carillon (since in my schedule carillon practice and sleep end up battling for the same hours, and inevitably sleep wins). But, I will report back on the little bit of practicing I was able to get in--I'm still working on Harmony of Zion; Prof. Zerlang (the university carillonneur here) thinks I need to play it much faster, and to keep the speed going throughout the piece (I get tired and slow down...). In an effort to be more methodical about my practicing I whipped out the metronome last night and discovered that the speed I've been trying to play it at is WAY faster than the tempo as marked on the score. What gives? I feel like I'm careening a little out of control at times, especially when those 16th notes move down to the pedal...ugh. But in any case, I think as I'm learning this piece and gradually figuring out my interpretation of it it's useful to try to incorporate different pieces of advice...and in this case I'm hoping to learn something from trying to play on the other end of the spectrum from how I usually play. (Prof. Zerlang plays much more....boisterously....than I do--it might improve my own playing to incorporate a little more force into it.) I'm also working on another new piece--more in romantic style, and am struggling a little with a passage that has triplets against duplets. It's also going to be my outlet to work on tremoloes, since I've never really played them before--a good opportunity!
Well, that's enough of an update for now. I'm hoping to try to bring a microphone up to record the carillon at some point and potentially post some of it as a belated part of this 2weeker. Thoughts for the next 2weeker?? :)
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