That 'One Year Off'

Beethoven, and other musings.

I have like n<20 measures left until I’ve got the skeleton of the first movement memorized of his Appassionata.  I mean, seriously.  There’s a section of a few harmonius chords in E major, whereby in then switches to E minor and you hear the theme again.  There’s a few parts in the spaces before (such a cadence section in Ab minor {seriously WTF Ab minor?!}) that I don’t have the chords for in my head (yet), but the sound I know what it’s supposed to sound like.  Couple of fingering issues, I’ll have to go back through and look and phrasing, slurs, and dynamics (much of the musicality has been lost over the past year).

But now?  Around 70% complete.  5% more for the notes, 15% more for the musicality (I’ve got it in some parts, just…not all of it already), another 5% for the sheer fluidness one attains when familiarity is attained, and another 4% for the joy that comes in knowing all of this.

You might be wondering…

70+5+15+5+4 != 100%

Of course not.  That last 1% (hah, I probably sound like an arrogant douche) will come with time.  It’s there in some parts of the piece already, I’d like to say (though very few), but there’s something to say about the relative ease in which a piece is played…even it parts of it are heinously difficult.

You could be playing the simplest pieces in the world and make it look like you’re struggling with the Nine Hells themselves.

Or, take one of the most difficult, and make it look like child’s play.

There’s a show to be had in all of this.

L’sigh.

I’ve been reading a lot, lately.  Finished up Return of the King (Tolkien!) and almost through Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind.

I wish music came to me as it did Kvothe.  That’d be insane.

(Insanely cool.)