Andrew Bird - The Greenhorn/Exile of Erin/Glasgow Reel
(3/3 queued.)
That’s it of that set. Hope you enjoyed some fantastic stuff. :D
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That 'One Year Off'
Piano performance graduate of UT Tyler in May, 2010.
This is...what's next. A log of what's next. For now. Not forever, of course. But who knows?
But for now? Including, but not limited to: piano, teaching, music, video games, running, graduate schools, Japan, photography.
This is...what's next. A log of what's next. For now. Not forever, of course. But who knows?
But for now? Including, but not limited to: piano, teaching, music, video games, running, graduate schools, Japan, photography.
~ Tuesday, June 14 ~
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~ Monday, June 13 ~
Andrew Bird - Oh So Insistent
OH. MY. GOD.
I might be 15 years late to the album, BUT THAT’S OK.
(1/3 queued. I wanted to share one, and then I wanted to share two, and then settled on three. SETTLED. :3)
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~ Monday, May 30 ~
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.)
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~ Sunday, May 8 ~
Under a rock.
A few days ago, I started listening to Arcade Fire.
Yes, *started.*
A few days ago.
Today?
Deadmau5.
I feel sad because no one’s really told me about them before. :(
Anyway, with the 5k just this past weekend (wow, was that yesterday), I think I’ll be starting to push the distance higher. Again. 3.11 mi in 29:01 was ridiculous. With a pace per km at 5:46, I’m sure doing four miles at 6:30 won’t be too bad…right? xD
How do you guys do this? I could go and track either a 10:30 mile (multiples, or maybe an 11:00 straight run) or a 6:30 km.
Also, parkour popped up on YouTube. I saw this for the first time about two to three years ago and never thought I’d be able to do it.
Well, there were a couple of things I’d never thought I’d be ever able to do, two years ago.
I’d still probably not be comfortable free running until I’ve lost a good bit more of weight. You know, less mass to carry around means cooler stunts, right? :P
For the record, Guild Wars 2 looks totally badass.
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~ Friday, April 15 ~
Edit: IT’S VERY LOUD AT THE BEGINNING. Feel free to turn it down, and then turn it up a bit after. :3
Teeeeeeeeeeeeest. Piano improv/flailing about in D.
I do this every once in a while and never really record them. Which is a shame, because, sometimes, they’re flippin’ sweet. Other times, eh. I think it’s part of how I unwind sometimes.
Anyway. The recording sounds muddled and far away because, er, it is. It’s loud at the beginning because I’m like EATING THE MICROPHONE and then the real piano stuff start around 1:40.
Yes, I sneeze at the start.
(That’s my dog’s collar being all ringy and loud and he scratches.)
It does sound a bit pop-ish (yay same four chords?). The muddled, far away sound sorta reminds me of schroeder’s failure by tresk. He did the Darwinia music, or some of it - I think.
In any case, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. See, I *do* play piano. A little better than I play guitar. :D
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~ Tuesday, April 12 ~
Currently playing: Bill Evans - Who Can I Turn To
Ah man, I need to learn how to play like this.
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