Wednesday, October 1, 2008

BPU Day 13, 1 hour 5 minutes

Played for at least 40 minutes ...

I must indeed practice the Mussorgsky, particularly the first page as the notes are quite high and I need to get the sound in my brain. It's also in Alto clef, for God's sake! I played at least into rehearsal number 14, but got interrupted by a phone call so I am not sure how much further I played than that.

Worked on my little Petite Waltz top part. There is one passage where the music goes F E down to B natural C, and I keep messing it up because I don't have the sound in my head. This is why I am trying to learn sight singing, so I can hear it first in my head and then will play it right. Well, I got my keyboard out and played it through several times, then sang it several times, and played it and it sounded beautiful.

Also worked on the Mahler bit and that was nice. Ah, it is in bass clef. :)

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