Repertoire

After the midterm i decided that my reading lessons and my bass playing weren't getting anywhere together. I couldn't find sheet music for the bass guitar that didn't have "tab" as the key word. I wasn't learning what i had originally set out to learn and that was how to play the bass and read music. Even though i was doing both, they weren't coming together to help me play and understand music. I enjoyed playing songs and doing my warm up, but it was hard to not skip warm ups and just play the songs or i'd spend all class on my warm up and skip reading music, learning theory and meshing them together. If i had decided on having a "theory" day i'd get bored and play songs on tab instead of using what i'd just learned. it was easy to get distracted because my scales were hard for me to focus on. I'd tried mixing things up and doing different things but i felt i didn't know enough about what i was doing to just play what i felt. After all of this, i decided to change directions and learn piano. it's an easier way for me to grasp the connection of reading and playing music and how they go together. it's still hard because i just jumped right in and started playing songs without really reading anything or thinking about what i need to do to play those songs. i haven't learned anything about scales yet and i really need to incorporate reading and playing like i want to. The other day i tried playing swan lake and i remembered all of my bass notes, forgetting that i'm now on a treble clef. i need to go back and relearn everything i'd already learned, but differently. I think this will be easier because i won't be lost in a world of strings and chords before i know what i was doing. i couldn't get what i was doing so i just went to it and didn't do very well.

4.25.11

today was really about the solo i want to play. i did some warm ups and stuff and some reading. i need to get my warm up together.

5.4.11

today i played the first half of Music Land with both hands :) ﻿ media type="file" key="My Song 16.m4a" width="210" height="35" And this is it..its really short but it's always longer when you're playing the parts separately so, this is the time cut in half because it's both hands together.

this is the second half with both hands and it came out pretty well

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5.6.11

this is the right hand first line of Music land. there are some bugs but its only from me spacing out for a second, but as you can hear i picked it right back up again.

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left hand first line. a bit rusty but i am almost there

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5.9.11

herro, so today there is no recording because i decided to step away from my little keyboard and play a real piano where the keys aren't labeled and all i had to rely on was my knowledge, so that was all fun and refreshing. it was nice to get out of the lab and practice on my own without headphones or any real distractions, like the internet or people. I got a lot done, actually. i perfected the first and second line of music land with both hands at the same time and it all went really well. I had recorded it with my phone, but youtube did not want to let me up load it so *sadfaceeee* i will just record it in the lab tomorrow and up load it like i have been. I still have to work on the second line for both hands, but thats not too different so i'll be done with it soon enough. After i finish that i'll do a few more simple songs and the move on to Victor's solo because that's my main repertoire piece.

5.10.11

So i have decided to change my repertoire to something that i can read and learn a bit faster. i do love Victor's Solo, but i will never learn the whole thing in time for the final with only having piano time for and hour and a half everyday. My new song will be the Winnie The Pooh theme song because it's something close to me and it's simpler to read. I've got the notes now i just need to play them. It's such a sweet song and its what i would like to show what i've learned through it. I hope it all works. this will be my new main focus instead of other repertoire because its so close to finals and i need to learn this instead of spending so much time on other things like theory, which i understand most of and like warm ups, which i do everyday without even noticing. So i'm in good shape, i think.

5.11.11

Today i completed the first 3 lines of Winnie The Pooh! it's almost perfect and this is the first day i've worked on it. i'll start figuring out counting and stuff tomorrow. After i've got all of that down i'll move on to the last 3 lines, should be by next week.

5.17.11

Yellow Submarine first 4 lines...well 3 and 1 note

media type="file" key="My Song 22.m4a" width="210" height="35" i've noticed that this song is quite simple and it's all repetitive so i should have no issues learning it perfectly in 2 weeks. I love this song even if it sounds the same all the way through, its a good song for a beginner like me. i might also play the Winnie the Pooh song for the class too just because it was the first time i'd read and learned a real song that i know without hearing it first and playing by ear.

media type="youtube" key="ge4wmgGDqZk?fs=1" height="279" width="339"this is my first video and it was quite the challenge to record it so i hope that i did okay and that my next recordings be successful.

5.20.11

IT'S FINISHED! still a few rough spots, BUT it's almost there! media type="file" key="My Song 23.m4a" width="180" height="30"

5.23.11

Today i spent a lot of my class time playing over my repertoire songs for my final. They started out alright but soon became a mess so i figured it was time to stop. Yellow submarine was probably the easiest song any beginner could ask for because it is very simple and repetitive as can be. Winnie the Pooh, however is somewhat more of my challenge because it's been left alone for so long and it's harder to keep up with what to do because i get confused about which key is next. My life would be so much easier if i didn't leave things alone for weeks on end like i did with this song. Yellow sub was easy to stick with because it was so repetitive and easy to follow, but Winnie the pooh is surprisingly harder because the keys blend when i see them so i don't remember what to play next and i end up playing the wrong things and its awful. But things are looking up for my music playing anyway.