sunday afternoon !

Today is the day of difficulty. Genius Rachel forgot about her project all weekend and miraculously remembered this morning.

Practicing along with the music is proving to be more difficult than i would have expected. Yes, the beginning is slow and easy, and that was what a practiced last time. But the rest of the piece has a much quicker tempo which it is very difficult to keep up with. This section of the piece also has more sixteenth notes than the first section. Bar 31 is proving almost impossibe to play for me .. i cant move my arm fast enough for those four ascending sixteenth notes. I might have to alter this bar slightly when i play. The four sixteenth notes might become two eighth notes. Even still, i think i would find it difficult. Playing the higher notes in this piece still is hard for me, and i have never been able to play them fast. Also, upon practicing more carefully with the piano accompanyment today i noticed that in the last 3 bars of the piece the tempo slows down, even though it does not indicate so on the sheet music. I will have to watch out for this, and try to match my tempo with that of the accompanyment.

I am also finding it difficult today getting through the whole piece, including the repeat of bars 17-32, and still being able to push out the higher notes. I must make sure to take big breaths when possible.

Sorry this post isnt as long as the others, but i have a lot of work to do.

goodbye :)