SLOGAN: Discipline Your Relationship

Tonight I got in late from work, I stopped at Long & McQuade music store for a book of blank sheet music. They showed me where the books for the harp section are located, there is a decent selection of books and composers. I found Danny Boy and it was hard to resist buying it, but I know that it will be in the new books Caroline sends me and there is no sense purchasing them twice. I could go to the library and see what they have for music to borrow, but I would want to copy the pieces that i liked and I'm not sure that's legal. I ended up taking my dog out late and came back to start my music time late, but it was still a good session.

I worked on getting a good opening exercise of running thru the scales. It started out slow and rough, but I gave it a good ten minutes so that all the fingers got a good work out and it seemed to help. I don't think that this being the third session in a row hurt matters either. I'm really tired in the evenings but I am probably more capable of slowing down to the point of being able to concentrate on one thing at a time for more than a couple of minutes.

After running scales I played my lovely Wisteria, which will be lovely once I am able to lightly finger it gingerly all the way thru. Then I did Happy Birthday, but not ten times and my fingers are not in love with this tune yet. Water's Wide didn't fare much better, but both imporved. The winner for the evening was Sakura which was played the best of all the pieces

Another part of this Music Quest is to pick out and write down a piece like I did with Swan Lake. I'm thinking I'd like to do Starry Starry Night in honor of Gail Ross, sometimes I miss her a lot. There is also House of the Rsing Sun that I did once but its in part of the work that has gone missing sooo, I may never see it again. These are all just options at the moment, I could stumble across my own tune while running scales.

Thanks for dorpping in,

Meg