Slogan: Plan To Play
Hye Friends,
Once again, it seems like I am having a hard time getting into the pracitce time. It's like now that Christmas is over I am having a terrible time trying to get back into routine of any sort. At the moment I am lurking around in places that I should already be working at on a daily basis, the harp being no exception. I have no excuses.
This morning I received an email from my music teacher, the one I had written in the autumn to see about buying music books that she uses in her classes. She says they are at the publishers nd ready for sale ~ YaY!! These books sound delightful and just what I need to get back in the saddle, musically.
Well, I have to get out of here, I am falling asleep at the keyboard. I will start to make a much bigger effort to start practicing daily agian, promise.
Cheers, thanks for dropping in,
Meg
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Slogan: Plan To Play
Hello Friends,
It has been another long drought here, with no playing or spending any time on my new month of new directions to myself. I have just now looked at the book and figured out what I am going to practice this session (getting sort of short to be a month, lol) and at first I chose 3 pieces that were all both hands together, well we all know that that won't work. I still need to have something to go to and know that if I can't play it right now, with a little practice I am going to just have it down and memorized.
The new slogan is part of a longer one: Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail. It is easily changed to whatever I need to make it work for; its like word art. It is all about not making plans and just going from one thing to the next . . . or not! and then wondering why when I had promised myself that I would play everyday for a year, why I hadn't accomplished this goal. Gee, got me, how could that be?????? Of course, I want to be able to look back over the year and say okay, I learned something from each month and am now adept at it. I have overcome some of my issues that I allowed to control me, and finally, I have accelerated to the next level of harping that I never thot I would accomplish. So far, not so great.
The pieces of music I have chosen for this month are a mix, as it shold be and not all those neat titles that are all too complicated with lots of two hands together all the way thru. I need respite, variety, a sense of accomplishment. So here is my new list:
* Wisteria
* Sean Bui
* Simple Gitfts
* Morning Has Broken
* Rickshaw Ride ~ this is pentatonic, love that sound
I am also going to add a new dimension into the work. I am going to start to do a practice session in the evening, at 6:20-ish, after I have come back from walking Ch'ng. A minimum of 15 minutes, but it can go longer if I want to; lets face it, these days between 6 - 8 PM there i absolutely NOTHING on to distract me so I might as well do the things that I like to . . . O Boy!! I'm Planning To Play, right here in front of everyone. Ha! all my imaginary friends, lol.
Thanks for dropping in,
Meg
Hello Friends,
It has been another long drought here, with no playing or spending any time on my new month of new directions to myself. I have just now looked at the book and figured out what I am going to practice this session (getting sort of short to be a month, lol) and at first I chose 3 pieces that were all both hands together, well we all know that that won't work. I still need to have something to go to and know that if I can't play it right now, with a little practice I am going to just have it down and memorized.
The new slogan is part of a longer one: Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail. It is easily changed to whatever I need to make it work for; its like word art. It is all about not making plans and just going from one thing to the next . . . or not! and then wondering why when I had promised myself that I would play everyday for a year, why I hadn't accomplished this goal. Gee, got me, how could that be?????? Of course, I want to be able to look back over the year and say okay, I learned something from each month and am now adept at it. I have overcome some of my issues that I allowed to control me, and finally, I have accelerated to the next level of harping that I never thot I would accomplish. So far, not so great.
The pieces of music I have chosen for this month are a mix, as it shold be and not all those neat titles that are all too complicated with lots of two hands together all the way thru. I need respite, variety, a sense of accomplishment. So here is my new list:
* Wisteria
* Sean Bui
* Simple Gitfts
* Morning Has Broken
* Rickshaw Ride ~ this is pentatonic, love that sound
I am also going to add a new dimension into the work. I am going to start to do a practice session in the evening, at 6:20-ish, after I have come back from walking Ch'ng. A minimum of 15 minutes, but it can go longer if I want to; lets face it, these days between 6 - 8 PM there i absolutely NOTHING on to distract me so I might as well do the things that I like to . . . O Boy!! I'm Planning To Play, right here in front of everyone. Ha! all my imaginary friends, lol.
Thanks for dropping in,
Meg
Friday, January 1, 2010
Slogan:
Hye Friends,
Did everyone have a great holiday season? Is anyone especially happy its over?? I am too, do you want to come over for left overs? I have a whole fridge full.
Happy New Year, Happy Twenty-Ten, Welcome to new beginnings. Whatever you prefer to think of this entity as, enjoy. I have not done any of the things I was going to with my music for Christmas time. I had company who was not very encouraging and I didn't even bother trying to do anything for them. It wasn't much fun, but much better than if I had played and been criticized or ignored.
Of course, I have made a resolution to pracitce more, try harder, work on advanced strategies. Yes well, we'll see. I am picking out new music to work on for the month of January. I have put away all the Christmas music and have spent most of my day going thru the sheets to figure out which ones I would like to start on next. I may not have the first batch perfectly, but I must put them away for a while and go with some others. I want to have 5 new pieces, 3 fairly simple that I have worked on before, with some easy left-hand chording, 1 that requires practicing both hands, and one that . . . well, one that I think I really just love to play. I will still use Wisteria as a warm up. I won't play Danny Boy for a while now, after having been criticized when I believed I was doing better, there is no way I can go anywhere near it at the moment and don't even like it at the moment.
To - Do List of Music:
* Wisteria for warm ups
* Simple Things
*
*
*
Hmmm, not a very convincing list. I'm going to have to work on it some more and get back to the blog with the rest of the list and possibly the new slogan. I have been putting my new journal for 2010 together most of the day also and am having a hard time keeping the info straight. Between the categories and labels for my new book and the new music with a slogan . . . . and I can't remember where I put what I wrote down. Oh sigh. I am working on a longer time to practice and do other things also. If I can keep going after work till 7 PM I could do more before I stop for the day.
Thanks for dropping in,
Meg
Hye Friends,
Did everyone have a great holiday season? Is anyone especially happy its over?? I am too, do you want to come over for left overs? I have a whole fridge full.
Happy New Year, Happy Twenty-Ten, Welcome to new beginnings. Whatever you prefer to think of this entity as, enjoy. I have not done any of the things I was going to with my music for Christmas time. I had company who was not very encouraging and I didn't even bother trying to do anything for them. It wasn't much fun, but much better than if I had played and been criticized or ignored.
Of course, I have made a resolution to pracitce more, try harder, work on advanced strategies. Yes well, we'll see. I am picking out new music to work on for the month of January. I have put away all the Christmas music and have spent most of my day going thru the sheets to figure out which ones I would like to start on next. I may not have the first batch perfectly, but I must put them away for a while and go with some others. I want to have 5 new pieces, 3 fairly simple that I have worked on before, with some easy left-hand chording, 1 that requires practicing both hands, and one that . . . well, one that I think I really just love to play. I will still use Wisteria as a warm up. I won't play Danny Boy for a while now, after having been criticized when I believed I was doing better, there is no way I can go anywhere near it at the moment and don't even like it at the moment.
To - Do List of Music:
* Wisteria for warm ups
* Simple Things
*
*
*
Hmmm, not a very convincing list. I'm going to have to work on it some more and get back to the blog with the rest of the list and possibly the new slogan. I have been putting my new journal for 2010 together most of the day also and am having a hard time keeping the info straight. Between the categories and labels for my new book and the new music with a slogan . . . . and I can't remember where I put what I wrote down. Oh sigh. I am working on a longer time to practice and do other things also. If I can keep going after work till 7 PM I could do more before I stop for the day.
Thanks for dropping in,
Meg
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