It's a busy time in Nuova Lazio. Tomorrow I need to go up to Himatangi to help solve a little (well, quite big really) problem - moving some very big and heavy gates, Then, on Sunday it's back to Palmy for Steve's burial - I'll play Autumn Leaves (violin) as he is put to rest. We return to Nuova Lazio on Tuesday and then, on Wednesday at 3.30pm, I play a solo concert at the Johnsonville Library. This performance will be repeated on the following Saturday at the Tawa Library at 11am.
I only play for half an hour and I'll be playing 6 pieces - 3 double bass solo pieces and three solo violin pieces. I'm using backing tracks for the violin pieces.
I've been practising very hard. The first double bass piece (Sii Gentile) is the hardest because it is a very exacting piece that needs a lot of precision. I don't use sheet music when I play, so this piece has to be well memorized. Very well memorized.
This finally got me to do VERY SLOW PRACTICE.
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| The beginning is the easiest part. I wouldn't say the piece is technically hard, it's just remembering the order, and important little bits. |
this way of practising really works!
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| ZZZZZZZZZZZZ |
I'll leave you there for today and go do my practice.
Ciao tutti.
14 commenti:
That was 9.6 minutes of my life I'll never get back again.
Good luck with performances although I'm sure that thy will go well.
Why are you only just burying Steve now?
Mainly because so much has been happening but Monday is his year anniversary. It seemed like an appropriate day.
To bury him?
Yep. He was cremated last year.
Right. You are becoming as obtuse as Robert.
Sorry about that comment - no one can be as obtuse as Robert.
I'll check with Father Dekcuf before we go ahead.
I wonder if they would approve of us?
We have, in our spare cupboards, the ashes of Lynn's son Blair and her mother Elizabeth. Her father Tom was also cremated and we buried these under a macrocarpa seat at Muriwai golf club. Will I go to hell with Richard now?
My brother was cremated and my eldest niece kept his ashes for a while until my mother died. Robert and his church will approve because we didn't cremate mum, we buried her in the same double grave as my father but, at the time of her internment we put my brother's ashes in as well. There are three names on that cemetery stone. At the time of the great resurrection or whatever the catholic church calls it, I'm worried now that when mum and dad are called to rise up, my brothers ashes in the heavy urn will be holding them down. There are lots of practical concerns in this great awakening nonsense, sorry, theory. Maybe the catholic church could create a questions and answer website like The Curmudgeon's Agony Aunt to address them. Robert could run it and field and answer the questions.
Good idea.
Just checked it out. What a sick pile of crap!
Yeah, I agree. I typed in a question: "How many paedophile priests are there in New Zealand?". There was no answer just a "No more results' statement.
Yes, I ran into similar problems.
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