Out of twelve

The sun converts my house into an oven. Oh wow. I hate noon. I should stay awake all night and then sleep all noon because I hate the heat, which sucks all will to do anything. And that includes practice. (despite the aircon full blast).

I saw a few buns of good looking bread downstairs, and in my intense midnight hunger (and craving for some supper), I had half a mind to steal someone else's breakfast for tomorrow. How evil! But I did not! I think if I had prepared from nice looking nice smelling bread for myself the next morning and it goes missing (and into another man's stomach), my anger valves will totally snap out of control.

Suffering from Lost withdrawal symptoms. Suddenly when I want to stay up late (whoops), there's nothing to do. I managed to wake up 9am the other morning so I suppose my cycle is still quite under control. It's displaced back to normal slightly, and I need a little extra effort (and a push!) to go back to normal). The ant invasion ceased because of something my maid did (still have no idea). It suddenly feels like a privilege to be able to leave a full cup of ribena on my desk untouched. HEHE

Today I finally manage to record two of my etudes. Tried and rerecorded only as far as my patience allowed. mostly only two or three tries on each.

Chopin's Opus 10 Nr 12. (revolutionary)
For some reason, I am 30 seconds slower than the average professional and about 50 seconds slower than the recording breaking professional. I feel so depressed. I guess it's still slow, not at it's full glory yet. I still need to practice more. Anyway, for layman sake, this etude is for the left hand. (technical exercises). I hate recording this piece because my concentration always wavers in the middle.






Opus 10 Nr 4

Nicknamed the "torrent". I actually struggled really bad with this piece like some half a year plus back, but now I spent 3 weeks relearning it and now it's up and running again. If you notice I have a metronome plugged into my left ear while playing this piece. I set it at around 160-165BPM (whereby the fast professionals play at usually 180BPM).




I actually aim to complete chopin's opus 10. Because they are not only musical masterpieces but important exercises/benchmark of technique. out of twelve, two down. Ten more to go. I'm doing the G flat Black Key etude now. I actually aim to finish it and have it running in three weeks! (i'm just done memorizing half in a few days!)

Very non-relevant post to the people who come here to read about me whining about not being able to sleep.

I'm just not posting on facebook because I suddenly don't like the idea of my video alerting (the standard "ty posted a video" thing) thousand and one people whom I'm not familiar with/lost touch with/don't even know.