WEEK ONE Updates: Main Thread - What a delightful theme Beethoven wrote!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK ONE Main Thread for this challenge! 馃ぉ
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week between September 20th - 27th I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
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Beethoven: 6 Variations on an Original Theme
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Variation you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Variation you worked on: No. 1
- One thing you found easy: Learning the notes, and rhythms were rather straight-forward, and not challenging!
- One thing you found difficult: Shifting the Hands was a bit tricky to get smooth!
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Variation you worked on:
I worked on learning and memorizing the whole thing.
One thing you found easy:
The structure of the piece makes it easier to memorize.
One thing you found difficult:
Variation 5 gave me of the most challenges. It took a little working to find a fingering that felt comfortable.
Here is my video. I started working on the last two variations first (I usually start any piece by learning what I believe will be the most difficult part), and you can tell that I have a lot more confidence in the later variations than the earlier ones.
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- Variation you worked on: I'm a bit late to the party as I just realized this weekend there was a new challenge! I worked on the whole piece and did a video without any repeats. Interesting discussion above about which sections to repeat.
- One thing you found easy: Easier relative to the previous challenges (but still not easy!).
- One thing you found difficult: Variation 6 scales.
- (Optional): I've been experimenting with new mics and recording techniques (based on some other tonebase livestreams) so hopefully the recording quality is improving from previous videos. Looks like lots of people participating on this one!
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Theme and first variation. The theme is pretty easy now, although that first variation is much harder than it looks (the unusual figurations). My biggest problem right now is finishing variation one. Hopefully these videos work...