Week Three: Vive la musique fran莽aise!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE 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 May 23 - 30 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Piece you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Piece you worked on: Ravel's Prelude
- 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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It's been another wonderful week of practice, i'm so inspired by this lovely little piece I just love practicing it.
- Piece you worked on: Ravel's Prelude
- One thing you found easy: Surprisingly for me, i'm finding it easy to memorise sections of it (I haven't tried to memorise anything before)
- One thing you found difficult: Interpreting the dynamics. At the moment i'm not really hearing any dynamic changes.
Hope everyone's practice is going well this week 馃檪
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- Piece you worked on: Pavane pour une infante d茅funte - Maurice Ravel
- One thing you found easy: It's been very enjoyable learning this piece, and I feel a connection to Ravel's tonal language. So I found it easy to be motivated learning this piece.
- One thing you found difficult: I think voicing this piece "correctly" is pretty challenging. Ravel gives a lot of directions, and I would like to follow them the best I can (with a little personal flavor). The last time the main theme returns is the part I think is the most technically challenging, and I can use a little more practice there.
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I have been brushing up on three Debussy pieces previously learned - Arabesque 1, Sunken Cathedral and Girl with the Flaxen Hair. I also have been having fun reading through/exploring the Couperin Les Baricades Misterieuses and Gounod Meditation/Prelude Bach which I printed out from Dominic鈥檚 list at the beginning of French month.