Difficulty Level: Advanced
This week, I had a shocking realization about the project that I'm taking on. This is hard.
But I have to finish what I've started, so I can only continue on.
Last Wednesday, I once again visited my mentor and he took a look at my composition. He made some suggestions to my piece. We talked about changing certain harmonies, as well as making the two violin lines match. He encouraged me to try to fill any dead space there was in either part, to avoid having any boring part. The rhythm that I currently have is also pretty average and easy. I will definitely need to experiment more with the rhythm this coming week and create more difficult passages. I'm currently working on a faster passage following the relatively slower beginning. I'm still undecided as to exactly how long I want this piece to be. I am thinking it should be about 4 pages long or perhaps 6-ish minutes, but I suppose time will tell. I will be limited by the deadline for this project.
During the class time we had on Friday, I looked back over all of my past blog posts and the work that I have done up to this point. I was surprised to find that it has been almost two months since the start of this project. This kind of shows how difficult and time consuming this project really is. Albeit I have been somewhat distracted through those months by school work and extra curricular activities, I have at the very least dedicated an hour each week to doing composing (definitely more than that). I predict that in order to finish this composition by the deadline in December, I will have to start working quicker and more efficiently.
Reading Ahead:
Something my ASYO conductor used to always say: "Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm."
Draft the rest of the piece/ the other melodies that I would like to have.
Hey Kathy, I've known you for a long time, and I know how much violin and just music in general means to you. I'm really glad you got to choose a topic like this for your 20% time because I feel like you really enjoy what you're doing, even though it seems to be really hard. It's good that this project is teaching you how to look at music from a different perspective since you've always been the one reading and listening to the music and not writing it. I really like the way you set up this blog like how you do sightreading with the whole "reading ahead" section after every post. I can tell that recent events haven't been kind to you, but I like to see that you keep pushing through and you tell yourself to just keep going. I'm really looking forward to seeing you play for all of us in December, and stage-fright or not, you'll be great.
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