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@dougg it doesn't have to rhyme (I know you know that...

More importantly, I didn't know the term wagon lit.

@AndyD said:

Looking forward to hearing you learn & play it Shirokuro.

thank you!!

I'll struggle along beside you.

Yay! It's good to have a partner! (Partner in crime in struggle)

So thanks to @kluurs I had a very productive practice session last night, with much less frustration! I was working from a Henle edition score, which was fairly high quality. The nice thing about the Henle app is that you can adjust the size, but on the CdL score, the only thing you can change is the number of staves per page. This helps, but you can’t change the number of measures per staff line.

The score I had has five measures in the first line. The score Kluurs shared with me has three. All the notes are the same of course, but this score is just so much easier to read.

Then of course his score has tons of info, fingerings and more, so that is very much appreciated.

Yesterday I focused my practice on the first 26 measures, and it just felt like I made so much more progress.

Yay!

My next lesson is Monday and I’m hoping to have looked at some of the @kluurs !!

@Steve-Miller said:

At some point the freezer door came open and everything ended up on the floor, thawed, and made a righteous mess. Had to throw it all out and mop up the mess.

Oh no!! I’m sorry to hear that happened!

But wow those alpacas are cute! I’ve never heard of the Harvest Host system, sounds great!

Nice! I got my first iPad years ago, I don’t use it for work, but almost everything else I do on a screen. And of course I eventually shifted to doing almost all my piano sheet music on the iPad. It’s so convenient.

Enjoy!

@jon-nyc @kluurs thank you guys!!

@kluurs I'll DM you now, thank you so much!!!!

ShiroKuro said:

the degree of difficulty I feel from CdL is inversely proportional to how tired I am.

Or just proportional, depending on how you read that…

The less tired I am, the easier it feels. The more tired I am, the harder it feels.

Whatever. That’s why I only do qualitative research.

@wtg that’s great!!

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Ugh. Yesterday’s practice didn’t go so well. I’m back to wondering if this is just too hard.

OTOH, it seems clear that the degree of difficulty I feel from CdL is inversely proportional to how tired I am. I need to stick it out until my lesson (Monday) and see if my new teacher can get over a few specific challenges — currently the section starting in measure 27 and the one starting in m37…

I too thought this would be about digestive health!

We probably need a new router…

Thanks for sharing the photos! Sounds like a great trip so far! Do keep us updated

This is Jon Batiste’s lovely tribute to Dolly Parton:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1807922880366556

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I was reading about him and I didn’t realize that the RHPS was his debut movie. Wow!

Meal

@AndyD I worked on those bits a little bit yesterday, and my fingering is the same as yours. Of course I’m only just getting into this part, so it might change, or maybe my teacher will suggest a change. But this fingering is also in line with how the score is written, and I’d prefer to play it that way.

In his video, Hugh Sung says he tries to make fingering choices that avoid over-stretching the hand. This is a good idea as a general rule, and I usually do the same. But those LH notes are not held notes and you don’t need to keep your pinkie on that Db (for example) so I don’t think playing those first four notes with the LH will necessarily cause an over-stretch.

Actually, maybe it’s just as important to work on bringing the LH over (to the right) as you play those notes… I’m trying to remember which video it was, but I was watching someone play CdL with a nice overhead video shot and really noticing the horizontal movement of their hands.

Anyway, I’m not saying I’m in a position to question an accomplished pianist like Hugh Sung, but for now, I’m going with the standard fingering.

Also, as an aside, I seem to keep wanting to type this name as Huge Sung…. And the famous actor as Huge Grant…

(Sometimes you can’t blame it on autocorrect…)

@DougG certainly not me, I don’t have a word for that…

@Bernard oh good! I plan to watch it tomorrow morning

I haven't watched this one yet, but I'll post it here so it's easy to find.

Piano Lesson with French pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet on How to Play 'Clair de lune'

oops, here's the video, measure 27 part 1

Holy cow, it looks like there's one video for each measure?? Wow.

Also, watching him work in whatever program he's using is kind of nostalgic (I wonder if this is the precursor to Newzik, the app that he promotes)

Anyway, @andyd Andy, his approach to the LH part for measure 27 is interesting, instead of only taking the top two notes with the RH, he takes the top 3 with RH, which means the LH only plays octaves. Interesting... Probably not what I'll do though...