Monday, March 16, 2015

Jumbo shrimp...

Hello everyone! I am back with another blog post. I have made progress on my 20time and I plan on posting a video soon. This week, I realized that my 20time project is endless, and that there is no real end product. Even though I plan on reaching this end result, I haven't been following my timeline exactly. Factually, my 20time isn't the same as I originally planned. Maybe because rushed my idea for pitch day, but I am still playing piano and posting videos on it. Here is the breakdown:
Song mash-up:
I haven't done too much work on this, but is definitely on my mind. I am debating my choices of melodies for my next portion of the song. In the end, I will probably post two videos on the two routes I wanted to go because both songs have a really nice bridge. My part two ended my Stay with Me melody and bass, so I was thinking INTOO(I'm not the only one) melody and bass. After that I would do SWM melody and INTOO bass for the bridge, then vice versa.
Canon in D:
This is a classical piece I always had a love for, but never got a chance to fully learn. I was grounded for a month so I spent a lot of time learning it, but I'm only at about measure 27. At that point the melody switches to sixteenth notes and the bass slowly goes down the E flat scale. It is challenging but I am trying to learn it, because it was one of the first songs that made me want to play piano.
Just Give Me A Reason:
I spent majority of the weekend trying to learn this song, but I ran into serious problems. The first chords are fast and one requires 4 fingers. Also, some are minor chords so it involves sharps and flats that are hard to play consistently. After this, the song is really slow so I shouldn't have a problem.
Hold On We're Going Home:
I learned this entire song in 7th grade, but never bothered to learn the bass clef part. For one reason, bass clef was pretty boring to me, but I realize the importance of it now. It is the equivalent of having a band without any tubas, trombones, tenors, and basses. Technically, you still have a band, but it is lacking certain parts that compliment the melody. I also neglected the bass part because I wanted to show my friends on mallets and that would require a college level student to play both parts simultaneously on mallets. Also, I wasn't as adept at reading bass clef because I wasn't playing tuba
Happy:
I also learned this in 7th grade, and I only played the treble clef part. The same rules for Hold On We're Going Home were applied here.
Miscellaneous(Short):
I could learn various short songs and combine it into one video. Similar to what I did on my Right Hand Man video.
Miscellaneous(Long):
There are various songs I simply gave up on. Some examples would include Rude, Trumpets, Skyfall, Rolling on the Deep, Fur Elise, Uptown Funk, etc.
Summary:
I have a few things to work on.
This is a program I use to learn songs. This song above is Skyfall.

Monday, March 9, 2015

Montaulets........

Good afternoon readers, I am here with another blog post. I have made progress on my 20time project, but I haven't posted a video on it yet. As it time passes, I notice it is becoming harder and harder to find time for my 20tume project. I barely have enough time to blog consistently, let alone record and play. When I do record, it takes maybe an hour or two, because it takes a few tries. Also, it requires a little editing. I practice all the time, even perfectly sometimes, but it is hard to record myself because my laptop is an awkward position. These are my biggest grievances with 20time, and each day it starts to feel more like a project. Even though I have time in class, I can only blog, and watch youtube videos. Procrastination is not a problem, I'd much rather do this than some of the work I do in other classes. To conclude, I am starting to see the problems I originally saw in 20time. Au revoir....

Monday, March 2, 2015

Autumn Summer...

I posted two new videos, hence making progress on my 20time! This is the link to my channel homepage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMavyMMH1ip_hMvZMCA8HZQ
This attempt was a lot better than my first one, because I played somewhat less. This is why I came to the conclusion of posting short videos every week on my progress on the song mash-up, instead of posting one every few weeks. If I were not to make any progress on a song mash-up for that week, I could post a different video or combine all of the previous weeks of progress on the mash-up into essentially a song. Eventually, I will have the final song, which will performed all in one go. Also, I will post other songs on piano that may/may not be combined. Most of them will be impossible to combine, but I could try. My blogs are getting shorter, but I don't have much to say. I still don't feel great about 20time, because I didn't care for the pitch day. I didn't mention that in my blog, because it didn't feel necessary. Until next time....
Einstein's Riddle. Get paper and pen before attempting this. I SOLVED IT! - Look below for spoilers:   The German owns the fish, can you figure out how?