Tuesday, June 26, 2007

2 steps forward 1 step back

but at least it's better than 1 forward and 2 back...

so i'm playing the piano a fair bit these days...

no

i'm playing the piano a hell of a lot today...

a moment came this evening when i was at work still using their piano and i started gaining on the pieces...

yesterday they had just been beating me, today i'm coming close up to them, they can feel my breath on their necks but they're running like anything to get away from me...

i was jubilant once i felt close to them and i went out and got myself some chocolate, only to return and find they'd gained a couple of lengths on me again...

just played the hardest one to dinah, harder playing to someone than playing on your own, and these music exams can be fairly terrifying... and i played it through, making loads of mistakes, losing the tempo many times, but this is the way,

tomorrow i'll be playing them all to her at intervals until i can do them perfectly, and then down to londonbridgework to meet the flautist and then onto T's to pick up my shades and the string recording from sunday...

i intend to get an improvisation in there as well tomorrow,

i both love and hate this process, love how it comes together, hate how hard it is...

x

1 comment:

felinity said...

Sounds like you're winning, though. When's the exam?

Mum and Dad are coming to London tomorrow to watch the cricket. If it rains, we'll probably go out to dinner. If it doesn't rain, we'll still go out to dinner, but not until after 9pm (when the cricket finishes). Are you around tomorrow night? x