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Yesterday I made a recording of an original piece and my daughter asked me why not send it to the recital. Indeed, it is an original piece made ​​with her ​​participation (I played the melody and she was giving her opinion).
So it's decided. I'll send my first original piece...

CarlosCC - hurray for offspring I'm looking forward to your piece.

Cathy

Grrr if I get the dynamics right, I make a silly mistake at the end; then I add non-existent pauses and hesitations; then I start messing up the parts I am supposed to have no problems with... anyway, I have a single somewhat decent take, but hopefully I'll be able to do better on Thursday.

Now, I'm starting to get terrified...
Do not expect anything special. It's a very simple melody, but my daughter loves it... What to do...??

Hm.... Submit or not submit..... That's the question.

There is only submit.

+1

Having been foiled by the neighbor's lawn service last week when I tried to record, I set out again this morning. In the 90 seconds that it took to drag my mic stand and Zooms out of the closet, BOTH neighbors simultaneously started mowing their lawns.

Oh well. I fixed lunch instead and tried again later, and I now have a good enough take to submit, though I may try for better later.

I think they are all spying on you!

Freshly tuned piano....and I'm just not ready to record! argh....

Had a great lesson today though and worked on some of the trickier (for me) passages. I'm optimistic!

Hmmmm... Maybe we could make a pact to both submit our simple daughter-related melodies?

My daughter made up a melody the other day -- a simple little pattern, but it's cute. I made some basic chords to go along with it. Unfortunately, the chords I made up exceed my ability to actually play them at a decent pace, but I'm still considering submitting it.

I'm still working on Chopin Prelude Op 28, #7 -- it's rough in terms of speed, rhythm, dynamics, and accuracy -- but it's perfect otherwise.

Tuner is coming on Friday... can't wait. I hope he can fix some of my sticking keys too. The Chopin just doesn't work well when D4 & A5 go down but not up.