Dazed

jon laa wrote on February 9th, 2009, 2:49 pm

No, I bought a pair of adidas and not nike. My brains must be totally fried. It’s apparently some rather high profile shoe, not those latest model kind though.

Back at work, woke up late. Mondays are always a killer and I am glad it’s finally the last monday. And tomorrow will be the last tuesday, and it goes on and on.

There’s this bit of hiccup at work. More like, there’s this bit of undefined job scope and I am not keen in taking it up. Given that I have little time and also given that I don’t have much resources to work with, it doesn’t make sense. Besides, I offered them a chance, which was brushed away. In short, too bad.

The tuner is finally back working last night, my dad got me batteries. It feels awesome to be able to know how sharp/flat I am and not be left completely helpless. I probably need to get the mute from bit so I can practise comfortably late at night.

Been playing with a towel, so that I can use shoulder less. It didn’t work out. I still feel more comfortable playing without anything even though it means my shoulder will be tired out faster. I think it’s some muscles that can be trained. I am not sure. And the use or abstinence of the shoulder rest should be the last thing to hinder my progress.

Blogging at work feels totally evil.

Did think a little on what was said during the last voice lesson. Then decided to recap what was said in lessons before the last, tried them out. Managed to sing a A, not full and not glorious but easy, free and painless. I figured that’s a good start. I probably need to be able to sing a A comfortably before I can start to work on the sound and the start to work it to its beauty. It was the case for most of the notes, anyways.

There’s progress and improvement. I suppose letting nature do its thing is better than to work triply hard and fretting over every single muscle movement and every other intangibles. Everything seems to be taking shape at a faster than expected pace when I learn to let go and just do what is necessary. I practise a lot less on the voice, but it somewhat still develops and there’s still progression. Of course the piece I am working on still sucks, because I didn’t visit it for the entire of last week, but the sound is getting better. In that sense, it’s awesome.

The chamber recital was not terrible, I am convinced my brains were fried. I ended up listening to the same violinist and cellist again, not playing together this time though. Everything sounds better, like, better than what I heard the other friday at yong siew toh. The violinist somewhat dropped his violin (but managed to save it from its fall) while tuning and at the end of this movement there was some weird sound - it sounds as if the peg unturned - but he moved on to play the next movement fine. The cellist did not hit the music stand with her bow this time round, she did on the other friday. The largo movement was too much for me to take, I dozed off.

They played prokofiev’s five melodies for violin and piano and shostakovich’s sonata for cello and piano in D minor. Missed shostakovich’s string quartet no. 7 in f-sharp minor, which I am going to youtube now to see what I have missed. Grr!!

It’s a completely bad idea to be late for a concert/recital. It spoils the entire experience and the brains will be in a state too occupied to seep into the music. I found myself idling and eventually dozing off in the sonata for cello and piano, such waste of time and money.

Grr!

I’m moving on to do something else, tatas!