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In today's video I play a bit more than usual because I know a lot of
you are a bit stressed out because of the US presidential elections so I
wanted to make something more relaxing for you.
I start with my practice of Hana's eyes and they I play Fur Elise and Brother fully. I hope you'll enjoy.
So here is a bit of today's piano practice. I decided to concentrate on
Hana's eyes today so this video is a bit shorter than usual. I'll see if
I'll get a longer one tomorrow.
I didn't go further in the piece, I
mostly practiced what I already know. I can feel that I'm getting
better so that's a lot of fun.
So I had to reorganise my schedule because with the writing the piano didn't fit in any more and I managed to practice today, yeah!!
I'm actually quite happy with the progress I'm making with Hana's eyes. I know that I'm playing like super slowly but it can only get better from there. I managed to get to the end of page two and a little bit of page 3 so hopefully tomorrow I can start page three full on and play a bit faster.
There are a lot of tricky parts especially with the faster notes and the two hand playing partially in parallel and then different for three notes and then parallel again but I'll definitely get used to it.
At the end of the practice I just lashed out on Fur Elise.
So back at playing the piano after the kikipop festival and Halloween.
A lot of one hand practice today because I'm not yet confident enough to play Hana's eyes with both hands.
I'm still having fun though and repeating pieces until I feel the shift toward something that seems to work.
Also I played the rest but on this video there is only Fur Elise.
Today I started on Mio Nemico which is the first song at the beginning of the video. It's from the Fantagiaro TV series. It's a really beautiful song by Amedeo Mingi. Maybe I'll sing it some day.
I also looked at Hana's Eyes from Tonci Huljic which is not as difficult as I thought it would be but I'm still probably way over my head trying that. Still I would love to be able to play it nicely.
I wanted to play Fur Elise in full for you today but of course my camera's time of shooting is 5 minutes 34 so it stopped before I could finish.
I'll have to find a different way to record things fully.
I played Brother and Comptine d'un autre été too.
Today's practice was great.
One of my viewer told me to use a cushion because my arms weren't in the right position compared to the keyboard. I did and as a result I didn't get a painful wrist at the end of the practice.
Today, I worked on the difficult passages playing them several times in a
row to get used to them. I'm not sure how beneficial that was. I guess
we'll see when I play the full song with focus entirely once again.
I
focused more on Fur Elise and Brother so I didn't play Comptine d'un
autre été. My wrist is still sore. I don't really know what I'm doing
wrong or if it's piano related or not.
It's day four of me teaching myself the piano and today I started "Fur Elise" on top of "Brother" and "Comptine d'un autre été". It worked a lot better that expected seeing that I haven't played it for years.
I really enjoyed playing today. I think I'm gaining a bit of confidence.
This is day three. Today I managed to play all of brother from beginning to end. Of course I'm still making mistake and hesitate at some parts but that's still better than yesterday.
I'm also up to speed on Comptine d'un autre été, hopefully my wrist is going to get used to it soon so far I can't play more than half of it before it starts being painful and then the rest is only bit practice. I put the hardest part in today's video.
Today I'm practicing Brother and Comptine d'un autre été.
I checked online and adjusted the left hand for brother accordingly, it sounds a lot better now. It's way easier to play when what I have in my head and what is written on the scores actually match.
For Comptine d'un autre été I need some more practice to be able to reach the same speed with both hands and that should do the trick.
Finally, this is my first practice for this daily log. I worked on Brother which is from an episode of "Criminal Minds" untitled "Coda" and Comptine d'un autre été from the movie "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" which is called "Amelie" in English I think.
I could play "Comptine d'un autre été" before but I forgot. It will probably come back quickly as it always does. It just required a bit of practice and it's a bit painful on my left hand so that might take a few days.
I'm not really yet comfortable playing "Brother" for some reason I think some of the notes sound weird. I wonder if the score I have are the same than the one from the video I watched on youtube. I'll have to see if I can check that out and fix what I need to have it play the same way in my memory and on the piano.
I decided to start learning piano again and to add day log to this channel while doing so. I used to be on a website called "Give it 100" where I put videos on a daily basis to show my progress but that website closed and I haven't been practising regularly since.
I played the piano as a child but stopped when I was 10 and have always wanted to go back to it and be better.
In this video, I show you a 33 day laps of my piano playing from the Give it 100 website. You can see my progress slowly.
My skills sort of deteriorated since so I will start again with an easier song. the song you see me practice at the end is way above my skill level.
So what have I been up to on a vampire level, almost nothing, except for a few debates in Facebook vampire groups here and there and a lot of nice pictures in some other groups, including one that totally killed me with the same concept I wanted on this cover but a way better visual design, bite me. So nothing much but I have some new development for the rest of the draft involving kidnapping. Sounds good?
If you have a blog and want to participate in the Vampire Friday blog hop, don't forget to join up in our facebook group, it's pretty dead so far and not undead enough if you know what I mean so I really need you. You can also participate without a blog like some other members, but your post will only be visible to the group member.
Let's get back to Viorel, it seems that things want to get better, at least the others are gone.
And I saw it, bright and orange and red rising slowly through the trees of the forest around the castle. It was so beautiful, and I was scared of it as much as they were. They ran inside the castle and I saw them, at the window of the east tower, looking at me from the shadow.
I turned to look at it, the sun, I remembered hearing a lot of tales about it, I remembered hearing how dangerous it was for our kind. The most frightening thing possible, the thing we should avoid at all cost, the reason why I was only going out at night and had to come back a few hours before dawn. I tried to remember more, I wanted to know where the feeling was coming from, but I couldn’t. In the intense mix of fear and frustration for being tied up, I stroke the cord against the tree’s trunk as fast as I could, staring at the sun that was coming to get me, looking at the shadow of the forest that wouldn’t be able to protect me much longer.
And it arrived. I glanced at them one last time as the sun reached me, caressing and warming up my skin. It was warm and peaceful. I wondered if that was the sensation you get before dying, that peace.
What I saw on their faces was a lot different than what I had expected. I suddenly realized why, I was alive, I took a deep painful breath, that was the first time I was actually breathing consciously and that didn’t feel that great, but I thought, maybe breathing was what had kept me alive during this first meeting with the sun.
“I love the sun, I love the sun,” I yelled at them as they started to argue with each other.
I was alive and that felt good, even in the position and state I was in.
I stroke the cord against the tree with renewed energy. I was alive, but if I intended to keep it that way I needed to go away from here as fast as I possible. They couldn’t come close to me now and that was my chance. I didn’t know why. There was something in me that was refusing to let me access my memory. The more I tried the more it seemed to evade me. My thoughts felt like the rope I was working on, so thin and so thick at the same time, the closer I thought I was getting from breaking it, the more I hurt myself on the trunk. And finally it broke. I didn’t know how long it took but it broke, I stood unable to move looking around.
En français
In Mai, I had the chance to be invited to a concert of traditional Japanese music where my friend was playing shakuhachi. The shakuhachi is a Japanese traditional wood flute. My friend was playing only at the end of the concert so I had time to first enjoy other instruments, such as koto, an very complicated string instrument.
Here is a part of the concert. Travel table of content
En français
Back in Mai I had a challenge with my friends and a part of it was for me to learn to play "Comptine d'un autre été" from Yann Tiersen. I learned it then forget it a bit then recently learned it again. After several attempt at recording myself, like everyday for more than a week I finally came up with a version that I find acceptable even though it might need to be played a little faster. Anyway here is the video I promised to my friends.
En français
I'm addicted to the Japanese drama "花より男子" at the moment. So here is the song from 宇多田 ヒカル that I'm listening over and over again with the lyrics. The lyrics come from here (I'm not feeling confident enough yet to write the lyrics in Japanese)
あり がとう、と君に言われると なんだかせつない さようならの後も解け ぬ魔法 淡くほろ苦い The flavor of life… The flavor of life…
En français Here are the Chinese, Korean and original Romanian version of the song "Dragostea Din Tei". I think Romanian is a very beautiful language, I'll maybe learn it when I'm done with my Asian languages. That will probably be a lot easier for me :). I like the Chinese version also because their is the lyrics with it so that's good for learning the Chinese characters.
I think the Korean version is very funny.
I added the original version, because I really like it.