Monday, June 16, 2014

(several posts were lost from june 9th-17th, mostly about performing the piece on guitar. the problem is that there is active code of some sort on facebook that causes word documents to seize up and crash when pasted into them.

iirc, the write-up was something like this...

while the track is not challenging to perform at a slow tempo, it is quite challenging to perform at the tempo it's written at: eighth note at 360. so, it was necessary to practice the track before it could be recorded. i decided that it would be best to start at a slow speed, and then gradually build speed by slowly increasing the tempo. i decided that it would take a few days before i could play it at 360. of course, i updated my progress as i went. i'm not sure where i started, but the narrative picks back up again at 300.

i have a screenshot dated to june 16th at 14:18 called tricky.jpg, which is attached here. it seems to be that i was pointing out that this is the tricky part at a fast tempo. i may have also pointed out that the C# at the very top is a very big problem because it can only be reached via harmonic. and, i do recall getting around it by actually playing the harmonic, and at quite a fast tempo.)

tricky.jpg: