Clap Hands 
factories and smoke
tirsdag, juli 15, 2003
ok now for complaining, because this is my blog, and there is no other reason i would start one than to just talk about myself. that's why hillary's started one. HAHAH Just kidding, hillary.
anyway. I'm working on this piano piece right now...it's for four people to play, aaa do you call that a quartet, i'm thinking. anyway. It's a big Scott Joplin thing, arrangements of his stuff. and it's the longest thing i've ever seen in my life. It's unbelievable. When you finally get through one page, all relieved and stuff, you see there are six more pages just like it still to come. What makes it really bad is because it's only a fourth of the piece, there's little coherence to what you're playing. Just snippets of melody...so it's hard to fully grasp what this thing will sound like. Just a bunch of chords to me. what's REALLLY irritating, probably what irks me the most is my part is the upper part of one piano, so everything I play is in the upper two or three octaves of the piano. So it's all really chinky-chinky and soft and when everything you play is up there on those notes, it drives you crazy but what prompted me to finally rant about it was this. I was making a little headway, made it through another page...then at the top of the next page was one of those notes with a little 'x' on the end instead of the regular note. Those things usually mean percussion. ANd it said "hand claps or foot stomps" and I just thought you've got to be kidding me.
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