November 30

I GOT A KEYBOARD yay.

Already noticing an improvement; since the thing is in my room, I just start banging on it whenever I'm bored and dont want to do homework.
:D

^^Katie

November 14

Stole the keyboard for most of class period today, so I got to work on my Apologize. I like keyboards better--my fingers are too short to reach the bigger keys of the normal piano.

There are three-ish parts that I'm having problems with. One is only a measure long, so it should be an easy fix. The other is the chorus, and I probably played it so much today that I made others sick of the song. (I had earphones for most of it, so I guess it wasn't too bad.) The last troublesome part is the instrumental part right before the final ending chorus. It's completely different from the rest of the song, so... I'll work on it.

^^Katie!

Halloween wasnt the only scary thing

Its been so long since i played violin, that i forgot why I was constantly frustrated with it. This past week I realized that for this project I needed to start actually getting to work and getting somewhere in terms of material. But when i recorded a violin part and played it back, I realized that i need more work for specifically intonation. Rhythm isn't difficult considering I listened to Viva La Vida over 100 times last year, but keeping my fingers in the right place at the right time is hard especially since I haven't played my violin for over two years.

Google day on Halloween turned out a little better, so I'm thinking I can get a good recording of the third part over the weekend....only that the third part is the same 4 bars repeated over, and over, and over, and over again.

As for the project in its entirety, I think this song will be the only song I play violin on. For the sake of time, and my finger tips, any other song I do will be on trumpet.