Down to business December 4th..

Its a little late to start working on the presentation, but ive been going back and forth on the whole plan I intended to go with. After thinking for a while, i decided to only play violin and go with the idea of 'going back to what I started music on.' To do that, I will play all three parts to Coldplay's Viva la Vida on the violin...that is to the best of my ability.... I did get a rough copy of sheet music online, but there were many corrections I made in order for it to match the song.

When I began to put my idea into a recording, I was once again reminded of the frustration that came with playing the violin. No doubt, I feel it is more difficult than the trumpet. Not only in terms of playing the notes, but also in making the sound (buzzing vs. moving arm/wrist steadily back and forth).
After almost 2 hours of playing violin today (thanks to procrastination) I managed to record a decent playthrough that still has a few mistakes here and there. But when my presentation comes, Id like to remind everyone that I have not played this instrument since 7th grade.

(I cant post the recording because its not a video file and Katie or I cant find a way to get it to work)

-Kyle

December 4

Working out Viva with Kyle.Kyle found this program so that we can combine all the parts together. We've never done this before, so it's really all touch and go.
Anyway, the program is http://www.multitrackstudio.com/. Kinda nice, the free version can combine up to three parts.
I'm going to be doing the computer/techie parts, since I have the better computer. haha, Kyle. :D

^^Katie

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.

October 31--Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Google Day #..4 now? Something like that.

First thing I did today was played Grace (Park)'s composition... If she'll let me, maybe I can post it on here too. :D
Second thing was playing through the chunk of the song that Grace (Jeong) and I are playing. We got through it with minor mistakes!! Yay.

Since all of the above were recorded with the same camera, and the files are too big to email, the memory card is being passed among the three of us for uploading. Therefore, I don't have the videos now. They'll be up by the end of the week.

^^Katie

October 17 (repost from other blog)

Because of weird technical difficulties, this is a new blog. In case you want to see our previous blog posts, go herehttp://lohsband.blogspot.com/
and click on the one boringly titled as "Google Project".
I may go back sooner or later and just repost them all from there onto here. Maybe I'll play around with backdating them?




Alright on with the show!
I worked on this over the weekend, forgot to post it.
OH right and our piano is HORRENDOUSLY out of tune. Just warning you all~

Since I recorded it on my phone, it cuts off. :(
Apologize--OneRepublic.
Just an intro, started messing up playing around at the end. :D
As of now, I can play the beginning, first verse, chorus, second verse with minor occurences, and second chorus (basically same as the first). It's the last bit that's really weird with the two hands going different ways. . .

Another little video, for fun:

Love Story--Taylor Swift
first time reading it for real, so it was fun. And a mess. Well, at least it's recognizable. (what do you think...? :D )

^^Katie
Edit: We'll continue posting on to this blog, the other will be deleted.