Monday, January 7, 2013

Introverting

After a stupidly busy last.... well... 5 years, I've stopped.

I have nothing pressing. No Sunday School lessons to prepare. No school musical to write. No marking to do. It's amazing. I have nothing to do.

Except play the piano.

So I am. 

For 3 hours a day.

I've gotten my scales back up to speed and am working on a handful of 7th grade pieces I found in mum and dad's piano stool. (I want more music, but there's no decent shop on the southern Gold Coast) Although I play at work all day, it's been so long since I've read real music (with treble and bass clef!) that I thought I'd forgotten how to do it, but it seems I haven't.

I'm playing 2 Scarlatti Sonatas (A and G minor), a Solar Sonata (D), a Chopin waltz and a Mozart movement.

I don't think I've ever been this introverted. I don't particularly want to talk to anyone or go out anywhere.

We are on the coast until Sunday, then we drive to Cairns.


6 comments:

  1. So are you saying you want to stay in your hermit-like state for the rest of the week? If not, we'd love to see you :) Do you have any time free?

    Hear you on the lack of music shops down here :( Lately I have been having to strongly resist the temptation of visiting musicroom.com.au because it is too easy to pay a couple of dollars here and there to download sheet music. It all adds up if I do that too many times....

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  2. Public domain, girls. http://imslp.org/

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  3. Ooh, Tasmanian, thank you SO much for that link, much appreciated :)

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  4. I wish I could be that introverted, but I never learned the piano!

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  5. Anthony - it's not too late!

    Tasmanian and Karen - Thanks! I'm exploring the world of public domain now...

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  6. yeah, Petrucci is your friend! (one f my colleagues had to play from an iPad with music hastily downloaded from their at a concert recently after the singer forgot the music!)

    also.. scales... yeah, I should get reacquainted with them sometime too :D Enjoy!

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