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| My day today - eBay and piano | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 25 2009, 03:13 PM (252 Views) | |
| George K | Jan 25 2009, 03:13 PM Post #1 |
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It's so nice to have a weekend off. I was on call Thursday, and had Friday off. Drove up to the Cheddarshack* on Friday morning (by myself) and packed up a bunch of stuff to sell on eBay. Had a pan-seared steak (by myself) on Friday night. Came back to Chicago yesterday, where Mrs. George is sick (had oral surgery on Thursday - rough go). She's spent the last two days resting and recouping. I spent the day listing stuff for sale on eBay (don't look, Jon) and had my usual Sunday Sight Reading exercise. Today I read through a couple of keyboard suites by Handel (e-minor and d-minor). Yeah, they were slow and full of mistakes (particularly the fugue), but I got through them, dammit, and it was fun. Handel is really really cool. I can understand why the British loved him. *(TM) Quirt |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jan 25 2009, 03:24 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Getting tempted to put the Bohunk up on Ebay? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Jan 25 2009, 03:31 PM Post #3 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mark | Jan 25 2009, 03:37 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Bohunk? Never heard that before. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| George K | Jan 25 2009, 03:43 PM Post #5 |
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Bohemian, Mark. Bohemian. You live such a sheltered life in Wisconsin. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Horace | Jan 25 2009, 05:07 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I've been sight reading a lot today too, about 50 chorales so far. Fun stuff! I'm over teh hump where I can keep sight reading without becoming mentally exhausted. That's an important threshold, makes it practical to practice much more and will hopefully accelerate my improvement. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| George K | Jan 25 2009, 05:10 PM Post #7 |
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Kenny posted an interesting video about sight reading several months ago. The point was that you should sight read the way you "word read." In other words, you don't look at the word you're reading - you look ahead. That's what sight reading should be. You should be a measure or two ahead of your hands. It takes discipline and practice, and I only do it a part of the time - but what a difference it makes! Also, you start to see patterns - scales, simple arpeggios, expansions, etc that make it |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Renauda | Jan 25 2009, 06:09 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Up here Bohunk is a pjeorative for a Ukrainian. Anyhow the three of us have spent yet another quiet weekend enjoying one more in a series of mild upper respiratory viral infections that our two year old has been bringing home from daycare since mid November. Lot's reading and listening to quiet chamber music. |
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