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Author: timmo on September 30 2007 Viewed 1968 times. 13 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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First I guess I should say thanks to Roshi in the sense that his cello music got me interested in playing again. So hopefully you all won't think I'm copying him or something, that's not my intent.
Anyway, my brief cello history is something like I started when I was 4 or 5 and played until 18-19 when I went to college. I played off and on for a while but really I'd say I haven't touched my cello for almost 10 years.
So now I'm staying with my parents for 2 weeks while I work near where they live. I pulled out the cello and obviously it was not in playing condition, so my mom was nice enough to get it fixed with the soundpost re-set and some new strings. I tuned it up and wow did I suck! I still had all the music I'd ever played and it was pretty wild to look at what I was capable of playing back then. I made it though the first two Suzuki books before my fingering hand hurt pretty bad, but I was amazed also that somehow my body still was able to function to a certain degree. Anyway, I guess I'm typing to much.
The short of it is my dad gave me a cute little G4 Powerbook since he got a Macbook, so I recorded some random stuff into Garageband via my H4, so my ability to edit was fairly minimal just some Garageband effects, I only have headphones and no mouse so its annoying too. It was recorded in my parents barn.
Here's the result: link
At this point I don't know if I will take the cello back to Portland with me or not. I'm a bit torn because while I feel like I could probably improve pretty well with a bit of time and practice I also sort of feel like that part of my life is past and I should work on other things.
Any thoughts on the music or whatever else would be alright with me.
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Here is another one:
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I guess not as nice as the first one perhaps, but I'm not always a good judge of that. Anyway, if you listen really hard I started to play a minuet from the Suzuki Cello #2 book super super slow about half way through. The funny thing about that book is that it has dates that my mom wrote in there, I think to signify when I had "graduated" to the next song. In that particular book the dates are all from 1987. So my guess is that when I was 10 I was playing those songs better than I am now. On the other hand I wonder how much better, technically better I'm sure, but at age 10 I doubt I had much ability to play with any "feeling" but more just getting all the notes out correctly because that's what was asked of me at the time. I had to memorize all those pieces of music and I find it a bit strange that my fingers are able to do things faster (play the notes) than my eyes and brain can (see the notes then think about what to do) good job muscle memory. Ha, I must be bored.
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