practiced!

May 13th

I practiced for 20 minutes today. I spend most of the time on Chillers and Thrillers and Carmina Burana.

I practiced the confusing part in Chillers and Thrillers.

The Devil's Dance and the Theme of Dracula.

I keep practiced from bar 43~55 in Devil's Dance.

Because I always get that part wrong, and I think I got it now.

I also practiced the Dracula, as I mentioned which turned out to be pretty good too.

I practiced counting on Carmina Burana, because it get's really confusing while you are actually playing

practiced!!

May 10th

Lisa is sick, but she still practiced!!

haha...

I practiced for 30minutes today.

I practiced Chillers and Thrillers spend most time on the Devil's Dance and Theme From Dracula.

It's mostly because of the confusing rhythm and the fingerings.

Some are the high notes are there too.

So It makes it more harder.

With the high notes, in Theme form Dracula, it's hard to play with 'dark and slithery' feelings as Mr. Stevenson decribed.

Also, I always gets some part of Imprial march.

So I fixed that.

I also practiced Carmina Burana.

Carmina Burana has this part where the flutes play seperated part all together, and the fingering(maybe its just me) is awkward..

So I got that all straightened by practicing it slowly and constantly.

Jean Pierre Rampal

I have chosen Jean Pierre Rampal as my instrument player.
Mr. Rampal is a flute player who was born in 1922 and died on 2000 at age of 78.
He began playing flute at age of 12, under his father's education.
His father was professor of flute at the Marseille Conservatoire and Principal Flute of the Marseille Symphony Orchestra.
Jean studied the Altes method at the Conservatoire of Marseille where he won the first prize in 1937 and also gave his first public recital at the Salle Mazenod i Marseille, only aged 16.
In 1945, Jean was invited by the composer Henri Tomasi, then conductor of the Orchestre National de France, to perform live on French National Radio the demanding Flute Concerto by Jacques Ilbert.
It launched his concert career overnight and was the first of many such broadcasts.
He mostly played Classical musics and also often performed Jazz music.
The two pieces that I watched were the Jazz pieces too.
One was Sentimentale, and the other was Baroque and Blue.
The Sentimentale starts piano flowing through and the flute comes in with very low note.
Which is very hard for us flute players and he has no problem of going up to high note from low note at once.
He is very very very proficient at every note, and I like the way how he slurs and tungs every needed place.
He's melody is very clear and has no air leak.
For flute players, air leaking while playing is a very annoying thing.
It makes sounds sound small, and therefore lowers the level of the piece and the musician.
But his playing was so clear, I loved it.
Vibration is also a very useful skill and I loved how he holded the notes and vibrate.
It was very pretty piece and I want to play it some day, by my self.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1acIStlA1sQ

This is the video

Practiced

May 4th

I finally practiced again

I'm very sorry that I got lazy on practicing

I really had no time and I had some adjustment to make.

Once again I'm very sorry.

Today I practiced our new piece, the Chiller and Thrillers.

The piece was very confusing with all the sharps and flats.

But it wasn't much hard to practice because most of the melodys are very famillier.

Pick up to bar 31 is confusing to do because of the rhythm and the fingerings.

So I practiced them about three times to get it right.

But I'm not sure if it's right rhythm.

Mr. Stevenson went over Dracula for 5 times with each sections today, but I still didn't get the rhythm of it so I practiced it 2 more times just now, and it wasn't easy as before, so I got frustrated and went to practice the Carmina Burana.

I practiced it, and realized that counting is essential for this piece.

I also practiced the Pirates of Carribean, my favorite.

I practiced the whole piece and messed the middle part, but got better than last time I did it.

Pretty happy with it.