Journal 22 November 17th

Okay so Christmas is right around the corner now, so I have decided to take on a couple of fun Christmas songs, to help me calm down after drugging my way through Fur Elise; it certainly isn’t perfect yet, but I am getting there, I still need to work on the ridiculous block, but I think I have the chromatic scale down pat, and I need to work on the timing of the chords. I keep thinking that it is 4:4 timing instead of 3:8 timing which keeps messing me up. So my simple Christmas songs are from my level one book, I am not trying to stress myself too much, and more importantly I don’t want to go out and buy a new song book, so I am doing Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, I am still keeping up with silent night and I wish you a merry Christmas. So those are some pretty fun songs to be able to play around the holidays, I play so much now that I am starting to annoy my family, especially since I got my new piano. I am dreading transposing Fur Elise, I guess I have had it pretty easy throughout my senior project because playing piano is so fun and even theory has its moments but actually sitting down and transposing something is real work, especially with a song

Journal Entry 21

Journal Entry 21
November 3, 2008
I think I have finally worked my way through that ridiculous part of Fur Elise, it may not be perfect yet but I can definitely play through it. However, I have hit another snag in my project with the written part. I just think it is beyond my knowledge to be able to transpose Fur Elise, first I found out that it was in A Minor not C Major and I don’t want to do it at all if it isn’t right, but then I tried to switch it to E Minor yesterday and I just couldn’t figure it out. I think I should either switch my written document to something completely different or just change it to a different song. But my dad got me this amazing new digital baby grand piano so; I pretty much haven’t stopped playing at all since I got it. I also worked a little bit with Sean tonight on the stuff we are supposed to perform in march, I hope I am up to it, it doesn’t seem like really difficult stuff but ya never know. Also I am picking up a couple little songs along the way, Believe from the Polar Express and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, two pretty epic sounding songs that I have always wanted to play, they are like my stress relief songs, whereas Fur Elise is my work song.