Remembering what I wrote about yesterday, and listening to yesterdays melody again this morning, I made a decision to follow through on something said. Taking the basic melody, the same key, hands still crossed (left over right), I recorded while playing the melody in the LH while accompanying in the RH.
Wow! This was really strange and difficult. I hadn't really thought about it too much because I like to jump right in to these pieces and go. Well, the first take was disastrous. I rarely do multiple takes and here I got it the second time. But it's arguably not as good of a piece of music as the piece yesterday.
This is something that may sound strange, but I improvise so much and I've made so many of these pieces now that what just happened with two quick takes and uploading the song and now writing about it, I'm not sure what happened! It's a bit like being in an accident and right afterwards you don't even know what hit you. Now I can assume I got hit with a double whammy: hands crossed, so operating in opposite registers, and this time operating in opposite roles as well. It was such a weird feeling having to think really hard while playing the simplest melody and chord progression. Yeah, this will be by far the biggest challenge getting fluent with the crossed hands thing.
Wow! This was really strange and difficult. I hadn't really thought about it too much because I like to jump right in to these pieces and go. Well, the first take was disastrous. I rarely do multiple takes and here I got it the second time. But it's arguably not as good of a piece of music as the piece yesterday.
This is something that may sound strange, but I improvise so much and I've made so many of these pieces now that what just happened with two quick takes and uploading the song and now writing about it, I'm not sure what happened! It's a bit like being in an accident and right afterwards you don't even know what hit you. Now I can assume I got hit with a double whammy: hands crossed, so operating in opposite registers, and this time operating in opposite roles as well. It was such a weird feeling having to think really hard while playing the simplest melody and chord progression. Yeah, this will be by far the biggest challenge getting fluent with the crossed hands thing.