Sunday, February 23, 2014

Shamisen Week 47 Lesson

Nothing much new happened during this week's lesson. I had practiced Hana No Uta diligently this week but found that I was not understanding completely the tempo changes. This is the first piece that I have practiced that has any real tempo changes to speak of.

The piece starts out at an 80 tempo for 56 measures; moves down to 66 for 24 measures; shoots up to 108 for 40 measures; then really hauls at 116 to the end (88 measures). One tempo is hard enough!!! Getting those changes right is a real challenge for me. More work on that is needed Big Time.

No lesson next week as the Master has a performance commitment. So we will be skipping Week 48 Lesson and going straight to Week 49 Lesson when it comes.


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