This week turned out to be a continuation of last week. Continue moving Ivan’s Rush Hour over to Sibelius from Noteflight. It accomplishes two goals – learn Sibelius while moving Ivan into a stronger notation program. But sometimes it feels like I’m going nowhere! Churn, churn, churn – I’m gonna make that butter, eventually!
But seriously, I am having a blast. I never thought I would ever be able to play Ivan’s Rush Hour on the piano after 2000, let alone get it out of my head and into notation. I just have to have patience with the entire process of communicating how I want the piano player to perform my music. What are my dynamics? How do I convey smoothness? It’s a process.
One goal this week is to pull out the “Tree of Life” piano piece and move that into Sibelius to start working on it. It’s pretty much done. I just need to choose a key and add in more dynamics. I want to send it to the Synagogue before October 27th.
-sb