After a few days of more practice, here’s what it sounds like now:
Better, but the piano bits need to be a bit more piano, and the forte bits a bit more forte.
Ticciati bourrée practice 2
July 5, 2011 at 20:02 (cello, sound samples)
Tags: classical, Ticciati bourrée
New toys
July 4, 2011 at 10:38 (cello, photos, sound samples)
Tags: electric cello, nirvana, rock, smells like teen spirit
I’ve got some new toys to play with!
It’s a NS Design NXT electric cello. It has five strings as opposed to a normal cello’s four, the extra one being lower in pitch so I can pretend to be a bass player. Here’s some audio from a quick session on it:
All the parts in that recording were played on the NXT. The other equipment I used includes a Digitech RP80 effects pedal, a PC with Audacity running, and a Yamaha Audiogram 3 to get the sound into the PC.
Ticciati bourrée practice
July 1, 2011 at 01:45 (cello, sound samples)
Tags: Ticciati bourrée
Here is some awful audio for you. Again, the idea is to chart my progress, not to delight you with my wonderful playing!
String instruments in slow motion
June 30, 2011 at 05:01 (cello)
Tags: slow motion, video, violin
Cirri allegro 1 week later
June 23, 2011 at 00:37 (cello, sound samples)
Tags: cello, cirri allegro, classical, practice
Cirri Allegro
June 16, 2011 at 01:03 (cello, sound samples)
Tags: cello, cirri allegro, classical, practice
I’m currently working on an allegro by Cirri, here is my latest practice run.
Apart from the obvious stops and starts, the whole piece really needs to flow more, at the moment each note is an island. Here’s hoping with some more work I can improve it.
Resurrection
June 15, 2011 at 00:59 (cello, sound samples)
Tags: cello, nirvana, rock, smells like teen spirit
I’ve decided to resurrect this blog temporarily as a kind of cello practice diary. I’m at the point where I need to practice more or just give up, so I’m trying the former first. Undoubtedly this blog will be of little interest to anyone but me – it’s pretty much just a diary of practice, with recordings of how bad I sound. The idea is that hopefully those recordings sound better over time with more work, and I’ll be able to track that better by listening back to old ones.
So here is the first recording, it’s me attempting to play the solo in smells like teen spirit, and failing miserably.
Abandonware
January 11, 2009 at 01:20 (Uncategorized)
I’ve been neglecting this blog for quite some time, so it’s time to admit that I need to take it out the back and shoot it. Sorry old fella!
Thankfully although this blog has been abandoned, the cello hasn’t. Still practising, still learning, still getting better. From here on out any cello related posts will go on my normal blog, under the cello category. There’s a new post there now!
Edit: main blog moved too – it’s now at danielkinsman.wordpress.com
Majorly boring
June 5, 2008 at 07:04 (cello)
Well I dropped some dollars on a new cello. It sounds a lot better than the hired one! Photos, pics and mp3 soon to come, for now I just jumped on to bitch.
I am bored with major keys. All of the practice pieces and stuff I have been doing is in major, I want some minor dammit! I want to stretch my musical horizons and my fingers. Everything sounds cheery and upbeat but sometimes you just want to express some darker emotions.
