{"id":302,"date":"2015-06-10T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:47:44","slug":"rapido-day-2-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/rapido-day-2-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido Day 2 &#8211; Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some WordPress work to finish and some other obligations, so I didn&#8217;t get to spend all day on writing the music. I did make progress, tweaking the theme&#8217;s accompaniment and starting another variation that emphasized the opening tritone and ended with cascades of notes.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for piano is always a bit of a struggle for me. It seems like every idea has already been tried and there is nothing new to do. My piano writing never feels pianistic enough, always a little awkward and without a nice flow. However, if I wrote something with a nice flow &#8212; I&#8217;m imagining Debussy &#8212; it wouldn&#8217;t be so fresh and new. It doesn&#8217;t help that I can play the piano, but not very well. Fast, flowing passages are mostly beyond my skill.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that some piano score study might help. I like the Carnegie Hall Millenium Piano Book for its variety of idiomatic piano music that doesn&#8217;t require extreme virtuosity. It doesn&#8217;t mean the music is easy and I can&#8217;t play it up to tempo, but I can&#8217;t play Beethoven up to tempo either. A little listening to the included CD, performed by Ursula Oppens, starting with Chen Yi&#8217;s Ba Ban, has guided me toward a piano frame of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for piano is always a bit of a struggle for me. It seems like every idea has already been tried&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[13,35],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-composing","tag-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}