Got the transposin' blues...
Ah, the life of a clarinetist. Transpose like a mad woman, and then you don't even get the juicy parts. C'est la vie.
I wouldn't mind an evening of mind-numbing transpositions tonight if I hadn't already spent a 2 hour class doing just that! The prof really wanted us to get the idea of Stravinsky's very minimal pitch palette, so she made us call out the transpositions of all the orchestral instruments in the score. Me and this other guy ended up doing it all because everyone else was too slow.
And now I'm back at it tonight.
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Now that I'm at school again I'm also back at the gym, and it feels so great. Kind of sore and lactic-acid-y, but fab-u-lous.
And! I now have some weekly shifts at the daycare on campus again. The union rules made them cut back their supplementary staff a lot, but they still want me! Every Wednesday and Thursday morning at 8. I will have to get used to early mornings again. But it means more moolah! Hooray.
God is so so good like that. Shabam! Right out of the sky.
I wouldn't mind an evening of mind-numbing transpositions tonight if I hadn't already spent a 2 hour class doing just that! The prof really wanted us to get the idea of Stravinsky's very minimal pitch palette, so she made us call out the transpositions of all the orchestral instruments in the score. Me and this other guy ended up doing it all because everyone else was too slow.
And now I'm back at it tonight.
~
Now that I'm at school again I'm also back at the gym, and it feels so great. Kind of sore and lactic-acid-y, but fab-u-lous.
And! I now have some weekly shifts at the daycare on campus again. The union rules made them cut back their supplementary staff a lot, but they still want me! Every Wednesday and Thursday morning at 8. I will have to get used to early mornings again. But it means more moolah! Hooray.
God is so so good like that. Shabam! Right out of the sky.