Week 3



02/19 - 02/25





First page of "Rideaux Lunaries," LH.





Process



For the third week, I wound up giving myself a little bit of extra work after I came across a live performance of Chilly's "Rideaux Lunaries." on YouTube. After giving it some though, I wound up switching the recording my first arrangement was based off of his live performance at the Steinway & Sons factory in Hamburg, Germany.


What I appreciate about the live recording is that you can really start to hear some of Chilly's jazz influences shine through. He took some liberty with the individual parts giving us more rhythmic variety and even giving us improvised material after certain sections and at the very end. So once again, I had another week of adapting material from the previous week.


One good thing to come out of this process was that I was able to finish writing out what was going on for the RH with the exception of the new improvised material. One thing that made the new material difficult to transcribe was that it was in a very low register making it hard to dictate and it had a certain character that the piano is able to implement very well. Making me run into issues with how I could implement what was going on at 1m&45s into the piece or to change the approach to something that suits the guitar more. For example, in order to execute the rolls that were being played, I could slur my notes by arriving at the same note being highlighted with hammer-on's or get the same by sliding up to it with. With both choices giving me more technical issues to work around.


With everything I learned in doing "Rideaux Lunaries," I was able to apply a more thought out approach for the second piece of my project. Since I'm currently working on a duo arrangement, I decided on making "Armellodie" into a solo piece. After seeing how easier it was for me to deal with Rideaux after transcribing the LH, I decided on mapping out the bass line first to help give me an idea of the harmonic structure. Once I reached a section that gave me some trouble, I went back and figured out what the RH was doing. Using what I had I was able to combine and create a solo part of the first section of the song.



Reflection



Even though I stumped my progress and messed up my timeline by creating more work for me in the 3rd week, I was still successful in finishing up creating parts for both hands in Rideaux, with the exception of the newly added improvised sections.I was also successful in transcribing a good chunk of "Armellodie," by using a time tracking app to help me in making sure I was being more efficient with my next arrangement and putting in the necessary amount of time in.



Next Week



My goals for next week include:


  1. Finishing improvised sections for both hands/parts.
  2. Continue working on "Armellodie."
  3. Apply more specific goals with my time tracking app, ATracker..