Carousel #3 by Federico Albanese - Day 953 Progress

I try and learn a new thing from every piece and for this it was the importance of counting at tempo along with the counting+rhythmic solfege at tempo. Rhythmic solfege by itself is a skill that still eludes me.

This video is the first in a series of where I will be posting pieces I tried to learn but abandoned them for being too difficult at the time. I have abandoned 50% of the pieces I have started and I want to circle back and finish all of these when skill permits. I dumped some ~40 odd hours into this piece in early 2021 and didn't even make it half way - and that half was definitely not very good. I picked it up again this year and spent another ~35 hours on it over a few months.

Progress was difficult for a few reasons:
- I used it as a study for counting+rhythmic solfege at tempo. This was extremely difficult to start off with but I am committed to using these techniques on every piece moving forward.
- The length of the piece @ 131 bars.
- Lots of syncopation. Counting saved my bacon here.
- Repetition and variation. The piece is littered with repeated sections that are every so slightly varied which means you're constantly fighting your muscle memory as it would autopilot the wrong variation.

Despite the time poured into this piece I never managed to commit it to memory.

Next upload will be my archnemesis ... To Zanarkand. That’s definitely a piece you should not attempt at week 3. 😁

The audio was rendered with Pianoteq 7's Bluethner Cinematic. I didn't do any post in Logic this time.