#100daysofpractice
I’m going to be working on keyboard skills. Instead of focusing on repertoire or finger technique, although I will do some of that too, I want to focus on skills like improvisation, transposition, harmonization, etc. I found a book that I wanted to work with and learn from before and didn’t get very far—Improvising Fugue: A Method for Keyboard Artists by John J. Mortensen—and played around with learning the Rule of the Octave. I also played around with some free improvisation, sight read a couple of hymns, and played a bunch of I ii6/5 V I progressions through all the major and minor keys.
Day 1 of #100daysofpractice
I need to learn how to stop letting the shame of not accomplishing things in the past get in the way of accomplishing things in the future.
Bonus: disconnect accomplishments or lack thereof from general happiness, wellbeing, and assessment of self-worth
Greetings! For my first mastodon post I am going to say that I am not quite sure what I am doing here . . .
For an #introduction I am working on a PhD in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario. I'm in the process of writing up a dissertation proposal, and will be doing experiments investigating auditory scene analysis (aka the cocktail party phenomenon). I'm also neurodivergent (autism and ADHD). I'm not sure if I should be adding more of these # things so I'm just going to finish this here.
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social
True … I was wondering if somebody would notice that 😂
I just made the post and closed it again, though! I didn’t look at my notifications …
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social Oh I had tagged you in it. Oops! 🤣
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social okay, I'm muting the fediverse for an hour so I don't let that possibility become a reality
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social this experiment is … working? I didn’t break anything? 🤞
🤞 🤞
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social then I could spend my whole afternoon keeping up with the fedi and I could never do my work! 
@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social okay, I'm muting the fediverse for an hour so I don't let that possibility become a reality
Aha! There is piano availability for the next hour. This is great excuse to procrastinate experiment, right?!? (Piano will be 'unavailable' after that because of zoom meetings/work happening within hearing distance of the piano)
I've practiced piano, eaten lunch, drunk tea, scrolled through my fediverse home feed . . . now I'm running out of excuses for procrastination.
Also, for the second day in a row now I've forgotten to bring my proper headphones with me . . . oops.
Aha! There is piano availability for the next hour. This is great excuse to procrastinate experiment, right?!? (Piano will be 'unavailable' after that because of zoom meetings/work happening within hearing distance of the piano)
I added a code component to my experiment, and now I'm procrastinating testing it to see if it worked or if I broke something. Hence this post. Time to make tea.
Also, for the second day in a row now I've forgotten to bring my proper headphones with me . . . oops.
I added a code component to my experiment, and now I'm procrastinating testing it to see if it worked or if I broke something. Hence this post. Time to make tea.
#100daysofpractice
I’m going to be working on keyboard skills. Instead of focusing on repertoire or finger technique, although I will do some of that too, I want to focus on skills like improvisation, transposition, harmonization, etc. I found a book that I wanted to work with and learn from before and didn’t get very far—Improvising Fugue: A Method for Keyboard Artists by John J. Mortensen—and played around with learning the Rule of the Octave. I also played around with some free improvisation, sight read a couple of hymns, and played a bunch of I ii6/5 V I progressions through all the major and minor keys.
Day 1 of #100daysofpractice
I need to learn how to stop letting the shame of not accomplishing things in the past get in the way of accomplishing things in the future.
Bonus: disconnect accomplishments or lack thereof from general happiness, wellbeing, and assessment of self-worth
Greetings! For my first mastodon post I am going to say that I am not quite sure what I am doing here . . .
For an #introduction I am working on a PhD in music theory with a specialization in music cognition at the University of Western Ontario. I'm in the process of writing up a dissertation proposal, and will be doing experiments investigating auditory scene analysis (aka the cocktail party phenomenon). I'm also neurodivergent (autism and ADHD). I'm not sure if I should be adding more of these # things so I'm just going to finish this here.
Kate