The Sprint By Alan Lee Silva: TAKE NINE THE FINAL TAKE

Take Nine

Now it comes to the end it is now 12:05 and I am kind of tired, the rest of my family is probably rejoicing as I finish this and I will see you later today.  I hope I did a quality performance!
-Ava S.

The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva

Allright, so its now 11:55 and my family is all asleep.  I reallt don't want to A. wake them up or B.  Keep them up even later so I might just have to call it quits which is a bummer.  I will try to play one more time and hope that no one will come yell at me.

The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva: 50 TAKES IN ONE!!!

Take 2 of Take 4

Take 3 of Take 4

Take 5

Take 6 and 7

Ok so I posted a ton of videos.   Its just I was hoping that I would get one of them right but I just kept on getting worse :-/  So, doing it fast just made my intonation bad and an overall less appealing performance.  I will try again :(.



The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva: TAKE THREE

Ok Ok Ok

All of the sudden I had forgotten all of the things I had just been practicing!  Like dynamics and articulation.  That was bad.  Let me do that again.



The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva: TAKE TWO

Hello! Me again!

So this time I sounded better than the first take.  I didn't mess up at measure 19 this time!!!  That may have been take two but it was really take four of take two because I kept on messing up at measure 19 over and over again and I just couldn’t stand it!  However, I got it right this time!

Before I played take two I read over my rubric from my last test to see how I would be graded and what I had troubles with last time.  It says that I had pretty bad articulations and I need to relax my thumb in my right hand.  For the articulations, it will be hard to make me look like I have improved there because there are many slurs also my camera is really funky and the sound does not match with what you see at all.  Sorry.  But I will try my best.  However, for the thumb thing I am not sure I am still doing that now, maybe I am, maybe I’m not.  The world may never know!  Just kidding.  When I hold the bow my thumb doesn’t feel non-relaxed but it might look that way, I am not quite sure.  I will just have to keep my thumb relaxed like it says on my test and hope for the best.



The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva: TAKE ONE!

Hello!

There is so much you can see from a video that you wouldn't be able to see normally.  Like oh my gosh does my hand really look that awkward and does my voice really sound like that?  Well apparently I have an extremely awkward looking hand and I hope its not my bow hold and just my hand!  Well it will be a lot easier to fix my bow hold than my hand... enough rambling.  Hello, Mr. Wolf.  This lovely Sunday night I am going to take a few (or many) takes of myself with my cello , Cello-ocity the third (sounds like Travelocity, I thought it was funny in 4th grade...), playing The Sprint by Alan Lee Silva from measure 17 to 33, until I get it to sound as close to a quality performance as I can.

Also, just so you know I do realize that the sound does not match up with my bowing, no I did not get this off of the Internet because if I did it would sound a lot better.