箏の事:三番 飛躍

昨日は最初の近代の曲を始めた！久本玄智の飛躍という曲だ。とても楽しい！先生が少し難しすぎるかなと思った。でも、全然難しすぎなかった。１拍３連さえ弾いて何とかなった。手で音を止めスタッカートもあった。変な音があるから、スタッカートは楽しかった。曲の変わった五線譜は他の曲のような五線譜を気付いた。ハワイで最初のパウハナのパフォーマンスの曲はさくらのバリエーションを弾いた。あの時に、絶対難しすぎた。また戻れやりたい。今弾けるかな?

So, yesterday I started my first contemporary koto piece, "Leaping" by Hisamoto Genchi. This is a really fun piece! My teacher was a little nervous at first that it might be too difficult for me but that turned out not to be the case at all. She was going to change the eighth note triplets to something easier but I managed to play them (albeit a little slowly). It also has staccato in it! Koto staccato is so cool, you use your left hand to immediately stop the sound from a string you just plucked. The sound this makes is so strange, I love it! The score is done in a very strange style but I recognized it from another piece I had done. For my first Pau Hana performance in Hawaii, we learned a Sakura variation in this style and it was definitely too hard for me. I'm curious if I could play it now though (I really want to try it now!).