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Hello everyone!
Here is my “Moondance”.
When I was recording the dance, I thought about Felix Mendelssohn and his “Songs Without Words”. My dance is purely instrumental.
With this in mind, as well as the fact that I slowed down from 132 bpm to 90 bpm, I shortened the dance (did not repeat the verse and chorus).
Have a nice day!
@robinboyd – You are very attentive!
That’s right, even though I’ve been here for over a year, I recently uploaded the picture. And yes, even if the spelling is a bit unconventional, “katazumiri” means snail.I had a friend who was interested in manga and anime. He believed that everyone should have a nickname. I invent a name. But he wasn’t happy with the sound of the name… We went to the library and found in a thick paper dictionary how to do it in Japanese. I copied the transcription from it. It was a Ukrainian-Japanese dictionary, so the transcription looked like this: “катацумiрi”.
Then I moved to Germany and rewritten my nickname in German phonetics. So I became “katazumiri”.
The google translator says it should actually be “katatsumuri”. But because I don’t know Japanese, I leave it as it is 🙂Best regards
katazumiri
(with friendly support of google translator)Thanks for the feedback, Andrew!
Do you mean something like this?
Matt said (quote from “Learn 3 Japanese Inspired Songs”, 16:58 )
…one thing i want to say is when you´re playing this
there are rhythm markers for a reason
but if you´ve listened to Iroh in the show sing this… 🙂
play it from your heart
it´s okay to hold some notes a little bit longer have others go shorter
as long as you´re trying to create the sound
remember that this tune is really supposed to be simulating kind of an ancient folk song
and it´s not meant to be playrd with a band and a metronome
as much as it is to be played with rubato and feeling
so keep that in mind when you´re playing through it…Unfortunately, I didn’t see the cartoon and didn’t know that Iroh all the same can read sheet music and knows how to use a metronome 🙂
When I watch a video on YuoTube I take notations on the side, very old-fashioned, with a pencil (see Attachment).
It looks a bit messy, but I hope I haven’t put too many mistakes in it 🙂
Next time I’ll try not to lean too much on my heart, as it doesn’t really like syncopation and always simplifies everything.
Best regards
Lena
(with friendly support
of automatically generated YouTube subtitles
and google translator)Andrew, you said: As a fun challenge, this song can be played as a duet!
I thought: Maybe this song can be played as a trio?Playing with the metronome turned out to be not so easy. Sometimes I was ahead of the metronome, sometimes I was behind it … Not that discrepancies were too big … But I’m afraid that here and there voices are not synchronized. At least I tried it 🙂
Have a nice day!