Here's another recording of the Snedecor Lyrical Etude No. 1 that I made today. Got about 15 minutes in a nicer room so I decided to try and get some recordings in. This was the best of the bunch:
I believe this was one of the later takes in the 10 or so minutes I ran this. I really need to reserve a nice room to get a solid hour or so of recording in so I don't keep feeling so rushed to get takes in. Anyway, onto the thoughts:
Cons:
-First Attack NOT CLEAN! Some following attacks not as clear as I would like either -Rushed some of the phrases more than I would have liked (going to pay more attention to this and see if it's an air thing or if I'm actually just rushing them) -Still not as much dynamic contrast as I would have liked (fear of missing/ghosting a note?) -I have a breath currently marked right after the second slur up to the A which causes a break in the phrase that I'm not sure I like, but I'm also not sure where else a breath would work musically (I've tried making it to the end without a breath and it hasn't turned out well...)
Pros:
-Playing around with the rubato suggestion has helped (thank you for that Anonymous comment) -I feel like I'm getting a bit more "spin" on my sound than in the previous recording, although I'm not sure how much of that is because of the natural resonance of the room
Going to keep working at it, I feel like I'm getting slightly closer to a good final product...
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I believe this was one of the later takes in the 10 or so minutes I ran this. I really need to reserve a nice room to get a solid hour or so of recording in so I don't keep feeling so rushed to get takes in. Anyway, onto the thoughts:
Cons:
-First Attack NOT CLEAN! Some following attacks not as clear as I would like either
-Rushed some of the phrases more than I would have liked (going to pay more attention to this and see if it's an air thing or if I'm actually just rushing them)
-Still not as much dynamic contrast as I would have liked (fear of missing/ghosting a note?)
-I have a breath currently marked right after the second slur up to the A which causes a break in the phrase that I'm not sure I like, but I'm also not sure where else a breath would work musically (I've tried making it to the end without a breath and it hasn't turned out well...)
Pros:
-Playing around with the rubato suggestion has helped (thank you for that Anonymous comment)
-I feel like I'm getting a bit more "spin" on my sound than in the previous recording, although I'm not sure how much of that is because of the natural resonance of the room
Going to keep working at it, I feel like I'm getting slightly closer to a good final product...
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