Beats, updates, music and games... well, it is Sunday :)

It's Sunday!!

Rainy day here, but a Sunday has to be celebrated with...? Yes, with a Sunday guessing game!!! You already guessed one of my questions if you thought the same and opened this post to participate in it. If you didn't want to participate, then you probably came to see the update on how my new friend Voyager and I managed to cooperate this morning in our gig. Well, there is always an option you didn't want to participate in the game and you were not interested in that transporting a piano topic either... Still, maybe you wanted to listen to some piano music? Do I hear a shy YES?

Then it will come too but in the mixture of all aforementioned themes. Game, update and music :)))

Piano and studying struggles

First things first: Piano topic and some kind of struggles occurred connected with it. These days I tried to find time to practice a bit the piano. One of the days I went early to the school to make my space and time for that activity. Hm, in the piece I was studying I was speeding up in some parts when there is more action and emotion. I have to control that, as I easily get into that uncontrolled state of playing out of pace when my mind is not in the charge hahaha. {Not funny, but it is}. So, if you are a musician you know what can help, right? Oh yeah, that small thingy called metronome. For non-musician readers here comes a representation of it, in the form of a humble photo:

You could ask what about this, is it something so important it has to come to our blockchain and stay here documented forever? Well, it was very very mischievous with me :D It refused to listen to me and didn't want to help me. Can you believe it? The pendulum just got lazy and was slowing down and finally, stopped. It stopped!! The clicking sound of the mechanism that is supposed to mark the beat at the pace the weighted pendulum swings back and forth ceased. No beats, no swings. Well, then no music either from me!!

Only if I could be that angry and play the offended person role... So, my music continued, but you have to know this, the metronome was playing around with me and made this stopping thing every single time. (a little teaser, it will come in the video...)

Voyager and gig

Happy, happy, happy meeee! Yesterday evening I was a bit worried. I packed all the things I needed in Voyager and wow, it was heavy. The bag itself also weighs almost 5 kg, but with the piano, score stand, music sheets, cables, personal stuff... it was pretty heavy. But it was a super easy thing this morning, also I parked just in the front of the hotel, like max. 5 steps from the entrance, I guess I was lucky. It was a super comfortable experience pulling it, compared to carrying it on shoulders. And you remember that I thought I had to order a few cm longer bag? Well, no, it is perfect how it is. The last thing I mentioned as a drawback, that it was not stable standing upright, was solved in this way {smart, isn't it :D} :

THE END!

Thanks for reading this post...

Oh, you are still here and asking yourself where is the guessing part?

Ok, could be connected with the first photo instead of a juice today...? Did I eat that flower? Was it tasty? But, you see, nothing of that. Today's guessing game is connected with music and the metronome thing!!!

I recorded that act of rebellion of the metronome and mixed it with some music I recorded yesterday.
The music... I changed the original thing. It was not written for the piano. It does not have that kind of accompaniment. The tune, yes, it can be recognized...{we are slowly approaching the question}. Well, more questions. Last week it went so quickly that people that came later had no chance to participate, so I am making it a bit more difficult. It doesn't mean that there were not be those that will not guess everything from the first attempt, but let us see.

I recorded the metronome thing in a couple of short videos, some will be repeated in the video. But just the first recording can be heard with the clicking sound. The other "clicks" you should imagine :D

The questions:

1. How many beats was marked by the metronome in total in this video?

Note - those beats that can be heard at the beginning of the video also count!

2. What is the piece I am playing as background music?

The first who guesses the correct number of metronome clicks and the name of the music will be the winner. Or, if you are lazy to count and all, the funniest answer could also receive some surprise. Maybe! Don't forget to have fun :))