No. 10 -- J.S. Bach

This is another duet that I was given in class to work on. This is a very easy piece of music in regard with the notes, but the problem is that it is fast and you dont have time to breathe. This duet has to be worked out slowly, playing it at the accurate speed, and placing breath marks were you consider where they should go, according to how much air you can hold in order to get a nice sound, and in order that it is enough time to pick up the rest of the notes you have left. In class we worked out some of the breath marks, but some are still to be placed. I think that this is the main issue of the song, because the notes are not hard, they stay in a register where im comfortable playing, and the notes are not varying that much. What I like is that the notes are in the same range, and that makes it easier to play because you can sort of know that suddenly its not going to make you go up another register. This song is not hard and its hard at the same time, I think that its not hard because the notes are very basic and the rhythms too, but at the same time its hard, because you really dont have many places were you can breathe, because the rhythm is too fasts and there are only eighth notes in most of the song. I think that I can work this song out if I sit one day and try to do it with dedication, not in a rush, thi shas to be worked out with patience. I know that it will probably sound a little rough when its worked out at first, because you need to get used to breathe short and not make the sound uneven. That is another problem, that you may have a lot of air at first and then at the end of a phrase you dont have enough air and it will sound terrible. I can work this out when I sit down with patience and dedication to do it. Maybe during the break, I will try to have the whole thing done by the end of the year.