One slightly annoying thing that sometimes happens when you are travelling is that you are checked out of the accommodation on the same day that you have a concert.. and that generally means that from 10am until the concert start time (or at least the hall entry time...), you are just wandering around looking to kill time. Cafes are okay for this, but on Sundays they are sort of busy, and I get immense guilt from sitting with a laptop trying to stretch out how slowly I can drink coffee or a smoothie.

After a little bit, I decided to move much closer to the concert hall, plonk myself on a bench in the shade, and then start on the last part of the transcriptions that were needed for our ensemble community day.

I've been getting pretty good at transcribing the music into Musescore without using a MIDI keyboard. I used to think that I would definitely need the Keyboard for fast entry into the computer, but it turns out that once you get used to the shortcuts for rhythm and pitch, it gets pretty damn fast!

As usual though, the addition of additional markings ornamentation, articulation, and dynamics and all that sort of thing tend to be the slow thing, and I try to use a proper mouse for that. But thankfully, Baroque manuscripts tend to be light on all the extra markings... because they understood music, and there was an unspoken assumption on how to interpret... musicians didn't need a billion instructions to be told how to play music!

Anyway, a nice way to kill time and be productive at the same time... but that said, after an hour of this, I'm almost ready to move inside into the Green Room and rest before doing the concert. I'm pretty sure that I just saw someone go into the venue, so that means it might be possible to check if I'm allowed inside now! YAAY!

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