Genius Hour with Ruby

I forgot my bow at home today, seems like I keep forgetting things. To avoid this problem any longer I decided to add a reminder to my phone. So that left no there choice but for me to do pizzicato. Pizzicato is a form of playing (usually for beginners) where one plucks the string. It sounded okay, but either way its the fingering I have to work on, bow or no bow the fingering is not affected. We were going to record a video but the downside of playing pizzicato is that its not very loud, so it will have to be another time. Regardless, I like how it is sounding. We got to the 2nd page of music so that’s a plus. I can’t wait to preform in February.

– Ruby

This week was a bit chaotic and disastrous. I barely played my cello. I was sick for a week. Ontop of that I forgot my cello at home so I did not bring it to school to practice. Our practice mainly involved me holding the music while Gabriel and Rachel practiced. We were really lost on what we were going to play. It did not sound good. At ALL. Its okay though we have many weeks to practice. I am very confused on what we are doing. I hope Next week will be better and I remember to bring my cello.

Ruby

Talking about what I briefly said in the last post, I want to explain more in dept of what we are doing. In the next few months we will be writing a piece for trios and learning to play it. What this will look like in the future is most likely us learning to play our own song at excellence. This will take lots of time and dedication. We will be using the application Musescore to make our own music. We also plan to bring our instruments to school and practice during our genius hour block. This is not certain yet, as you can imagine the difficulty of bring my cello to school on the bus. The most challenging part of our project is creating our music to be in complete harmony and also at the right time. Overall, we are very excited to begin our project.

Hi! I’m Ruby. I am turning 14 and I am a Grade 8 student. I have a very smart dog (border collie) who is super energetic and never gets tired. I like playing sports especially baseball. I have a younger brother who most probably will also do this project next year. I also like playing cello. I have been playing since 2016. I am doing a project with Rachel and Gabriel for Genius Hour. We are writing and playing a piece together. Rachel plays the violin and Gabriel plays piano. We will be showing you our progress as we go. Hope you like our content.