#riggedbones

oh! it's essentially a minecraft roleplay set in [ambiguous olden europe] that follows a group of people who were led to a ghost town known as "oakhurst" for one reason or another. various rumors run amok as to why it's empty, with plenty of contradictory information calling back to what it used to be before a massacre that took place 200 years ago - a disaster that rendered it unable to ever return to what it was.

on a technical level, the starting vampires are set loose into the world to kill/turn the town (by killing them; the first death, they are turned, after which they would need to be staked to truly die), while the humans attempt to defend their own and search out a cure. each side is given special abilities to make gameplay + character interactions more engaging (vampires can turn invisible/into bats; humans can cast spells like fire/paralysis on them) as well!

Karai brushed her thumb across Cassandra's cheek. "My child, I could never hate someone who made the same choice as me."

definitely, so my idea is hard is very different from someone else's so I will take this question very seriously and talk about what areas of the cello I find hard and then pieces lol.

pieces: I'm grade eight at the moment so my idea of hard pieces are uh very hard. I'm not a prodigy though I've just been playing since I was five years old and kept it up. (practice outweighs talent seriously). I also have had a very good patient teacher. anyway!

at the moment I'm finding these two pieces of mine hard:

so tzig-tzig is has these whistle notes which I hate they're like harmonics but worse. um when you're playing them you have to not only move up and down the cello with these horrible notes with another finger down as a stop you have to change the distance between the stopping and finger and the other one. anyway that probably makes no sense but it's hell.

my other piece I find difficult right now is julie-o even though it's great fun. personally I'm better at tuning than rhythm so anything with weird counting throws me off.

so in general I find tempo and rhythm hard bc I don't have an internal metronome like lots of people lol I'm bad at counting whilst playing. in very general terms like everyone playing the cello I think shifting "cleanly" (without it slurring). especially when you're shifting with a tricky key signature because it means not only are you moving but you're remembering to sharpen or flatten a note.