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We're still working with music here, but this time I'm taking an idea from a Chinese way
of painting where they paint on a scroll. They'll do a landscape that covers a scroll,
one is like a hundred feet long, and it's almost like a panoramic view, and they just
keep drawing a long the scroll. So we're going to draw along with the music so that you end
up with a whole concerto on a roll of paper. This is just plain old craft paper, it's nothing
fancy. You'll want to use paint or ink, something fluid so that you can move along, although
charcoal would work too. I just wouldn't work with pencil, it doesn't probably move fast
enough. And I'm just going to get ready, standing up is maybe better for this so that you can
move your arm more, and then you're just going to let it roll up as you move along. So I'm
going up, and I'll move myself along. Of course with this you really need a.... And then I have this, just sort of this general
feeling down here of that bit in between the very rhythmic section. And I'm already running
out of my paper so I'll turn around and use the other side. And you kind of try to get
your body working with the rhythm that you feel. And you keep going back, and you can kind of hear this rhythm. And
then what tends to happen with the Brandenburg Concertos is they start really small and very
soft, and then they're going to end up getting bigger and louder, and that's when your shapes
will start echoing the loudness.