Exhausted last night. I felt so sleepy at 10pm that I had to aim for bed, then collapsed and slept solidly for 9 hours. I woke and charged into updating all of the music scores I've published online so far. Most of the time, a new change or standard evolves as I discover different issues or problems. For example, a 'Piano Version' of a song has a lead vocal or lead melody plus a one, or usually two, staves for an extra piano to accompany it; but a 'Piano Melody' has the lead music played by the piano. Many different standards and guidelines evolve for properly presenting scores.
The new changes to instrument order, and more knowledge about the division of instruments has led to a big upgrade in these standards, and I'm at about 50% of the way though my multi-year plan of scoring all of my published (ie. recorded and released) music, so it seems like a good time to go back and update every score so far (nearly all 420 of them) with the latest standards. The oldest ones will need the most work.
Today I've charged into the existing albums on itch and made changes as I went. Scores will now include screenshots, and a list of the instruments that each score is for; so the admin burden of listing them (and updating them) has increased. It will increase again if and when I publish them in print, but I must remind myself that I must focus on making new music as much as updating my back catalogue.
It was early, before noon, that I noticed a raw soreness in the back of my nose, which crept into my throat. I'm certainly coming down with a cold. I think I picked it up on Wednesday.
It shouldn't affect my scoring work, except to add a romanticism to it, evoking Beethoven in his days of illness.
