I have just spent THREE HOURS pouring over the sheet music for Widor's 
Toccata. Oh my GOD!! This is sooo hard... It sounds pretty neat when you 
get it right though. ;-)

Trouble is, when you're decoding notes one at a time, at the rate of 
about 3 chords per minute, the sound is so labourious and disjointed 
that you can't tell what you're actually trying to play. Once you manage 
to speed it up sufficiently, you go "oh, I recognise that - that's 
*this* big", and it's much easier to play because you know what it's 
meant to sound like. But until you get to that... hmm, Bb + D major? 
Like, WTF? That can't be r-- oh, I see! It's a suspence note! The chord 
right after that resolves it. Cool.

I'm pretty tired now. But hey, I reached page 6! :-D (Just about.)

Hey... actually... when you consider that the whole work is 10 pages, 
that's actually way further than I thought! o_O Wow.

Now all I need is a real pipe organ! ;-)

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