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Today about 2 hours.
Debussy - lots of little details, especially voicing, correcting random wrong notes and rhythmic inaccuracies
Mozart - 1st movement and 3rd movement
Mussorgsky - Gnomus and Unhatched chicks
+sight read some Bach inventions and Haydn sonatas. My sight reading really sucks, I should work on it more regularly.

Pretty good considering I stayed up cramming for a midterm and only slept 4 hours. Practising is actually very energizing.

Debussy opera, Handel arias and duets (fml), Donizetti arias and duets, Hoffman (? I don't even know what I'm learning), started learning my 20th century piece.... all of this went on and on almost alllll day. So basically, lots of reading today!

Put some touches on the first two movements of Beethoven op.14 #1.

Read through both op.27 Chopin nocturnes, my next project. These are going to be *so* much easier for me than the Beethoven! (Even though I think they're considered more "advanced".)

2h

-Jason

Continued to work on the Beethoven Opus 78 and Opus 7 for the upcoming Beethoven e-cital. Opus 78 is still in the "learning the notes" stage - Opus 7 is in the "trying to get it back in my fingers and up to tempo after 37 years" stage.

Also working on increasing my speed in Chopin's Etude Opus 25 No. 12. Fortunately, its memorized.

the piano

Win.

I practiced some Granados my teacher gave me. Lovely piano transcription of a guitar piece.

Hi, I'm coming back to all this after a long break (years) and judging from the above posts, some of you are way ahead of me, but this is my daily schedule:



The above is one of my target pieces (as below) but I didn't work on it this week, to give my tendinitis a break (was it a good reason to stop for a week?).

But I am doing this passage from the Grieg concerto, the Schubert (but in G for the time being, since it was the key I learnt it in 10 years ago and I'm taking it easy), and the Chopin OP 64 nº 1 waltz, and Grieg's Humoresque Op6 nº1.

As a half-hour prelude to these, for the moment I'm doing progressively slow major and minor scales, over 4 octaves, in parallel motion in octaves, sixths and thirds, some arpeggios, and some Hanon.

I tend do give it about 3 hours, in 3 one-hour sessions..

Oh I haven't played the piano at all today! Was flat out getting our taxes organised until 2.30 this afternoon, then doing the usual Saturday afternoon thing (taking a nap) then had dinner, listening to Schiff as I surf the internet. Think I'm getting a cold - so taking it very easy.

I wasn't only being funny. Practising on the most loved instrument is worth celebrating. The string instrument has had a lot of attention lately...

And now that I've done my small amount of genuine practice that isn't sightreading, I can list it: Bach, Invention 13. That's it. I am returning gently.

I had quite bad tendinitis for about 2 months over the summer so I'm very gradually working back up my practice schedule. Atm I'm on 3 sessions of 20 minutes a day (with warmups and cooldowns either side). As such I don't have much time to work on things but atm I'm mainly working on the 4th movement of beethoven op.10 no.3.

BACH, INVENTION 13TH, SUCH A GREAT PIECE.


M.

In my quest to manage my tendinitis problem, in addition to acupuncture and homoeopathic treatment, I’ve begun a short series of a few exercises kindly posted by a Forum member. But I’m very interested in your “warmups and cooldowns”.

Could you explain more, please?

Many thanks

welcome to the forums oh person with great taste in Inventions
I've had such good value from Inv 8 being in memorised repertoire that I thought I'd add a couple more. There are so many possibilities for use in warming up and looking after technique.
Today I hope to achieve more than warm up and sight reading. Will post efforts later with any luck.

I am going through a Tchaikovsky piano album I bought the other day right now.

i went mad on russian scales. major minor melodic and harmonic 3rd 6th 8th 10th apart, czerny school of virtuosity, chopin etudes, and frank symphony variations. 4 hours practice

which opus's?

It is a selection from Op.10, 37 and 40, as well as the Romance Op.5.

About 2 hours today. Trying to become more focused in isolating the problem areas and perfecting them. Also did some memory work.

Yikes! I hope that you get better and that it's not a recurring thing.

Brahms Intermezzo op 119 #3.
Mozart Sonata K310
Schumann Aufschwung Opus 12

AND - Mussorgksy "The Gnome" (reviving) to play at my students' piano club on Tuesday because it sounds spooky and Halloween is coming up.

Somewhere in between stripping bed,roasting a chicken, and a trip to the gym, I ran through Elgar's "Chanson de Matin" a few times. I plan to ask a flautist (who is also learning English horn) to do this for a wedding we know is coming up.

Thanks to whoever suggested this Elgar - or was that in another group?

Also worked on my accomp for "Amazing Grace"- half the choir doesn't read music, so the rehearsals have been, shall we say, a bit irritating. Basses reverting to melody - that sort of thing.