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Minuet in G minor from First Lessons in Bach A slight little Minuet in C major from Mozart Toccatina by Kabalevsky: Having fun with this one, though struggling at not looking at my hands when I play. The piece is essentially a single pattern over and over again, but is normally played quite fast. I'm focusing on staying relaxed and not straining my arms and hands. Tough to do when the right hand doesn't really change shape for the entire piece! it's been interesting getting to work with the many accidentals in the second half of the piece.
Today, I am playing Hanon and Czerny Velocity Studies and... it is time to bring out the Nutcracker Suite. Tchaikovsky. So I am excited to see how much progress I have made, if any.
Lately, every time I tune a piano I play a condensed version Claire de Lune by Debussy, followed by Giant Steps by John Coltrane.
They are both in similar keys, use a lot of notes/chords, and have a lot of octaves so I can hear the quality of the stretch, especially the way I play it. I play the Giant Steps melody in octaves, and when I play Debussy, I pause on the octaves, left hand and right hand when they occur.
So......started the morning......playing Haydn. Several parts of Piano Sonatas..... .........I love this composer.....
By the way, in the morning my playing is better. Read in publications of neuro-scientists, my son is one of them, that the brain is the best in the morning. It's also my experience
Today, spent a lot of time practicing fiorituras with my eyes closed so that I could concentrate on hearing that each note was clear and even, and as my piano teacher would remind me 'not bumped'.... thumb bumping on delicate passages is something I am working on.
Eyes closed helps me a lot to concentrate on hearing.
Also am spending a lot of time to make trills both even in quality and interesting in pattern...
the devil is in the details and it takes me forever.
Working on performance of Mendelssohn op 19.6..grand plans for weekend with working to bps @75 for Bach investion 13 for (upto measures 20), relearn page 1 of Beethoven moonlight 1, and scales!
Yup. Agreed, best piano practice is in the morning.
Last edited by Pianoperformance; 10/08/1612:54 PM.
After 2 year for learning his WTC1 book, I have finished the G major predule and fuga. My next piece is G minor predule. I want to play whole book asap.
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