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XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
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My 7-year-old's friend was over today, and he told me "I like your piano playing." No one has ever expressed any sort of interest in anything I've ever played, so it made me feel good
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My 7-year-old's friend was over today, and he told me "I like your piano playing." No one has ever expressed any sort of interest in anything I've ever played, so it made me feel good Aww, that's sweet
XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
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My 7-year-old's friend was over today, and he told me "I like your piano playing." No one has ever expressed any sort of interest in anything I've ever played, so it made me feel good A kind word is a powerful thing. I remember how good I felt the first time my wife said that she liked something I’d played. I was also amazed to discover that my wife was not bothered by the sound of my practicing, and was actually more disturbed by hearing a lot of clacking noise with no sound, as happens in silent mode. After all, we play for our teachers, and hope to receive some encouragement for our efforts.
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If I play for three 7 year olds can I count it as playing for one adult? jk
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'Glacial', that's me. Why isn't there an Italian word listed for that? It actually makes me feel better to hear others have the same issues. What is it they say... 'misery loves company'? I know just how you feel Jim, I also have some reeeally nice chords in my piece, it's such a relief when I get to them, I tend to land on them like a ton of bricks, unintentionally. Actually --- there is---it is glaciale - pronounced (approximately) "glah-cheeAHley" with the CH pronounced as it is in "church". I too tend to play slowly rather than quicklly - and when I do get to the point where I might be able to go faster, I find that my focus and concentration have to be unwavering, or everything falls apart. My ATOW....or month? Is really getting back into the swing of piano and moving forward nicely with my works-in-progress (Bach Little Prelude in C and Chopin Prelude in B minor). I was super sick from the start of November til about a week ago and had to be excused from MOYD for a number of days. Now I'm back and I'm really pleased at how smoothly the Chopin is coming along - and I can actually play the beginning faster than I ever thought I would (though I don't think it needs to be played terribly quickly - I am managing the 16th notes better than I expected). I'm also doing better with expression and finding "my" voice to express the music. It's all very satisfying.
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Glaciale, it's a word of course, but not in the official list of tempi LOL It's how I always start though.
Glad you're feeling better, cas. It's funny how putting things away for a few days can actually improve them.
XXXVII-XXXVIII I pray, that tomorrow I may strive to be a little better than I am today - and, on behalf of everybody else, I give thanks for headphones.
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Hi C,
So glad you are feeling better. I forgot you were working on Chopin's B min Prelude. I learned it long before I had the skills to play it well... really should revisit this favorite.
Despite a lot of distractions my lesson went well this week, with my teacher now declaring Vissi D'Arte finished.
She gave me a beautiful book of music for our 10th Christmas together - 24 Transcriptions of Classical Masterpieces, from orchestral, operatic, and chamber works, transcribed for advanced piano by Robert Schultz. Since I'm kinda on a Puccini roll and short on practice hours, the first one I'm going to tackle from this collection is Un Bel Di from Madama Butterfly. Got my eye on a gorgeous Rachmaninoff transcription, but that will have to wait until I can dedicate a little more focus on piano.
Wishing a happy holiday season to all my friends at AOTW thread and PW.
Jim
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Cheryl - glad you feel better. My? Achievement is to move the piano back to the new floor. The old floor sustained some water damage and we replaced it yesterday. Hope you can see the pic. [img] https://www.facebook.com/kazue.balint/posts/3092842860745271[/img]
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My achievement this week was buying a book on scales. In addition to the scales themselves the book has some pages on basic instructions on the make up of scales and the required fingering. I’m a firm believer in the theory of 'Teach a man to fish .....' and this book gave me some great tips on how I can teach myself the scales rather than learn them parrot fashioned. The simple fact that each major scale can be broken into 2 sequences of 4 notes, each sequence ending with a half note has helped me immensely. It seems so obvious but until it’s pointed out, it’s not. Up until now I just had a 3 page book of major scales and I can’t believe that I never realised that with major scales beginning on black keys, with the exception of F# the left hand always starts with finger 3 and that the start point fingering for the right hand is 234 23. It’s stuff like this that I love and will be embedded in my memory. I realise now that I need to buy more books
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Thank you treefrog for your great review! And now, the question that is on everybody's mind: What is the title of this interesting book?
(I am not ironic even though I may sound ironic.)
Playing the piano is learning to create, playfully and deeply seriously, our own music in the world. * ... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...
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My achievement of several weeks ago was getting through my very first piano exam. And now I'm fully charged as I approach Year 3 of piano learning.
across the stone, deathless piano performances "Discipline is more reliable than motivation." -by a contributor on Reddit r/piano "Success is 10% inspiration, and 90% perspiration." -by some other wise person "Pianoteq manages to keep it all together yet simultaneously also go in all directions; like a quantum particle entangled with an unknown and spooky parallel universe simply waiting to be discovered." -by Pete14
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My teacher said I have a good musical instinct. Not talent, not a good ear, but apparently I have something that helps me interpret pieces in the right way. Having pegged myself as a musical duffer my whole life, it was great to hear. This was said after a semi-successful attempt at the first page of Chopin's Waltz No.3: a beautiful piece that I'm finally starting to get a handle on.
A great week, although I think I have incipient arthritis or RSI in my right thumb which is a real f***er.
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Thank you treefrog for your great review! And now, the question that is on everybody's mind: What is the title of this interesting book?
(I am not ironic even though I may sound ironic.) Silly me It’s Alfred's ' The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and CadencesI wish I’d read it a couple of months ago. Some of the tips are probably obvious to some people but unfortunately I’ve overlooked some of the simple consistencies and formulas.
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Oh, I have that book! I use it for reference. But now I plan to read Part one.
Playing the piano is learning to create, playfully and deeply seriously, our own music in the world. * ... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...
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Congrats to all the above on their weekly achievements!
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...that I started back after a 10-month break. I have more free time in the winter months--no garden work, no lawn work, no orchard work, no daylight in the evenings!
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Achievement of the decade thread made me think about my progress. Since I “restarted” the piano as an adult, my progress was not that visible compared with my violin I started as a complete beginner. Then a happy thought came to me when I was playing Christmas music this morning. I bought this book called “100 most beautiful Christmas songs” by Hal Leonard a few years ago. It has White Christmas, Christmas Story, I’ll be home by Christmas and many other traditional carols. Also O holy night with arpeggiated base. I could not sightread it then. By sight reading I mean playing at first sight with singing speed in rhythm with both hands. Now I can do this for the songs named above. The ones I still have hard time are the ones the base moves like Bach’s base. I still cannot sightread very fast pieces, complex rhythms and complex lines that require distribution of notes to right/left hands. This book does not have those. Nonetheless I was pleased to find out that I could do something I had not been capable of doing before.
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I had a house full of family visitors for the holidays, and so piano kind of went on hold. For several people this was their first trip to Spain, so we were very busy. My achievement of the week for the holidays was playing Christmas carols while the family sang along. I could never have played the carols at proper tempo a year ago, so my focus on sight reading has really paid off!
2019 was not a good year for me healthwise. My MS has started to really be a limiting factor in playing piano, and so I have decided to change my expectations and just enjoy the journey. I have suspended lessons, and I am enjoying relearning pieces that I love that I have played in the past. I want to develop a repertoire of pieces I can just sit down and play. The pieces are like old friends. In the 10 years that I have been playing, I was always moving forward, and losing old pieces. Time to get them back!
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Hi All,
Just stopping by, late as usual, to say that my sixth anniversary of starting piano was a couple of weeks ago in December. So, I am still plugging away. I also signed up again for MOYD.
2019 saw my first "official" performance at a church service. Also, last month we picked up a "rescue piano" from a friend whose grandmother had passed away, and that needed a new home. It is an old spinet that I need to see about getting tuned. It is also serving the purpose of getting my wife used to an acoustic piano in the living room, so I can start looking to upgrade to a larger upright or maybe someday, a grand piano.
Thanks,
Jeff
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