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--- title: PianoLessons --- # Objectives * Fix technique * 7hr/week of good-quality practice # Technique * Single arm/hand motions per phrase instead of bouncing * Movement between keys also part of the phrase * Rolling hand, not finger articulation # Log #### 2010-03-24 * Slowly, VERY slowly! * Don't lock the arm before a phrase * Thumb-under exercises * Rolling motion rather than digital articulation * Focus on one piece at a time * Claire de Lune #### 2010-03-31 * Exercises * Rolling * Fluid and rounder movements when moving between positions * Moonlight Sonata 2nd * Texture, staccato vs legato * Need to relearn * Claire de Lune * Fix wrong notes * Legato melody * Lift hand for repeated chords * Hold pedalling for left hand phrasing * Moonlight Sonata 3rd * RH octave contractions too mechanical * Left thumb too strong, roll hand #### 2010-05-05 * Claire de Lune errors * Fix by next week * Moonlight Sonata (1st) errors * Tempo! Notes, crescendo * Chopin Nocturne * Chopin Polonaise * First two pages by next week #### 2010-05-10 * Test play very slowly - check movement of hand * "one continuous movement" per phrase * Watch attack and lift-off carefully. * Claire de Lune * not fixed! * Chopin Nocturne * Attack: "Down-up, down". Not "Down-up, down-up; down-up"! * Chopin Polonaise * First three pages by next week #### 2010-05-18 * Chopin Polonaise * Play at a speed I can read it * Chopin Nocturne * pp in bass * Complete each bass arpeggio before starting the next. Practice with stress on 2nd and 4th * Practice E-scale sections as single regular movements. #### 2010-05-31 * Chopin Polonaise * Do D-flat major section rest of piece over next three weeks * Opening octaves: RH relax prior to attack. Hand position ends down. * Slow the trill, make it part of the melody * Chopin Nocturne * Opening chords: start lifting off very slowly as soon as chord is sounded * Rondo much lighter * Claire de Lune * Count aloud to isolate insecure sections * Brahms Intermezzi Op.117 No.2 * Look at this over the next three weeks #### 2010-06-21 * Chopin Polonaise * Attack the fff * First theme romantic, repetition more ethereal * Emphasise middle notes of the chord * Octaves are harsh * Chopin Nocturne * Opening passage: where's the thumb!? * Learn turn of the page * Solidify the notes * Brahms Intermezzi * Octaves in RH * Shared LH/RH notes in arpeggios #### 2010-06-28 * Chopin Polonaise * First theme * Resolution bars without pedal * Second theme * piano sotto voce * SLOW arpeggios * forte right up to C-flat section (D-flat minor) <!-- vim: filetype=markdown -->
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