Youtube Playlist
Long Term Goal
- Certificate of Performance
Theory
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10 March
Fantaisie
- ease into soft 41-42, then 43 onwards light delicate. contrast with the previous section
- keep LH soft always
- keep pedal clear
- slow practice essential as always, but also do a bit of middle range practice as well.
List D
- pesante, heavy, bring strong beat notes
3 March
Fantaisie
- smaller rubato, keep flow forwards
- always keep LH soft
- always prioritise control over speed
- slow practice still critical
24 Feb
Fantaisie
- old piano teachers HATE it when bar 5 is too loud, keep it soft like the dynamic says
- bar 11-12 check notes
- bar 13-16, focus on thumb, and thin sound
- bar 17, soft
- B# LH bar 24
- check LH bar 30-35. gradually cresc
- bar 37 do pedalling
- tips for middle section
- SOFT left hand
- delicate phrasing
- take your time
- 119 top note needs to be heard clearly
- 125 keep the same tempo
10 Feb
List C
- watch circled notes, but generally practice is a lot better today
New piece: Romeo and Juliet
List B
- bar 5
- watch for quality of scale
- watch LH rests
- 22 don’t get too loud
- 23 watch articculation RH
- 26 LH rests
- 42 watch speed
3 Feb
Impromptu
- a few adjustments to practice
- slow practice for coordination
- aim for perfect coordination
- can also try perfect dynamic
- soft dynamic, LH soft, RH phrase only in important section
- bar 13, bring out melody by making all other notes softer
- middle section
- softer LH
- softer overall ideas
Cramer
- practice slow, main challenge is technique
- keep LH articulation same
13 Dec
Chopin
- try partial pedalling
- middle section, much more delicate, more rubato, softer LH, delicate phrasing
- bar 59, rhythm is dotted
- bar 60, last note happens quickly
Mozart
- first line legato
- plan out phrasing where possible
- bar 14 lift off at end of slur
- check notes 18 onwards
- slurs bar 23
- bar 24 loud RH
- clear dynamic ideas from 29 in development
- bar 42 careful dynamics
2 Dec
Mozart 1st
- keep a stable semiquaver speed. What speed can you be stable at?
Mozart 2nd
- don’t overdo rubato and phrasing – ‘keep it straightforward’, simple beauty
- what are the different characters in each section? how does that affect phrasing and dynamic?
Mozart 3rd
- sort of like ritornello form here, main themes have slightly less detail, middle sections have more expression
Fantaisie Impromptu
- loud sf at start
25 Nov
Mozart
- first line, RH legato
- 2nd line, swing rhythm practice. PHRASE!
- bar 13, LH soft
- bar 18 phrase according to RH
- 29 onwards, big phrasing. play bottom notes soft
- bar 36 repeated G# in LH
Impromptu
- ocassional wrong fingering can be fatal!
- bar 13 LH check
- bar 41, check pedalling
- phrase gently, LH gentle as well
- bar 43 check LH
11 Nov
Mozart 2nd mvt
- lighter voicing in general
- staccatos light and not too short
- good LH and RH and balance and phrasing ideas good
- can be a bit quicker
- middle minor section can have wider dynamic range
Mozart 3rd mvt
- playful
- quick articulation
- quick dynamics
- phrasing in key sections
4 Nov
- aria style, singing style
- mozart’s main music was arias from opera
- phrasing
- light LH
- flowing character, rather than disrupted
Fantasie
- try to avoid restarts for now, don’t worry about exact polyrhythm
28 Oct
Fantasy Impromptu
- watch for repeated accidentals in general
- bar 10 A#
- repeated sharps bar 11
- bar 8 check RH fingering
- incrementally get faster
7 Oct
List A
- no rubato, keep flow
- dynamic ranges can be slightly more in episodes, but nothing too much
- slow practice may help stability
List B
- keep flow here
- make sure dynamics are sharp
16 Sep
List A
- great improvement across the board
- keep practicing slow, focus on memory and consistency
- perfect practice
- bar 36/34 RH had a mistake
List B
- where dynamics should be surprising, feel free to give greater dynamic contrastp
- understanding the different characters in your
- still aim for a quick and accurate touch at all times
List C
- try not to lift pedal up all the way
List D
9 Sep
List A
- have a difference between ritornellos and episodes
- always start and end ritornellos loud
- episodes are softer in general
- bring out some of left hand in 104
- 113 ritornello ‘sandwich’, make ritornello loud, episode
- 140 onwards, areas of concern
- perfect challenges, can I get through this section without a mistake?
List C
- make sure you can hear all LH notes clearly (or all notes in general)
2 Sep
Technical
- 8C, take your time to play
- 8B, try to practice error free and slower
- in scales, coordination is ocassionally a problem
- prepare arpeggios logner
- arpeggios, more accurate, inversions, more correct
List C
- some pedalling is ocassionally a bit not consistent leading to missed pedal notes
- make sure rit at bar 31 gets slowe
List A
- bar 104 can voice LH LH and RH and take turns
- slow practice maybe starts around 120ish mark?
26 Aug
List A
- things to improve
- quality
- specificity of dynamics
- include
- medium practice
- perfect runs
- what are we looking for in perfect runs?
- 1 mistake? what speed?
- seperate hands for listening and memory benefit
- end nice and big
List D
- bar 1 LH shorter and snappier
- 11, RH staccato first
- 16 RH not too loud
- watch 37 LH, still ff
- watch pp left hand bar 37
- 37 see new fingering
List B
- soft touch unreliable
- still need to hear melody clearly
- notes go down to bottom of the key quickly
- phrase LH 53
- occasional slowdowns, practice at tempo with metronome
- metronome practice 76, some sections drag
- should be fully expressed
19 Aug
List B – self-reflection
- bar 1, voice RH less, minimum clarity to hear it
- make fingers quicker
- bar 6, LH seperate, when doing hairpins, first note not SUDDENLY loud
- bar 8, know exactly what speed the run is, don’t be too quick
- turns need to be clearer – slower (spreading them out)
- bar 12, mf not too loud
- bar 22 non legato LH
- bar 25 softer, less RH voicing
- 29 too loud RH
- 39 end of phrase too long, then next staccatos also a bit too long
- 49 dotted rhythms
- missing notes 51???
- fix fingering here
- don’t rush in bar 58
- 60 too loud
- more mistakes towards the end?