Eunice

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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?