I had quite a good day yesterday. I'm now running through the three pieces slowly but fairly fluently. Last night I made an attempt at working through the simple arrangement of Vivaldi's Autumn from the Four Seasons. I was playing through slowly without metronome. This piece is a little more challenging as it involves reading and playing more chordal material than the other three pieces. I managed to work through the whole piece a few times in one sitting though which is a sure sign of progress - last Tuesday it took me all evening to work through the first few bars of Duncombe's Gavot, a much easier piece.
Today
I started my early morning practice by working through exercises 1 - 5 in the ABRSM sight reading book. I was pleasantly surprised by my ability here!
I ran through all the scales I have covered so far. If I stumbled I would play that particular scale over and over. I repeated this process with the arpeggios.
Gavot is now coming along nicely and I am gradually working up the metronome. Today I managed 60 bpm then 62, 66, 69, 72
Song of Erin is up to speed now but I'm trying to improve my dynamic control and also trying to nail the left hand note durations.
Trudging is also much better than yesterday and sounds reasonably fluent at 50 bpm
Long term I need to stop looking down at my hands so much and work on challenging sections of each piece in isolation rather than just running the pieces through.
The adventure continues
16 years ago
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