Merrily We Troll Along

Today was a long hard day at work but I've managed some piano practice this evening:

15 minutes: Wrestling my way through the first eight bars of Study in F at crotchet=40. I've been doing some work on this with the hands separately in order to work out some fingerings. I also ran through the right hand part for the whole piece so that I could get the melody in my head (I guess this is the piano equivalent of flicking to the last page of a paperback to see whodunit.)

15 minutes running through Top Cat at crotchet=60. There are still some errors in this but not always in the same places. The piece is starting to sound better now and I'm trying to pay more attention to details of articulation, dynamics and fingering and as a result spending more time looking at the written music and less time staring at my hands - a good thing!

15 minutes running through the Bach piece at six tempos (80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100) As with Top Cat I tried to focus on the articulation and not look at my hands so much. This is a little trickier in the Bach piece as there are more stretches involved in both hands.