Sunday

Its been a very strange week and I've been feeling a bit unwell (in more ways than one) so I'm going to try and keep this short.

After staying in Wylam last night I came back and did about an hour of piano:

15 minutes Study in F at crotchet=40 I'm going to start working this up to speed now

15 minutes Top Cat at 5 tempos from 60-72bpm

15 minutes Bach working from 100bpm all the way up to the marked tempo of 138 as an experiment. 138bpm was rather scrappy so I decided to run the piece at 80bpm making sure I included all of the details (dynamics, articulation etc) which were lacking at the quicker tempos.

15 minutes scales and arpeggios.

Looking over my previous posts I see that it is about a month since I started the Grade 3 pieces - I may try to get the Grade 4 book this week as a new challenge/motivational tool.

I'm trying to keep the blog centred around music, piano and drums rather than "stuff" but its been a very tough week in a year of very tough weeks and I'm having a bit of a hard time staying positive right now. Hopefully I'll sort myself out.

Update: 15 minutes more playing the Study in F from 40bpm up to 50bpm