Week 24: The perfect crime
🎹 Played 5 days out of 7, for at least 30min a day! Currently working on an étude by Elena Gnyesina. The score suggests "moving" as a tempo and I can play it comfortably at 100bpm. But my teacher seem...
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Restarting my piano practice
The pandemic changed many things, for a lot of people. Personally, I bought a treadmill. And I decided I would learn the piano on my own, no teachers, just me, a book, and my musical geniality (ahem!)...
Allemande, Schein
An allemande is a type of dance very common in baroque suites. As I keep working through Grade 1 repertoire, I'm starting to encounter more and more of those dances: allemandes, rigaudons, and many, m...
Piano: "T. Rex goes for a Stroll" by Christine Donkin
For the past two years I have really struggled to keep up with my piano studies. I'm a bit disappointed in myself that after 2.5 years I'm still only a grade 1 student, but it is what it is. Just need...
Piano: "Taking Turns" by Christine Donkin
Discovering Christine Donkin earlier this year was a game changer for me. I love studying classical music and I love playing recognizable pop/rock tunes, but what I didn't know is that I truly LOVE fa...
Piano: "The Tired Turtle Express" by Christine Donkin
The Tired Turtle Express is an early elementary piece from the book "Comics & Card Tricks: 12 elementary piano solos", by Christine Donkin. I had so much fun practicing this one: first time I encounte...
Reinagle Op. 1 No. 11
Yet another of Reinagle's charming 18th century miniatures! This one was also present in my edition of Essential Piano Repertoire (prep grade). I really liked the dynamics and tempo indications in Sne...
Reinagle Op. 1 No. 6
I have been working through Reinagle's "24 Short and Easy Pieces" in order, since they seem to be mostly arranged by difficulty. All the pieces in Op. 1 are early elementary level, ranging for prepara...
Jumping in the Mud: 10 early elementary piano solos
"Jumping in the Mud" is the title of the first book in Christine Donkin's Piano Pieces Vol I: Elementary (there are three piano books in this volume). This is an early elementary (preparatory grade) s...
Piano: Echo, G. Armand Ferté
Echo is a small étude by French pianist G. Armand Ferté. This is piece no. 101 on the Russian School of Piano Playing method book. Armand Ferté (1881 — 1973) was a French pianist, conductor and music...