#practice blog

This piece was really fun to learn, it’s an enjoyable waltz with a super easy left hand accompaniment and it sounds great.

Another Burgmuller piece! I enjoy these pieces so much I decided to print off the complete collection and work through them all. This piece is number one and is the easiest of them all but I still think it sounds great and I’m happy with the recording I got even if there is a little hesitation at the end.

“imagine a sick child breathing. While some are strong, others are weak and each one is agony, while it weakens…but…there is one more…one more…one more…one…….”

Practice Journal 📖 Farewell (L'adieu) - Burgmüller 22/06/18 Pieces Learned: 12 Days Left: 192 This piece is number 12 from Burgmüllers famous op. 100 (25 Easy and progressive pieces) but this piece is far from easy, the fast tempo and difficult fingerings make this piece very challenging. I spent a lot of time on this piece and even just alot of time trying to get it up to an acceptable speed. This was one of the first recordings I got of the piece, I felt that once I got this piece to a certain level the more I practiced it and stressed over it the more mistakes I started to make for myself but actually now that I look back on this recording its actually very good and I'm proud of it. I had wanted to play some more burgmuller pieces for a while now the pieces are a great addition to any pianists arsenal and I am definatly going to continue with this collection just mabey a slightly slower one next time.

Practice Journal 📑 29/03/18 Lately I have been practicing Tchaikovsky’s piece the new doll which comes from his Op. 39 Album for the young. I think this is a grade 4 RCM piece and I am progressing quite quickly through it, I would like to have it finished tomorrow before I go on holiday so when I come back I can work on bringing it up to performance level.

I feel like I have spent way too long working on this piece and I have probably not practiced it enough. Having started this piece before Easter I found it hard to get back into practicing again when I came home and spending soo much time on this one piece made me become bored of it, but it was during the past few days which I have been recording this piece where I only really started to work on the dynamics and articulation that I began to see the beauty of this piece and how a slight change can breath new life into a piece. I also found it very helpful to watch other peoples performances of the piece, some people play it fast but I think when played slower it’s much easier to picture a happy mischievous child playing with a toy doll.