Last time I worked on sections A and B incrementing from 60 BPM to 90 BPM at 5 BPM intervals. Today, I started again at 60 BPM but felt comfortable going at 10 BPM intervals up to 90. From there,...
Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement 10-24-2023
Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement 10-17-2023
This song obviously pairs well with the metronome. I start the with Sections A and B at 60 bpm. Working up 5 bpm each time to 90 bpm. This took about 20 minutes. 5 bpm intervals feels about rig...
Fur Elise 10/12/2023
Full song practice Because I’ve learned each section, A, B, C, today I went over each of them in my 15 min (ish) session. I start with Section B with this being the most difficult session. Work f...
Fur Elise 10/11/2023
Section C Increment by 10 starting at 90 bpm. Pencilled in a finguring adjusted at the 6ths played by the RH. Focus on cres. and dim., and note length. Triplets should be practiced with RH only ...
Fur Elise 10/9/2023
Section B Quite easily worked my way up to 135bpm with the right hand. Both hands certainly get a little more challenging at 120 but felt comfortable getting to 135bpm after several reps. Next tim...
Fur Elise 10/2/2023
Section A Quickly increased speed from 65 bpm to 155 bpm. I had some trouble around 135 on the hand over hand portion, mainly just timing - ensuring I was staying on the correct 3/4 path, but afte...
Revisiting Jeux Deux
Day 1 I am going to relearn what I have previously learned and establish my progress
Fur Elise Section A 9-26-2023
RH Starting out at 60 bpm seems dreadfully slow, but it allows us to focus on the nature of the timing, the connection of our notes in our legato strides, ours rests, and our anticipation of the le...
Fur Elise Structure
Sections In this post, I’m going to break down the structure of Fur Elise and talk about starting and target paces for each section. In each section I’ll discuss the start pace and target pace for...