Lee - adult - 6 month update

lzp11 wrote: Well, I've been trying to practice as much as possible, although it is not always easy with to fit in!

Hellene set me three pieces to practice after the recital and I've been playing those.

Firstly, The Clown by Kabalesky. This was my favourite of the three, I really enjoyed learning this. I have uploaded a video although it is by no means my best performance, unfortunately I keep having a break between playing and I find that it is much harder to keep making progress than if I manage to play most days for even a short while. Here is is:

The next one was also a really nice piece: Garden by Maidapar. I think it is supposed to be staccato but I might need some help with the polishing of this one:

Finally, I am learning Old French Song by Tchikovsky. I found this one the hardest to get into, especially the left hand. It has taken me a long time to master this even with hands separately. But today I played both hands perfectly LH6 and RH6 and started on P5 with a score of about 196/206 so hopefully this will improve soon.

Hellene, I'm happy to have feedback about the above pieces and whether they need much more work. I'll try to post a video of french song within the next few weeks.

I've also been playing the summer games and enjoying practicing left hand chords and trying to hear them in different pieces. Very interesting, and easier each time, even when changing key. I've completed C major and two others (will have to check which ones!). Will update again soon

lzp11 wrote: Hellene - I also have a suggestion that might help people who are learning piano using Soft Mozart without having one to one lessons with a teacher. You have a fantastic library of musical links on the site and on youtube. Is it possible to create a library of pieces that correspond to the music in the curriculum? Ideally gold standard or 'perfect' pieces so that when watching, we can listen several times and try to match our playing to that on the video. This might help us to learn to polish pieces more easily and independently. Maybe some of your best students or teachers could record some pieces for us?

lzp11 wrote: That's great, I really look forward to getting some input from Oleg on the forum soon He looks like a great character and also very talented pianist. It is very exciting to have more teachers supporting us here!

Hellene - I also have a suggestion that might help people who are learning piano using Soft Mozart without having one to one lessons with a teacher. You have a fantastic library of musical links on the site and on youtube. Is it possible to create a library of pieces that correspond to the music in the curriculum?

Ideally gold standard or 'perfect' pieces so that when watching, we can listen several times and try to match our playing to that on the video. This might help us to learn to polish pieces more easily and independently.

Maybe some of your best students or teachers could record some pieces for us?

andreasro wrote: Lee, it's always a great pleasure to hear from you You're inspiring to me. You've learned a lot, your progress is big. You're practicing, that's sure )

Great suggestion! Why don't you put it in the Suggestion Box section too? It's a great place to have all the suggestions people have and also maybe starting from an idea someone else with get one or more ideas and so on. What do you think?

Andrea