The first full episode of 2013! Realizations about 10/10 and (my playing of) 10/8. A New Year’s resolution, an explanation of those improvs, and the ten minutes of my practice that aren’t actually “practicing”.
Many thanks to those of you who wrote reviews! While I didn’t get as many as I’d hoped for, I’m really touched by some of your comments. The podcast will return occasionally, with sporadic episodes in 2013. Meanwhile, have a terrific holiday season!
Here’s a link to what I spent all week on:
and here’s the sound file in case you’re not near video.
cheers!
Making art in this world; maintenance practice vs. get better practice; score disagreements; improving my thumb support.
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Demisemipenultimate? Only three more podcasts after this one (maybe). Thoughts on practicing between practice; on playing concerto reductions; a mini rant about Hindemith; a taxonomy of the Chopin etudes; and play-throughs of 10/3, 10/5, 10/8, and 25/2.
A mathy way of practicing 10/11; an interpretive conundrum in 10/3; a realization about my playing of 10/12; tricky parts of 10/8; thinking about 25/2, 10/5, and 10/4; beginning to learn the game of 25/8.
Here’s how I’m practicing 10/11:
A report on how practicing Chopin helped me play Brahms last week; some quotes from Chopin (and one from Chuck Close); thinking through my next performance (with a request for your ideas); snippets of all 24 etudes (I’m ignoring the other three for now); an impromptu play-through, with some yelling, of 10/5; how I’m practicing 10/11 (and a couple of minutes of actual practicing).
Thanks so much to listeners who have written reviews on iTunes. Unless I get 100 reviews by December 20–and it doesn’t yet look like I will–there will be only five more episodes of this podcast. Thanks for being my practice buddy!
Still mostly practicing right hand alone: small groups in 25/8 and bits of 10/1 and 10/2.
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