Its your own fault no matter how you look at it, dont say oh i didnt have enough time to practice it because you should have chosen an easier piece to learn and memorize. Didn't have enough practice time ? you shouldn't even be performing if you don't have enough practice time. Your a bad performer, you make mistakes, If your a bad performer you shouldn't be performing, or perform infront of less people.
Uh Oh is right. If I were you, I would see my teacher as much as I can in these last days and see if the piece is salvageable in such a short time. I really don't want to waste your time by having you read too many of my words when you should be practicing, so I'll just ask this: Can you cancel out? What is the context of this performance -exhibition or competition? I havent heard you play, but if I didn't feel good about a piece a week before I have to perform it, I would either work really hard to get it up to level or drop it entirely. A piece like that demands that you know what you are doing.Everyone performs worse than they practice - my teacher tells me that most of his students come to him and say "Oh, but i did it so well at home.." It doesn't matter. To perform it with any degree of confidience, you have to be able to do it well anywhere, on any piano, in any condition.
What I did to prepare this piece was to practice each hand separatly at first. It might not seem like its working immediatly, but somehow it makes a hell of a difference then just playing both hands together all the time. Try to prepare the most difficult places (particulary in the left hand) very carefully with one-hand play.After this i concentrated on taking a few bars, played them over and over, and slowly moved on. Then i could concentrate on a whole page, playing over and over, with and without metronome, until it was stuck in my fingers. Try also listening to recordings such as John Bell or maaaaybe horowitz, because they both present both clarity and musical geniality in their own way.
How did you practice the part right before the last line or so, with the jumping left hand and such? That part murders me cause I can never balance out all the notes.
Well its not like I ran up to someone and was like "PLZ let me perform a Scriabin etude I can NAIL IT!!" I just chose this as my next piece with my teacher, and, if youd care to read my post, I was approached about performing it only a week and a half after i started it, and when i asked my teacher whether i could use this piece or stop learning it and go back to another one, he said i could do this one but it would be a close thing. And i cant cancel or anything. Also, being a bad performer doesnt mean i should never perform, it just means i need to be very comfortable with a piece to perform it...
If you know its impossible, you should just say, No thanks, or I would love to perform, However I don't have enough time to get this piece ready, may I play another piece? You can't blame your teacher, the person who asked you, me, or anyone else, just yourself. I also want to let you know im not trying to be mean in my post or my previous post, I am just stating the obvious, telling you the truth so in the future you will know not to do such an idiodic thing. Also you shouldn't let anything stop you from performing and doing what you love. This event will make you think more in the future.
LOL! I love this ranting forum!! here i go...Well i have a piano audition for Miami University in less than a week. Although there's a lot of pressure in a recital because so many people are watching you, a college audition is kind of.. where it counts. While a recital can be forgotten if it turns out badly, this audition somewhat determines my future (and scholarships that go with it). Also, the plane tickets and hotel rooms cost money, and i'm going to be more behind in school for missing 2 days (My 15-20 page Senior Thesis is due in less than 2 weeks), so i don't want to blow it and make the trip a waste.Yeah i kind of told my teacher a month before the performance i needed to know all major and harmonic minor scales 4 octaves, and i really didn't know minor at all. So i kind of crammed them all in now... but they are still shakey! I am performing Sonata in G Major k283 by Mozart, the "Black Key" Etude Op 5 no. 10, and Toccata by Khachaturian. I just got the sonata memorized a couple weeks ago, and i am reviving the other two pieces from months ago, but i can't find the score to my toccata,... AHhhh I'm so NERVOUS! the anxiety will be over soon,
Hehehe. No, I didnt wear gloves while I was playing, but I wore them until right before I got on the piano.