1, My teacher has told me I muddy my scales. (I run one note into the other playing them legato.) I have a hard time hearing this. So without telling her, when practicing, I switched to playing all my scales and Hanon exercises nonlegato, figuring that after a couple of weeks of this, I'll hear the muddiness. Good idea?
2. She wants me to sound the highest voice in all the chords in Weeping Willow. But she didn't tell me how. Any suggestions?
I dont know why, but my hands just seems to float over the B Major with ease. C is still the hardest mind - passing the thumb is so tricky with this scale imo.SJ
1, My teacher has told me I muddy my scales. (I run one note into the other playing them legato.) I have a hard time hearing this. So without telling her, when practicing...
Dear Bernhard,did you say somewhere you give 15 minutes lessons? Looking at your posts, I just don't see it.
I just want to address the point of not telling her. In early stages, your teacher should know everything you are doing in practice. She cannot correct it if you do not tell her what is wrong. She most likely has several solutions, and you would receive one if you were only to ask.Best,ML
Have a look here for the full story:https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2260.msg19270.html#msg19270(Dear Bernhard thread – Pieces leading up to the revolutionary)Best wishes,Bernhard.
I took the time to read it before writing what I wrote. I am just teasing you, Bernhard. Can you be teased? You write such an in depth posts, it's hard to imagine you cutting a lesson off after 15 minutes or working with very young kids.
I type fast.
Yes, and you're right handed.(just a guess, but a plausible one based on some old posts. I'm not simply playing the 81% odds.)
Actually, I am ambidextrous.
Well, then my logic is wrong.Here's my incorrect reasoning. We know that in most animal species, roughly 50% of the individuals show a strong handedness, and 50% do not. Of those that do, 50% are right handed and 50% left. Humans are different. 90% show strong preference, and of those that do, 90% are right handed. So you could make a guess that everybody is right handed, and be right 81% of the time (90% times 90%). But what does this have to do with typing?Bernhard in a long ago post mentioned liking the dvorak keyboard. The dvorak keyboard is known to offer significant advantages over the qwerty, but has never caught on due to the long qwerty tradition. However, lefthanders mostly insist the advantages of dvorak accrue solely to right handers, and the dvorak is actually worse for a lefthander than qwerty. I'm righthanded myself and can't give you personal experience, but having a left handed child has led me to do some reading and that is what the lefties say. The young lefties, anyway, the old lefties ..........aren't. Therefore, Bernhard liking dvorak is some evidence he might be righthanded. To know how much evidence, we'd have to dredge up Baye's Theorem.
Bernhard,I'm sorry for being so anal.
Are you Pianistimo too?
I don´t know. Multiple personalities are not aware of the existence of the others - until something dreadful (like murder) happens (at least in the movies, that is). Best wishes,Bernhard.