since that is the case then, then there is no point then..
i didnt do lessons as i said tin the first post, so i havent really played any other classical stuff, so why dont you help me and give me some "EASIER" piece for me to try out..
would really appreciate it.
Do you really have a good foundation?
As you know houses without foundations collapse and the same happen with skills.
What you need to build a foundation is a baby step approach.
Let's say you're following whatever program to build a skill and you're strafen with information ...
DO THIS, and
DO THAT, and also
THIS, and
THAT too, and don't forget
THISIt is really just too things at the same time to focus on.
So what you really do is breaking it all up into steps.
Then you just focus on
STEP 1When
STEP 1 after weeks or months (depends on you) is like
SECOND NATURE to you and you achieve it without too much thinking and mistakes, you move to
STEP 2When
STEP 1 and
STEP 2 have become secondo nature, you move on to
STEP 3This is in my opinion, the only way to build a foundation, because at each time you've just one STEP to focus on and are not overwhelmed by other things that distract you.
If you don't build a foundation in STEPS you end up overloading your focus, and the result is that you're poorly focused on many things, rather than being fully focused on just one thing.
What these steps are?
In my opinion the
FIRST STEP is learning the so called C position.
You thumb is resting on the C key and your pinky is resting on the G key, both for righ hand and left hand. This step is important because it allow you to focus on the most economical and efficient way to move your fingers/hands/arms without being distracted by the hand changing position and by musical complexity.
So for a couple of weeks (or at least what it takes to make this step second nature) you would just work on pieces that are musically simple (or even unmusical) and take advantage of just one position of the hand.
The
SECOND STEPis to work on just rhythm, and therefore how to use your fingers/hand/arms/ to play efficiently and economically groups of notes. First groups of 1 note, then of 2 notes, then of 3 notes, then of 4 notes, the of 5 notes and of 6 notes. Another step which may take a week or more to become second nature.
What you're doing at this point is making the most efficient and economical motions required to play instinctive, so that when you will switch to complex music, you'll be able to focus on the musical and interpretative aspects, without being distracted by the problems derived from lacking such a foundation
The
THIRD STEP ,now that efficient and economical melodic and rhythmical motions are like second nature and instinctive to you, is to train the change of hand position.
So how to move efficiently from the simplest C position to more complex positions, including those on the black keys while still maintaining control, ease and relaxation.
The
FOURTH STEP would be to practice the passing under/over of the thumb, and the best way is to practice scales while applying everything you've learned from the previous steps. If you see that while practicing scales you're still being distracted by the problems you dealt with in the previous steps, then you've not assimilated them well enough and you should go back to the step that you didn't really mastered completely
The
FIFTH STEP would be to maintain the simplests changes of hand position, the simplest rhythmic structures, the simplests melodies and musical elements, while adding SPEED to the equation. On step five all of the other steps have already become second nature to you and you accomplish them without thinking, just instinctively, and so you have the privilege of just focusing on speed, without other elements distracting you.
The
SIXTH STEP if when you finally focus on musical elements, without being distracted by the other basic technical elements. At this point you can try the simplest yet musical interpretative pieces like small preludes, sonatinas, rondos, albums for the young and such.
While this work may seem tedious it is just what it takes to build a foundation.
Once you have your foundation you can build your "house" without problems and start a gradual process of moving from musically simplest pieces to musically complex pieces, without being distracted by what should be nothing but INSTINCTIVE BASIS that you build and use automatically, without thinking ... so you can think about the music.