your (musical) goals for 2008

[fliszt]

So what do you want to accomplisch in 2008, musically?

i want to be able to play all P&F's from WTC 1.

[shortyshort]

I would like to get something finished. 

[thalbergmad]

I would like to get a new piano and actually practice.

Thal

[Bob]

Continue to improve technically.

Work some on my chord reading ability.

Do more performances where I get paid so I can get some extra money, being careful to find performances that don't hog all my practice time.

[pianogeek_cz]

- First and foremost (literally): conservatory exams in January! *BLEEEEP*
- Piano-wise: a new balanced recital programme, possibly some more modern music (another Prok sonata? A Shostakovich something?), more Czech music (Martinu, Janacek). Plus definitely Bach's e minor toccata (the fugue... aaah ). Also, more work on directly incorporating the concept of music as a language in the actual playing...
- Composition-wise: some fugues, a sonata would be nice. Work on more facets. Get acquainted with 12-tone techniques and serialism, plus modes of limited transposition.
- Other: get acquainted with the viola and just be able to play accordingly difficult stuff.
- The thing-in-itself: HAVE FUN

[pies]

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[Derek]

Beat my record number of improvisations recorded (145) this year.  maybe learn a rachmaninoff piece.. work on my boogie woogie playing too.

[richard black]

Organise a concert or three to mark my dear friend Ronald Stevenson's 80th birthday.

https://www.ronaldstevensonsociety.org.uk

for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about.

[imbetter]

1. Getting into the habit of playing Hanon and scales.
2. Adopting a more disciplined practice technique.
3. Getting at least one concert program together (A very Dnephi-like goal).

[thalbergmad]

1. Getting into the habit of playing Hanon and scales.

Shock horror.

In the days of Bernhard, you would have been shot for such a sentence.

Thal

[rc]

First priority is to work on the foundation:  a strong command of basic scale/chord/arpeggio patterns and improve sightreading.

I'm going to learn the rest of Bach's inventions, they're fun.

Maintain a couple pieces and perform more, wherever I can.  Maybe I'll make arrangements of some songs I like and try singing as well.

Enroll for a b.mus in the fall and see if I like where that takes me.

[aewanko]

-Buy actual piano and violin (if possible by the budget, or by chance, gifted)
-learn harder pieces (musically)
-Become an accompanist for friend (I wish)


are these impossible?

[bench warmer]

        |:  Just play another day and then the day after  :|     

 

[mike_lang]

Shock horror.

In the days of Bernhard, you would have been shot for such a sentence.

Thal

Fortunately, Marik extinguished the Bernhing flame.

ML

[quantum]

Play some Messiaen (since 2008 is the centennial year).
Get myself a practice organ, so I can actually practice organ stuff at home.

[richard black]

Play some Messiaen (since 2008 is the centennial year).

Hey, thanks for pointing that out! Time to go Messiaen shopping....

[kard]

hmm...more structured practice...
I'm planning to break away from Debussy...I like the music, but I need a broader experience.
I also want to get some Scriabin or Chopin etudes in, but frankly...they're scary lol...

[retrouvailles]

Play some Messiaen (since 2008 is the centennial year).

Agreed. I will try to learn some more substantial pieces by him, time permitting.

[elspeth]

A Mozart sonata or two for me this year, along with my usual preferences of Bach, Handel and other assorted composers of a similar generation. And probably some jazz or blues for variety.

Repertoire choices apart... must practice, both more and better. Then I might start getting somewhere!

[pianowolfi]

I would like to get something finished. 

Me too. And one of my not only musical goals: Don't plan too much

[term]

more repertoire, definately. More more more.
More.

[dnephi]

1.  Recital in end of April
2.  After that, speaking only of technique: Learn, in order: Gnomenreigen, Chasse-Neige, Feux Follets (Each progressively a step forward in technique)
3.  Learn a set of Brahms Variations
4.  Continue to play even at grad school
5.  Maybe even learn Reflets dans le Vent, in honor of Messiaen.

[gerryjay]

 first i would like to wish you all good luck in your musical projects. then, here are my own:
 1. complete my first program (bach 6th, mozart 332, brahms rhap 2, debussy prelude 10, villa cirandas) until june;
 2. complete another program from july to december;
 3. play at least one recital with that;
 4. find a violinist to play in a duo, and if that succeed, find a cellist to a trio (perhaps a 2009 plan already);
 

[pianochick93]

I would like to do well in my exams in May. Or is it march? I can't remember.

[nanabush]

Start a new set of rep.

I've been pretty lazy this year, been just playing through old books... I want to actually start working at a well balanced repertoire for this year (I have to convince my teacher I want to pretty much start new pieces )

I'm looking for a good Beethoven sonata, a Debussy prelude (or two) and a modern piece to start; sadly I only have 2 Beethoven sonatas under my belt, and I kinda want to add another one to the list

[gerryjay]

I would like to do well in my exams in May. Or is it march? I can't remember.

hey chick!
 two months is a huge gap... 

[pianochick93]

Yeah, I'm hoping it's not March, or maybe it is theory in March, and practical in May. Who knows. It wont be any kind of hard work anyway, it is only grade 4 AMEB prac and grade 2 AMEB theory. *snore*

Only thing bad is the aural test that goes along with the prac, I can't do the clapping rhythms back, because I can't remember them!
Give me a piece of paper to write it down as I listen, fine, but otherwise I am lost.
I can do everything else aural well because I am a singer as well.

Edited to add: Grade 4 AMEB is probably about grade 4-5 ABRSM, but grade 7 ABRSM is about grade 5-6 AMEB.
I'm only doing exams at an easier level to get used to them before I do harder stuff. It was all easy in Piano For Leisure, we chose between aural and sightreading. I did sightreading, and did very well.

[gerryjay]

Only thing bad is the aural test that goes along with the prac, I can't do the clapping rhythms back, because I can't remember them!

do you want some help with that? let me know is so please.
 btw, what is ameb?

 

[pianochick93]

AMEB is the Australian musical examination board. It has a pretty crap selection of pieces.

[point of grace]

humm
i agree with someone here who said :Getting into the habit of playing Hanon and scales... i would also say to play more of the Czerny op.740.
then to finish mi piano concerto of Mozart K.467 C Mayor, and performe it!! (a dream)
and to play more hours a day.. lets say a more structured practice in terms of time.

and to do very well in my december exams!!!!!! ( i´m in south america.. time´s different =P) i´ve recently gave one hihi

and goooooooood luck to you all pianists in this 2008!!!!!!

[gerryjay]

and goooooooood luck to you all pianists in this 2008!!!!!!

hey grace!
 thanks. suerte in your plans! 

[retrouvailles]

suerte in your plans! 

That's buena suerte, not just suerte. I know a fair bit of Spanish myself.

Organise a concert or three to mark my dear friend Ronald Stevenson's 80th birthday.

https://www.ronaldstevensonsociety.org.uk

for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about.

That's great! I'm a big fan of his music. I hope he has a nice birthday. Any ideas what these concert(s) will have? And where?

[point of grace]

That's buena suerte, not just suerte. I know a fair bit of Spanish myself.



That's great! I'm a big fan of his music. I hope he has a nice birthday. Any ideas what these concert(s) will have? And where?

nono, we also say just SUERTE in informal speech.... both are aceptable... let´s say that everything's getting acceptable... =S

[point of grace]

hey grace!
 thanks. suerte in your plans! 

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thanks gerrY thankss!!!!!! i´ll need it hehe

do you have msn?

[Petter]

play la campanella backwards with my feet on my casio rapman

[point of grace]

play la campanella backwards with my feet on my casio rapman

MUCHA SUERTE

[gerryjay]

play la campanella backwards with my feet on my casio rapman

[gerryjay]

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thanks gerrY thankss!!!!!! i´ll need it hehe

do you have msn?

no, i don't...  perhaps in the near future...

[gerryjay]

That's buena suerte, not just suerte.

 hey retrouvailles! thanks for your intention, but i speak spanish with some fluency. as grace said, uses are changing (the same to portuguese, btw).  thanks anyway!

[point of grace]

no, i don't...  perhaps in the near future...

uch! ok, we´ll keep on chattin' here meanwhile !