Good advice...I have a bad day today, so stiff in neck and shoulders that I just cannot really play...so I guess the critique from the old boy was deserved
believe it or not the releaseof tenesed muscles and better overall mobility helps your playing. it has mine.
Don't I know it It frustrates me so much when one day I am fine and everything is easy and the next day I am so stiff that I can't properly move my arms. I know immediately when I sit at the piano that it won't work, just lifting my hands to the keys takes so much effort. So playing becomes heavy and dull.I have been like this all my life, I just wake up in the morning and my muscles are frozen... Usually it resolves in a few days by itself, trying to exercise or massage tends to just make it worse the next day. Winter time is the worst. I guess I am ready to try the foam thingy
they are becoming easier and easier to obtain as for a while it was only in the elite sports strength and conditioning circles and on the ball rehabilitation folks that knew about and how to use them. best damn body care apparatus i ever bought.
Done! I should have mine in a week or so...
id say depending where you are begin maybe for a few minutes everyday either in the morning or evening, work up to longer sessions then do if time allows a short session in the am and a short one in the afternoon/evening (doesn't take a whole lot of time i will do anything from 5 minutes for a quick mobility refresher to a longer 20 min + deal if i am particularly beat up).
How many beats per second was that though? Does your teacher not do lagato? Because either my ears are just lagging behind or that definitely sounds faster than 65-67 bpm.
The piano sounds good though! Nothing wrong with it.
It was too fast probably, no idea of the metronome speed. I wasn't concentrating on the piece so much, just practicing the right hand fingering which I just changed into something more natural, the one in my book never really felt right.I will try to make a proper recording for you next weekend, if the cat co-operates... I am still experimenting with different ways to play the left hand, haven't been able to decide. I guess it depends on my mood
Your tempo is good, if you go slower it will be really hard for you to maintain and for the listener to follow the melodic line. Some might prefer it even faster! What fingerings (passages) are you having trouble with?
My teacher was telling me a few times the piece was written in lagato and around 65 bpm.