The Last Thing You Play

[schubert_21]

What is it that you play at the very end of your practice?  Is it anything in particular, so you leave on a good note, or just whatever you feel like?  Do you think it matters?

[birba]

Good advice.  Everyone should do that.  I never have...

[lighthand045]

I just play a random improv on whatever theme, or just rant about 10 minutes. I found somewhat incomfortable when people listen to me at home, so i can't just leave it on a perfect cadence

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I end on middle C.

Every practice session since I started 9 years ago.

[iansinclair]

My own interpretation -- which varies almost every time, at least a little -- of "The Rose".

[outin]

I thought this thread was about what I would like to play on my deathbed

I stop when I feel like it, so there are no rituals for me...

[hfmadopter]

My own interpretation -- which varies almost every time, at least a little -- of "The Rose".

The arrangement of "The Rose" that I'm working on is rather nice, if how many ways to present a simple theme works. I'm spinning off of that though, at one point adding choir on the digital piano. It changes keys twice and does this ascending scale in block chords that I don't care for, so changed that to single notes landing on a block chord that sounds more suited to the piece, IMO.

My wife loves it, that's all I care about ( well I like it too).

But lately I've been ending with Bachs Small Prelude in Organ played on my digital piano with the full pipe organ sound. Loving it, looking for more pieces to do like that in organ ( I've also played the main theme/voice in flute). Or, David Nevue's arrangement of Just As I Am, with warm strings added in a layer. It really is a lovely piece of music when you get into it, especially with the added effects of the warm strings in the background.

Ya I've gone a bit crazy with this digital piano, I must get back to the Mozart piece on the grand !

[evitaevita]

An improvisation
or
the pieces I'm working on slowly and carefully.

[david456103]

last thing i play is liszts mazeppa....if i start with it i dont have any energy for my other pieces lol

[thepianist09]

Just as Rachmaninov_forever does, I finish on a stacatto middle C.

I actually have no idea why I do it. I did for the first session and then the next, and it has just become an unusual habit. It is not superstitious (although perhaps it is subconsciously).

[piano1mn]

With some Liszt

[perprocrastinate]

A nice, clangorous bottom A.

[caryljamesthompson]

I usually end my practice sessions w/ the measures that I would like to "memorize" the most...