I'm still uber-sad

[Spatula]

Wah! ... My Fantasie Imp suks man... I've tried the Chang way, but the main problem is I'm not hitting the right notes, and I've been slow practicing for so long now that I want to speed things up.  I'm doing it CCs way, but I'm way overusing the soft pedal making the action more quick, but now its a poisonous habit. 

This piece is in a stage of a "dead-lock" that it seems its not improving by much, week after week.  I'm even getting more progress done on the Rach prelude, and its seems even more work is needed for Sonata 1 presto.

I'm sad. 

[Brian Healey]

Don't get too upset. It may seem like you're not making any progress just because of the repetitiveness of practicing a piece over and over. You also be turning it into a downward spiral by letting your lack of progress invade your focus. If you sit down to practice it with the mindset that "this piece sucks, and I'm not getting any better" then  your mind will drag you down. Then since you played it bad, it fuels your mind to keep feeding you negative vibes about the piece. A vicious cycle.

Here's a suggestion. Don't play the piece for a week, or even two weeks. Just give it a rest. After some time off, you may appraoch the piece with a new perspective. Sometimes we burn ourselves out with a piece if it's practiced constantly.

Also, a great man once said (I forget who it was), "When it seems like you're not making any progress, that's when you are on the verge of a breakthrough."

[dlu]

Don't get too upset. It may seem like you're not making any progress just because of the repetitiveness of practicing a piece over and over. You also be turning it into a downward spiral by letting your lack of progress invade your focus. If you sit down to practice it with the mindset that "this piece sucks, and I'm not getting any better" then  your mind will drag you down. Then since you played it bad, it fuels your mind to keep feeding you negative vibes about the piece. A vicious cycle.

Here's a suggestion. Don't play the piece for a week, or even two weeks. Just give it a rest. After some time off, you may appraoch the piece with a new perspective. Sometimes we burn ourselves out with a piece if it's practiced constantly.

Also, a great man once said (I forget who it was), "When it seems like you're not making any progress, that's when you are on the verge of a breakthrough."

That's exactly what I was thinking!! Put it off for a while and then come back to it. It's like you are trying to force-feed it to yourself, stop! When you pick it back up again I'm sure you will have made some subconscience improvements and you will play the piece better than ever...(I hope)

[Spatula]

I think I should relearn some grade 5 pieces so that I feel like a pro at them, maybe that's some reverse psychology to have a new take on the harder stuff (or easy stuff as Bernhard would say....easy vs impossible)

[rohansahai]

I think I should relearn some grade 5 pieces so that I feel like a pro at them, maybe that's some reverse psychology to have a new take on the harder stuff (or easy stuff as Bernhard would say....easy vs impossible)

That can easily backfire if u goof up the grade 5 pieces too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!