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Offline kittenyarn

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Piano new years resolutions :)
on: December 31, 2021, 02:57:23 PM
Hiii everyone! I wanted to ask if any of you have made (or are making) any piano related new years resolutions? I'm planning to do some myself. I want to practise more consistently! I want to get gooooood  :P Or better, at least. What are your New Year's resolutions? :)

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Re: Piano new years resolutions :)
Reply #1 on: December 31, 2021, 10:01:16 PM
It's time for me to learn how to structure my practice time more, so I can be more efficient in bigger learning projects!

Offline j_tour

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Re: Piano new years resolutions :)
Reply #2 on: December 31, 2021, 10:17:48 PM
Really, just my constant struggle to keep a number of "tunes" in memory.  Not especially fancy or long pieces.  No real technical problems I'm working at, although there are many challenges I encounter in sight-reading that get attention from me as they arise.

Basically just play more, and not go months without playing.  Anything, really:  Bach sinfonias, things from the WTC, or, ideally, pieces from my soon-to-be-memorized-were-i-not-so-lazy "book" of repertoire.

And replace the damned CR2032 battery in the Hammond-Suzuki digital clone!  Now that I finally got it stacked on top of the digital piano and MIDI'd up to the same (for use as a lower manual), there's no reason except sheer laziness to not unscrew the housing and put a new battery in!  Not strictly a piano "resolution," but piano-adjacent.
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Offline ted

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Re: Piano new years resolutions :)
Reply #3 on: January 02, 2022, 08:16:14 AM
I stopped making New Year resolutions ages ago, piano related or not. I do have clear ideas of how I could improve idea generation and vocabulary and it is just a question of working at them consistently. The technical aspect continues to serve me well and requires no more than a few minutes a day to maintain it. My main fault is a tendency to play too heavily and waste energy but old habits are hard to break, especially in the excitement of the moment. I can start a recording session with the intention of reining things in but slowly lapse over the first thirty minutes and end up feeling like a limp rag at around an hour. In other words the music is all right but I am not. Fixing that might serve as a resolution I suppose.
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Offline lelle

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Re: Piano new years resolutions :)
Reply #4 on: January 08, 2022, 12:06:37 AM
I hear that New Year's resolutions are hard to keep and not a good idea in general :P but I guess there is no one size fits all when it comes to that.
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