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My new project:
I've been challenging myself to practice a different etude every day and prepare it to the best of my ability in one day. This has been very helpful, but I wanted to add an additional element of pressure/nervousness. So I started recording them to post here.
It's not a real performance- I usually AM playing with a metronome, and I usually record these in a couple of takes and put them together later. I'll try to do them in a single take when possible, but usually I'll break them up.
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Anyway today's etude is from the "14 Mechanism Etudes" by Eugene Bozza. This is number 11 in b minor / E Major. I started with this one because I began the project in the middle of this book, and this was the first etude I recorded.
Recorded on 3/15/2013.
My new project:
I've been challenging myself to practice a different etude every day and prepare it to the best of my ability in one day. This has been very helpful, but I wanted to add an additional element of pressure/nervousness. So I started recording them to post here.
It's not a real performance- I usually AM playing with a metronome, and I usually record these in a couple of takes and put them together later. I'll try to do them in a single take when possible, but usually I'll break them up.
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Anyway today's etude is from the "14 Mechanism Etudes" by Eugene Bozza. This is number 11 in b minor / E Major. I started with this one because I began the project in the middle of this book, and this was the first etude I recorded.
Recorded on 3/15/2013.
Category Music / Classical
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It's comforting to hear this.
When I play in the orchestra and wind ensemble the amount of pressure I feel is fairly non-existent to minimal. When I'm doing an étude on my own for my TA I feel all the pressure. :P
Even after practicing them a million times, I just feel like the étude is new to me every time I play it whenever I come back to it, regardless of how long I was away from it. I feel like "where's my ability to play this? WHERE'D IT GO UGH"
When I play in the orchestra and wind ensemble the amount of pressure I feel is fairly non-existent to minimal. When I'm doing an étude on my own for my TA I feel all the pressure. :P
Even after practicing them a million times, I just feel like the étude is new to me every time I play it whenever I come back to it, regardless of how long I was away from it. I feel like "where's my ability to play this? WHERE'D IT GO UGH"
Well, etudes are designed to test and stretch ability from start to finish; for most of them, you don't get a break. They're so consistently demanding that if you don't know the piece well enough to play it in your sleep, you're going to slip up somewhere! So I kind of take it for granted that my play-throughs won't be perfect while doing these one-day challenges.
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