Lesson Journal: Lesson #3

Monday, January 05, 2009

Time: 8:00 AM-9:02 AM

Today’s lesson was with S.

We worked exclusively on Scarlatti, of course, since that’s the only thing left that I need to learn for now. I ended up learning 18 measures hands together, and 5 more measures with only the right hand. For the total measures learned, I’m dividing that 5 by half since I didn’t learn the left hand with it.

So, we started at the top of the third page. Measures 1-7 of that page (measures 34-40 in the piece) were a little difficult for some reason, trying to remember when each hand had staccatos. Sometimes the right hand did and the left hand did not, and sometimes the left hand did and the right hand did not.

But the real challenge was measures 8-11 of the third page (measures 41-44 of the piece). I don’t’ know why, but I just couldn’t remember it all at first. Finally S went to get more coffee, and told me to practice that a few times. I finally was able to remember it without difficulty after about 5 minutes.

I’m not sure why it was hard. Just the way the hands went back and forth and notes held across beats, kind of confused me.

The rest wasn’t that hard. Measures 13-15 on the third page (measures 46-48 of the piece) were a similar pattern to measures 1-3 of the second page (measures 19-21 of the piece).

I’m really hoping I can finish this tomorrow. We should only have about a page and a half to go, I think. I have one more lesson with E tomorrow, before I go back to college.

Statistics

Velocity: 20.5 measures
Average velocity: 30 measures
Total measures learned: 88.5

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:09 am

[...] just worked on Scarlatti a bit, especially the part I just learned today. It’s going a bit better, though I can’t play it through without mistakes. Also, in [...]

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