Thoughts From My Office

I wanted to show you what my piano practice looks like.

Happy Friday! Here are a bunch of quick thoughts before I get to work on a big freelance assignment:

First, I wanted to show you what my piano practice looks like, keeping in mind that putting a camera in front of anything changes it slightly. This is Mozart K332 mmt 2 Adagio, the same piece I played for you last week, but WORKING ON BEING EVEN MORE SPECIFIC:

In this video you can hear me trying to identify the problem with the ornament, but I still haven’t figured out the central issue. (This is where some musicians make the choice to “just play it over and over and hope it gets better.”)

In this video you can hear how much cleaner the ornament is after I identified, isolated, and addressed the primary issue (I…