Kaydia Then it suddenly occurred to me that I was basing the tempo on the eighth notes, not the quarter note time signature.

Oh yes, happened to me as well! 😆

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... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...

    Four more pieces completed: "Morning" with a focus on the Cresc and Dim symbols and Phrases, "Taps" which introduced the Upbeat, "Happy Birthday" which introduced a Fermata, and "English Folk Song" with blocked and broken C chords. These all felt more like review pieces since I was already familiar with all these concepts from the Alfred's book. The only thing of note here is that Faber included the pronunciation of fermata as fer-MAH-ta, and I realized I'd been hearing it in videos as fer-MAH-da. Also, the accent is on the 2nd syllable. I need to relearn this word!