Sgisela for pieces with multiple voices, I think it’s also helpful to have very clear in your head what the different voices are, because if you don’t have that clarity, then when you play it, that lack of clarity is quite apparent, and things can become garbled and/or lost.
Yes, this is very important! I keep going back and forth about whether Miracles or Sept Song is harder (not that it matters but...) but one way that I think Miracles is harder than Sept Song is that Sept Song has a very clear melody (to my ear anyway), and that melody is much easier to pick, and sing for example, than the melody in Miracles. @Rubens advice early on to make those melody notes in Miracles stand out is a case in point.
For me, it’s very helpful to spend some real time practicing the different voices on their own, which helps me hear and understand them individually, before trying to understand how they relate to each other.
Yes. I rarely do HS practice (for example), but I think playing the non-melody voices and really hearing them, will be helpful for me.
Sgisela also if you end up redistributing notes, it can be helpful to re-write things so that the score looks more like what your hands are doing.
Ugh. I probably really need to learn some notation program. I am so incompetent in that area.
With Sept Song, I tried to write in all the spots where I distributed notes into RH or LH (i.e. notes written in the lower staff but played by the RH etc.)
I'm not at that point with Miracles yet, and working on it yesterday, I found it much more intuitive to distribute notes across LH-RH than Sept Song was, but I probably need to write in on the Miracles score so that I'm playing it the same way each time, and so that I don't have to re-think each time...
