Bach "Little Prelude in C Major" (BWV 939)

TC3

twocats

TC3 I'm impressed by your left hand ornaments! Very clean playing 🙂

rsl12

That's the most challenging thing I've heard you play. Sounds like real progress!

TC3

rsl12 Thanks! Yes, quite right: most of the stuff I do on keys doesn't really require a lot of technique, but I've had the itch to build my chops up a bit just for the fun of it. Now there's a Clementi piece I need to hack away at ...

danno858

Very good! It's always nice to accomplish something. Looking forward to the Clementi piece

TC3

danno858
Thanks!

The Clementi will be a while ... HS separate comes along fast, but HT is oddly tricky, even though they should line up just so. I'll get it eventually ... 😃

In the meantime, I'm also working on Nadia Boulanger's "Petite Piece pour Piano no.2." It's very different from the Bach and the Clementi, quite a challenge in its own way.

KevinM

TC3 I'm struggling with a Clementi as well. Also problem with hands together even though I am not a HS practicer usually but when I do it is no problem. In my case I'm thinking the scale like runs are not as smooth as they should be and their 16th notes are not always in time with the left hand 8th notes. HS I can make the scale runs better.

TC3

KevinM In my case I'm thinking the scale like runs are not as smooth as they should be and their 16th notes are not always in time with the left hand 8th notes.

Yeah, I think it's something like that on my part as well. Ah well, more practice needed!

danno858

I usually practice hands HT even when learning a piece. I’ll do HS if there’s a tricky passage but I like to keep interspersing HT so that I don’t become too proficient in the RH compared to my left. I’m right handed and I have trouble controlling the volume of my left hand although I’ve gotten much better at it in my old age! Like you say, practice! I’m hoping to dedicate more time to practice when I stop working in the next couple years

Peyton

Nicely done. Are you playing a Yamaha GP-295?

TC3

Peyton

Thank you!

That is my Roland GP609, the love of my life -- don't tell my spouse ... 😃

Peyton

TC3 Ha ha, I hear you on that. I have the Yamaha version and in times of stress, lonliness, angst and of course creative need it's there I go 🙂 Fortunately my wife understands.

TC3

twocats You're too kind! As always, I'm my own worst critic, and I can definitely hear some things that could use a bit more polishing -- though a little of it is the nerves from that red recording light ...