Food for thought! đ
ShiroKuro Learning a new piece, where you canât play any of it, feels like it happens relatively quickly because we go from not being able to play it all, to being able to play more and more of it. But once we can play the entire piece, being able to play it âbeautifully and expressivelyâ is a kind of learning that happens more slowly. So it makes sense to me to âmove onâ, i.e., starting a new piece, while still working on the âbeautiful and expressiveâ learning with the previous piece.
Very wise words!
My previous teacher had already approved the two pieces before I started the first lesson. Despite this, my new teacher only signed off on themâsomewhat reluctantlyâafter five lessons.
One of those pieces was a piece that I loved very much (the Debussy piece that I showed in another thread), but it only has 27 measures and I started to feel fed up. The other piece had gone sour much earlier. There is clearly a limit to how much time I am willing to spend on one short piece!
Stub you have to guard against spending 90% of your time on the new pieces and neglecting the more mature pieces.
My problem was that instead of practising I spent so, so much time trying to get a good recording. I had already made a recording before the first lesson, and before the second lesson, the third, the fourth and the fifth, I spent so, so much time on trying to get this good recording that she hopefully would approve. Of course, before making the recording, I would practise according to her directions.
So that is also something we talked about. She will be more clear to me when she thinks I can make a recording that hopefully is a final recording, and when a recording will be more a work in progress.
ShiroKuro Which reminds me, how long is your lesson and do you have lessons every week?
Fifty minutes, and sometimes every week, sometimes every two weeks, according to my needs. I have taken two weeks when I felt that apart from working with these two old pieces and recording them, I wanted time to learn a new piece as well.