I've learned both hands for the first page of Balestrand. Amazingly enough I can carry the melody, on tempo, for most of the page! Yay!! There are a couple of spots giving me a bit of trouble but I'll get them worked out. Page 2 swaps the melody to the LH and that's harder for me to finger out for some reason. I'll get it, it'll just take more practice and I'm in no rush. It's such a pretty piece that I really want to play it properly.
Always On My Mind is coming along. I'm not working on it that hard, 2 hours per week, but I can play 1 1/2 measures of the first line to tempo and make it sound like it should. Unfortunately, I can't make the second half of measure 2 sound like it should and that's creating problems with going on to measure 3.
This is what I'm learning:
You can see the treble 8th notes at the end of measure 2. When I play those and the F# in measure 3 I can't make my keyboard sound like the video does. Played alone, my F3# doesn't sound "correct." It's probably the difference in sampling but it throws me off because I always think I hit a wrong key. My mid-range bass never sounds quite right.
The Faber stuff is still 🤮. I turned to a new page and it's an arranged Leopold Mozart piece - Minuet in F Major. Blah. At least I can concentrate on spotting and knowing my key signatures and spending some time practicing the FM scale - I need the review.