🎵 JJ's Piano Playing 🎹

Documenting the journey rediscovering my piano hobby.

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Methods

JJ van Zon, 2021

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Practice Schema

I may annotate musical score, subdividing it into fragments.

For each fragment I might score myself 0 / 2 / 5 / 8 / 10 for different aspects: note reading / memorizing / technique / expression.
To perhaps focus on things with lower scores.

Example Schema

Fragment	Read	Memorize	Technique	Expression
1	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -	- - - 8 -	- 2 - - -
2	- - 5 - -	- 2 - - -	- - - 8 -
3	- 2 - - -	- 2 - - -	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -
--------	---------	---------	---------	---------
4	- - 5 - -	- - - 8 -	- - - 8 -	- - - 8 -
3’	- - - 8 -	- - - 8 -	- - 5 - -	- - - 8 -
5	0 - - - -	- - - 8 -	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -
--------	---------	---------	---------	---------
1’	- - - 8 -	- - - - 10	- - 5 - -	- 2 - - -
6	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -		- - 5 - -
7	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -	- - 5 - -
8	- - - 8 -	- - 5 - -	- - - 8 -	- - 5 - -
9	- - 5 - -	- 2 - - -	- - 5 - -	- 2 - - -

Details

• Subdividing in fragments may be the most useful step.
• Thinking in these 4 separate aspects might help.
• Identifying things with lower scores, may help focus efforts.
• Writing down the scores may be less significant.
  • Once memorization scores are up, scores for note reading might matter less.
  • Once memorized, I might do the rest of the scoring in my head. Typing it in, may seem a bit laborious then.
  • A trick might be to score everything with an 8. Then selectively lower that score to 5 for the fragments that desire some attention.
• Acceptance:
  • A score of 8 might be enough to move on.
  • When scores will not go up anymore, perhaps accept this as the end result.
  • Preventing perfectionism / frustration.
  • Depends how high you set the bar.
    
    
• Reading:
  • Might include annotating with mnemonics and cheats.
  • May include my making sheet music with simplified notation and/or chord progressions.
• Memorizing:
  • Analyzing phrase and repetition structure may help.
  • Memorizing might at one point include memorizing the chords.
• Technique:
  • Might include fingering.
  • Annotating the musical score with arrows/symbols how to move.
  • Figuring out tricks for the harder fragments.
• Expression:
  • It may be a bit difficult to judge the expression without hearing back a recording.

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