Serenading the Soul: My Piano Voyage

Since my last class around 2.5 weeks back my progress has been really slow by like about a week. The plan was that 2 songs would take at most 2 weeks to to get right. But I was away for a week for my driving class so couldn't practice and then forgot (kind of) what I had practiced the weekend before. Bagatelle took more than a week to practice - Thanks Anton! - which I underestimated. The good news is I finally do have it down.  Today, I have been recording for like 2 hours and I always mess up something small. Its barely noticeable but I'm always in the pursuit of perfection. The last sentence brought back my manager's thought "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good", yeah but I'm gonna. I keep the recording on and when I go back to see I play it well and then I spot the exact moment my mind goes "Oh that's going really well better not mess this last section up" and lo and behold, I end up forgetting the very next note. Hmm, I can laugh abou...

After the third class, where I played Morning Song to my instructor and he was fairly impressed. He taught me A, F, G chords. He asked to sight read and play Lightly Row which is a children's rhyme and I sucked at it. It left me quite disappointed. Morning Song was a success because of playing it as a 10 finger co-ordination and treating both hands as a system than independently instead when asked to sight read and keep a melodic(?) accompaniment; yeah I was pretty terrible at it. Playing with just L.H. or just R.H. is way easier than playing both together that really brings up a much discussed topic is there even a thing as independent hands or is it always just coordination. Well I firmly believe hands can and do move independently except it just takes some (a lot) practice. Through the week until the fourth class, I did practice Lightly row but more importantly did more hand drills to move them independently and I am convinced with enough practice I can achieve it. It starts out...