[Progress/ Boring] Week 4: Lightly Row, hand independence, chords, new pieces (4 classes down)

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 as a co-ordination and before you know it, you can play the pattern independently and music is mostly just these independent patterns combined in a lot of ways - so the more you practice the more you just become used to it.

Fourth class, my progress was again good. I had managed to nail down Lightly Row. Learnt some new chords D, E and A chord. Now also playing the scale of G. Since I was practicing quite well, he increased my workload significantly haha; I would wanna crib about it but I actually love it (Team Stress!).

Okay, so next pieces in progress:

Bagatelle (Anton Diabelli): I looked at the sheet music and honestly this one seems easy. Left hand is playing chords as accompaniment and no melody.

Long Long Ago (Can't find the composer/ Part of Suzuki Vol 1.): This one seems a bit more challenging and will require practicing a lot of coordination again.


I'm also gonna skip on posting the video of Lightly Row, since it's a children's rhyme and more for the purpose of learning than a somewhat impressive piece but not totally sure, maybe I will record with these two pieces above when I have them.

 


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