lunch break practice session

[00:00:45]We're starting out our lunch break rough already. All right, let's do a little bit of site reading. Uh, and then we'll do some other stuff. It's pretty much a site reading lunch break and then I'm going to go into some lessons today.

[00:01:46]Okay, I want to try the fantasy and a flat. I've done this one already before with site reading the current one.

[00:01:57]So, let's try the fantasy. This is a left hand only piece.

[00:02:04]It's for your left hand.

[00:02:08]Left hand only. Okay.

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[00:04:00]first paper.

[00:04:04]Okay, let me share. I don't ever share the score with you guys. So, this is what we're site reading today. It's fantasy and a flat. This is another outcome piece. It's for left hand only and it is a total of 14 pages.

[00:04:23]35 48 13 page. Okay, let's A flat. It starts in A flat, but we do change keys. Let me see if I can turn that one. Let's see.

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[00:06:46]How about I do it this way? Put you guys on the other side.

[00:06:53]All right, let's try it from that angle.

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[00:11:22]Let's see. Let's see.

[00:11:44]How smoothly can I make it through?

[00:11:47]because that goes to if I think about it in E major even though he wrote it in D flat or in D sharp. No, no, no. He wrote it I have to think about it as E major instead of F flat major when I look at my positions and that's how you get through the second half transposing my brain as I go. Okay, let's try it again. We'll try to keep the tempo throughout and up to there and see how far I can make it now that I've gotten an idea of where my hand positions go and hand placements. I'm going try and tab those pages for page turns.

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[00:17:18]She's talking.

[00:18:54]Why?

[00:19:00]When I say why, it's stuff like this why to this.

[00:19:12]See my Y is that? That's why I said Y.

[00:19:17]You can read that. But you see all those double flats? Double double double double double double double double flat.

[00:19:23]All right, let's go back. Try last one to here.

[00:19:45]And that does the inversion.

[00:19:47]Okay, let me go to here.

[00:19:52]We're back to here.

[00:20:44]It is an out of tune piano. It's not my piano, but it is out of tune.

[00:20:58]There's back to this pattern again after that. Let's try that section. It's all those double flats in this section, but I like double flats, too.

[00:21:29]And then we go to here flat.

[00:22:29]So these two first this is 1 2 4 1 Okay.

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[00:24:11]identify.

[00:24:23]Thank you.

[00:24:38]It's here.

[00:25:06]There's a bigger pitch.

[00:25:22]Well, right now I'm doing site reading.

[00:25:24]So, I would say stepby-step approach. I guess it depends. So to learning music, I mean, I don't know if there's a good simple step-by-step approach.

[00:25:41]Um, there's a theory side to music and then there's the physical side to music, like the actual playing. Um, there is the body and how it responds to each instrument. So there's different aspects like having the technique and having the actual theory. um and utilizing being able to either use oral skills like your ear or using fundamental skills like being able to read your music. So, it just depends on which avenue that you take and which styles of music that you take because I think the learning approach changes depending on the genre of music that you're in and also the type of music that you're learning or just even depending on what instructors that you have. There's so many different ways to get into music and learn music. There's not just a one-sizefits-all. So, that's why I like music so much, too.

[00:26:39]Um, okay. I won't be able to get through this whole piece today. I got through a big chunk of that because that is at least half of it.

[00:26:49]I could try actually the next section cuz after that arpeggio comes this gra section. Um, so let's just see this one right quick.

[00:26:58]I might be able to make it through this section. That's fine.

[00:27:29]There it goes.

[00:27:40]Then it goes to here. Oh, that's a big stretch.

[00:27:44]Okay, another big stretch.

[00:28:00]Let's just here into here.

[00:28:44]and double flat land.

[00:28:50]E flat, D flat, E double flat or sorry, E double flat, D flat. No, no, no, no.

[00:28:57]Like that's E flat, D flat. Is that on the E or is that on the D? E flat or D flat? Let's try E flat, D flat, and B flat.

[00:29:10]I'm going to say it's the diminish chord. Okay, cool.

[00:29:20]And then to here, and then it goes to here, which is then E.

[00:30:01]Okay, that spot has a lot of double flats, too. This is in that grab monte section. I'll come back around to it later. There was one more I wanted to site readad a little bit today.

[00:30:12]before I have to teach classes cuz I have to go soon. But I'm going to come back to this one later in this week.

[00:30:31]I wanted to try the knock turn of the masquerade suite.

[00:30:45]No, this I'm not working on left hand only. This piece is for left hand only.

[00:30:51]That's the entire piece. The entire piece is left hand only. Has nothing to do with right hand, left hand. I'm sight readading the whole piece as is. I don't need instructions on how to practice.

[00:31:01]I've done all of that work. I love when people come in here and try to critique how I need to work as a professional.

[00:31:08]I'm already made it as a professional. I don't need your critiques on how to practice. This is a left-handed piece.

[00:31:14]The whole piece is for left hand only.

[00:31:16]So that's it.

[00:31:27]Everybody does it their way. Just like you don't tell a sports player how to do their warm-up routine, you don't tell them how to do their exercises. It's the same thing for musicians. Do it your way.

[00:31:52]That's B sharp.

[00:31:59]to the F sharp. Earsh Thank you. I appreciate it. This is supposed to be a knock turn. Let's see.

[00:34:32]I have exactly 15 minutes. So, in 15 minutes, let's see if I can make it through site reading the first four pages for today.

[00:34:44]It's in common types. I have to count a little bit better. I'm not really counting as much as I was trying to examine the notes, but okay, let's try it. And we'll just do a count of time.

[00:34:54]One Hey, Do you hear anything?

[00:39:30]here.

[00:39:57]G sharp C sharp E sharp and then it goes to sharp and then here Gsharp C# Gsharp and then Ear and here then here this is still sharp and then we go there E natural and then there's a D natural and then C# arms here to here.

[00:41:07]to here and then to here double sharp and then we finish on the down beat of the fifth page which is here.

[00:41:20]So, we made it through all four pages site reading for the first time.

[00:41:29]And that was the down beat of the fifth page. Okay, I'll come back to it later and revisit, but I've got to go teach some classes for today. Thank you guys for tuning in.

[00:41:42]I hope you guys have a wonderful afternoon. Stay cool and thanks for joining my mini practice lunch afternoon session.

[00:41:50]Bye.

[00:41:54]I don't need a piano teacher. I am a piano teacher. Thank you. Next.