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「Practice Diary 010」It's time to relearn my Tchaikovsky

Writer: Pianist XinRu wants to writePianist XinRu wants to write

2023.08.09 -- 4.5 hours

· Bach French Suite No.5 Whole Thing: Basic Learn

· Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Whole Thing: General Revise

· Auerbach Trio 2nd Movement: Basic Learn

· Auerbach Trio 3rd Movement Phrase 1: Basic Learn


After two days nearly 7 hours practice, I run out of my energy...

Especially after teaching a student and 4 hours practice today, my brain is not there anymore.

See?

Practice duration really needs to be trained.

In my crazy PhD days I used to do 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening.

Coming home dead of course but at least I did it.

Now.......

I need to regain my brain energy and physical energy, up to my new practice challenge.

A bunch of new pieces await I really have no time to waste.


And the Tchaikovsky. I have been revising my Tchaikovsky concerto now, and that problem occurs again: mistakes from places to places.

Suddenly there is somewhere I just totally cannot remember clearly what should be happening.

As Stephen Osborne once said to me: "You just need to find an afternoon, sit down, take a cup of tea, and think it through."

I still haven't done it yet.

I am too bad...(lazy perhaps)

Let me survive tomorrow. And then I will find an afternoon, sit down, take a cup of tea, think the Tchaikovsky all through.

And then I will go back to the piano relearn everything note by note, phrase by phrase, as if I have never met this piece before.

I will.

Please keep an eye on me.

After all, sometime 'will' is a word that has similar functions to 'if'.


Good night.


XinRu in London

Who desperately wants an Oreo McFlurry!


 
 
 

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