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About three weeks ago my tutor left me with a piece of music to learn from Selected Duets by H. Voxman. I told him I wanted to work on my counting, thinking he'd choose something easy but he didn't (do they ever).
So we had a couple of run throughs and as ever with anything new in front of someone I'm pretty rubbish so he recorded his part and left it with me. I have struggled with one part where I have to hit E above the stave. The struggle being I've not played that note much and the fingering and the note weren't coming easily. Eventually I could hit the note every time but the fingering and thought going in to it meant I lost my rhythm. Anyway tonight I started playing and recording myself too. Kept fluffing it but pretty pleased with my timing on the rest of it.
But I've just nailed that bit so feeling very pleased with myself. It probably won't happen again and certainly won't in my lesson tomorrow but I know I can do it and that will do for me.
The lesson here is just keep trying it will come.
Jx
So we had a couple of run throughs and as ever with anything new in front of someone I'm pretty rubbish so he recorded his part and left it with me. I have struggled with one part where I have to hit E above the stave. The struggle being I've not played that note much and the fingering and the note weren't coming easily. Eventually I could hit the note every time but the fingering and thought going in to it meant I lost my rhythm. Anyway tonight I started playing and recording myself too. Kept fluffing it but pretty pleased with my timing on the rest of it.
But I've just nailed that bit so feeling very pleased with myself. It probably won't happen again and certainly won't in my lesson tomorrow but I know I can do it and that will do for me.
The lesson here is just keep trying it will come.
Jx