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I had not planned on posting a video on Thanksgiving Day. I really thought I’d be too tired, or busy. However, I got good bit of practice in so I thought ‘what the heck’.

This is second of Luis Milan’s six Pavans. I realize that I have been focusing entirely too much on pieces that I am not very good at yet. I think that my time between now and when I play my final doctoral recital (on January 31, g-d willing), will be better spent on making the things that I’m already good at playing even better*.

Happy Thanksgiving!

*this doesn’t mean I won’t continue to spend way too much time on increasing my speed and making the very hard stuff less difficult in my practice. I’ll just be spending more time polishing up the “easier” stuff.

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My middle finger gets a carpet burn after I practice this one too much. I try not to c look at the guitar cv too much with this variation, relying mostly on eae and feel for the landing part of the descending glissando. I look at where the glissando starts, but I mostly use my ear to determine where it stops.

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Probably should have kept playing past the moment that the Shih Tzu ‘Abby’ brushed up against me, but it kinda tickled. Hehe. I’m dog-sitting some adorable pups.

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Working on memory here. Pavan no 3 by Milan. I have all the notes in my head, but I sometimes skip a section or do a wonky repeat at times. Memory has been a challenge this past year. I suspect it has to do with the extremely slow recovery post hurricane Michael.

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This is a little better than last night.

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Starting to run through several minutes of my pieces in these daily recordings. I feel that it ads some healthy stress to performing the piece. Playing through nerves will definitely help with the final recital.

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Starting this variation has been one of the hardest things. P and I on the same string is the hardest thing about, so I’ve experimented with just playing with P alone, and sometimes just P and I, with no A finger.

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Running through a couple of Nin-Culmell’s variations on a theme by Milan before I play in repertoire class.

Tried to post a video of myself performing an excerpt from a piece of a music and it immediately got flagged. Weird. I hope my technique isn’t that bad! Lol

This is the same excerpt from the same piece I posted for yesterday’s video. It’s Legnani Caprice no 7. Only here I’m trying out another fingering that I’ve been working at for a while now. I think I like it better. There’s more string crossing involved, but I think it runs smoother with this fingering since I play faster scale passages better using ‘a m i’. And the string crossing works better in this instance.