Practice diary 2024 - Andre Bernier
Starting a new practice diary for 2024 with few comments on what I have been working on in January.
My practice routine has been at least one practice a day (sometime 2 and even 3 on some days). Each practice is about 45 to 60 minutes. It starts with a 10 to 15 min warm up using about 5 of the 120 Guiliani's Right Hand studies. I have so far worked on 30 of them and I introduce 10 new ones every month. I hope that by the end of the year I will have make good progress on them.
I also came back on the Sergio Assad Sketch no 1 that I put aside in November and December. I progressively worked on the 4 parts of the piece. I am able to play each part at different speeds and still need the metronome for the last 3 parts. Still a lot of work to do but I made some progress.
I normally finish my practice routine by practicing one or 2 of the pieces I learned last year.
Here are the separate recordings of the 4 parts of S. Assad sketch 1 .
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Andre Bernier Well done Andre. Sounds like you have them flowing well, just the tempo to work on. I recall that the hardest part for me was getting that fingering in the last line of No. 4 to work well. Looks like you have it figured out. I don't expect it will be long before you have them up to tempo.
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Well another month behind us.
Despite many engagements to babysit our grand kids during the month; I have been able to keep my practice routine which include:
- warm-up -20 Guilliani's RH studies (working 35 of them so far) and some chromatic scales
- Practice - S. Assad sketch no. 1
- Practice - Going back in rotation to pieces I learned last year.
I was finally able to make a recording of the full four parts of Assad's piece today. This is the longest recording so far for me. I still need a lot more work to polish it up but it's going in the right direction
Now I will move to the Carcassi's piece for this month challenge