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Recordings

As of April 11 C scale media type="file" key="C scales as of 4-11.mp3" width="240" height="20" Hanon in C media type="file" key="Output 1-2.mp3" width="240" height="20"

King of the Golden Hall media type="file" key="KotGH 5-9-12.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Timeline

Journal Part One


 * Week of April 2nd-6th **


 * Monday, the 2nd **
 * Headmaster Holiday!**

x 25 min- Midterm review x 30 min- Timeline building (-5 min) x 10 min- Warm-up x 10 min- Scales x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Not a huge day on time, but got a lot done. Made it to the refrain of KotGH with some extra time and went through scales till my hands hurt.
 * Tuesday, the 3rd **

x 10 min- Warm-up x 15 min- Scales (-5 min) x 15 min- Dexterity work (-5 min) x 30 min- Neil Pow wow x 05 min- Warm-down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Neil Pow wow was very informative, but mostly stuff I already knew. I managed to fit in a bit more KotGH with the help of cutting out some scales and dexterity work. I'm getting much better! I think I almost have 8-12 playable measures, as well as a chord I added into the piece for effect!
 * Wednesday, the 4th **

x 45 min- Piano Pow Wow (-45 min) x 10 min- Warm-up x 10 min- Scales x 10 min- KotGH work x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ No pianer pow wow =(. Used the time for heavy duty repertoire study as well as some extra scale work and a cool down. Learned an extra measure, improved on the last measures, and worked on fingerings and rhythm a bit more. All in all a good, but disappointing day.
 * Thursday, the 5th **

x 05 min- Warm-up x 35 min- Canon day! x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Not quite canon day, but learned part of an interesting allegro, which I'll be following for the next couple weeks at the least, very creepy, but interesting.
 * Friday, the 6th **

//** Weekly Notes **// Not a very timely week, being that most days were occupied, but I feel like I pulled through, got a lot of KotGH done, and hopefully will move forward in that respect. In the meantime I need to continue my scale work and my dexterity training. I hope to have a solid 24 measures by the end up next week!


 * Week of April 9th-13th **

**Monday, the 9th** x 30 min- Timeline building x 10 min- Warm up x 20 min- Scales + Dexterity training x 15 min- KotGH x 05 min- Cool down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Bit of a stressful day, which made it hard to keep going, but I kept a level head and pushed through. Everything was done to the T and thensome. KotGH is going very well and I added two measures on the right hand (both hands to come) as well as solidifying two other measures. I felt pretty good today, rhythm is my next victim to conquer, but we'll probably hash that out in light strides for the rest of the week with some heavy duty training after april break.

**Tuesday, the 10th** x 10 min- Warm up x 50 min- Pianer pow wow (-20 min) x 15 min- Scales + dexterity training x 05 min- Free play x 20 min- KotGH work x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Pianer pow wow was shorter than I imagined it to be. It also yielded some good resources in exercises as well as a book of faking, all interpretations accepted. I have 20 solid measures so far, and it's time to move into the harder stuff getting scared. Productive day all in all, gotta get some rhythm work in.

x 50 min- Neil Schpeel (-35 min) x 10 min- Warm up x 15 min- Scales + dexterity training x 05 min- Free play x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Great day. The schpeel was shorter than we all imagined it to be, so there was a lot of extra time on hand. I went through scales and hanon recording myself for later consumption. In addition I had extra time to work on KotGH, for which I caught Rachel coming in looking for Julie and was able to solicit her experience. got through 4 measures!
 * Wednesday, the 11th **

**Thursday, the 12th** x 10 min- Warm up x 20 min- Scales + dexterity training x 25 min- Agitato x 20 min- KotGH x 05 min- Cool down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Agitato was terrible, hate the piece, got through a measure or two, but couldn't stand it. Scales and dexterity training were good, but my hands are a bit rebellious, which I worked on with strength training (from Will's curriculum. KotGH went well and I nailed 2 measures of strong chords. Need to improve coordination and hand strength/limberness!


 * Friday, the 13th **
 * UVM Visit**


 * //Weekly Notes// **

**Week of April 23rd-26th**


 * Monday, the 23rd **
 * Union College Visit**

**Tuesday, the 24th** x 30 min- Timeline building x 50 min- Piano pow wow x 05 min- Warm up x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Alright day. Very rusty, very tired, but plowed through. Got a very small amount of repertoire study done and tried to grab (steal) some stuff from the pow wow, only to find everything was bolted down. Bad day to be a ninja. It's a short week, but I'm going to plow through and try to get some serious KotGH work done.

x 10 min- Warm up x 15 min- Scales, dexterity, and strength training x 20 min- KotGH x 05 min- Cool down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Fantastic day! Tons of chord work, some heavy duty strength training. Not much else to say, but I hope to get KotGH done by the end of the year.
 * Wednesday, the 25th **

**Thursday, the 26th** x 10 min- Warm up x 15 min- Scales, dexterity, and strength training x 20 min- KotGH x 05 min- Cool down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Pretty much the same deal as yesterday. More heavy chord work and finger training. Plowing through and making progress.

x 10 min- Warm up x 10 min- Scales, dexterity, and strength training x 20 min- KotGH x 05 min- Cool down x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ The strength training was a bit rough, being that my 3rd and 4th finger get mixed up a lot, but repertoire was good. A bit short, but productive overall.
 * Friday, the 27th **

// **Weekly Notes** // This was a stronger week. Plowed through the LOTR piece, and dropped the others. I'm determined to finish this before the end of the year. This will be a rough push, but I'm going to be practicing a ton.

**Week of April 30th-May 4th**

30 min- Schedule building 10 min- Warm up 15 min- Scales/dexterity and strength training 25 min- KotGH 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Worked on scales in g as well as heavy duty finger training. My middle finger was being especially disobedient today, but I took care of that. KotGH went terribly. Only got through another bar, and was having serious difficulty playing the parts I had down before.
 * Monday, the 30th **

30 min- Giorgi prep (+10 min) 10 min- Warm up (-5 min) 15 min- Scales/dexterity and strength training (-5 min) 20 min- KotGH 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Alright day, managed to plow through another 3 bars, despite having 10 minutes less than yesterday. Was also much more fluent than yesterday in my recital of the rest of the piece. I also got to open up the Steinway, which sounded interesting (in a good way). I plowed through my scales and dexterity training as well, and am finding my fingers to be much more obedient.
 * Tuesday, the 1st **

**Wednesday, 2nd** 10 min- Warm up 15 min- Scales/dexterity and strength training 55 min- KotGH 05 min- Cool down 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ A very difficult day. Very hard to focus, but I got a bar done on each hand. The dead fly room's piano is also a bit weird.

**Thursday, the 3rd** 10 min- Warm up 15 min- Scales/dexterity and strength training 60 min- KotGH 05 min- Cool down 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __Notes__ Very good day! Plowed through 4 bars each! Focus was fantastic, and the acting class was doing a lord of the rings scene as I was playing.

**Friday, the 4th** 10 min- Warm up 10 min- Scales/Dexterity training 15 min- KotGH 15 min- Journal + Cleanup + everything else __ Notes __ Short day, but a decent one. Worked on the regular, went over some of the stuff from yesterday, though I cannot say that I felt all the progress from yesterday weighing in. Hope to have the piece finished in 3 weeks! Onward and forward.

// **Weekly notes** // This was an interesting week. Very variable week, some days were fantastic others were terrible, one was okay. I got through a considerable amount of music today with a total of six strong bars. Next week I am goaling for eight at the end. Giorgi is on Monday so this means I'll have to do 2 bars strongly each day, but with enough home practice it should be doable.


 * Week of May 7th-11th **


 * Monday, the 7th **
 * Giorgi Day**
 * WHICH I MISSED NOOOO!!!**

x 30 min- Schedule building x 15 min- Pow wow x 05 min- Warm-up x 10 min- Scales, Strength, Dexterity training x 20 min KotGH x 10 min Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Very strong day. Moved into the ending part, which is sounding super sexy. This is going to be a strong week the omens have decided.
 * Tuesday, the 8th **

x 10 min- Warm ups x 20 min- ?Check in? (Recording) x 10 min- SSDT x 35 min- KotGH x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Got a ton of stuff done today. Did a recording of warm ups and my piece (3 tracks total). In addition I reviewed a huge amount of KotGH and learned to play 4 new bars. I also felt very strong in the strength and dexterity training as I found myself working with my fingers will little effort (practice pays off big time)
 * Wednesday, the 9th **

x 05 min- Warm up x 45 min- Anne Session! x 30 min- KotGH work x 10 min- Warm down/ Journal / Cleanup __ Notes __ Very strong day. Plowed through 6 new bars with fingerings for both hands. Reinforced another 6 bars, and squeezed in a small amount of dexterity training and scale work. Almost through KotGH
 * Thursday, the 10th **

x 10 min- Warm up x 10 min- SSDT x 20 min- KotGH x 10 min- Journal + Cleanup __ Notes __ Easy day. Went over what I had done with Anne the day before and reinforced some new concepts with pedaling. Also found myself disagreeing a bit on how to play it with Anne, but this will be a discussion for a later time.
 * Friday, the 11th **

The finest week yet. Got through a whole 12 bars of KotGH and am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. MAY it be found. additionally took some time to work on a very special project, details to come.
 * // Weekly Notes //**


 * Week of 14th-18th **

AP testing
 * Monday, the 14th **

10 min- Schedule building 10 min- Julie Check in (-10 min) 10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 35 min- KotGH (+10 min) 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ A refresher day. I have come to realize that I cannot effectively go with 3 days and not forget certain parts, but I pushed through and came out remembering everything and adding a couple bars here and there. SSD training is pretty standard at this point, but it is getting better all around. I did a g scale today which turned out very well. Besides that everything was fairly standard. Julie also didn't visit me... sadness.
 * Tuesday, the 15th **

10 min- Neil check in 10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 45 min- KotGH 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ Fairly good day, had a bit of a rough start with one measure that calls for the right hand to play chords and the left finger to do the heavy portion of the work. I played the piece to the end and polished for the remainder. Hope to be done by the end of the week as well as polished!!
 * Wednesday **

10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 60 min- KotGH 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ Acting class was up today, so I popped off the lid and played the steinway to the end of my song today! Everything was polished, just a matter of cleaning the piece up a bit more and possibly adding a beginning part. Also improv is on the menu as I may end the piece a bit different than intended.
 * Thursday **


 * Friday **
 * Physics Field Trip**

//** Weekly Notes **//


 * Week of May 21st-25th **

20 min- Schedule building 10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 40 min- KotGH 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ A day for review. Played until my hands hurt a bit. Went over KotGH in depth and with a metronome (I hate my life now). Was a tiring, but fairly rewarding day. Soon I'll have all of KotGH polished and ready to go.
 * Monday, the 21st **

10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 20 min- KotGH 10 min- Free Play 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ Moving right along with KotGH, am currently considering adding an additional part, but we'll see how it plays out. Everything else is polishing.
 * Tuesday, the 22nd **

10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 45 min- KotGH 10 min- Free play 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ A day of polishing and review. Simply strengthened the parts that I already had reinforced prior. Should be ready by next week to perform.
 * Wednesday, the 23rd **

10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 50 min- KotGH 10 min- Free play 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ Final polishings as well as some improv work. I had an extended practice period today as I came straight from chorus as well as the fact that I practiced during my surprise A block off. Was a very productive day. Hope to be adding that beginning on soon!
 * Thursday, the 24th **

10 min- Warm ups 10 min- SSD training 20 min- KotGH 10 min- Warm down + Cleanup and Journal __ Notes __ Senior day!
 * Friday, the 25th **

//** Weekly Notes **// Very strong week, especially for polishing. I wrapped up KotGH, without a strong beginning sadly, but the piece is sounding beautiful. Last week of high school next week wooo!