Four months in, ten minutes of scales at the start of every session, mostly C, G and D major, hands together, two octaves. I can play them and they are getting smoother, but I cannot point at a single thing in the…
Someone at work is giving away an upright from about 1920 that has been in a garage for two years. Alternatively I have 900 saved for a weighted digital. Second floor flat, neighbours on both sides and below, and I will…
Broken chord accompaniment in the left, melody in the right. Hands separately I can play both cleanly at 92. Hands together at 60 it is fine, at 66 the left hand starts creeping ahead within about four bars, and by the…
The joint nearest the fingertip buckles inward on the fourth and fifth fingers, only in the right hand, and only once I am ten or so minutes into practice. Cold, at the start of a session, everything holds fine. There…
Fluent enough in C and G to read simple pieces at tempo. Put three or four flats in front of me and I stop dead, and I can feel myself spelling out each note by name and then translating it to a key. I have been reading…