Discoveries among the keys
9 February 2007 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larryhammerAnother entry in the blogsphere's continuing demonstration that everything is like everything else: You know that flicking look you give to your rear-view mirrors? -- where you don't actually focus, but just barely glance? That turns out to be useful while playing piano. And not just for keeping track of where your hands are on the keys, but for glancing ahead into the next measure so you can prepare for it. Who knew life skills were useful in the arts?
My finger skills are not yet back to what they were when I was 18 -- which is a resounding DUH! given it's been, what, six weeks. I'm getting there with runs, but arpeggios are kicking my butt, as are advanced trills (such as with the left hand, or using my little fingers). However, to my surprise, I'm a better sight-reader than I ever was. I can't presto, but I can see/hear/feel the right notes more quickly.
Another surprise: I'm drawn to, not the Baroque music I played so much, but the high classical composers -- Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, et al. In fact, I've managed a play-through of Haydn's sonata No. 48 at least as good, if not better, than I ever did. The Impressionists still entice, though my chops aren't up to them yet -- I managed to creditably mangle "Clair de Lune" last week, but anything more (*cough*Ravel*Faure*cough*) is beyond me. For now.
I haven't figured out how to look this up, so an appeal to the lazywebs -- what is the technical term for playing three notes with one hand in the same time as playing two (or four) with the other? For that matter, what's the term for playing three in the time of two, marked with that little 3 above the notes?
Damn but I'd missed playing piano. How could I have not realized that?
---L.
My finger skills are not yet back to what they were when I was 18 -- which is a resounding DUH! given it's been, what, six weeks. I'm getting there with runs, but arpeggios are kicking my butt, as are advanced trills (such as with the left hand, or using my little fingers). However, to my surprise, I'm a better sight-reader than I ever was. I can't presto, but I can see/hear/feel the right notes more quickly.
Another surprise: I'm drawn to, not the Baroque music I played so much, but the high classical composers -- Mozart, Haydn, Clementi, et al. In fact, I've managed a play-through of Haydn's sonata No. 48 at least as good, if not better, than I ever did. The Impressionists still entice, though my chops aren't up to them yet -- I managed to creditably mangle "Clair de Lune" last week, but anything more (*cough*Ravel*Faure*cough*) is beyond me. For now.
I haven't figured out how to look this up, so an appeal to the lazywebs -- what is the technical term for playing three notes with one hand in the same time as playing two (or four) with the other? For that matter, what's the term for playing three in the time of two, marked with that little 3 above the notes?
Damn but I'd missed playing piano. How could I have not realized that?
---L.