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Quarantine Practise Day 125!

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Hiiiiiii pals! I've been squirreling away at practise the last week or two, but moving back home for Christmas and grappling with my new phone left me not making any recordings for a while. It does mean, however, I can now present you some rather wonderful progress! I purchased this piece just a few days ago and started working on it on Sunday (I only started trying the last two pages, as heard in the second clip, yesterday!) The piece is Gate by Graham Fitkin, and let me tell you I'm low-key obsessed! Upon first listening I was super intimidated and thought I genuinely wouldn't be able to hack it, but after just a few days work I've made quite some marvellous progress!! I was playing to a Spotify recording here to see if I could keep up with the original tempo, and although there are certainly many details yet to sort, I'm pretty proud of the progress 😌 I just hope I'll be able to perform this with a live pianist when my final recital rolls around, cause the piano part is very confusing 🥵

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