#piano student

[anne-the-insomniac]

Just finished with my recital.

I think I did well.

[pianogirl4]

10th July 2023, on my third year of career, was my first solo recital, also public exam.

I got 98!

With

Rêverie by Debussy

Ballade N. 1 in d minor by Brahms

Mazurka N. 4 by Manuel M. Ponce

K. 259 Scarlatti Sonata

Prelude and fugue in d minor book 1 by Bach

Sonata Hob. XVI N. 5 by Haydn

And étude op 72 n.2 in g minor by Moskowski

This one is for the books!

[tfotaandstuff]

me: i love all my piano pieces equally. there's fantasy bossa, sonatina in a minor, running around, leafy sea dragon, and *squints at smudged writing on hand* ...aria?

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔞𝔯𝔱

[mcfaucet]

love as long as you can

[cherrycurlsvanillapearls]

My roommate is humming some melody to himself and I can hear him through the wall. I get to fall asleep to this safe, joyful, calm sound every night and in exchange, I wake him up with my own music.

He is better at reading Hebrew than I am, and we sit often together to read a page together, of the autobiography my grandmother sent me on Google docs. It is too much for me to read alone, but he sits and listens to me try, and he reads to me when I get tired.

We sit and study in the living room together, me doing my homework, him designing a synth for fun. He gifted me a shirt from his mother's charity and I wear it with pride. He taught me to cook a soup and we ate it together on the porch.

Sometimes, I get out of the shower, and hear him fiddling around on the piano in the living room. It's a wonderful thing.

There is no point to this post. No romance, I promise. I'm just soothed and calm and happy to have such a lovely roommate.

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

I definitely not only of these guys who said things like "Don´t do anything in your life except study to really change something". But I reserved a time in a day to practice every day, some days are good and I can produced more than I expected, and some days is just learning about concepts, doing reviews and not exactly be a Google mostly incredible Software Engineer. The place on my pictures is Igarata based on São Paulo, Brazil. It was a very fun sunday and just by the end of the afternoon and make some changes to my Kafka project (After swimming and surf a lot by morning).

[chaiandtchaikovsky]

april 29, 2024

the past two weeks have been very eventful and stressful; the first week i had three recitals in a row then juries which i passed :} and the last week i had finals and was invited to play in the honors recital! and now i get to rest, at least for a week before i start classes again

[bunnytohru]

study girl

[pianistbynight]

hi! ~a belated studyblr intro~

just realized i never did a proper intro for this blog!

so, hello, i've been flip flopping between taking lessons and self-studying piano for several years and this blog was (and still is) intended to be a studyblr to track my progress.

i'm currently self-studying as my time is split between this and STEM studies (more on that on my side blog @studentbyday) but i really really hope to finally establish a consistent practice (after struggling to do so for many years 😅) so i know i will be able to handle weekly lessons again 😤

🎓 goals for piano/music studies:

enjoy playing music (including without headphones)

establish sustainable routines so i can practice piano every day or at least every week

get over stage fright and paralyzing perfectionism

improve my sight reading

motivate myself to learn more music theory and use it to analyze my favorite songs

find fellow music enthusiasts on tumblr!

ultimately play piano at an LRCM level 🙈 (as of 2024, i am currently L6-7 in baroque/classical, L8-9 for romantic...yeah, kind of all over the place since I've been treating this very informally over the years and keep taking hiatuses lol)

💗 interests/inspirations:

classical music (my favorite composer is chopin but beethoven is a close second)

jazz

your lie in april (i read the manga online and really really wanna see the anime!)

Tiffany Poon and Animenz's playing

🎹 accumulated study tips: resources, practice strategies, coming back after hiatus, hand independence and method books

[dumbshitmusicianssay]

Hullo musician friends!! Id love some insight! I’m writing up some “tips and tricks” sheets for some of my tutoring students and the current one I’m working on is for sight-reading. 

Other than just practicing sight-reading I’ve tried explaining that what helps me is thinking about an order of importance when you are handed a piece of music and told “play now” because my brain tends to overcomplicate things. For example I make sure to check the key/time signature and the end (D.S/D.C/tag/rit/etc) then my order of importance (TO ME) is the rhythm, the actual notes (minus accidentals (again this is just me but I have to simplify my brain down to “just read the dots” sometimes)), expression marks, dynamics, then everything else if I can think of it. 

BUT I don’t wanna be sharing this with students if it’s a skewed idea of what the majority would rank. 

I know I wanna keep rhythm first because I think it shows a lot of promise if you can hit the rhythms on a first play through. But if anyone has any insight into how you would order the importance of other performance aspects while sight reading (eg. pitch, dynamics, expression marks(articulation/ornamentation/etc), musicality, phrasing, even breath support or tone and shit). Im a brass player but if any non mouth instrument players have rankings like bowing or use of the pedal that would be good to know too. Thanks lads!

[pianogirl4]

Second day back! Yesterday I had my first piano class of the school year and my teacher told me I'm participating in a master class in 7 days with a work I haven't touched in a month.

Meanwhile I have to watch L'Orfeo and make notes about it by tomorrow, get ready two task labs, for tomorrow too, and presenting an exam worth 8% of the final grade.

I know a lot of people do that kind of stuff and more, but I'm dying here.

Honestly I'm loving it.

[lydiaplain]

Student surprises and Christmas mood

🎄✨❤️🎄✨❤️🎄✨❤️✨🎄

[academic-vampire]

Sometimes I feel like I’m at Hogwarts when I walk through the uni building with the piano that plays itself

[mcfaucet]

he didn't pay attention in music theory class

des piano (spoilers)

[miky-joined-the-masquerade]

Hi!

[You can rb/comment with your instrument and/or choice, id love to know!]