OK, in the Allegro piece on that last line with all the low notes that I have been having trouble with, I made a ... let's call it a rediscovery. It's got all these 16th notes and they bounce low G to B flat, A to C, B flat to D, etc. I keep messing up here. I get confused and play the wrong note, and they all go by so fast.
But the whole piece is all 16th notes and while I mess up occasionally elsewhere, I mess up consistently here.
It gets back to what Rick always said, If you can sing it, you can play it. I don't have the sound in my head at this low end. I focused on one shift that keeps sounding bad, C to E, I keep playing the E flat. So I worked with the tuner on the C and on the E. Got them right and then started playing the notes around them and started to get the SOUND of what this should be sounding like, how this sounds melodically on this line. It's still not perfect and going to need more work, but I will stop on this piece today and take this realization with me.
It pays to stick with something even when it annoys the (%$^@ out of you.
And my high notes were still bad even after I ate (rice and beans and cheese, delicious Amy's bean soup) so I figure maybe I pushed my mouth a bit yesterday and I will just go easy on the high end of things today.
Worked once through William Tell - it's getting better.
Started on the Allegreto but I need to work on the rhythm on this piece.
Gotta bolt, to go pick up Mom.
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