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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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I practiced "Variations on the Kanon" (George Winston arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's "Canon") again today and there are a lot of pros and cons that I am facing with practicing this piece.
To begin with, the pros are that its written in the key of C major (yay! ^^) which is better for me because I'm really quite terrible at sight-reading; so having to find the exact notes of each chord on the piano, as well as remember which notes in the key are either "sharp" (have to play the black key to the upper right of the "natural" white key) or "flat" (have to play the black key to the upper left of the "natural" white key) is often one of the greatest annoyances I constantly face when I'm first reading the music and practicing it for the first few days. Even though there is the key signature at the beginning of every line that's there to remind you which notes on the scale are sharp/flat throughout the piece, I think I might just have short-term memory because I can never remember to play them sharp or flat when I'm playing! T_T"

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