STARTING OUT

10 minutes warming up with scales and arpeggios

20 minutes working on a difficult passage in Bach's Two Part Invention #4.  There's a left hand trill that severely challenges me.

30 minutes beginning to learn invention #5.  This is a new one for me, and one that was intimidating. But I've pretty well gotten the first 4 measures (out of 32 total) and I'm on my way now. Starting a new piece is always tough.  At first it seems insurmountable to me.  Then I start to get the hang of it.

Then when I get a little deeper, it seems insurmountable again. Sigh.

[Before beginning this blog, I was sending emails to a friend.  I'm incorporating those into the blog, and embellishing them here and there. This entry was from 1/3/2012.]