SHAKING IT UP

Bach's Two Part Invention #9, which I'm currently learning, has lots of groups of 16th notes.  This morning, I varied the rhythm during several run-throughs by making those into dotted rhythms.  That is, for every two 16th notes, I'd play a dotted 16th note and a 32nd note. This was purely for the purpose of practice, of course.  I wouldn't ordinarily play it that way, and I certainly would never perform it that way.

It changed the character of the piece from melancholy and flowing to robust and almost militant.  I enjoyed experiencing an alternate expressive universe buried in there. It challenged my routine way of playing it, exposed a few spots where I wasn't completely on top of the fingering, and made me hear it afresh when I went back to playing it as written.