Week 1: A New Hope
Starting on May 4th...
Welcome to the Unfinished Business Challenge — and the beginning of our four-week musical adventure!
Every great journey starts with a first step (and some hope!) This week is about choosing your piece: something you’ve always wanted to learn, something you started and left behind, or something unfinished that keeps calling you back.
This Week’s Mission
Choose one piece (or excerpt) to stay with throughout the challenge.
A few ideas:
- A piece you’ve always meant to finish
- Something abandoned years ago that deserves a second life
- A new piece you’ve been waiting for the right moment to begin
- A small excerpt from a larger dream piece
Big or small, all choices are welcome. What matters is that it feels like your unfinished business.
This Week, Share:
- What piece did you choose?
- Why this piece?
- Is there a musical challenge or goal you hope to work through this month?
If you’d like, post a recording of where you’re starting from — even a rough first read. We’d love to hear it.
Over the next four weeks we’ll build momentum together!
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I’m going to pick a hope-themed motto for each week. This week, it shall be: “Hope is no strategy”. 😆 Although I guess Dominic will give different titles to subsequent weeks…? 🤔
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Did somebody say something about horror shows? I'm in!
Here, a very short excerpt from a practice session, just enough to ruin your appetite. As a bonus you can sort of see the sequelae of a self-surgery I did on my upper left calf, as a med student many years ago (removed a small lipoma, ended up with a bigger scar😁):
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I‘ve chosen the Chopin prelude no 13 because it’s one of my favourite pieces. I‘ve enjoyed playing it just for myself for years but the challenge for me is to properly memorise it and find an interpretation I’m happy with so I can enjoy playing it for others. I‘ve only recently started having piano lessons again after over ten years off (since leaving music college and also developing a chronic health condition which restricts what repertoire I can manage) during which time I’ve kept playing but often without much focus or direction. I hope that picking something small and manageable to work on for this challenge will help me build trust in myself. And I‘m excited to hear what everyone else is working on!