Week 3: Keep the Momentum
By now, the challenge is getting real!
You’ve chosen your piece, spent time with it, and hopefully started to hear it take shape. But this is also the point where things can get hard. The easy excitement of beginning fades a little, and you’re left with the more important part: staying with it.
That’s what Week 3 is about.
Not perfection. Not having everything solved. Just continuing, even when the going gets tough.
Maybe you’ve hit a section that still won’t settle. Maybe progress feels slower than you hoped. Maybe you’re realizing how much more there is to do. That’s normal. In fact, it’s part of the process. This is often the exact moment when real growth happens, if you just keep showing up!
This week, the goal is simple: keep the moving forward!
Even a small step matters:
- one passage a little steadier
- one phrase a little freer
- one practice session where you stayed patient
- one moment where the music started to sound as you like
That is momentum.
This week, share where you are right now:
- a short clip from your practice
- a passage that’s improving
- a place where you’re still stuck
- or a few thoughts on what it’s been like to stay with the piece
And if you need, share what might be frustrating you, too.
We are all in this together.
Week 4 will be about recording. This week is about building the resilience to get there.
Keep going. Stay with it. You may be closer than you think.
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My task for Week 3 is to once again face the Six Heads of Scylla (the six sections in which the main subject and its variants are presented, accompanied by widely arpeggiated figures in the left hand), but this time playing them with both hands, while in Week 1, I practiced the left hand only. I will choose a moderate tempo and try to still play them mostly without pedal. Attached, as an example of what I’ll be facing, is the back end of the particularly nasty Fourth Head.
