Improviser/Singer-Songwriter Getting Back to Formal Roots

Hi community! I've been a Tonebase subscriber for years but finally have some time and wherewithal to participate here. I've been a professional jazz/rock/pop singer, songwriter, and performer for some time now, as well as a self-taught composer and arranger. My "classical" i.e. formal piano studies have been ongoing but intermittent for more than 45 years, and I've recently begun studying with a great new local teacher again. 

She's got me working on Chopin concert Etude No. 1 in C Major for the first time in my life. After my first lesson, my progress on it was so, so, so, so slow, I thought, "Well, Sandy, now you know you were never quite as talented as you thought, or else you're just getting old and slow."  

But when I went to see her about a month later, she told me not to worry. "This thing is a mountain!" 

So after I return from a NYC working vacation for 2 weeks--I'm also a writer with a memoir in progress and this will be my self-styled writing retreat in a friend's Upper West Side apartment--I will start recording my little baby steps going up that mountain: chunking things into sections, playing them quite slowly, using practice techniques such as the Four Rhythms, and what not....

Looking forward to seeing what you all are working on!

Best,

Sandy (aka Sandhya, my real name but also now my performance/penname)