Group 1

It’s nice to see all the videos everyone posted! I worked mainly on the grouping notes regimen of all the scales on the last page of Ballade. I’m hoping if I keep it grouped long enough on the chromatic I can make the change with using finger 4 - when I try to play the scale straight the 3 on all the black keys automatically resurfaces! I revisited Progress which I played a long time ago. I also spent time practicing 4 different scales a day (2 major, 2 minor) bringing back how I used to practice them. I think Dominic said it was called the “grand” scale where it’s parallel and contrary. That was what I was assigned in my second year of music study at college about 15 years ago. All the majors in the first semester and the harmonic minors in the second semester. I was extremely thankful to my professor for making me learn all those scales since before that I see only one D major scale in my old Schaum book. I must have played that D scale when I was a kid and had lessons for a couple of months, but I don’t even remember. I didn’t think to make a video of my regular scales practice  since it wasn’t listed in the instructions but now that I see others have posted regular scales I’ll do that next time too. I will get started on the Czerny. I had a little trouble figuring out how to get into this forum site at first but I think I’m dialed in now…