New Year's Resolutions 2025

In 2025 I am stepping down to a limited part-time, semi-retired status at work, and I hope to have a lot more time for music.  Here are my 2025 goals, resolutions & aspirations for piano and other musical endeavors:
1.    Improve and refine my technique
My main approach to technique in the past has been to try to play pieces that are too difficult for me. This year, I’ve signed up for Tonebase’s Technique Tune Up, and can’t wait to get started on it later this month.  
2.    Approach my practicing systematically.

3.    Continue my odyssey through The Well Tempered Clavier, learning as many of the Preludes and Fugues as I can.
Right now I'm just finishing F# Minor Bk2 and working on G Major Bk1, and re-learning C Minor Bk1, and B Major Bk2 so I can record and post them in our Tonebase thread. C Major Bk1 and B Minor Bk2 are done & ready to post.
4.    Continue to explore other classical repertoire.
Some ongoing wish-list pieces and projects:
•    Relearn and record all the Rachmaninoff Preludes (I have previously performed all of them, albeit rather sloppily, in a series of Adult Ed classes at New England Conservatory, about 25 years ago).
•    Dvorak Humoresques 
•    Dohnanyi Ruralia Hungarica.
•    Various Beethoven Sonatas.
5.    Continue to develop my understanding of jazz harmony and rhythm, and modernize my sound.

6.    In improvising, to make my left hand parts more interesting, moving beyond basic timekeeping and harmonic support. (see also next resolution)
7.   Incorporate Baroque thoroughbass and voice leading techniques and counterpoint into my improvisations.
I believe that thoroughbass and partimento offer an untapped gold mine of techniques for modern improvisers. I’ve been slowly working on this for a couple of years, aided greatly by Derek Remesc’s Tonebase courses, including “Reverse Engineering Bach”, as well as his books The Art of Preluding and his Compendium of Voice Leading Patterns. 
8.    Record an ‘album’ (or two) of jazz & pop standards and other music. 

I recorded a self-produced Christmas album several years ago entitled 'A Modal Christmas', and I still get lots of positive feedback on it. Technology now allows us to do this almost entirely in-house -- i.e. at home!--and I'd like to add some more to my catalogue.
9.    Record my classical pieces.
After polishing and finishing each piece as best I can, I want to create a permanent record of them through recordings.