Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
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Twice a week between August 14th-21th I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
I am sure that you have been busy at work on your pieces, fixing fingerings, dynamics, articulation, and so-on!
But this week I want us to focus on big picture work (outlined below) as a lot of us may be gearing up to play in the "back to school" recital OR use recorded videos from this challenge in a Watch Party! (Watch Parties are "pre-recorded" video celebrations, Community Concerts are LIVE performances of pieces).
Assignments:
1. Try and focus on playing larger chunks of your piece this week. Focus on broader strokes.
2. Record yourself in "run-throughs" of the piece, share with all of us! :)
3. Why? because we always need to remember to strike a balance between working on fine tuning the piece, and making sure the gestures and larger picture remain in focus, not becoming to "granular".
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Well - after being out of town, I started a week on service with nothing but 14-hour workdays, so I touched the piano again just now after 11 days of not practicing. Needless to say, it's not going too well...
I'll try to use this upcoming week to produce something halfway presentable, but I don't have much hope. I'll try to set apart some time, too, to listed to y'all's posted recordings - looking forward to those! 
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Alexander Weymann Don't be too hard on yourself, Alex! Putting in 14 hour days at such a difficult job makes adding on an hour of piano at night is really tiring.
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I was hoping to post a run through today, but it was a crazy day. Tomorrow will also be busy, but I hope to get some time in the afternoon to practice & record a run through.
