Review

where it all happens...

It's finals week at my university, so I've decided to go back through the stuff I've learned for the past 11 weeks and recall to mind some things that might have fallen by the wayside. Much had been forgotten, alas. I "sight read" through some old pieces, in a way just to see if I could gauge any improvement in that particular skill. I know it wasn't true sight reading, since I'd seen the pieces before, but I think it helped me measure my progress in that area, plus it was indispensable to reviewing anyway. So I killed two birds. I had forgotten much of Nobody Knows, but not too much of the others. Still, they were a bit rusty since I'd long(ish) moved on from them. As I move on to newer songs, it becomes harder to keep these old ones fresh. Anyway, they get to go under my sight reading for today, though they are officially not really that. Maybe it helps that I did two per day?  Maybe it helps that I think I did make some marginal sight reading progress?

December 16, 2014

Nobody Knows
Melody 


December 17, 2014
Toreador Song
Dorothy 

Also sight read a couple pieces from John Thompson's Hanon Studies Book 1 (Dec. 17)

8. The Steamboat
10. The Fountain 

December 18, 2014
Londonderry Air

December 19, 2014
La Bergeronnette


December 20, 2014
Bits of Ballade and John Thompson's excerpts of H.M.S. Pinafore (more preview than review, I guess)

January 5, 2015
Sarabande