PERP Journal

1. The first image is the Hanon finger exercise that I used to help improved the my left hand's finger strength. I realised after talking to Erica that changing the rhythm of the exercise is much more effective in helping to increase my left hand's dexterity rather than modifying the exercise to isolate different fingers. I realise as I start getting used to the exercise, I tend to rush a lot because my left hand speeds up and because of that I lose tempo. I also realise that I panic a lot when I lose focus and this causes me to screw up the whole exercise generally so I tend to focus on staying calm throughout the whole process too.  2. My solo piece is Victor's Piano solo which are the two images above. As you can see there is a lot of movement for the left hand throughout the whole piece. This is something I'm not used to because I only stuck to pop songs in the past. But I chose to challenge myself by picking a piece that focuses solely on p

1.For my selected solo piece I picked 'Victor's Piano ' from the Corpse Bride movie. Because I liked the scene so much that it just stuck in my mind. 2. The technical part which I have difficulty with is the left hand parts where it starts to play the scales part really fast and I realised that my hands are both unable to keep up or have the strength to press the keys with ease as my left hand progresses through the piece. 3. For my technical piece, i decided to search online and found Hanon's finger exercises and went through with the exercises 4. For my musical development I do my exercises at least once a day by using hanon's exercise as a warmup and practising my solo piece on top of that.I tried to put accents on different fingers of my left hand like the 3rd and 4th as I play the exercise or maybe even modify the exercise to revolve around my individual fingers . I also tried to play dominants with the exercise to help stretch the fingers. I also realis