PERP CA4a

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 realised that I have a bad habit of tensing up my wrist and hand when i play so I try my best to relax whenever I play.

5. My takeaway from the practice is that I realise that its really helping with the dexterity of my left hand and I realise that the exercises and certain parts of my solo piece are becoming easier.