Re: Which Bach Invention should I learn?
Just wanted to give an update on my progress and what I’ve learned so far.
I’ve managed to learn the notes, I can mostly get through the piece. Now I need to clean it up and make it sound like music.
Initially, I had an exceptionally hard time getting my hands to play the parts together. I’ve been learning the smaller sections in each hand, then putting it together. Early on, even though I could play each hand decently, everything would grind to a halt when I would try to put the two hands together - I could feel my brain thinking through what needed to happen in each hand. That’s not something I’ve ever experienced playing piano, so as a test, I got out a keyboard to see what would happen. On keyboard, I can mostly sight-read it, no issues with getting my hands together. Not sure what’s going on, I guess Stick is really so different physically that it’s just a whole other beast.
Thankfully, as I got through more of the piece, that feeling went away, and I could learn various parts more quickly. This invention uses alternating rhythms for most of the first half of the piece (alternating 16ths and 8ths in the LH and RH), I think that probably added to my troubles in playing it. The last section does not alternate and was easier to get through.
It seems strange, but I feel like learning this is helping my hand independence, even though this music is interdependent. Regardless, I’m fairly certain this is helping my playing overall. And of course, I'm definitely getting more used to my SG12.
Still don’t know when I’ll feel like I can actually play it, but making progress… Huge shout-out to my fellow Bach geeks for keeping me on track!
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