i: check with downstairs neighbour he doesn't mind sound of piano now and then -- he is fine with and says he likes it
ii: dispense with scales etc so as not to encroach on that
iii: choose pieces i need to polish (out of ones i have already worked on, so not just hours sight-reading badly)
iv: but also think thru my project to work on improvisation
front and centre of three is first movement beethoven sonata op10 no1 ("a la comtesse brown") which is not particularly technically demanding but has a bunch of minor moments i can v easily fuck up. i am not a huge beethoven fan, but when i told my teacher this lol he set me this piece. he is less than half my age and much too indulgent of how rubbish i often am but good to talk to abt weird bullshit that goes on in many musicians' heads (which i always assumed was just me and was why i "wasn't actually musical". he says i am. i say hmmm to that.)
― mark s, Saturday, 4 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link