Of rubato and latte.

Finally broke out of drone-hell and got out to meet Abel to perform some of our diploma pieces. Oh man! I have no idea what I'd do without this guy, seriously. If he didn't even suggest doing the diploma together, I'd still be lounging around playing nonsense (read: sonatinas I've played a thousand times over) and amusing myself! At least now I've gotten down to playing some real stuff.

Mental notes: Stop taking the mozart sonata opening so fast! It just totally killed my semiquaver runs towards the middle section. My left wrist was close to falling apart from all that Alberti bass hell at that speed! And er, I could afford to spend more time with my Bach. I love Bach. I could just live off Bach music all day. XP

Ok, things I need to do now include actually completing my repertoire for the associate diploma! And getting down to finding the second and third movements to the Mozart sonata. I'm seriously thinking whether I should just get a teacher to have lessons once a fortnight just to make sure I'm not mucking things up, like playing in a wrong manner or *gasp* technical insufficiencies.

I'm still amazed at how Abel played his pieces. Sigh! It'll be a long time before I can even attempt Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro and not to mention Bach's Partita No. 2 for the violin! On a side note, Dvorak's opening to the first Romantic Piece is awfully beautiful.

Am currently an addict on lattes - the cheapo schmippo McDonald's one. Yes, cheap thrill.