Piano: found this useful reddit post with actually some super useful and varied advice on how not to make quite so many mistakes when playing the piano
Music: listened to Heart of the Piano interviews with Erica Worth and Adam xxx. Too many people playing like typewriters – 54:30 – Erica talking about what people might not like about competitions.
Music: Listened to Heart of the Piano podcast, Bob Rose, interviewing Tim Topham who I hadn't heard of before – prominent in the music education world – based in Australia – NOT “conservatory trained”!
Music 🎵: Read first article of Melanie Spanswick's blog – a few of the first ones only available on wayback and no index page, did a section of Paul Harris Sight Reading Grade 3, practised just a section of All Creatures, Rondo Scherzando and Invention in A minor
Health 🥦: Cycled to St Pancras for lunch at Carluccios with PP
Admin 🪢: joined Velociposse and BC, set up new Instagram account
Music 🎵: practised piano, did some ear training on the desktop app (up to full major scale starting on C), started reading first article on miles.be and thought about doing an app for the exercises he suggests
Reading 📚: Stephen Hough and a chunk of Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
Admin: phoned Spectator to chase up my Pimms and jug,
phone Jess (KCC), set up domain for this blog, found font from website I was looking at (volcano coffee works cafe) – font is Anisette – paid
Health: sun salutations, no alcohol, completed WaterLlama
House: vacuum upstairs, washing, washing up
Music: did a session on Functional Ear Training app, downloaded and installed the desktop app (super old) – slightly different, found a forum post which suggests to keep the notes minimal and dial down the starting cadence until you can do a straight run of 100 with just the root note, started a course on Developing Musicianship