KATIE 7/16: I’m finding this year a very interesting process. I definitely find it easier to sight read and predict the patterns as I am going through the book, but my fingerings are getting worse and worse! Especially for the fugues, I find myself in predicaments where I have to completely readjust which hand is playing which line to fit in a note. And on today’s fugue I just left one out completely because I don’t think either hand could reach it comfortably! Is anybody else having this difficulty? Any suggestions or advice?
GRACE 7/16: Hi Katie, Yeah for the first time with Bach I’m struggling to hold notes. I actually think it’s because I’m doing a better job of noticing that I need to hold notes because my sight reading has improved so much!
HELEN 7/19: I switch up the hands for the middle voices, or I start paying attention to the fingering 🙂 or I use the pedal. When all else fails, I just don’t worry about it. (Don’t tell my current students!)