I dread warmups, but I realize that my fingers feel warm and ready to go after 30 minutes of typing. But can it actually be a substitute for warmup?
Arima enters a piano competition and has to play the piece "Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 5", aka the "Wrong Note" etude.
He spends a considerable amount of time worrying about how he should play the piece.
While the answer is simple: he could've played the same piece twice.
Because two wrongs make a right.
I am mortified to discover this. He's already under classical training with a promising future career. I do not want him to go down this rabbit hole and become a, may god forbid for uttering the name, a Jazz pianist.
I got him a piano teacher at age 3. Before that he could only play twinkle twinkle little star mozart variations upto variation 6, but now he can play the entire thing.
However I love classical music and want him to play actual repetoire like Chopin's Ballades, Beethoven sonatas (all 32 would be preferable), and Liszt's transcendental etudes. But he's still learning baby pieces like Rondo Alla Turca and Clair de Lune.
How do I accelerate his progress? He's practicing around 16 hours a day (14 hours if you exclude food breaks and diaper changes), with lessons every other day.
Should I get a new teacher instead?
So the method involves a rubber mallet hammer 12 oz. Must be 12 oz and must be rubber mallet. Lie on bed, with a single pillow, blanket must cover you foot and upto your chest, but no further up or down. Left arm laying firmly on the side. Lie facing up, back on matress. Dim the room. Put on music: chopin's d flat major nocturne, and then his b minor waltz in queue. Note that only these two pieces work. Find the following spot: place your finger between your eyes, and pull upward fill you are at the fissure of frontal and pareital lobes. Then when at the last 8 bars of the nocturne, take the mallet and start banging at that spot at 47 bpm, and continue. You will be asleep by the time the waltz ends. Keep in mind that process must begin at 8 bars from the end of the nocturne, and the bpm must be precisely 47. When can i start human trials?
My story:
I graduated from a tier-3 college in 2023. In college I was studying for gate, gave 2022 exam and got 55xx rank.
Then in 7th semester, full of self-doubt, I felt I couldn't clear gate, and sat for placements. Got a 5LPA backend job which I hated.
Still appeared for gate 2023 and got 26xx rank, with 47.33 marks.
Left the job after 2 years to create a service based startup with some friends, which failed, and I left it in dec last year.
Been unemployed since then, giving interviews, but getting lowballed by recruiters.
Out of the blue, I attempted the gate 2026 paper 2 weeks ago, and got 40.33 marks. This was after being 3.5 years out of touch with all subjects except DSA. And I was surprised that I could still solve some questions from other subjects.
But this has sent me into a dilemma, either I continue my job search, which hasn't converted into any offer in 6 months, or give my all to the next gate exam. But if I fail it'd be harder to enter the job market again due to career gap. Then there's the impact of AI and further layoffs, the future feels uncertain. My friends tell me that there won't be entry level tech jobs in 2 years, so mtech seems like a waste to them, and they advise me to do MBA instead. I am very confused and guidance will be appreciated.