Currently playing at an RCM level 6, which is intermediate at this point, but I notice that fundamentally my technique looks bad when I play. What was the process of fixing poor technique at an intermediate or advanced level for those of you that had to stop moving forward and fix it during your piano journey?
Hello, so I'm still very much a beginner in terms of gardening. These flowers are branching out from their stems, but they're not full in the middle of them. I feel like they look a little odd right now so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to fix them so that they don't look like they're tipped over all of the time and also what I could do to prevent this in the future. I don't know how they turned out this way. I’m zone 9b if that helps!
I’m trying to thread paint with a photo and this is the first time I’ve embroidered an animal (and an eye at that). There’s only black and brown in the eye region, but I feel like the eye I made looks creepy..like it’s watching me. How can I improve the eye?
ETA: Thank you all for the feedback, it is reassuring! I’ve decided to add a bit of white to the eye :)
I’m currently playing at an RCM level 6 in piano right now, but I can’t help but feel that I’m plateauing in my actual playing skill.
At this point in my piano journey, I’ve realized how long it takes for a piano piece to feel good and sound good playing.
For the past couple of months, I can hear all the ways that my piano playing could be better whereas in the past, if I got the notes and rhythm right, I would jump ship to a new piece and move on because that felt good enough for me then.
These days, it feels like my piano progress is moving at the pace of a snail and I’m trying to find it in me to not get frustrated.
All the tiny mistakes that need tweaking are not always consistent so I’m struggling to figure out how to tackle the piece when the mistakes are in different places each run-through.
How do I go about practicing at this level? I know that I need to play slow and stuff, but do I go measure by measure? How much time should I give to each measure? What if the piece I’m playing is like 6 pages?
ETA: I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for replying and giving me different perspectives and practicing methods to keep in mind at the piano. I really appreciate it!
I feel like my hands look so unnatural when I do broken triads especially when black notes are involved. I don’t know how to fix it, but my knuckles are like collapsed and my palm is lower than my fingers. I’m frustrated because I just feel like they don’t look normal and I want my triads to look normal to play like everybody else’s hands look when they play triads, but when I do it, it looks so strange. How do I fix this? It feels hard trying to make my hand more curved when I lift from the keys.