Prelude 1 getting faster. How I'm doing it: I practice it faster than my goal, then when I slow it down, it's more comfortable in my hands.

But I've been ignoring Passacaille and now need to work on that again.

Fingers still tender.

Fingers sore, ran through Prelude 1 lightly.

Woohoo! Got Prelude 1 back up to 104. Callus on thumb peeled off, though. Need to do 2↑1↓ to get it solid and not sloppy.

Trying to get back into the swing of practicing. Not trying very hard, though.

Short, tired session today.

Apparently either didn't recover from my cold last week, or caught it again, or caught a different one.

Played for about an hour anyway. Prelude 1 almost to ♩=120! Still working trouble spots in Passacaille.

Unscheduled nap. Not sure what's going on. But did manage to work a little on Prelude 1. zzzzz...

Passacaille: Just need to polish it now. *grin*

Prelude 1: Unfortunately, harmonics in Pass still hurt my thumb so just did a quick run-through. At this point, can just work on getting the whole thing playable at 104.

Did practice today. Forgot what I did, though.

I did actually have a blister, it just took a while to notice it.

Prelude 1: Almost. Done.

Passacaille: Work on last 2 movt's still.

Thumb magically healed.
Prelude 1: I might actually be able to play this! Still working through and absolutely still need to work 2↑ 1↓. Do not try to skimp!

Passacaille: Play through and work on trouble spots to get everything to ♪ =144

Fingers finally have some sort of callus-like things on them, however peeling occurs around the calluses.

Bent my thumbnail back pretty significantly right before lunch, and despite icing it the requisite 10 minutes, it still felt like I smashed it with a ball peen hammer. Owie zowie.

I thought I could practice - usually with finger injuries they stop hurting after a few minutes of playing - but no such luck today.

Did NOT feel like practicing today. Or tuning again.

Prelude 1: Halfway done, will need to work on details throughout once I'm finished.

Stopped playing early - only(!) after 1.5 hours - because of gliss practice.

I need to learn not to make phone calls right after practicing. My brain doesn't work in a sequential manner. Can't. Sentence. Properly.

Passacaille might actually be close to being finished. I need to work on the endings for Var. IV, X, and XIII. And that might be it!

Prelude 1 is still coming slowly, but it is working. I vary between complete crap and flawless (I think) between one play and the next. How do I get the average to move more towards flawless?

Played through Notturno and Zarabanda. And a Bochsa.

And it all really only took 1.5 hours? I'm not sure I believe that.

Prelude 1: need to concentrate - if my attention wanders AT ALL, I miss notes. Need to concentrate on no fingernail or pedal sounds.

Prelude 1: Couldn't get fingers to work.

Passacaille: Couldn't get fingers to work.

Prelude 1: started trying to speed it up. Remember to raise. 1.5 lines at a time to catch overlap. ♩=104.

All of prelude 1 up to ♪=104.

Prelude 1: Both sections up to ♪=104. Take it in two measures at a time and work up to ♪=192. Dynamics nice. Work on clean placements and minimal pedal noise.