Prelude 2 definitions:
a piacere - At the pleasure or discretion of the performer, typically with tempo and the use of rubato with a particular passage.
Più Mosso - A directive to a performer that the music of the indicated passage should have more motion, it should move more quickly.
tornando al - returning to

Passacaille was fun to play with today. I've got it learned well enough technically that I can listen to what I'm doing dynamically. The first note of the triplets form chords, which makes it easier to hit the right notes, for some reason. The octaves in the left hand can have de- and crescendos.

Prelude 1 is coming along well enough that I may try to start #2.

You know how sometimes it takes a while to learn things. Sometimes a r e a l l y l o n g time? My metronome can be left on my extra music bench while playing so I don't have to knock it off every time I turn a page. Brilliant! Maybe I'll actually stop breaking them with regularity.

OOOOOOOOOWWWW! Harmonics yesterday killed my left thumb.

However, played through some stuff.

Feel like my fingers are raw! Drilling each movt of Pass, hopefully will be ready by Sunday. have 3 practice days left before that, plus morning of.

Still playing prelude 1 at varying speeds and working problem spots.

Pass: 2nd to last movt more solid. Knocked it out in 1/2 hour. I seem to be able to learn faster now that I have more time to practice. Or maybe I'm not stressed about finding time to practice and that's helping my learning speed. Hmm...

Had a hard time concentrating because I put down a really good book to practice.

Passacaille: need to polish for next Sunday. Try to get opening and closing sounding less messy.

Prelude 1: Still getting faster. Something about it hurts my tendons, though.

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.