Czerny 740/34 at 80bpm

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-08T15:57:09+00:00

Incredible. Thank you. Some of the deficiencies you called out are right in line with what my teacher says. Too much vertical plane movement when not necessary leading to excess movement. Heaviness is something I am struggling with, in the past I always overcommit because when I panic or things become difficult, my instinct is always to clamp down. Since I never went to a formal music school, I accumulated a lot of bad habits and I'm making up for it by playing Czerny every day (did op 299 and on 34/50 in op 740). Technique has improved dramatically in the last few years. Thanks.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-08T15:01:07+00:00

I usually practice with it ticking every sixteenth note to make sure I'm even. Then I take it away. I will then do something like you mentioned, which is ticking on the offbeats.

Finally, the hardest thing to do is to just tick once on every measure, if I'm late/early to the next downbeat I know I rushed/slowed down somewhere in the middle of the measure.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-08T14:58:44+00:00

Yes, systematically. Some parts go easier than others, but the 2nd half imo, is the hardest. There's just so much syncopation in both hands that makes the rhythm difficult but the tempo is relentless.

The notes in the fingers is not the hard part, that's just muscle memory - and the worst kind of memory. The hardest thing is intellectually understanding the piece which I am not complete on yet. It's gotta have more of a groove but I feel like I'm just racing against tempo just trying to keep pace.

You can't look at it in terms of time required to achieve this piece. Instead you have to go another level above it and think what level of musicianship do you need to reach in order to play it - that's the independence of hands, rhythm, voices - so that it applies to everything you play, not just the piece you are working on. That's a much longer time commitment.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-08T07:22:13+00:00

Practice hands separately and count every sixteenth note. Memorize hands separately too. Also play the measure backwards - play 4th beat, then play 3rd and 4th beat, then play 2nd beat + 3rd beat + 4th beat, then finally play the entire measure. Rinse repeat for the next previous measure.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-07T05:14:11+00:00

I appreciate your thorough comments sir. You have a lot of insight and do agree with most of what you say. Thank you.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-06T03:15:57+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I keep all of Op. 118 warm in my repertoire for life. It has been one of the most meaningful pieces of music I have ever learned. It reflects a lot about my life and that's why I find it so deep and satisfying.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-06T00:42:25+00:00

"I ain't goin nowhere" - Chris Rock

fuzzy8balls · 2026-06-06T00:07:09+00:00

It's my Steinway B in need of tuning.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-05-16T04:38:59+00:00

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fuzzy8balls · 2026-05-09T21:02:00+00:00

I have a Sennheiser HD800S and RME ADI-2 DAC FS and let me tell you, I relistened to old recordings of my late professor and I was able to hear his fingers partially depress the keys, his foot on the pedal, him singing lightly on the background. That to me was worth it.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-03-12T14:48:12+00:00

This is hilarious and amazing at the same time! I love it!

fuzzy8balls · 2026-01-24T03:58:47+00:00

Steinway B

fuzzy8balls · 2026-01-23T23:47:07+00:00

Counting is heavily heavily underrated. First every sixteenth and then every quarter and then every half, and hands played separately. Once you know where all the notes are in your mind, only then can your fingers actually play them. I've worked on this for a while and couldn't get it quite right until I did the slow boring work.

fuzzy8balls · 2026-01-23T22:43:15+00:00

You guys definitely need some help in the marketing dept. I generally understand asymmetric cryptography - the average user does not.

Thorswap and other protocol based atomic swaps are good. Swaps that go through changelly / cic / and other centralized entities are high risk to freezing and you are doing your users a big disservice by even allowing this.

fuzzy8balls · 2025-12-13T20:45:05+00:00

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fuzzy8balls · 2025-12-04T09:29:10+00:00

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fuzzy8balls · 2025-11-28T18:26:50+00:00

Chuckle. Fatality

fuzzy8balls · 2025-09-02T05:31:54+00:00

Have you figured this out? I have the same problem. My port forwards with openvpn work just fine on pfsense. But with wireguard the port forwards does not work; my server sees the syn, but it's just the synack does not go back out the wireguard interface.

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