#100daysofpractice

I'm starting off 2023 by sharing snippets of my daily piano practice. Here's a summary of week 1.
Day 1: Tonal Harmony Workout in C Maj
Day 2: Anthropology with dotted quarters left hand
Day 3: Giant Steps in 5/8 with long beat metronome
Day 4: Tonal Harmony Workout in Eb- with 5/8 arpeggiation pattern
Day 5: Goldberg Variation 1 in chromatic inversion (#BachUpsideDown)
Day 6: 26-2 with dotted quarters left hand
Day 7: Sight Singing with EarGuru

[@drumcconaughy330]

Fascinating, and wonderful! Thank you so much!

[@meretciel]

Oh gosh, and here I am just trying to play the first couple bars of Succotash with TWO hands... You are a delightful motivator!

[@randygeorge]

great workouts. very inspiring.

[@DanTepferMusic]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@sorwell]

Amazing workouts, great music, as always!

[@DanTepferMusic]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jazzted]

I am inspired! Thanks man!

[@DanTepferMusic]

My pleasure!

[@frankkeys92]

following

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

wow long time no see!

[@DanTepferMusic]

Indeed :-)

[@PlaybySoul]

about Sight Singing Exercise if i don't have perfect pitch. Should i refer to a key of C? (for Example if the app shows me Eb or Else , I will sing the Root(C) First before singing Eb? Am I Correct?

[@DanTepferMusic]

In the sight singing exercise, you should go from one note to the next, not go to C every time. So, say your first note is A. You can ask EarGuru to play the note so you know where the A is. Then sing it. Then ask it for a new note. Say it's a B. You should recognize that A to B is a major second, and sing the B in relation to the A. Does that make sense?

[@PlaybySoul]

@@DanTepferMusic thks you Dan :) I'll go and practice.

[@franktruffaut4312]

So the dotted quater note exercises r a poly rhythm, could u think 6/8 against 4/4, with 4/4 dictating the harmonic rhythm?

[@DanTepferMusic]

better to think of it as just in 4/4, with a dotted-quarter rhythm displacing against it, in my opinion. just hear the melody of this rhythm moving against the 4/4.

[@franktruffaut4312]

​@@DanTepferMusicThanks for taking the time to answer.

[@jacobbenjaminsilver]

In your tonal harmony workouts do you include inversions or always in root position?

[@DanTepferMusic]

I recommend listening for yourself - you should be able to find the answer to your question by listening to what I'm playing. As I explain, voice leading is critical to this exercise, and you can't get good voice leading if everything's in root position.