Piano day (1h 40m)

• Technical
  • A Dozen A Day
    • “Stretching”
    • “Going Down Stairs”
    • “Flinging Arms” in all keys
    • “The Push-Up”
    • “Deep Breathing” in all keys
  • Oscar Peterson — Jazz Exercises
    • Exercise No. 1 (recap)
    • Jazz Menuet No. 1 (recap)
    • Tried out some other exercises and decided to use this book only for reading; quite boring, really
  • Hanon (ran a couple of random exercises from memory)
  • Dohannyi: checking out the book
• Modal studies
  • Harmonising Mixolydian mode
    • LH: stride patterns: 1 — 1st inversion
    • RH: 7-3-5 shells

Observations

It seems like there are a lot of technical exercise books that might not be good for everyone. So it really is useful to take your time and go through some exercises to figure out whether they actually suit your goals. My goal right now is more freedom in left hand, so Peterson unfortunately didn’t work for me (although some minuets are very beautiful, so I’m going to go back to them time after time to practice sight reading). Dohannyi, on the other hand, seems to be my thing — it’s not as boring as Hanon, but technical enough to keep you challenged.