February's Piece

February's theme is "Piano Teacher's Pick".

The deal for this one is that our piano teacher chooses the piece and whatever it is, I have to learn it. (no substitutions, exchanges, or refunds!) 👀 

I'm generally not the kind of person who likes surprises, but this seemed like a safe, fun sort of surprise.  She does, after all, successfully choose music for my kids all year long and has given me suggestions before, almost ALL of which have been completely on the money.  I was confident I had good odds of getting a piece I enjoyed. 

She asked me if I wanted to see what she picked when I was there there week and I just couldn't resist.... so it came home with me. I had *every* intention to play through it once and then put it aside until February 1. I really REALLY did.  

I should have known that I am weak.  (see below)

Needless to say, February might end up being a two-piece month, which is okay with me. I'm making the rules here anyway! 

The piece is called On The Meadow and it's by Heinrich Lichner. It's fun and bouncy and includes a chromatic scale, which apparently our teacher had never seen me try before. No time like the present! 

So, you should know, there's a fun little feature of ADHD called hyper-focus. Sometimes we can't focus on anything for any length of time, other times, we can tune out the entire world (including an epic light saber battle being choreographed on the floor above us) and focus on nothing BUT one thing. Yesterday was one of those days for me. 

Here's a quick play of where the new piece is after a long weekend of hanging around the house with extended, hyper -focused pitstops at the piano between loads of laundry.   I blame Amazon. They were supposed to deliver my awesome new book about Octopus intelligence and they failed me.