I haven't posted anything in this blog in a while although I did write  Introduction to Comping a little over a week ago.  My practice has suffered somewhat because I have been spending time rearranging my studio and trying to learn how to set up and use my new mixer.  You can read about that in on my personal studio blog if you're interested.  That doesn't mean I haven't been practicing.  I have had my weekly drum lessons and Denis got me started on fills. I spent around an hour practicing that tonight while trying to get levels set correctly on the mixer and I will start recording some tomorrow.  As far as the piano goes, on May 18th I was looking through book two of the Well Tempered Clavier which Shanxi, my oldest daughter, gave me as a Christmas present in 2018.  As I played through parts of several of the fugues I was especially attracted to Fugue #14 in F#m and have decided to try and learn it (p0365).  I have had a few good practices but it's nowhere near a reasonable performance standard.

In learning this piece I have been applying my usual practice technique of Starting From the End. To describe my practice on I may have played through the complete piece at least once at a reasonably slow speed but I have been focusing on the last two pages because of the prevalence of 16^th notes starting at measure 36 that are mostly absent in the first two pages of the piece.  Chances are I will continue working on this piece through the month of June and will be pulling several examples out of it to demonstrate some of the drilling techniques that I use so look forward to seeing those in the coming weeks.  I may also add a new blog category for my projects in an effort to be better organized so that progress on specific pieces can be more easily followed.  My plans for tomorrow are to go ahead and record a rhythm track on the drums and use that as a foundation for improvisation that may turn into a short composition.  Until next time keep practicing.