Piano!

Learning Outcomes:
1. Increased Awareness of your strengths and areas for growth 
2. Show Perserverence and Commitment 
3. Develop New Skills 
 Although I have been playing piano for quite a while, this year I found it particularly challenging as I was preparing for my grade 7 Associated Board of the Royal School Of Music (ABRSM) examinations. I had lessons twice a week for several months, I believe that this took a lot of perserverence and commitment as it was for a long time and at times I found it challenging to balance lessons and pratice with my school work and other activities. It took a lot of commitment because I had to practice everyday and since this was a high grade, practice usually took around half an hour, if not more. In preparation for the exam I learned 3 new pieces, several new scales, sight-reading and aurals. I feel that this helped me to develop new skills especially because one of my pieces was a Mozart piece and I had never played any of Mozart's work before which I learned required a lot of accuracy and particular techniques. This helped me develop new skills I needed to play this piece well. Moreover, I had to learn numerous scales that I had never learned in previous years. The whole process allowed me to improve my weaknesses, sight-reading has never been a strong point of mine but with practice I managed to improve this. I participated in a concert, this was very nerve-wrecking as I have a bit of stage fright and generally do not like playing piano infront of people, however I still took part and afterwards felt a small sense of accomplishment. Overall, I enjoyed playing the piano this year as I got to learn new pieces that I actually liked, although it took a lot of dedication I felt that it was worth it in the end. 

Performing at a piano recital