I'm still working away at my Debussy piece which is making me happy because I'm starting to be able to play it at the appropriate tempo (at least in some parts). But then I pulled out my Sonata book from my last round of formal piano lessons which was about a year ago at this point. I am so irritated with myself because I can see exactly where I left off when I stopped working with my teacher and it's hard not to focus on the progress I could have made. I keep thinking someday I'll figure out the secret to getting myself on the piano bench everyday for an hour but that day has yet to come!

I am trying to be more focused in my practice this week. I've been reading a lot about keeping a practice journal as well as having goals, even simple ones, for each practice session. So I'm going to try that out and see what happens. I'm also going to add in some scales (which I've been skipping out on) and also actually work on (as opposed to glossing over the hard parts) of a piano arrangement of Blessed Assurance that I've been messing around with for the past month or so.

And here is why I love wasting time on youtube:
Debussy's Arabesque 1 on harp:


Which leads me down the path of wishing I could play the harp and all these lovely videos :)