Today's recording is really a tale of two halves. I played the second half straight through at 80 bpm today, totally accidentally. That represents a really tough target for me - on the second half. For the first half, that's really slow, so slow that my mind starts to drift and *that* causes me to make mistakes. I can comfortably play the first half at 100 and uncomfortably a couple of notches above that. So you'll hear me pushing the tempo pretty strongly in the first half here, and then being blindsided by how much faster the second half feels, hence a mistake and restart. What it all means is that I need more work to bring the second half up to the level of the first, but it's a result of the fact that the second half is significantly harder. When I was first sightreading through it, I literally could not even figure out what to do at the end. So while this recording shows some real issues, it also represents real progress!
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