Vindicating

My piano exam is in 6 hours! This is the 20 minutes I've been preparing for, for the past year. Today I skipped school to stay and home and drill my scales and arpeggios more. I like how my pieces sound, I think they're extremely polished, and I think they're expressive as you can get on a light piano with shallow hammer action like a Yamaha. Wonder if I'll ever get to play on a Steinway? :P

The feeling is amazing! I haven't felt this kind of rush before an examination in a long time. I'm playing every piece like it's going to be the last time I'm playing (most definitely not - when I start working I'll save up for a $20k piano, and continue playing piano for the rest of my life! And then some.). It's wonderful how your fingers respond to your will, to pay attention to every single detail, to sculpt the forte and the piano and the schforzando and the sostenuto so delicately. I haven't heard myself play such lyrical dolce, or such suspenseful rallentendo! Right at the moment which matters, I think I've peaked.

It helps that I've extensively studied the histories of the composers for all my pieces and I know how THEY played the pieces. Alright that's all the time that I can afford! I'm gonna take a nap now. I was up last night at East Coast Park so I didn't get a lot of sleep.

After that, scale in D# minor, hands together 1 octave apart, staccato.