My eyesight is getting better, slowly but surely. I’m back to a reasonable (i.e. not excessive) regimen of piano practice but what is apparent is that I won’t be back to any real performance standard for a while yet. Having to look out of my right eye means that I can see the right side of the keyboard much better than I used to but of course the corollary to that is that my left hand vision is not good and my left hand accuracy has diminished somewhat.
Nonetheless it is good to be able to sit down and play a bit – makes me feel much better overall. So what I’m starting to do is something that I should have been doing for a while now and that is to focus on my technique and in particular learn to play exercises with my eyes closed to get a better feel of the keyboard and to train my brain to ‘feel’ positions much better. I have a number of books of suitable stuff for this and hopefully over the next weeks when I have more time to spend on this there will be some positive results.
Of course, there are other things to be done as well – I’m arranging a number of songs for my son to play on the saxophone and I really must sort out my digital score collection which is getting rather big and unwieldy. I also have to plan the next six months for my students and try to select music which will be beneficial to them both for their learning needs and enjoyment as well as challenging them musically and technically.
Unfortunately, my recordings have had to be postponed but hopefully the work I do over the next few weeks will improve the final result.