Piano Week 12: Cleanup + confidence

Weekly Focus

Week 12 is a targeted cleanup week. The goal is to stabilize weak spots from recent recordings so your baseline material feels performance-ready.

Success this week means fewer repeated errors, cleaner time on problem bars, and stronger confidence in your simplest winning version.

Repertoire & Chord Map

Primary song is My Romance, with Fly Me to the Moon as transfer check. Keep harmony simple and use fixes from real recordings, not hypothetical ones.

Core repair loop:

Imaj7 | VI7 | iim7 | V7 Imaj7 | VI7 | iim7 | V7

Daily map task: isolate two weak bars, repair slowly, then reintegrate into full form.

Supplementary Listening & Ear Training (Required)

Use this track as the ear-training backbone for “Cleanup + confidence week”, then transfer what you hear to piano the same day.

Weekly listening pick:

• Maiden Voyage — Herbie Hancock

Why this track now: It highlights quartal color and static-harmony listening, which matches Week 12’s goals.

Ear tasks (10–15 min, at least 3 sessions this week):

1. Listen once without the instrument and name the key center by ear (major/minor/modal). Then verify the key at piano.
2. Find one cadence or arrival point, then play: root + shell ii-V-I (or closest functional equivalent) in that key.
3. Lift a short 4–8 bar fragment by ear, play it slowly, and record ~30s so you can compare your hearing vs. the recording.

Extra challenge (optional): transpose your lifted fragment to the weekly priority ladder when possible (F → Eb → G → Bb → C).

End-of-Week Reflection

Which fixes actually held under full-take pressure, and which only worked in isolation? Keep one reliable fallback version and one high-priority fix for checkpoint week.