 If you look deeply at your practice, you will see that you have to be able to play the items for the next Sunday at least 4 days before. Not on Saturday, but on Wednesday, for example. On Saturday is too late. With the stress while playing in public your fingers should be much more acquainted with the pieces than it would seem. Performance is not the same as practice. If you want to be sure that on Sunday it will go fine, you have to play the pieces or hymns on Wednesday at least 10 times in a row correctly. I'm sorry, if it feels a lot and it is. But that's how human nature works. And remember, you don't have to play all 4 parts together yet, focus on Soprano and Bass only for now with loud principal chorus registration with mixtures. When you play 2 voices only, playing louder than usual helps to make up for the loss in texture. [Thanks to Katharine] People are already looking forward for Become an Organist: "This is awesome Vidas!! I'm convinced that your always ahead of the curve. Wish there more people so willing to help those who want to reach the next level but need that boost and support. Keep up the great work!! It's definitely has helped me." (Christopher) "I'm really looking forward to this "Become an Organist" training it's a fantastic idea! I couldn't see how to register in the blog email, I assume I need to log into Total Organist and enrole in the training? I assume it's free as part of Total Organist?" (John) Thanks to everyone who responded so warmly about this initiative. It means a lot. Yes, it's free with any membership of Total Organist. Simply login to your Total Organist profile and you'll see a link to register for Become an Organist. Time - it's this Monday 10 AM Vilnius time. Hope it works for you. If not, the recording will be waiting for you in any case. You can register here. I hope that our questions and answers will help you get unstuck and move forward with your goals this year. Ausra's Harmony Exercise:  |
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Drs. Vidas Pinkevicius and Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene Organists of Vilnius University , creators of Secrets of Organ Playing. 
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