In my opinion, a person learning piano (or perhaps any instrument) should not "practice", but rather "play" the exercises, make music of those otherwise boring notes. Consider Edna-Mae Burnam's book Daily Dozen (1950). Instead of practicing each one of a group of a dozen exercises, one by one, some repeated as legato then stacatto, I arranged them all together, taking liberties with the order, adding transition notes or measures, and modulations to related keys. The player might add dynamics and vary the tempo as the mood suggests. In her book, Ms. Burnam has five groups each of a dozen exercises. This Monday Prelude is an arrangement of the first group.
[Realized by the Garritan Personal Orchestra's Steinway Piano]
©2023 by David Rupp