Practice with me: test pairs of phrases out of order (Bach: Prelude in C - Complete Course, Part 16)

Link to complete course for Bach's Prelude in C:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrCfWXPGQna9lmF6S5EU1q5NmFC5WPuyr

Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach

Composition:
Prelude in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Number in Wolfgang Schmieder's Bach Works Catalogue :
BWV 846, 1

Source for public domain score:
https://imslp.eu/files/imglnks/euimg/f/f1/IMSLP886646-PMLP533917-Bach--WTK1-BWV_846.pdf

Recommended practical performing published edition:
https://www.amazon.com/Succeeding-Masters-Baroque-Era-2/dp/1569394806/
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/succeeding-with-the-masters-baroque-era-volume-two-6726270.html

Recommended scholarly published edition:
https://www.amazon.com/bach-well-tempered-clavier-part-846-869/dp/b00006m0nt
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/the-well-tempered-clavier-i-bwv-846-869-2450702.html

Portrait credit:
Painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Public Domain
https://www.jsbach.net/bass/elements/bach-hausmann.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1270015

Color for thumbnail chosen from Warren Mars' color wheel of tonalities:
https://warrenmars.com/visual_art/theory/colour_wheel/music_colours/music_colours.htm

Counting with the "1 e and a" method:
https://utminers.utep.edu/charlesl/Counting1e&a.pdf

Singing, the vagus nerve, and the parasympathetic nervous system.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268263.2024.2416265#d1e98
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/try-to-see-it-my-way/202003/sing-in-the-shower-to-make-friends-with-your-vagus-nerve

Source of the "Chopin tilt" idea:
Alan Fraser: The Craft of Piano Playing
https://www.alanfraserinstitute.com/craft-of-piano-playing.php

Practicing with altered rhythms (I led you through transformations 1 and 2):
https://practisingthepiano.com/rhythm-practice-done-right/

For practice advice that is not just "do it over and over," head to Dr. Molly Gebrian's channel:
https://youtube.com/@DrMollyGebrian?si=mTw0nkK3uL2BvRGE

The source of the practice of having freedom in tempo when learning (i.e. speed up when comfortable/bored and slow down when overwhelmed/having to think hard) is an old article by György Sebők. I can't remember the name of the article, sorry.

The source for calling areas between black keys the "gray area":
Seymour Fink: Mastering Piano Technique
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Piano-Technique-Students-Performers/dp/0931340462/

Randomize the following list of phrases at
https://www.random.org/lists/

Cut and paste test for single phrases:
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase to establish tonality.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase beginning with circle of 5ths.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase beginning with diminished chords.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase transitioning from C7 to G in the bass.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase with G pedal, first half.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase with G pedal, second half.
Bach: Prelude in C - Phrase beginning with C7, to finish the piece.

Cut and paste test for pairs of phrases:
Bach: Prelude in C - Play from the beginning to the cadence in G.
Bach: Prelude in C - Play from the circle of 5th phrase to the cadence on C at the end of phrase 3.
Bach: Prelude in C - Play from the phrase starting with diminished chords to end of the transition to G in the bass.
Bach: Prelude in C - Play from the first phrase beginning with C7 until the G7 in the pedal point paragraph right before the diminished chord.
Bach: Prelude in C - Play all of the G pedal point paragraph and stop before the C7 at the end.
Bach: Prelude in C - Play from the diminished chord in the middle of the G pedal point paragraph and go to the end of the piece.
Bach: Prelude in C - Start from the last phrases starting with the C7 chord and play the last phrase of the piece. Also test the first phrase of the piece since it's only been played once so far on this list.

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