Smiling over here, nodding my head in agreement, and with you 200% about FedEx spiral binding. They sure are the best! The writable highlighter tape looks awesome! I’ve never tried it before and can hardly wait to test it out :) I always learn such helpful and useful new tips/ideas from your videos, Jeeyoon. Thanks so much!
I actually sometimes make a book that are impossible to stay open to a binding as well, just by cutting the ends and have them make a spiral binding. ;)
Looking back at my old piano books, markings from my teacher were all in pencil. Sometimes with dates. They make me smile reminiscing the old time when I was a teenager. Piano books my sister and I shared were imported from France. They were expensive and hard to get but we didn’t think twice when our teacher wrote on them. Now a day like you I like to make copies of the pieces I’m working on, still use pencil to change fingering or names of the notes I keep missing, etc...and put them in one 3-ring binder. I like the use of highlighting tapes and stickers. Thank you for sharing your tips. They are always fascinating and inspiring. I love your enthusiasm and smiling face. Hope you toes are well now!! 🥰🌹
Thank you Diane! I actually like to see some dates that were written by my teachers on my old piano books as well. which reminds me that I should do that sometimes on my current books for myself!
I am using an iPad now and I can mark up my music how I like and go back and make edits. Sometimes I miss paper though. If I am learning from a book I have I use the iPad camera to “scan” the sheet into a pdf.
I follow (and mess around with) art as well as music, and a lot of artists I follow online use sketchbooks as a sort of progress diary of techniques they're working on currently. They refer to their old sketchbooks from years ago to see how much their work has changed, and they sometimes re-draw or re-paint things they did before in their current sketchbooks. Your idea of printing out and binding copies of scores and annotating them with your current fingerings, ideas and strategies sounds similar, especially if the books are labelled with the dates you use them. I can see why you wouldn't want to mark up an expensive edition with your current notes, especially if a few years later those notes might no longer apply. I think if it were me, I would keep an archive of the old notebooks in the cloud, but I'm more of an eBook guy than a paper-book guy. Have a great week, Jeeyoon. Annyeong!!
Before i went to university, i had the fortune to work as office clerk in an office. I learned how to use a photo-copier effectively, and i know how to do off-set, meaning, puting the original, but do a reduction(usually 90%) and shift the image to the left or right margin alternatively. Then i use these copies with lots of space for annotation. Legal advise, you have to own an original scores and it has to be accompanied with the copies. When i went university, my instructors did not mind me using copies, as long as i bring along the originals. Oh, by the way, then i could make multiple copies at different stage of learning. For example, there were some works i learned as a teenager, pre college, university, and post grad.... I used different copies which then chronicle my learning over the different stages. Indeed, over the years, i have more and more copies of works that i took out and re-learn.
Love your feedback! I cherish all of my handwriting from those booklets that I made to study a specific piece of music. Those notes and fingerings are the treasure! :)
I love my scores so much I can’t bare to write on them lol. I use copies and/or the iPad so then I can mark them in color and how I want :)... without feeling bad lol
I always write with a pencil in my music. When I was a student, my pianoteacher wrote with a ballpen in my very expensive Beethoven edition and I was not very amused about it. Sometimes I make copies of a piece, but I prefere one book for each piece and not one book for the whole seasn. So I can combine the pieces by different ways for different occasions. Alsough I have some very old editions, for example Brahms Op 116 from his livetime. So the score is a bit too holy for me to write in it or destroy the pages wile turning. But I always have the music book at home. Annyoung!
Thank you for the tip on Highlighter Tape! I will order it right away! Highlighter is messy, and, in my church choir, rule # 1 is ONLY PENCIL for marking in scores. The (removable) highlighter tape is THE solution to this dilemma. 🙏🙏🙏 I download almost all my scores from IMSLP, keep the PDFs on a memory stick, and can print out a score whenever I need. *TIP*: I bought myself a manual binding machine on Amazon, they are affordable, and pay off over time. I came to prefer comb binding over spiral, BTW. As a side note: Many times 'pre-fab fingerings' from editions don't fit my hands; and my fingerings from 35 years ago don't work anymore now that I am over 60 (and after 15+ years working in construction w/o playing piano). Anybody else had similar experiences?
I know what you mean by some of fingerings from an old edition don't serve people well. Especially with Shirmer edition, I find there are a lot of more awkward fingerings that I don't agree. I ended up avoiding that edition over time.
You are so interesting, intelligent & so lovely 🤙. I still have my old piano books 📚 but unfortunately have forgotten how to read music Still love ❤️ piano 🎹 music immensely ⭐️✨👈🙌
Loved this video. I write directly on my Henle books (oopsie!) but always with a pencil and lightly so that I can change it if I need to. This includes both structural markings or interpretation markings. I loved the highlighter tip, never really used any but could definitely use some red tape on those challenging spots
Hahaha... (Indeed oopsie!) at least you use a pencil.... 😂 I sometimes really want to make my score dirty on purpose while I am working on in depth, using colors and other pens, so that is one of reasons that I make a copy too! 😆
@@jeeyoonkimpianist i highlighted with HIGHLIGHTERS the whole score of some inventions too (imagine a rainbow 🌈 on top of a music score) as an exercise to understand structure in Inventions too but thankfully that was on a print out haha. Bach would struck a lightning on me if I ever did that in a Henle Book. I tried your highlight tape tip last night and it works SO WELL!
I use a journal alongside to record piece I am working on. Also, I do like to mark fingerings and measure numbers on my scores. If the score is very expensive like Henle, I will make copies and scribble on those😊😊😊.
