Hey guys, I hope you are all safe and healthy during these crazy times! 🤗
Today’s video is a concept that I haven’t tried out before - a whole practice session for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Allemanda from his Partita No. 2. I’ve contemplated a lot to share this since practicing is a very intimate process that usually isn’t shared this thoroughly on the internet… but if this practice video motivates just one person to practice with me, I figured my concerns to be criticized for my practicing methods are minimally important. To follow the music while I play: http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/us...

With the BLM movement presenting its importance stronger than ever, I’ve created a collection of resources for you to dive into. Instagram accounts to follow, newspaper articles, organizations to donate… you name it! Special thanks to for helping to assemble this list of resources.
Black Lives Matter Resource List:

✩ Black Lives Matter explained ✩
✭ 15-minute video of the history of a movement:    • Black Lives Matter explained: The his...  

✩ How systemic racism established itself particularly in the US ✩
✭    • Systemic Racism Explained  

✩ Instagram Accounts to follow ✩
✭ The Conscious Kid: https://www.instagram.com/theconsciou...
✭ Campaign Zero:   / campaignzero  
✭ Together Rising: https://www.instagram.com/together.ri...
✭ Girl Up Campaign by the UN Foundation: https://www.instagram.com/girlupcampa...
✭ Activism and Stuff: https://www.instagram.com/activismand...

✩ Don’t have money to donate? No problem! ✩
Watch these videos or let them run in the background to raise money:
✭ Watch to Donate to Black Lives Matter | Fitness Marathon | how to financially help blm with no money:    • WATCH TO DONATE | BLACK LIVES MATTER ...  
✭ Stream To Donate - 24/7 Hip Hop Music - Donate with No Money by Listening:
   • Stream To Donate - 24/7 Hip Hop Music...  

✩ Petitions to sign ✩
✭ Justice for Elijah McClain: https://www.change.org/p/adams-county...
✭ Justice for Breonna Taylor: https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear...

✩ Organizations to donate to ✩
✭ The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
✭ Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/
✭ Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
✭ The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/
✭ Black Mamas Matter: https://blackmamasmatter.org/
✭ Dig Deep: https://www.digdeep.org/
✭ Movement for Black Lives: https://m4bl.org/

✩ Classical music-related organizations that support & represent racial equality ✩
✭ Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts: https://4caapa.org/
✭ Music by Black Composers: https://www.musicbyblackcomposers.org/
✭ Challenge the Stats: https://challengethestats.org/
✭ The SPHYNX Organization: http://www.sphinxmusic.org/

✩ Newspaper Articles ✩
✭ New York Times “How We Fight Racism”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/op...
✭ The Economist “A brief history of protest symbols, from cockades to raised fists”: https://www.economist.com/prospero/20...
✭ Neue Zürcher Zeitung Article (in German) “Warum Schwarze in den USA für das gleiche Delikt öfter verurteilt werden und länger im Gefängnissitzen als Weisse”: https://www.nzz.ch/international/rass...

✩ What you can do to actively support ✩
✭ Openly talk about racial inequality. Patiently discuss. Emphatize but emphasize.
✭Critically check yourself and eliminate covert racism.
✭ Stand up against racist bullies.
✭ VOTE. ALWAYS.
✭ Seek out & support small black businesses.

Thank you for taking your time to check it out.

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✭ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/suminastuder

✩ Background music by: 11 Acorn Lane - Mellow Mouser:    • 11 Acorn Lane - Mellow Mouser [Lofi C...  

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✩ hope you have a great day! :) ✩