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Re: Beethoven's Birthday Challenge! I will do my best to keep up... Tonic sucks me in - but I am working on Sonata Op 14 No 2. I have shelved it for a bit while working on some Chopin.... End of semester at the HS.... but...…
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Did anyone go to Toniccon at Colburn?
It was sooo awesome! Here is a link to an insta memory I made… We had such a wonderful time. Dom is so blessed to work at such a great place. I secretly hoped I would catch him in the wild!…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your waltz and start Dancing! @Gail Starr Every year! :-) Don't want to invade the thread, but here's a teaser from a recent practice... (Amy Beach duet - Katy-dids) https://www.instagram.…
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- 7 mths ago
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- Let's Play Schubert's Waltzes!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your waltz and start Dancing! I think everyone is doing fantastic! @Gail Starr Gail - one that you are doing I have I read though- just lovely! I actually read through a few prhers with every intention of finishing one - but my…
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- 7 mths ago
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- Let's Play Schubert's Waltzes!
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Re: Piano education I have been teaching for about 15 years. I have had one precocious 3 year old... A friend's daughter, who I started with to see how I did with young children.…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Group 3 Here is my latest run. I wasn't focusing on dynamics so much as rhythm and it is loaded with mistakes. I hope that the dotted eighth/16ths were better? It was still memory work but the music is on…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 I have been battling the sixteenths sounding line triplets. Thanks! I will keep working on it. :-)
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- 1 yr ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 my trills kill me :-(
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- 1 yr ago
- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 I just saw this topic! I have been crazy busy with piano students, studio recital, and preparing for going back to campus (hs teacher)... BUT, I will be playing Op 68 No 2 at MY mentor's studio…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Week 4 Thread: The Meaning in Music @Antonella Di Giulio I agree! :-) This was back when I was learning it. I subsequently memorized it and played it at a studio class this summer. Unfortunately I do not have a recording of that...…
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- 2 yrs ago
- Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century!
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Re: Dottie's Practice Diary - Beginning Again Welcome! :-) I had a similar lapse... I tool lessons until I was 18. Wanted to major in music, however my family had other input, so I joined the Navy! HAHAH!…
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- 2 yrs ago
- 4-Hand Piano Hub!
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Re: On stage with a piano technician feat. Neema Pazargad I can't attend as I will be on campus teaching, however... my technician has been trying to fix a creaking sustain pedal on my 1965 Baldwin L. We are to the point where he suggested ordering a new…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Memorizing @Adena Franz thank you!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Memorizing I am petrified of memorizing!!!!!! I was so good at it when I was young. I went to music school for a degree in my 30s and my first jury caused such an anxiety meltdown it has been near impossible to…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Denise's Practice Diary Shostakovich is memorized! And I thought I couldn't memorize. Getting better the more I put my mind to it... (pun intended). Yes, there are mistakes... Haunting yet beautiful Prelude in A Flat Major..…
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- 2 yrs ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 4 Thread: The Meaning in Music @Natalie Peh thank you so much! it was my first Haydn Sonata. It’s so pretty and taught me a lot about subdividing… and patience
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century!
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Re: Week 4 Thread: The Meaning in Music I am always late to these because I am so busy once I am back on campus, but here is Haydn Sonata 19 MVT 1 Adagio with some mistakes. I had it memorized over the summer.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century!
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Re: Piano Community Concert July 2022 I would like to play Shostakovich Prelude #17 Op 34 - only caveat, my last lesson lets out at 11:15; My 11:15 is on break for the summer unless they request a lesson by Wednesday.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1 @Andrea Buckland I will put that on my todo. I am currently working on Schubert's Impromptu #3 Op 142. Hoping the scale intensive will help me with the last variation.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1 I am having trouble "assimilating" the new chromatic fingering when I put hands together. Anyone else? I will continue with slow practice to see if I can make the switch. I love Dom's rationale.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Scales!
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Re: Piano Teacher Water Cooler... @Gail Starr Thank you!! :-) I still have to edit the other two videos and update my website. I was worried this year. So many variables. Students resistant to memorizing... etc.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1 Here is my first recording of Burgmüller's Progress. Thanks for watching. There are definitely a few hiccups and I didn't take the repeat. I still need to download a couple of things,…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1 Ok, I will go first. I just sat down and did a cold run of my C major scale warm up. This is how I typically practice scales... usually with a metronome.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1 @Barbara Blakeslee my mistake. Same idea. thanks for correcting.
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- 2 yrs ago
- Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1 @Ko I find it easiest to upload to YouTube (private) and share the link.
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- 2 yrs ago
- Improve your Scales!
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