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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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- 3 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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- 3 yrs ago
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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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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Barbara Blakeslee my mistake. Same idea. thanks for correcting.
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- 3 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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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
My experiences with scales are love and hate. I took lessons as a youth at a very good music school in Buffalo, however, theory, scales, technique… were not stressed. My technique was Hanon.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Relaxing hands after leaps and stretches
@Kerstin Yes! I meant first variation, sorry... I am currently practicing the right hand melody legato with the middle 16th notes lightly staccato so i can release the hand up to last note in the…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Relaxing hands after leaps and stretches

Hi! I am really struggling with this one... although I am getting better. I am currently approaching this very methodically, think, ATTACK, relax... repeat ad nauseam...…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Edmund absolutely good points!
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Charlie Gesualdo I love my L! I know what you mean about the bass!
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Kerstin congratulations!!
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Cláudio Rodrigues my journey back to play started with a digital. Nothing wrong with Roland!
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Dominic Cheli We have a 1965 6'3" Baldwin L, a 2004 Schultze-Pollmann 126 Professional upright with Renner action (while they were still made in Italy from the ground up - still have the…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Piano Teacher Water Cooler...
Well, we just completed our first IN STUDO recital since 2019! :-) I live streamed on FB, I recorded it and yet to edit it from another camera... it was quite the undertaking.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: How to approach your repertoire in a fresh way! (like it was composed yesterday)
I have found that listening to different recordings of different pianists, both long ago and current, help shape the musical decisions I like. Of course it's always a work in progress.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!
I would like to sign i up
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- 3 yrs ago
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- General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Interactive Masterclass with Dominic!
@Dominic Cheli I would like to be considered for the next MC but with recording and not memorized. I am working on memorizing one, had the other memorized mostly but lost it.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What's the most surprising thing you have learned about the piano?
@Lisa Thomas I am also a piano teacher. I have a grand (Baldwin L), and upright (Schultze Polleman 126 from when they were still made in Italy 100%), and a digital - a Yamaha Clavinova CSP 150.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What's the most surprising thing you have learned about the piano?
The most surprising thing I have learned about the piano... Many are called, few are chosen. And I will keep practicing, in hopes of being chose...
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Sindre's practice diary
Beautiful playing Sindre!
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- 3 yrs ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Denise's Practice Diary
Surprisingly the Schubert Impromptu is coming along. Spending a lot of slow practice on Variation 1 and listening to recordings makes variation 2 not so bad.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Tuning

Anyone else totally nerd out and do happy dances twice a year like me? Today is that day!! tuning and adjustments… :-)
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Welcome!
@Gail Starr Posted at the end ;-) From today's run through...
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- 3 yrs ago
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- 4-Hand Piano Hub!
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Re: Welcome!
I never had much of an opportunity to do 4 hand work when I was younger... I really wish I had more ensemble playing in my fingers... But I try to have my students play them.…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Denise's Practice Diary
@Brother Will Green Thank you! Nice to hear from you too!
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- 3 yrs ago
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