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Re: My General Practice Routine
@Vladimir. Lupu I am using Logic Pro X on the Mac for recording my MIDI from an electronic keyboard. For scoring, I use Sibelius. The combination of these two apps are very useful for my piano and…
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Re: Scarlatti Sonata K492 - mixing piano and harpsichord during recordings.
@Juan Carlos Olite I am building a custom website for all my recordings which will be easier to navigate than on my YouTube channel. It should be ready in about a week.…
Jeffrey Segor
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2 yrs ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended!
The Longmont Symphony Orchestra (Elliot Moore) here in in Colorado has been having some fantastic concerts lately. Latest one was The Firebird Suite (Stravinsky), Ancient Echoes (Michael Udow),…
Jeffrey Segor
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Discussion of the Week
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Re: What are your difficult passages?
This passage from Scarlatti Sonata K113, starting with measure 96, it is always tricky to do these hand crossing leaps at tempo. For some reason, this is so hard to get perfect every time in quick…
Jeffrey Segor
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2 yrs ago
"Improve your Technique!" Month
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Beethoven's 7 Variations WoO 78 for piano + strings
Been working on Beethoven lately. Here is a recording of Beethoven's 7 Variations on a theme of "God Save the King". This is an audio recording using my Kawai CA5 electric piano using piano +…
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Re: Scarlatti Sonata K492 - mixing piano and harpsichord during recordings.
@Qingzhi This particular recording was using an audio recording of my actual instrument. But my 1.00 versions of the Scarlatti sonatas I am using the EastWest Quantum Leap virtual pianos.…
Jeffrey Segor
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2 yrs ago
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LDS Hymn # 169 - Experimenting with on-camera recording
I have not done very many on-camera recordings, but luckily I have one I did with only one take. This is Hymn 169 in my LDS Hymn book. I added my own variation on the repeated section.…
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Scarlatti Sonata K492 - mixing piano and harpsichord during recordings.
My main goal is to create piano recordings of my favorite pieces. I am creating several versions of the same piece using different methods. For my 1.01 versions I am mixing piano with…
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My General Practice Routine
I use two iPAD apps to keep track of the time I practice each day and general MIDI editing of recordings. For general practice I use Focus Plant and usually practice 90 minutes/day between the…
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Re: Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
@Hilda There is a special pedaling I came up with in Schubert's Impromptu Op 90 #1 starting in measures 124 which seems rather effective (very targeted pedaling).…
Jeffrey Segor
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: WEEK 1: Discovering Schubert Month
Piece working on: Impromptu #1 Op 90 Satisfied Section: Opening theme Difficult Section: Section starting a measure 124, very beautiful but hard after trying it While this piece is harder than I…
Jeffrey Segor
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
@Anthony Miyake Wonderful. Perfect. This is a good start. Thanks. Schubert is in this interesting period where the pianos were still evolving.
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
I am planning on exploring Schubert's Impromptu #1 Op 90, which I spent many hours yesterday examining and practicing. Never played this before, and it might be a bit over ambitious to choose this…
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Dominic Cheli Amazingly enough, in all my years familiar with Scarlatti Sonatas (starting with listening to the Ralph Kirkpatrick record on vinyl LPs as a kid) I only discovered K298 recently.…
Jeffrey Segor
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Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Gail Starr Yes, indeed, K141 is another piece I want to learn relatively soon. K298 is easier than some of Scarlatti's other pieces where there are these giant spans of hand-crossings.…
Jeffrey Segor
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Gail Starr Thanks. Here is an example Scarlatti K298 I did recently. I showed this to my violin teacher and we are going to work on a 2 violin version of this.…
Jeffrey Segor
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Re: What music are you working on?
I am working on quite a few Scarlatti Sonatas simultaneously, some of my favorites are : K492, K322, K298, K135, K113, K56, K27, K84, K85. I am hoping to start attacking Beethoven's Sonata 23…
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General Discussion
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
I play piano as a hobby and I am currently specializing in Scarlatti sonatas. I am a retired computer programmer who loves to work with software tools for the piano (and violin).…
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