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Re: Group 1
Like everyone, I am looking forward to participating in this group, and to learning to communicate a story via music. I find recording myself, audio and/or visual, hugely intimidating.…
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Adena_Franz
3 mths ago
Narrative Musicianship w/ Konstantin Soukhovetski
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Re: The issue of cut time and tempo
Excellent question, Philip. Now I am dying to hear the views of others as unfortunately, I haven’t the knowledge to put forth one of my own.
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Adena_Franz
4 mths ago
General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@David Excellent!! Superb!
Adena
Adena_Franz
5 mths ago
Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@David This pdf is most helpful for this intensive and also for building visual recognition of chords for sight readers. Thank you! Are you working with Musescore?
Adena
Adena_Franz
5 mths ago
Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@Andy Miles I know what you mean. How to eat an elephant, ha! I followed Jeremy's advice and focused this morning on learning the chord progression in only Eb major and C minor.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
5 mths ago
Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
Hi, I’ve started learning jazz several times - usually with abysmal success. Jeremy has a way, though, to entice one to experiment with a playful freedom.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
5 mths ago
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Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: How to improve your Sightreading (and why it is important)
I’d be interested in exercises which train the eye (and the brain!) to keep looking ahead at the next notes and phrases while sightreading.
Adena
Adena_Franz
5 mths ago
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Live Calendar
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Re: Group 3
@Natalie Peh Thanks Natalie. It was unsettling as the brain vacillated between paying attention to the words and singing on key, and the notes my fingers had to play.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
10 mths ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Improve your trills with Robert Durso! (Master of the Taubman Approach!)
I am looking forward to this session. Question re consecutive trills and the finger movements to play them smoothly. For example, the coda of Paderewski’s Menuet in G major, measures 117 through 120,…
Adena
Adena_Franz
10 mths ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Group 3
Re assignment 2: As Leann said that German is a beautiful language in which to sing, I pulled out an ancient hymnbook (Gesangbuch) and sang the 1st 8 1/2 measures while sightreading.…
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Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Group 2
@Kerstin You’re fortunate to have this innate ability. Time helps getting a piece into one’s mind. I’m in group 3. I have struggled with sight reading for several years.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Group 2
@Kerstin Sure you haven’t played this before??
That was an awesome performance! Thanks for sharing your process.
Adena
Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Group 3
@Natalie Peh This is impressive, Natalie. I hear the music, the beauty, not the warts.
Adena
Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Group 3
Thank you Leann! I so appreciate your feedback and look forward to the zoom with you next Monday.
Adena
Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Group 3
Here’s my honest-to-goodness attempt at sightreading.
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Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Memorizing
@Denise Bravo Denise, on taking up the challenge of memorizing Shoshtakovich. You play beautifully. I memorize everything I learn to play, and while it takes me longer to "finish" a piece,…
Adena
Adena_Franz
11 mths ago
General Discussion
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Re: Memorizing
It was interesting to hear a scientist discuss that by outsourcing our ability to find our way around, that is, by using GPS, we diminish our ability to memorize.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
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General Discussion
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Shoshana Kalson Thanks, good to know. The music shop has offered to have it fixed as it’s still on warranty. Sigh.
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
Discussion of the Week
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Shoshana Kalson I have P-515 as well. Do you hear “clicking” sound when you play B3, C3? It’s especially annoying through headphones.
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
Discussion of the Week
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
@Jenny Harrison Ahh, at last, a pianist who knows and loves Steingraeber! I love my A-172 grand which I discovered in Montreal, and fits snugly in our dining room/living room.…
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
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Discussion of the Week
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!
Please sign me up, Dominic. I'm really looking forward to this. Thank you for organizing it.
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Ways you can participate in the tonebase Piano Community
@Dominic Cheli Dominic, re trills: I listened to your webcast of August 17, 2021 on trills. Wow! A phenomenal amount of knowledge you shared! As per your suggestion,…
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
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Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: What are your difficult passages?
Dominic, re trills: I listened to your webcast of August 17, 2021 on trills. Wow! A phenomenal amount of knowledge you shared! As per your suggestion, I’d like your opinion on how many trills to…
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Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
"Improve your Technique!" Month
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended!
@Pauline Thanks, Pauline. Yes, he’s multi-talented. I’ve almost finished reading his book Rough Ideas. He drops a few hints on technique for piano playing, something I’m deeply interested in.
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
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Discussion of the Week
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended!
Vermont Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #3. I was so tired after that from the exhilaration as well as from trying to follow Hough’s hands as I was 3 rows…
Adena
Adena_Franz
1 yr ago
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Discussion of the Week
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