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Re: Memory
No I haven’t, and from what I’ve seen, his playinthezone.com website is super hype, which is why, I suppose, you’re asking here. I am not tempted by his rhetoric,…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Group 3
I’ve been working on D major scale for 2 days, hands separate and together, with this method. I sweat!! First off, my fingering gets riled up, I neglect to consider the interval and start counting…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Tim Thank you for posting this Tim. My paper and pencil notebook have sufficed until now, however, I find your spreadsheet much better, especially insofar as organizing priorities and preparing for…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: 2024 Tonebase Piano Camp Questions
@Noah Hardaway Has the email gone out to the confirmed camp attendees regarding their session preferences?
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Group 2
A short video practising the gravity drop with the last few measures of John Field’s Nocturne #5. First played the usual way, with the fingers pressing DOWN on the keys.…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Do you have a technical routine? Please share!
@Stephen Brewer You're welcome. Musescore has a bit of a learning curve, however, I've been able to create personalized exercises of the Russian chords, such as arppegios, I-IV-V progressions,…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Michael Plante Thank you, Michael. I understand now. I appreciate your time.
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Michael Plante Thanks. So your mics are going into an audio console which is connected to a computer (?). How does the audio “go back to the camera”? I understand the camera has an XLR connection,…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Michael Plante This is interesting. When you say that you pull video into an audio console, to which console specifically do you refer?
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Sam Smith Super simple setup, Sam. I like it. I use a Scarlet connected to 2 condenser mics CM4 (Made in Sweden) recommended by Martin from Guitar Tonebase,…
- Adena_Franz
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Do you have a technical routine? Please share!
@Becky Brouwer Perry Piano Academy sounds very interesting. Do you enroll in a program? I’m at the ww2.peeryacademy.com website and they list 3 programs: Habits, Performance & Progress,…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Looking for resources
Dana, watch this workshop on Narrative Musicianship. From Tonebase. https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/pno-konstantin-soukhovetski-narrative-musicianship
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Do you have a technical routine? Please share!
@Dominic Cheli Much appreciated Dominic! So much to learn, so few hours in a day... I used your 11 Russian Chords as an excuse to learn Musescore, and attached are the Russian chords in all keys.…
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- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Gail Starr Bienvenue, Gail. On closer examination, the chords on the sheet Dominique showed us don’t correspond Exactly to those on the pianounlocked.com website. They are, however, close.…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
For anyone looking for a list along with mapped out arpeggios in each key of the 11 Russian chords Dominique discussed, I found this website: pianounlocked.com: https://pianounlocked.…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Tanya I am enjoying reading Charles Cooke and about the notion of fractures; I had no idea that they are the most solid once they heal. How encouraging!
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Christopher Macy Thank you! I will look that up. Sounds a little like learning by chunking. I usually begin with the parts of the piece which appear the most difficult so they get more practice.
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Adena Gail, one more thing I learned about memorizing: the next day when I want to recall what I memorized, it most certainly will have been forgotten. 99% sure it's unavailable.…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Gail Starr Compliments are always welcome! 😂
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Gail Starr What helped get over the “time to memorize” hurdle was to tell myself that I only had to memorize and mentally visualize 1 note! Ha ha, I immediately replied to self:…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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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.…
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs 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.
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@David Excellent!! Superb!
- Adena_Franz
- 2 yrs 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_Franz
- 2 yrs 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_Franz
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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