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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!
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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.
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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.…
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Gail Starr Compliments are always welcome!
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1 yr ago
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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:…
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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
1 yr 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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1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1
@David Excellent!! Superb!
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Adena_Franz
1 yr 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?
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1 yr 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.…
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Adena_Franz
1 yr 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.…
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1 yr ago
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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.
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1 yr ago
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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.…
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs 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,…
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs ago
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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
2 yrs 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.…
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs 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.
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs 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.
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs 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.
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs ago
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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Here’s my honest-to-goodness attempt at sightreading.
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2 yrs ago
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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,…
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs ago
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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.…
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2 yrs ago
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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.
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs ago
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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.
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Adena_Franz
2 yrs ago
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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.…
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