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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Juan Carlos Olite thanks a lot for your kind words. I think t need to breather more. And I still get tense when getting to the technically difficult passages.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Sindre Skarelven thank you. I am not sure whether I will have the time to make a decent recording of the whole piece in the next days. We’re moving to Switzerland mid of September,…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Vidhya Bashyam thanks a lot. I love this piece, but it is definitely a challenge for me
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Priya Viseskul thank you. That is very kind of you
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Gail Starr concerning the French school of piano I was just referring to myself. When I started to learn the piano as a young child, I’ve learned it so differently and these 5 years with that (by…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Gail Starr getting tense - doesn’t that have to do with how you hit the keys? My former French teacher tried to make me learn the French school playing the piano,…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Jennifer Mehta thank you
! Still a lot of work!
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Gail Starr very impressed by how fast you are learning new pieces! Myself, I am a very slow learner
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Priya Viseskul this nocturne is so full of passion and so difficult to play! It sounds amazing! Very sensitive touch, which is so important with Chopin.…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Jennifer Mehta this is so beautiful! When listening to you, I at once see those images that I used when learning this piece myself. I very much look forward to your next recording
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Jennifer Mehta I can see your post with the videos.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Gail Starr you have such a beautiful touch! I love your interpretation. I think you’re so right to stick to a slower tempo for right now. The “right” tempo will come overtime.…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
Hello, busy week for me again with family around. I have continued my practice of the beginning and the ending of the Polonaise-Fantaisie. This time the video of Part 1 covers bar 1 - bar 116 and the…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Alexander Weymann This is the first time that I participate in an activity of Tonebase, and I must say that I am very impressed by the support you give each other. This is really great to see!
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
Hello everyone, I finally found the time to record myself today. I feel much better now when playing this last part of the Polonaise-Fantaisie, but I’ve also realized that I cannot increase the tempo…
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Re: Can we have a tutorial on Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 23 No 4 in D major?
@Peter Golemme thank you very much
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Ursina Boehm my one improvement this week is that for the first time since I am learning this piece I’ve managed to play the passage with the thirds in the right hand without thinking about the…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
I’m practicing a lot without pedal this week to make sure that I really play “technically proper” (not sure how to say that in English) and I try to listen to all the different layers in the music…
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Sindre Skarelven thank you! Let’s see how I can improve it
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Vidhya Bashyam thank you! I want to be able to stay focused on the music when playing the technically challenging parties of this piece.
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Alexander Weymann thank you! I will first focus on the technical issues, as those are the passages where I lose my self-confidence when playing it in public.
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
I made a first recording of two passages of the Polonaise-Fantaisie as a starting point of my practice: (1) mm 22-66 https://youtu.be/fsDYx93Kiqs (2) mm 242-288 https://youtu.be/slJEuYNMi3E
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
Now it works
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Sindre Skarelven great! I love the Rachmaninov Prelude Op 23 No 4! So beautiful! When playing it, it is such an intense feeling. Like being in love with the keys of the piano.…
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Jennifer Mehta this is one of my favourite preludes by Debussy
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