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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Will Green Wowza!
Tammy
TT2022
1 yr ago
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"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
I’m going to use this challenge to work on Rach 2 — the back half of the first movement. Why did I choose this? Because it’s the GOAT! I learned the front half a while back but got distracted by…
Tammy
TT2022
1 yr ago
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"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Read Me and FAQ
I want to participate too. Like Gail, I won’t have much access to a piano over the holidays as I’ll be traveling but I’d like to do the weekly assignments.…
Tammy
TT2022
1 yr ago
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Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Jeffrey Biegel: Ask me anything!
Hi Jeffrey! Nice to meet you and thank you for giving us this opportunity to ask you questions. My question is about the descending double thirds passage in the first movement of the Grieg piano…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: What is your Favorite Rachmaninoff Concerto?
Rach 2! Then Rach 3, Rach 1 and Paganini in joint second place, followed by Rach 4.
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Discussion of the Week
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Re: Sara Davis Buechner: Ask Me Anything!
Hi Sara: I don’t have any questions, just want to tell you that I discovered your Rhapsody in Blue solo piano performance on YouTube a few years ago, and I must have watched it half a dozen times.…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
@Ben Laude You are the absolute #1 BESSSSSST!!! There is so much packed in your video, from maintaining the stillness to the infinity loop motion with the hands,…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
@martin yay, thank you!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
Couldn’t sign up, applications are closed. Massive crying emoji!
Any way to participate from the sidelines?!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
@Gail Starr Hi Gail, I bought it from Asiya’s personal website! It’s a beautifully illustrated paper bound copy.
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
Hi Ben! (Bringing this question out of the thread for visibility) Rach 2 trouble spots — I’m finding the second Piu Mosso from Bar 141 to 144 very awkward and hard to play fast,…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
@Ben Laude Rach 2 trouble spots — I’m finding the second Piu Mosso from Bar 141 to 144 very awkward and hard to play fast, lightly, and accurately. I would also love to know what fingering you’re…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
@Ben Laude Ack, thank you for saying that! How GREAT, Rach 2 next year — I’d love to see you play if it’s in NYC. Love your progression of pieces, very clever.…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Ben Laude: Ask Me Anything about Piano Technique!
@Ben Laude @Ben Laude Ooh, what Rachmaninoff rep are you working on, Ben? Very curious! We could do some Rach Fest community events on Tonebase next year!…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Conquering Performance Anxiety with Gwendolyn Mok
My strategy — for better or worse — is to try and keep things in perspective, and to think "so what if I make a mistake? It's bound to happen!". Not sure if this is a healthy approach,…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Group 3
Hi@Jarrer Dunn ! Sorry I’m late to this; was traveling and just got back. Here is my video. I applied your principles to two non-Chopin pieces I happen to be learning now,…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Improve your Chopin Ornaments with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Chopin Ornaments in Two Weeks with Jarred Dunn!
I'd like to sign up! Thank you.
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Week Three: Vive la musique française!
@Sindre Skarelven Verrrry nice!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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The Music of France!
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Re: Week Three: Vive la musique française!
@Gail Starr Wow Gail, you play this with so much character and panache! Well done!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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The Music of France!
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Re: Comparing Elite Pianos: Fazioli vs. Shigeru Kawai
Would you say these pianos are harder for ordinary everyday pianists to control because they are more sensitive to nuances in touch, pressure and weight applied, etc?
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Live Calendar
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Re: The Music of France: Kickoff challenge!
“French music” instantly conjured two names, Debussy and Ravel. And of course, Le Six. But when I thought a bit more, French Baroque also came to mind — and I think Jean Philippe Rameau is having a…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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Live Calendar
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice!
How do you maintain interest and motivation when working on a piece over several months … especially anything that’s longer than 4 minutes! Eg Chopin Ballades. Bach Toccatas.…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Live Calendar
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Re: WEEK 3 Practice Updates, and a harmony micro-challenge: Cadences
@Juan Carlos Olite Love this! Such crisp playing!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
Bach in March
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Re: Improving your arpeggios and how to practice for virtuosity!
How do you play fast arpeggios with accuracy especially when the 3rd or 4th finger has to go to a black key? I always miss the note!
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
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Live Calendar
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Re: What piece of Bach's music most speaks to your life right now? Why?
I love Bach’s Toccata in C minor BVW 911. I like how it meanders and climbs downward and upward throughout. Also, the opening movement of his English Suite in G minor.…
Tammy
TT2022
2 yrs ago
General Discussion
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