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Re: Week 2: Build Your Foundation!
@Randi Thanks, Randi. Yes, I'm memorizing as well - it's such a short piece, it seems appropriate to memorize!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 8 days ago
- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: Week 2: Build Your Foundation!
And here's a quick recording of the first 8 measures as a mark of the beginning of the challenge: https://youtu.be/ankLAOwr9JY
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 12 days ago
- 2
- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: Week 2: Build Your Foundation!
Bagatelle opus 119 no. 9: this week will bring focus to measures 1-8, which once learned will leave me with only 4 more measures to learn (because of repeats)!…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 12 days ago
- 4
- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: 🎼 Week 1: Pick Your Piece
I'll be learning one of the Bagatelles (opus 119 no. 9).
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 wk ago
- 8
- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: How do you deal with pianists/teachers making weird claims about touch etc?
This study might be interesting for you: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251002073956.htm
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
- 2
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Natalie Peh Thanks so much, Natalie! I really enjoy learning to play Bach.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
Update: Thurmond was awarded a silver medal for his playing of this piece. He competed in the historically informed performance category, so was judged based on those criteria.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
- 2
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos. It brings my heart joy when I am able to learn a piece by Bach!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
Little Prelude in C, BWV 939. I'm so happy to be able to include another recording in this group. I still have work to do on this piece, but it's at a good place for recording. Thanks for listening.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- 3
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
Bach Little Prelude in C (BWV 939) not quite ready for the TB Bach Page but slowly in the process of getting there. Am hoping to incorporate some of the section work I've been doing on the LH…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Autumn Recital!
I will play the Scarlatti Aria in d minor, K32 L423.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
- 1
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
@Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya! There's so much work still to do with this song and this is just the beginnings of putting text to music. I can hear the progress made in two weeks,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
Alrighty @Vidhya Bashyam , this is for you!! (and fair warning to anyone who might watch the attached video, this is not piano practice but singing practice!).…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- 2
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. Much appreciated!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
- Reported - view
Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Alexander Weymann Thank you, Alex. I appreciate the prayers more than you can know. We actually had a minor miracle - after four days of my father-in-law being non-responsive and obviously declining,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- 2
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Alexander Weymann Beautiful, Alex. We've had a rough couple of weeks here (my father-in-law is nearing the end of his life), and this piece brought together joy, sadness, nostalgia, hope...…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Vidhya Bashyam If the Italian Arietta I've been assigned turns out ok (it's quite the task to learn an entirely new piece in 3 weeks!), I could post it in my practice diary. 🙂
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- 2
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
I'll be enjoying the beautiful music everyone makes this month! My piano teacher and I discussed this, and though I'm super close to learning my first Chopin piece (say,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions
Here is Thurmond's most recently finished composition, for which he will have a piano reduction. It is the Dies Irae sequence from the Requiem Mass he is composing.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- Composer's Corner
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Juan Carlos Olite I just began learning BWV 939, Little Prelude in C. I’m hopeful it will be ready to record in about a month. Thanks for asking!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- 2
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Juan Carlos Olite You play this with such lovely serenity and sensitivity. Beautiful.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Katrina Wei Beautifully played, Katrina! I enjoyed your steady confidence, and the clarity of the conversation between your hands.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
- Reported - view
Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?
@ARTURO OCHOA You might try messaging @Dominic Cheli directly through the Tonebase messaging system. He can forward your request to the appropriate party.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
And here is this piece played all the way through, slowly, with still one section where I'm not smooth and consistent. I've just begun knitting all the parts together;…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
One way I like to practice is to record a section, watch it with score and mark where there are little hiccups, then practice those sections and record again.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 3 mths ago
- 1
- Your Practice Diary
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