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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks so much, Vidhya!
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- Michelle_Russell
- 11 days ago
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Gail Starr @Andrea Buckland @Derek McConville Thank you! This piece with some adjustments is being entered in a scholarship competition next month.
- Michelle R
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- 12 days ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist Working with an injury to the fifth finger, one can come up with some slightly creative fingering which still works (for some pieces). Here is the Mozart K-3, "Allegro" which I have been working on.…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 2 wk ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Gail Starr Thanks, Gail.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 wk ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist OK - first work on second species counterpoint. I am working with super short (two note) fragments from Peter Schubert's book (chapter 4). I made one error on the second exercise,…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 3 wk ago
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions One of Thurmond's recent compositions won first place in his age group in our state music teacher association's "Young Composer's Project," and he has been invited to perform at the state conference…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 4 wk ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Peter Golemme Thanks, Peter. I'm glad I had made this recording before spraining my finger. I'm hoping the finger will heal quickly, but nearly a week on and it's still swollen and super tender.…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Peter Golemme My pleasure, Peter. I'll probably be doing more of this for the next little bit, because I've injured a finger. There is a singing component, too,…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme I'll start posting some of my attempts on writing counterpoint (currently only first species) against a Cantus Firmus - I posted a video today on my Practice Diary (https:…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist I've begun the very beginning stages of learning counterpoint via writing first species counterpoint above or below a set Cantus Firmus. Here are some initial attempts:
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos!
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme Yes, it's been fun (though very slow here at the beginning) to start learning counterpoint - which will lead to improvisation. My teacher is Johnandrew Slominski - he does have some…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme Hi Peter. My son has a copy of the CPE Bach treatise. I got it used several years ago off of Thrift Books. Here is a link to some used copies.…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. Yes, it's healing well but I'm at that point where it's almost fully healed and there are certain things I can't yet play without risk of re-injury - so I'm trying…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Peter Golemme yes, my teacher is pretty special. He teaches historical improvisation, too, and I’ve just begun learning about counterpoint (writing above a Cantus Firmus). Is this the commercial?
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music @Sachi Yes, I'll be lurking here in the background with you! I am not at the level of playing these pieces, yet - my foray into Schumann has been limited to his opus 68 Album for the Young.…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage Here is my latest attempt at playing Bach - the D minor Minuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook, Anh 132.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. It's been improving everyday - and playing helps it to feel better as long as I'm careful in what I play.
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Gail Starr Thanks, Gail. It's getting better, slowly. It got stuck and twisted when I was moving something - so it's sprained.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Gail Starr Sounds like fun! I hope y'all have a great time.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Gail Starr I'm sorry you won't be playing. Hopefully next time!
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! Update: I injured my LH 5th finger a couple of weeks ago, and it's not quite ready to play the Clementi so I'll probably play something else since I haven't practiced the piece much lately.…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 mth ago
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Re: Week 2: How to Achieve Left Hand Balancing at the Piano with Dr. Eloise Kim! @Eloise Kim Thanks so much! Take care.
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Embarrassing tech question re embedding video links Hmmmm....not sure that was much help. Why don't you try it here and we'll see if we can troubleshoot?
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Embarrassing tech question re embedding video links @Helen Lee I've never used the "link" icon that is above. If I do, here's what happens: https://youtu.be/UowwMs-F1II?si=QWmeVDLwWT39yn0g
- Michelle R
- Michelle_Russell
- 2 mths ago
- General Discussion
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