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Re: Week 2: Share your progress @maijahildur really lovely! This piece is new to me. It has kind of an "earthy" feel to it - great music to listen to while working in the garden!
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Re: Week 3: Progress Check! @Miyoung Choi Simply beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us!
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist Beethoven Sonatina in G Major: began working on this on April 13. I plan to post how I'm working on this with regular updates (hopefully!!) so I can see the progress I make.…
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress @Marc M This is a lovely piece, Marc, and I think you're doing quite well! I'm really looking forward to hearing you play it again.
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress @Jack vreeland Thanks, Jack. I coached sport for decades, and learned through that discipline the best ways to approach learning something new. And my teacher encourages this type of practice.…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Andrea LeVan Thanks so much, Andrea! I'm a super-introvert. People exhaust me! One thing I do (sometimes) is pretend I'm someone else. I know that sounds strange,…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Gail Starr "la Cathedrale engloutie" is a pretty intense piece. Thurmond played it last year. I had never thought of it as scary, but now that I think about it,…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Gail Starr So much fun, Gail! Totally fits your personality. I agree with Vidhya - you sound great!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Vidhya Bashyam Me, too! But first, I have a new Mozart minuet to learn. Then this weekend I'll begin the Beethoven - which is a longer-term stretch piece.…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Sindre Skarelven @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks so much! (and I've gotten my wish - my teacher just gave me a Beethoven Sonatina in G to start learning. )
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Juan Carlos Olite Gorgeous, Juan Carlos. This is my favorite piece by Rachmaninoff, and it sounds absolutely lovely under your fingers. I look forward to hearing how you will polish it!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Gail Starr To be fair, my pieces are quite short and simple! We'll see what happens when I begin playing longer pieces.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Gail Starr Thanks, Gail! I have a great teacher who is teaching me how to most effectively practice.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Priya Viseskul Good work on this. Looking forward to hearing the rest!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress Here is the Prelude, unfolded (which I have been recording blocked up until now). My teacher wants me to play this in an extroverted, confident manner. I'll have to work on that a bit more!…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos.
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! @Marc M Fantastic, Marc. I agree that singing really does help, in ways that one does not expect.
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! @Sindre Skarelven Beautiful work, Sindre! I'm looking forward to hearing the rest.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. It's a simple piece. I'd kind of hoped for more of a challenge! Maybe next month.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Heng-Pin Chen Lovely playing. My son played no. 1 in a piano competition last December, so I know that one VERY well. I look forward to hearing your progress.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Vidhya Bashyam So beautiful, Vidhya. I appreciate the way you approach the piano and the piece with such respect and thoughfulness. I look forward to hearing you play the rest!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress @Dominic Cheli This is such a fun piece to listen to! Really great work. Thanks for joining this challenge with us.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress I've worked on blocking the Prelude more quickly, from memory (as you can see in the video, I'm ok until the final few measures!), and with dynamic ebb and flow;…
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary My favorite part of this, Marc, was how you presented all of this with a straight face. I think the Cat Vibrato was my favorite "technique." The other two kind of made me cringe.…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! @Randi Good start! I look forward to hearing your progress over this month.
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