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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Vidhya Bashyam Incredibly beautiful, Vidhya! A beautiful piece, sensitively played. Brava!
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Andrea Buckland Ahh, Andrea! Beautiful playing - such peace and warmth all wrapped up in an elegant performance.
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Brett Miller Sounds really good, Brett! It was very enjoyable to listen to.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Juan Carlos Olite This is gorgeous, Juan Carlos! There is so much going on, but I can hear everything - incredible! I am somewhat in awe of your ability to play with so many colors. Bravo!
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Sindre Skarelven Wow, Sindre! This is fantastic. You captured so many different emotions.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Hazel Absolutely lovely! I so enjoy Mozart's minor key works.
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Adriana López Beautiful!!
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Musicians' Health Matters: Discussing Music-Related Injuries and Prevention Strategies 🩺
I'm dropping this here as I just found it: https://www.musicandhealth.co.uk/health.html I haven't looked at the site thoroughly, but it looks like there may be some useful information on it.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Michael Thanks, Michael. I'll let him know about this product. Great timing, because his lateral epicondylitis flared up again this week.
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Ching Lee Goh Wow! You have played beautifully.
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Musicians' Health Matters: Discussing Music-Related Injuries and Prevention Strategies 🩺
@Michael Popping into this discussion: my son's first teacher (group online lessons during the pandemic) didn't address technique much. But his second teacher (again,…
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
@Gillian
. I tried singing along today as I played, and I can actually do it now. It's fun to sing along (when no one else is in the house!!). I just wish I could make the piano sing.…
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2 yrs ago
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"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
This audio file is for me to remind me of how much better this sounds, even today. I recorded on Tuesday after I had memorized the piece (I didn't practice it last week,…
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Michael my husband (family medicine doc) has had a recent bout of epicondylitis (probably lateral, but I don't remember for certain) from the whole mouse-clicking thing since everything is…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week THREE: Share your love! (Watch Party is next week!)
@Michael Oh, no!! I hope you caught it early/immediately and have a quick recovery. I know in sport we have pro-active exercises to reduce the occurrence of injury - essentially they are the physical…
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Michelle_Russell
2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
@Gillian , quite lovely. Your left hand is indeed steady and meditative - I could almost see a boat rocking on water! My son is quite good at letting the music breathe when he plays.…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
Well, my son (aka My In-house Arranger) has been too busy to help me, so I'll be defaulting to playing only "If I Were a Rich Man." What I appreciate most about this one is the sense of longing and…
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
@Derek McConville Wonderful, Derek! In the first half I was entranced by the left hand.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
@Judith Lovely playing. I agree with Vidhya regarding obvious progress since your last post.
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Tech(nology) Questions!
What do you think is the best set-up for online lessons? If I have a laptop with camera, an external mic, and open-back headphones would this be a good set-up?
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
I've delayed on posting this week, as my in-house arranger/composer has been super busy and not able to help me work out an interesting arrangement/medley combining "If I Were a Rich Man" and the…
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"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Week 2: Amplifying your message!
@Hazel Beautiful!
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2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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Re: Rosie Bennet: Creating efficient, positive practice strategies
@martin Thanks, Martin! It works!
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Rosie Bennet: Creating efficient, positive practice strategies
@martin Hi Martin, this is a wonderful idea! I clicked on the hyperlink and it said "page not found." Will the workbook be available prior to the livestream?
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Gail Starr Thanks for the recommendation, Gail. It is a lively piece, for sure!
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Michelle_Russell
2 yrs ago
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
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