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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Gillian I thought this was lovely, Gillian. I appreciated the steadiness, and I could hear the voices very well.
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- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent! For the Minuet in G major from the Anna Magdalena Notebook - the composer is Christian Petzold, who was a renowned organist and contemporary of Bach. Very few of Petzold's compositions survive to…
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Sindre Skarelven I finally found the time to listen all the way through, and - Bravo, Sindre! I especially enjoyed the slow movement. I found it peaceful and relaxing.…
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Angela Fogg This is beautiful, Angela! I think your sparkly sweater complements the piece and your playing of it.
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Re: Read Me and FAQ @AJ I'm pretty sure you can jump into a community challenge whenever you can - it's best to start at the beginning, of course, but not an absolute requirement for these challenges!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Angela Fogg Thank you, Angela!
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- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Natalie Peh @Juan Carlos Olite thank you! I appreciate your kind comments.
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- 1 yr ago
- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Hazel I very much enjoyed listening to this, Hazel. Thank you for sharing!
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Re: Group 1 Here is the final project - bass and soprano played together. I learned how to hear the voices better. The singing exercise helped me greatly in hearing phrasing - not necessarily play it, yet,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Vidhya Bashyam Beautiful, Vidhya! I look forward to hearing more. Left-hand trills sound daunting!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Juan Carlos Olite Wow, Juan Carlos! These are fantastic. I could watch and listen to you play for hours.
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @ALICE This is lovely, Alice.
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 yr ago
- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Will Green Beautiful! Offering and receiving simultaneously..."The circular movement is the most perfect of all because it produces a return to the beginning.…
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! @Will Green @Sindre Skarelven @Vidhya Bashyam Thank you all for your kind comments. I'm having a lot of fun learning to play. I look forward to hearing all of your submissions!
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- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! Here is a video of the Menuet at a moderate tempo. I followed the advice from the livestream this week, in which Steve Goss encouraged playing as if for performance without cheating - so I recorded…
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Re: Group 1 Week 2, Assignment 1
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Re: Week 1 Taking it easy: find your moderate tempo! I'll be working on the Menuet in G (Anna Magdalena Notebook, BWV Anh.114) for this challenge. My top speed (that I'm working toward) is about quarter note = 120; moderate speed = 100; slow speed = 80.…
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- 1 yr ago
- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Steve Goss: Taking Control Of Your Performance! @martin Thanks, Martin. Wonderful livestream! When I see Steve's name come up as presenter, I know I'll learn a lot and enjoy myself at the same time!!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: ULTIMATE tonebase Community Concert! @Will Green Thanks, Brother Will - I'll be sure Thurmond knows that you've sent your best wishes. He's playing Debussy "Footprints in the Snow" and Mendelssohn "Song without Words op. 53. no.…
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Re: Steve Goss: Taking Control Of Your Performance! It's always a fun time when Steve Goss presents a workshop! I'm looking forward to participating on Monday.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Getting Started I meant to post sooner, but we were thrown a curve ball last week. My son's piano teacher let us know that she would be unable to continue lessons with him after their recital (December 17).…
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- Michelle_Russell
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 @Juan Carlos Olite As always, your playing is beautiful, Juan Carlos! My son was just playing this prelude and fugue last night, so I've gotten to hear it a few times over the past couple of days.
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Re: Group 1 Assignments 1 &2 with final section of chorale. Singing is giving me a different way to think about the music. I'm beginning to hear better how the notes relate to each other.
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Re: Group 1 @Solmi Gim Yes, I think you can do that as long as the Voice Memo creates a file. I can't remember if it does. I used a recording app on my iPhone, and uploaded it from there.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 Here is assignment #2 with the first 6 measures - I didn't have ready access to a second device, so I played and sang. Observation #1 is that I went at a much faster tempo than in my original…
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