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Re: May Community Concert!
@Peter Golemme Peter, this is absolutely wonderful. I love the joy and lightness that you bring to your playing. Thank you for sharing.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Peter Golemme Hi Peter, the video you posted is listed as "private." Could you change to "unlisted" so I can enjoy your playing? ☺️
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
- Reported - view
Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
Practice strategies for this week, using the metronome: play at a luxuriously slow tempo (50 to the 16th note) in longer sections, accounting for each note and intentionally practicing the when and…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 6
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
Week three update and goals: I'm feeling fairly confident with the first half (mm 1-22). I'm still finding mm 23-32 to be a challenge, but 33-end is coming along nicely.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 10
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Jenna Nydam This was great fun to listen to! Wonderful performance.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
- Reported - view
Re: May Community Concert!
@springgrass Thanks so much! It is quite wonderful to be able to make music with my son!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 3
- Community Concerts!
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Re: May Community Concert!
What a wonderful concert today! We had to leave after the live section, so I'm making my way through all the recordings. Here's a recording of the Schubert Thurmond and I performed today in case…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 5
- Community Concerts!
- Reported - view
Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Dustin Anderson Thanks so much, Dustin.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
Here is my second video check-in for week 2: memory check for the first 1/2 of the piece (with a mistake or two and some memory stutters toward the end of this section).…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 11
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Mark Cooper Super cool! I love the clarity.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
First of my week 2 updates: short practice sections, each measure on repeat (4x) then move to next measure. The goal is to move seamlessly from one measure to the next,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 8
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
For this week, I'm going to spend more time on the left hand especially where there are small leaps (practice in isolation, as well as with eyes closed slowly to feel topography of keyboard from one…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 8
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Anyone like to improvise?
@Peter Golemme If he records one, I'll send it to you. When he plays at church, he often improvises for several minutes on whatever I've sung for the meditation --- and makes sure to find a way to…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 2
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Dustin Anderson I haven't seen anything yet either.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Alexander Weymann I don't know this piece, but even just the LH alone looks super complex. I imagine even these sections took quite a bit of time just to work out! I'm impressed already!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Maria I typically only have tension of the bad variety when learning a new technique or just something new. Once I figure things out, I’m good.
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Dustin Anderson Thanks, Dustin! The tension is much better. I spent considerable time working super slowly with the right hand, deliberately relaxing the thumb when it released the key.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Maria Thanks. My teacher encourages me to move quickly as soon as possible, because I tend to linger in slow-practice-land. My son, on the other hand, is encouraged (same teacher) to SLOW DOWN his…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. Slow practice and I get along quite well!
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Week 1: A New Hope
End of week one, I can actually play all the way through at a relatively steady, albeit devastatingly slow, pace reminiscent of a slow-motion scene in a horror movie (actually,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 4
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: The Official Lisztomaniac Complete Transcendental Etudes Challenge!
@Maria I often, but not always, listen to the piece first, then I look for patterns and similarities. Then fingering. When I begin practicing, I group similar sections into practice segments,…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: The Official Lisztomaniac Complete Transcendental Etudes Challenge!
@Noel Nguyen great! I find it intriguing how different everyone's learning styles are. Thurmond is a big-picture-first learner, and after he has his vision he then goes back to the details.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 1
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Dustin Anderson Lovely playing. I enjoyed the clarity and how I could hear everything in all those layers! Very cool. And your set-up reminds me of Thurmond's first private teacher's set-up.…
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
- Reported - view
Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
@Peter William Thanks so much, Peter! I had always wanted to play the piano. It's wonderful to begin fulfulling a life-long dream. 😊
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Alexander Weymann "Hopelessly devoted"?
- Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
- Michelle_Russell
- 5 mths ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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