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Re: What advice would you give your beginner-self? My best advice to my former self: Listen to your teachers! Seriously, listen to your teachers!
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business Oh, I did something dumb: I had started learning the revised version of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Sonata before switching to the original 1913 version midway through only very recently.…
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Re: What is the most memorable moment in a music lesson you’ve ever had? Still early in my piano studies I got to work extensively one summer with Harvey Wedeen, who chaired the piano department at Temple University and taught artists including Marc-André Hamelin.…
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it? @Lc I often use this phrase as an example whenever my students think only they have to work hard to play beautifully. There seems to be an especially narrow zone for this phrase to sound natural and…
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it? @Lc Congrats on learning the 4th Ballade! That’s an incredible achievement for anyone, let alone an amateur. As a professional, I think I’ve had to work even more on the opening than the famously…
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it? I've somehow managed to learn and perform some pretty heavy-duty pieces, from the Hammerklavier Sonata to Alkan's Grande Sonate and numerous etudes, as well as Godowsky-Chopin etudes, Ligeti etudes,…
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Re: Musical theory path Hi Peter, would be happy to. Maybe someone from tonebase could comment here if it’s alright with them? Again, I’m here to learn myself and to contribute to the community wherever I can.…
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Re: Musical theory path Hi Renato, one of my lockdown projects was writing software that solves this exact problem for students. It shows any chord exactly as it is used in a piece of music,…
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Roy James-Pike Can we kindly keep things amiable? This is just piano playing, not politics. We're all on the same team here, after all. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Roy James-Pike In writing, like in music, sometimes how we think we sound isn't how we really sound. That holds for me as much as anybody else. Let's strive for a friendly tone on tonebase.…
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Roy James-Pike I didn’t suggest the fingering is incorrect—in fact, this same fingering is one that I suggested as a possibility. I’m also not sure why you seem to feel the need to be defensive.…
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Roy James-Pike Thanks for your clarification—appreciated. If I may, a mordant isn't an application of rotation (wrist, forearm, or whatever one prefers to call it) in any method I'm aware of.…
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure @Roy James-Pike The human wrist doesn't rotate. It's a common misconception in piano teaching to refer to "wrist rotation." In any case, this mordant is most easily played with finger articulation…
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Re: When is your favorite time of day to practice? I also like to practice in the morning as much as possible since my mind is usually fresh. It's not always possible to do, but I try to shape my day around piano practice since it requires full focus,…
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Re: Wrong note? @Ben Laude You have enough on your plate already! Happy to help with this small detail in any case.
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Re: Wrong note? The last quarter note (2nd half of beat 2) should be an A natural. There’s a small error in the numbering of this edition that’s likely to cause confusion. This bar should be 246.…
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Re: Problem Solving Chopin's Etudes with Marina Lomazov! It would be wonderful if you could cover the endurance challenge of performing Op. 10, Nos. 1 and 2 back to back when performing the cycle. Why did Chopin have to put the two hardest etudes first?!
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