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Re: Week 2 Assignment @Eloise Kim Thank you so much for offering this TWI on pedaling! Only in the last year or so have I realized the need to come up with a pedaling plan for the pieces I’m working on.…
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 2 Assignment Here are the opening bars to Beethoven Sonata Op 90, 2nd movement with my pedaling plan. I ended up changing a couple of the fingerings so that my RH fingers/hand and arm are more aligned and I’m not…
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 2 Assignment Here is my pedaling plan for the opening 8 bars of Beethoven Op 90/2. Eloise, if you think this looks reasonable, I’ll make a short video.
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Who was your first music teacher and what valuable lesson did they teach you? Albert Horn was my first piano teacher. I began lessons with him in 1st grade in Winchester, MA. He must have figured me out pretty quickly because, while he made me play scales and Bach Inventions,…
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Andrea LeVan Hi Andrea, I recently learned this piece. What worked for me in those bars, 16-19, was to make sure the pedal catches the grace note in the left hand,…
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- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment @Kerstin Thanks for taking the time to look at my video and respond. I notice in your video how relaxed you look. Something for me to aspire to. I know what the end result needs to sound like but…
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- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment Here’s a video of me slowing down, trying to play legato with a more relaxed arm, no pedal. I would love to get your feedback. I’m still bothered by the inner voice being too loud.…
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- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 1 Assignment This is the first 8 bars of Beethoven Op 90, 2nd movement no pedal. I had a hard time trying to play legato at the same time keeping the inner voices quiet. https://youtu.…
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- 3 wk ago
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- TWI: Art of Pedal Technique in Piano Playing
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Re: Week 2: How to Achieve Left Hand Balancing at the Piano with Dr. Eloise Kim! Here is my practice of several bars of the Barber Nocturne, LH alone, LH with ghosted RH, and LH and RH together. Thank you for your thoughtful assignment.…
- Ellen Weaver
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- 4 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 2: How to Achieve Left Hand Balancing at the Piano with Dr. Eloise Kim! I’m working on the Barber Nocturne. This exercise is more difficult than I thought it would be and I now have discovered that my LH is less even on the descending passages and some notes do not sound…
- Ellen Weaver
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- 4 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski And here is my Day 6 practice of 3 dom 7th chords. https://youtu.be/T-3WkjuOJpk?si=Stntphnt9xB2bbAz
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- 4 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski Here is my Day 6 practice of Exercise 1, using 3 different scales with 12, 13, and 14 fingerings. https://youtu.be/yBSRDq-BZP4?si=pKWwtNnGL56qxLGd
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- 4 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski Here is my Day 1 of Exercise 2 using 3 dominant 7th chords. I didn’t play the 2nd half as I cannot reach a 10th. Not very even and hit some wrong notes. Can only improve from here. https://youtu.…
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- 4 mths ago
- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski Here is my Day 1 of Exercise 1. I played Eb, G and B scales with the 121, 131, 141 fingerings. I found that the 141 fingerings to be the most awkward, particularly the Ab and Bb major scales.…
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- 4 mths ago
- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski How do we up upload mp4 files? I recorded 3 scales from Exercise 1 to one file and 3 dom 7th chord exercises to the other file. I am guessing the files are too large since I tried to upload from my…
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- 4 mths ago
- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski On Exercise #2, I cannot reach a minor 10th (thumb on middle C and 5th on Eb). Do you have a suggested note modification?
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- 4 mths ago
- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Announcing the Colburn-tonebase Piano Seminar for highschool aged students Is Tonebase still planning a piano intensive for adults this spring at Colburn? I read a mention of it in December.
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- 5 mths ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Improve Both Hands in 2 Weeks! With Piotr and Eloise What is a realistic estimate of the amount of time we should spend on the assignments each week in order to benefit from this intensive?
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- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: music score software If Henle has a score I’m looking for, I buy it. Most of their scores have a least one option for fingering and it’s very easy to change fingering by erasing and using their template to add the…
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- 5 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Sostenuto in Chopin Op. 62-1 When I worked on this nocturne, my teacher wanted me to make the RH very sustained and legato and to bring out the LH bass notes but keep the LH chords very light.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Welcome! These are some 4 hand pieces that I have enjoyed and not previously mentioned. Richard Rodney Bennet - Country Blues from the Four Piece Suite (2 pianos) Arthur Benjamin - Two Jamaican Street Songs…
- Ellen Weaver
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- 6 mths ago
- 4-Hand Piano Hub!
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