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Re: Week 4: Share It
I just tried to play real fast to roll back time. Didn't work.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 10 days ago
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- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Sindre Skarelven Very pleasant sounds, Sindre! As if you're meditating on the meaning of the piece. A very different way of practicing from my chaos and constant state of near-combustion.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 10 days ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Sindre Skarelven About time someone mentioned the Chasse-Neige snippet😄. It's in the same key as the Rach Sonata after all.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 11 days ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Peter Golemme No worries Peter, and thanks for the support! I know that if I make this video public I might finally go viral, but I'll pass on this one!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 11 days ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Peter Golemme Peter, it looks like I'll need to book a visit with the great Dr. Dahl as well, since I am on the one hand extremely flattered by your glowing review,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 12 days ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Dustin Anderson One word: astoundingly exquisite clarity!😁
- Noel_Nguyen
- 12 days ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria said: Was your "catching of pigeons" a way to, as you had mentioned, break/disrupt your muscle memory? Correct!👍
- Noel_Nguyen
- 12 days ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria Haha thanks! I used the Openshot Video Editor software. And thanks for pointing out my desperate attempts to sabotage myself! For years I tried in performance to replicate what I did in…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 12 days ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Dustin Anderson thanks for your encouraging words! And get better, although you don't sound sick in your recording at all, quite the contrary!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 12 days ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
Time sure goes real fast suddenly, doesn't it? Here is my practice video for this week. During practice I'm mostly trying to disengage my training wheels, which means my muscle memory.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 13 days ago
- 8
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: The Official Lisztomaniac Complete Transcendental Etudes Challenge!
@Maria I think you did the right thing, since Paysage is already covered. In the worst case you could play it in Oct.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 1
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: The Official Lisztomaniac Complete Transcendental Etudes Challenge!
@Maria Including your part in Chasse-Neige?
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Noel Nguyen @Doug @Alexander Weymann @Dustin Anderson Friends, thanks again for your kind words! And just so you know, my feeling bad about posting the video was mostly because of the bad view,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: The Official Lisztomaniac Complete Transcendental Etudes Challenge!
@Sindre Skarelven Thanks! Unofficially we're aiming the Etudes 1-6 +/- encores for July, and 7-12 + encores for October , so you're good!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 1
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Dustin Anderson Thanks Dustin! Rachmaninoff's sonatas are underappreciated works, perhaps even by the composer himself. It's too bad he didn't record his renditions of them!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Alexander Weymann said: The “noodling” at the end, especially the bit of self-conscious hesitation right at the beginning of it, made me laugh out loud. 🤣 I knew you would🤣.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 3
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Doug They're interchangeable to me now but it took me a few months to learn to translate back and forth, when the two instruments were still under the same roof.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Doug Haha! I cannot speak for others but I am glad to reassure you with my answer which has absolutely nothing esoteric as you will see. My acoustic piano is actually not at my main residence but…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 2
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Mark Cooper Thanks for your encouraging words Mark! And yes it's a great practice instrument. Perhaps on the flimsy side, but it's true that I used to play less delicately so those years must have…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
Friends, I feel bad about posting this, but this is all I have in terms of this week's horror show. The view is bad, only the left hand! but I think the audio is more important.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 2 wk ago
- 8
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages and answering your questions!
Wow, @Peter Golemme what an honor for you (and fully deserved!) that Dominic shared your entire performance of that prelude during the livestream! You can be proud of yourself.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- 1
- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Kerstin And this strange thing called talent.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- 1
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 1: A New Hope
@Kerstin Thank you! And beautiful calligraphy, with no software use😁.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
@Mark Cooper Another easy way to throw off the muscle memory: rolling the chords! Try it, and experience a good simulation of being on stage, with that muscle memory gone AWOL,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- 4
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Steps
What I find especially treacherous about muscle memory is that it tends to dominate in practice, only to maliciously abandon you in performance. I call it the great betrayal. Don't fall for it!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 3 wk ago
- 5
- The "Unfinished Business" Challenge
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