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Re: Week 2: Getting into the Practice!
(Transcription of the Adagio from Rachmaninoff's Symphony no.2) - What feels easier than you expected? Learning the text! I know I complained a lot about this step because I find it the least…
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- 5 mths ago
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- Romantic Music Challenge
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
So happy to be doing a challenge that is not focused on virtuosity. But then I had to chose a piece that is fiendishly difficult to voice. (Excerpt from the Adagio from Rachmaninoff's Symphony no.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Week 1: Pick your piece!
Well, can't say I'm struggling to learn my piece, but certainly struggling to enjoy the process of memorizing it. It's just 4 pages and not so many notes, so I nearly memorized it all,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Romantic Music Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Pick your piece!
@Amanda Clark If I couldn't comfortably reach those notes, I would play the low G just before the final downbeat, while holding the top D in the RH, then hold them by switching the pedal (but release…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Romantic Music Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Pick your piece!
Let this be a mini Rach festival, because I'm going with a piano transcription of an excerpt of the Adagio from his Symphony no.2.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Romantic Music Challenge
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
@Tammy Good call! And yes , I am learning the Etude Op.8 no.12, which I am saving for the New Year concert here (Jan.24th). I've never been learning so much new repertoire since my "serious" study…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
@Marc M Thank you so much for your help and your kind words! I really need to overcome this aversion. I believe it was one of the major reasons I quit my piano studies back then!…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
@Andrew Smith Thanks for your advice! Yes, being interested in the piece is a key factor especially for me. Maybe I don't love that piece enough. Maybe Rachmaninoff then,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
@Andrew Smith Chopin Prelude Op.28 no.21. But really I have always hated memorizing new pieces regardless of the difficulty! I only enjoy practicing a piece when the text is fully learned.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
Is this the correct place to discuss the challenges we encounter? Because I'm one page in and already dreading the experience of learning/memorizing a new piece.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: 🎹 The Romantic Music Challenge
I'll play the most romantic piece that I can find.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: “Trying out tonebase? Ask your questions here!”
I'll go with a question of my own. Why is there no piano tech subforum? I know we want to focus on the playing aspect, but I believe there comes a point where it is essential to learn more about the…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: “Trying out tonebase? Ask your questions here!”
@Jenny Young The closest that I've seen in that regard are the video lessons by Ben Laude on sight-reading. If you're reading then you can't look at your hands without disrupting the process anyway.…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: WELCOME TO OUR NEW YEAR COMMUNITY CONCERT
@springgrass Looking forward to hearing those Preludes! I had the pleasure of watching Yihan for the first time at the concert today and was thoroughly impressed!…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: WELCOME TO OUR NEW YEAR COMMUNITY CONCERT
@Astrida Yes, today was the "End-of-Year Community Concert", not to be confused with the "New Year Community Concert". But thanks for the early treat!
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
Oops, looks like I missed answering the original questions of the thread, so here goes! - I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Favorite food here? Probably the poutine from Chalet BBQ,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 5 mths ago
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- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Alexander Harvey From having learned this piece during my studies (with a professor who said it requires the highest level of technical mastery), I will take the liberty to chime in with the…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 6 mths ago
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- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: WELCOME TO OUR NEW YEAR COMMUNITY CONCERT
Hello everyone, newcomer here. 👋 I'd like to submit a recording of Scriabin's Etude Op.8 no 12. It's the piece that motivated me to join Tonebase! Here is the link,…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 6 mths ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Problem with Recurring Charge
Hello all, Just a quick update to let you know that I got my refund today.
- Noel_Nguyen
- 6 mths ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Problem with Recurring Charge
Hi Jade, They do take a few days to answer, and so far they have answered whenever I wrote them. I have canceled my Premium+ account and am waiting for my refund as per the 90-day money back…
- Noel_Nguyen
- 6 mths ago
- General Discussion
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