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Re: 11 Russian Chords @Dan McCarthy H is the note name for B in German (and perhaps some other countries in northern Europe). You might think that therefore they would call Bb "Hb" but nope – it actually is B!…
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Re: 11 Russian Chords @Dan McCarthy oh that's awesome! I love Thom Yorke, Radiohead, and Jonny Greenwood (he's such an amazing composer - he wrote a beautiful piano-driven piece for the film Phantom Thread called "House…
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Re: 11 Russian Chords @Dan McCarthy Yeah, I totally understand that as someone with an interest in diverse musical styles! Maj7s are a great chord and while you're unlikely to encounter than much in classical repertoire,…
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Re: 11 Russian Chords @Dominic Cheli yes, although it was very short lived – and mostly the result of analyzing and itemizing every possibility (once I started adding in extended tertian chords with 9ths,…
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Re: 11 Russian Chords As a composition student who has had to study so many scores across the centuries from baroque to classical to modern film scores, I'd say just like Dominic points out those chords are merely…
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Re: The tonebase Manhattan piano intensive Discussion Corner! @Noah Alden Hardaway Great, thank you! A relief to know it's not based on Czerny's book haha I'll have a look at the course and perhaps I can make it that day too. Cheers!
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Re: The tonebase Manhattan piano intensive Discussion Corner! @Dominic Cheli Hi, I am wondering if a calendar of the events has been posted? I can probably only afford one day (now I am thinking about the Active level!), and wishing to select wisely ;…
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Re: The tonebase Manhattan piano intensive Discussion Corner! @Noah Alden Hardaway I'll have to check out her course on the site, and I might considering going to the workshop in NY as well. However, is "School of Virtuosity" related to the book of the same…
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Re: The tonebase Manhattan piano intensive Discussion Corner! Looks great! Luckily for me I happen to live in Manhattan so this would be an easy commute for me ;) But unfortunately I wouldn't be in the position for the active levels.…
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why? I play a few instruments (piano, cello, guitar, started singing in the past year), and I wish I could learn more, but at some point I've had to cut myself off from picking up new ones so I can get…
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why? @Dominic Cheli I've started to learn to sing in the past year and I'm stunned how far I've come. I really bought into the myth that you either have a beautiful voice or you don't...…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Sheet Music App also +1 ForScore! It's great, you can annotate on multiple layers for study purposes, which you can also hide/show however you want, something you can't do with paper ;…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 4 Hi everyone! Excited to give this challenge a try. The pieces are a slightly advanced for me, however I think I can manage them with enough elbow grease This is my first tonebase challenge.…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: How many pieces do you work on at a time? I usually have a few at a time, but broken up by categories of difficulty and length, so they aren't all big or hard pieces. In other words, I usually will have 1) short simple piece I've never…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Lessons suggestions for not quite intermediate Have you taken the level quiz? It placed me at an intermediate level (5) which seems to be working great - there are numerous works on here which are not too beginner and definitely present a…
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Re: How has your taste in music changed over the years? I am perhaps an outlier who didn't really grow up on classical music. However, I do have a memory of my grandpa making reel-to-reel "mixtapes" of classical and Mahler was one of his favorites who I…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” Although not strictly a pianist, I really adore the piano works by Leoš Janáček and I think he's criminally underrated! A sound which definitely paved the way for modern composers like Steve Reich…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What's your favorite classical music era and why? I agree, love Romantic-20th Century the most, and Baroque after that!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Jazz/pop/rock player, reverting to the most basic lower-beginner-intermediate works and it's driving me crazy. Advice? @priscillayam I love Brahms and Schubert, and some waltzes can be quite fun. I will ask my teacher to look at these, thank you!
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Re: Jazz/pop/rock player, reverting to the most basic lower-beginner-intermediate works and it's driving me crazy. Advice? @Martin Thank you! I actually really love Bach, and have played through some of the easiest pieces previously. I will ask my teacher to take another look,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Jazz/pop/rock player, reverting to the most basic lower-beginner-intermediate works and it's driving me crazy. Advice?
I've played piano most of my life, but grew up playing it more by ear and with simple chords, accompaniment and melodies. Over the years I got into jazz and started learning music theory and learned…
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Re: What advice would you give your beginner-self? My advice would be "play lots of repertoire from the beginning, and the technique will come." Starting out and mostly self-taught, I spent many years hyper-focused on doing as many technical…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Can anybody explain the "felt" grand piano It effectively falls under the category of "prepared pianos," a kind of DIY technique if you will. As far as I know, no piano maker actually manufacturers a felt piano,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How far can your hand stretch on the piano? 8th comfortably in either of my small hands, up to a major 9th on a good day ;)
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Body Mechanics at the Keyboard (feat. wrist, forearm, and back!) @Ben Hi, first of all as a disclaimer, I am not a professional concert pianist nor nearly that skilled, but a composer who has been playing piano my whole life.…
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- 1 yr ago
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