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Re: Group 3
@Adena Franz wonderful job! I’m so excited to see the skills you absorbed from this week! Perfect length of piece to practice, good chordal work, and terrific playing!
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@Leah Olson great job! By focusing on the LH, you are giving a solid rhythmic foundation for the duo and getting a sense of the harmony by sprinkling in other notes, when possible.…
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@CK nice job! I would recommend taking smaller sections. In this recording, there are a lot of tiny pauses/hesitations. These little hesitations cause your hand to have a tiny bit of tension and…
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@Peter William “A Dozen a Day” is a great beginner’s resource for learning piano foundations :)
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@Leah Olson yes, being an advanced Sight-reader is NOT equivalent to playing a score “perfectly,” as written. It’s about having fun and making the music sound pleasing and as close to the desired…
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@Peter William when just starting out on piano, you will need to “simplify” the score even further. My beginning students at Juilliard would simplify the score to simply the melody and maybe one or…
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@Yukiko Egawa yes, I struggled with the same thing. Once I realized sight-reading was not about playing everything perfect, it became so much easier. I hope this new concept will help in your studies…
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@Natalie Peh nice work!
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@Kerstin awesome job! Usually with scalar passages, I try to identify the primary key(s) that the passage is using… that gives me a basis for what scale fingerings I might use.…
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@Leah Olson great job!! I think you did the right idea, since the arpeggiated texture is really what gives the understanding of the texture of the piece.…
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@Jenny don’t feel discouraged! Sightreading has nothing to do with one’s comprehension of the score. Instead, it’s like looking at a paragraph and pulling out bullet points at a fast speed….…
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@Grace here’s some helpful ideas below. My comments are after the ## markers :) Large span chords, having small hands - deciding quickly whether I should roll it or drop notes & which to drop ## I…
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@Jenny I was in your shoes! Don’t give up, it just takes practice :)
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@Adena Franz great job! That is a tricky page to sightread! All of your checklist looks great. The hard part about this piece is that it is more contrapuntal and you have to keep your eye on multiple…
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@Natalie Peh what a cool way to represent your analysis! I think you pulled out a lot of wonderful observations. I particularly liked how you distilled the scale from the texture in the last line.…
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@Aline Valade it sounds like you already have experienced how much sight-reading can make a difference in practicing and learning repertoire! I look forward to helping you take it to the next level :…
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@Diane Shim maybe explore some of the simpler Chopin preludes/waltzes? They all have their challenges, but some offer brevity and a more repetitive structure, that might help in speed of learning? :)
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@Hac we are happy to have you here and I’m excited that the video is already making a difference for you!
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