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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria This is definitely a class even I could understand after 1 viewing. I will be using the class to learn the piece for the first time. I will start at 60 bpm and then see if it can be moved up…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Dustin Anderson I am in complete agreement with what you have said. For years since my first exposure to the piano I totally neglected !! the metronome.…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria @Michelle My apologies I didn't realize and went searching on the web for this piece. There is a Prof. Magdalena Stern explaining this piece in great detail for 25 mins..…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Dustin Anderson Absoultely wonderful that you met Angela Hewitt! I have a list of world renowned pianists - whose concerts I will be happy to drive 50 miles to go and attend - taking a day off from…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria Angela Hewitt.. superb!
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Ken Radford If you are an advanced player your teacher is echoing what the very great Leon Fleischer along with the legend Yo Yo Ma said about rhythm. At a beginner level ( like mine ) I feel it is…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Michelle R ah yes! I have listened to Gould a lot !! heavenly. I hear the accent on 1 (1e&a,2e&a,3e&a, ... repeat on & on) on Gould's playing. Thanks. You may like Lifschitz playing the same piece…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Michelle R ah yes! Interesting - I use my digital metronome -almost all the time- for anything new. But it being digital I can set it to accent the first beat - this tells me whether I am in 4/4,…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Michelle R ok thanks! I see. Heard the clicks on the first 4 secs and matched it at 90 bpm - after watching again. The playing seems a bit faster though..
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Michelle R nice playing !.. is the metro set at 108 bpm to the quarter ? video 1 .. above..
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria Yes..! This is damn tough for me at the moment, but I shall persist against all obstacles no matter what.. for the journey is the real reward.. :…
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Larry K Beginner perspective (only) here.. I really should have mentioned 4a) prior to 5 in the note above 4a) Evan Shinners - Bach Prelude in C and Fugue ..…
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Maria Yes Penelope Roskell's course - I missed that and was for the next post. There is a highly acclaimed book by her which I need to read and buy !. The complete Pianist.. The title says it all.…
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Larry K Try Beethoven Sonata no 7 in D Maj( second movement). If the score doesn't scare you away ping me., we will have lots to talk about and play..…
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Larry K Happy to help in any way. Please do stay in touch. We can exchange some notes on learning. Would be happy to hear from you regarding that great teacher that you had..
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Larry K ok I see. No worries. I use a lot of other sources because of never having learned properly under a teacher for all sorts of reasons or really excuses. :-).…
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Larry K I have quickly read - what you wrote - and am sure you are at a much higher level than I am at. ( You had a teacher from Genessin school! ( Russia -Julliard !! ).…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Maria I watched almost every one of the fantastic !! pianists and interviews after the second round ( so much - that I became familiar with their names ! ) and so much of Chopin's music .…
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Re: Week 3: Keep the Momentum
@Fionna Zhang wow! really good !!a few months ago I tuned in to the Chopin Competition almost all rounds and heard this a lot ! So could identify the piece. Your playing is very good.😀
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- 5 days ago
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Re: I NEED HELP
@Oveem @Assuming - you said you are starting piano- I started with Ben Laude’s lectures - best to start with some theory.. major,minor scales, rythym and harmony. Ben covers this in about 10 hours ..…
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Peter Golemme Thank you Peter ! for your words of encouragement. I had never seen a real piano until 19 ( I think ! ) until I visited my friend's house during my college days.…
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Peter Golemme OMG!! I am so so far away from the levels that I have seen here - your comment about my concerto project sends shivers down my 60+ yr old spine. lol!..…
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- 8 days ago
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Tom Pascale Thank you Tom, my former next door neighbour and Duke Chapel Organist and pianist- a wonderful musician - had mentioned his works in a conversation - but he had mentioned Organ works..…
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- 8 days ago
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Tom Pascale I haven't heard the Poulenc before but it sounded soo good !!.. Awesome playing!..
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- 8 days ago
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Re: May Community Concert!
@Peter Golemme Terrific playing !!
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- 8 days ago
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