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Re: Chopin Challenge Watchparty!
I was sorry to miss the watch party today! I ended up on a work call, and the event just flew by. 😭😭😭 I've been enjoying watching everyone's videos anyway--awesome work here.
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- Marc_M
- 12 days ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Juan Carlos Olite @Andrew Smith @Mark Cooper @Victoria Macdonald Thank you! I'll keep working on it and re-record in a month...we'll see how it sounds then!
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- Marc_M
- 2 wk ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Juan Carlos Olite Lovely work so far. You make me want to learn the piece also!
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- Marc_M
- 2 wk ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
@Marc M OK here's the link! https://youtu.be/qUsGZxCVMzI
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- Marc_M
- 2 wk ago
- 4
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4: Submit Your Recording for the Chopin Watch Party!
I have a video of Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No 4 etude...currently adding my score notes. Will be up in a few mins. :) This week I did a fair bit of slow-to-fast metronome practice on specific sections,…
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- Marc_M
- 2 wk ago
- 3
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Eloise Kim Thank you! I see what you mean now. You're right, I do this with my right hand decently but my left, not so much. Will work on it. Thanks again for all your help,…
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- Marc_M
- 3 wk ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Eloise Kim Thank you, Eloise. I will print out these comments of yours and keep them by the piano as a reminder of what I need to be working on! Question—I’m not sure what the “scooping” method is.…
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- Marc_M
- 3 wk ago
- 1
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Eloise Kim, for your feedback on the other thread! I've been practicing Chopin's etude op. 10 no. 4 slowly with metronome each day, and it's been helpful.…
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- Marc_M
- 3 wk ago
- 3
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 2: Applying Harmony and Form to Performance Interpretation on Chopin Preludes (Part 1)
Hello @Eloise Kim, life has been crazy and I'm woefully late to finishing the harmonic analysis, but here's my first pass! Chopin Etude 10 4 Marc Notes I've been practicing the piece for some time…
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Gail Ravin Starr I'll see what I can do! :D
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage
@Alexander Weymann Lovely performance! Thanks for keeping this thread alive! @Michelle R Will send up prayers also. 🙏
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
@Priya Viseskul Yes, I look forward to working on it with you! :D
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- 2
- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
If we're permitted to pick a piece that's not on the initial list, I'd like to do Op. 10 No. 4. I can play through it, but it needs a lot more speed and accuracy.…
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Cynthia Crawford Learning this with COVID must have been a slog, but it's sounding lovely!
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Dora Burak Nice work! I think you captured the atmosphere of the piece well. Congrats on getting this far in 3 weeks--I love how these challenges help push us all to make accomplishments faster.
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Victoria Macdonald Very nice work! You are reminding me that I want to learn this piece. :)
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Vidhya Bashyam This is lovely...very pleasant and colorful!
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 – Share Your Final Progress!
@Dominic Cheli Hello all! Super last minute, but here's my submission. Hope it's not too late! It has my notes in it and a decent amount of kid noise...and a bit of arm tugging. :D
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- Marc_M
- 1 mth ago
- 3
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 3 Goal – Reflect on Your Journey So Far!
And here’s my progress so far. Today was a busy no-practice sort of day, and this video was a single take of me playing cold with kids milling about after dinner.…
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- Marc_M
- 2 mths ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 3 Goal – Reflect on Your Journey So Far!
Pour le piano - Prelude (annotated score attached...work in progress) 1. I was surprised at how many diminished and augmented chords are in the piece. They are partly responsible for the piece's…
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- Marc_M
- 2 mths ago
- 7
- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Debussy Challenge – Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
I'm going to try Pour le piano, probably just the 1st piece of the set. I half learned it over a decade ago, and I've always wanted to finish it (and then finish the whole set, really).
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- Marc_M
- 2 mths ago
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- Debussy Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
@Sindre Skarelven Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed them! Great work with the Schubert A Major sonata, by the way. It's a beast of a piece! Have you looked at the "fair copy" version of the piece?…
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- Marc_M
- 3 mths ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
FYI, I re-recorded the Schubert D 334 minuet and added some commentary/analysis...here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYGxuz5HaiY Awesome work everybody--it was a pleasure hearing your…
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- Marc_M
- 3 mths ago
- 2
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 4 Challenge Assignment: “Your Final Schubert Moment”
Here’s my video for the watch party. I didn’t have time to finish the A major sonata slow movement—maybe I’ll upload that later—so I’ve been also working on Schubert’s D 334 minuet,…
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- Marc_M
- 3 mths ago
- 4
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2 Assignment
@Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you for the feedback, and for leading this two week intensive! I've been working on incorporating the small in-out movement into the mix,…
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- Marc_M
- 3 mths ago
- Improve your Trills with Leann Osterkamp!
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