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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage Here's Scriabin's Op. 11 No. 21 in Bb Major. It was a bit of a puzzle the first few times I listened to it, but after spending time with it I decided it was really beautiful.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary @Michael Cheng Sorry, I just saw your post! Lol. If you were to tune while playing, maybe your parents would be OK with it if you offered to pay to replace any strings you snap.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Sounds great--I love how clean your playing of Bach is. It's hard to play Bach in a way that's not "lumpy".
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Week 2: Arpeggios, Dynamics and Repeated Notes! Thank you, @Giovanni V.. I appreciate the kind words!
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- 4 mths ago
- The Practice Plan Challenge!
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary Thank you, @Marianne! :D
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Michelle R Delightful playing of the Beethoven Sonatina. It's coming along!
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage @Gail Starr @Juan Carlos Olite Thank you! For the D major prelude, here's a more proper recording, below. It's unlisted because I plan to include it in a "Top 10" kind of video for slower Scriabin…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: ToneBase Scriabin Stage Here's Scriabin's Op. 11 No. 5, with kids being quite noisy at the beginning. I plan to make a better recording of this one soon--constructive criticism is welcome!
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite I love that piece and enjoyed the recording...thanks for sharing. Hopefully someday I'll be able to learn that partita.
- Marc M
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- 5 mths ago
- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Group 2 @Dominic Cheli Thank you for your feedback, both here and for my first video featuring the scale only. It's funny, I didn't realize my left wrist was weirdly high until making that first video.…
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- 5 mths ago
- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary Thank you for the kind words, @Michelle R ! I’ll see what I can do with the rest of the set!
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary Here is 1-14 of Sunny Day, by Christian Schäfer (actual name, Arnoldo Sartorio). They're short, sweet, easy salon pieces that even piano beginners might find playable, with some work.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Group 2 @Dominic Cheli Thank you for the week 2 video! Sadly, I missed the live discussion...work called. Here's my week 2 assignment. I worked on the c major scale (LH descending only),…
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- 5 mths ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 2 Here's my week 1 video. C# minor. I stop and repeat sections here and there where I mix up fingerings or miss notes. My left hand has always felt significantly more clunky and less accurate,…
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- 6 mths ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 2 @Gail Starr Neat. Which biography? I love reading good composer biographies.
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- 6 mths ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 2 @Dominic Cheli Cool--I'll focus on the speed of those two middle notes, then. Video speaking about the thumb would be helpful. Thank you! @Gail Starr Thanks!…
- Marc M
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- 6 mths ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 2 I'm looking forward to putting more work into this TWI! I'll do C# minor, since it's featured in the Chopin etude I'm working on. Impressions from the video and initial questions:…
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- 6 mths ago
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- TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Vidhya Bashyam very nice work! A convincing performance.
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- 6 mths ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Michelle R @Vidhya Bashyam @Sindre Skarelven Thank you! You all are very kind, and I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the commentary. I always have the worry that people will be annoyed by my amateur…
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- 6 mths ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Miyoung Choi Lovely playing. Very tasteful!
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- 6 mths ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! Ok, here's my final submission for this challenge (with added commentary for fun lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPGFox7s7Cw Different mic setup again...picture attached in case you're curious.…
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Alexander Weymann I think you captured the feel of the piece! Nice work.
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Sindre Skarelven Awesome job, Sindre!
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! That was lovely, @Juan Carlos Olite! Beautiful phrasing and control over the momentum of the piece.
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! @Heng-Pin Chen I'm no Mazurka expert--have only learned Chopin's Op. 67 A minor one--but something that was very helpful for me was to try to play along with a good recording.…
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- 6 mths ago
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Marc_M

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