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Re: Group 2 @Lindsay Garritson Thank you for your comments, Lindsay (and Natalie, Michelle and Gail)! I will give those exercises a shot. Maybe it will help with the end of Tchaikovsky’s October…pppp cantabile…
- Marc M
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- 7 mths ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 2 Here's my C major scale exercise. :)
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 7 mths ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 2 Hello everyone, I’m looking forward to learning some new music and techniques with you all!
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 7 mths ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Juan Carlos Olite @Derek McConville Thank you! To get a better feel for how to shape the tempo, I practiced playing along with the Fou Ts'ong recording Jarred had recommended,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Jennifer Mehta Sounding great--very nice crescendo in the middle. And, I see you got the Rode mic. Awesome! Have you downloaded the Rode Capture app to record video? If yes,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Jennifer Mehta @Natalie Peh @Vidhya Bashyam @Michelle R @Alexander Weymann Thanks everyone! I'm grateful that I can share it here. Scriabin wrote some mazurkas also (see Feinberg's on YouTube).…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
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- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Alexander Weymann My first time hearing your playing, and I'm impressed! What a bear of a piece. Good momentum, dynamics, and handling of inner voices.
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! I'm abysmally late to the challenge...sorry all! I was afraid to commit so I didn't post--due to travel I wasn't able to practice till two weeks ago, and I wasn't sure I'd have time to make any…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
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- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Elizabeth Fabulous performance!
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 8 mths ago
- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Group 5 @Vidhya Bashyam Nice work with this one! The latter part of the A major section sure gets tricky...when I get there I need to tell myself to stop holding my breath.
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 @Vidhya Bashyam I kinda choked at the end of the a major repeat, but I felt decent about the rest. Thank you for the kind words, Vidhya!
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 I know the 2 week intensive is over, but here's where I am with Op. 67 No. 4 with hands together, for people's amusement.
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 @Jarred Dunn Thank you for the feedback! It is helpful and I will work on it. Here is my right hand so far. The A major section is still a little awkward because I’ve practiced it less,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 @Jarred Dunn Good speaking with you today! Here's what I've got so far for the LH of Op. 67 No. 4 (a few "oops" moments are in there, for humorous effect of course).…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 @Jarred Dunn Thanks! I'll give it a listen. The Ignaz Friedman recording is what made me want to learn the piece. It is hilariously aggressive at times.
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 3 Hello all! I'm looking forward to learning my first mazurka, which I think will be Op. 67 no. 4. I've always heard great things about Chopin's mazurkas, but have never really appreciated them myself,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 9 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! @Juan Carlos Olite Solveig's Song is one of my favorites...that whole suite is a gem, really. Nice work!
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 10 mths ago
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! @Jennifer Mehta Nice work! For recording, you might consider getting a usb microphone. When I want higher quality I use the Shure MV88 with an iphone...…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 10 mths ago
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! @Juan Carlos Olite @Michelle R @Jennifer Mehta @Alexander Weymann @Natalie Peh @Vidhya Bashyam @Jackie Thanks everyone! You all are very kind. The kids are good fun,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 10 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! Here's another take, with videography courtesy of my six year old daughter. [EDIT: link above in my original post] I'm at the stage where i feel like I can basically play each part well if I'm lucky,…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! EDIT 6/14/2023: Final submission: https://youtu.be/ZNKKutLlYIA I'm traveling and haven't been able to make a very clean take, alas. So, here's a trimmed version of the take my daughter recorded.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 1: Taking your first steps! @Derek McConville I learned Melody some years ago--it's a great piece. A little tricky to manage the melody during the climax, with that awkwardly placed little trill.…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 1: Taking your first steps! @Gail Starr The LH leaps in March of the Dwarves were one reason why I didn't pick that piece for this challenge. Kudos to you for trying--it would certainly take me more than a couple weeks to make…
- Marc M
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- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 2: Fully immersed in Grieg's musical landscape @Sindre Skarelven Thank you! I'm still trying to get the wrist action right (raising, lowering, supinating and pronating at the rights times)...it's tricky for me in this piece.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 2: Fully immersed in Grieg's musical landscape For your amusement, here's a rather haphazard 26-minute practice session from today, complete with me occasionally muttering about stuff. Piece still needs work.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
- 9
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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