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Re: How to make piano sketches? @Alberto I haven't gone through all ToneBase's courses, but there was a recent "intensive" on composing your own piano piece. The instructional videos are useful for the purpose,…
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- 1 yr ago
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ToneBase Scriabin Stage
I made a Scriabin video and thought, hey, why not make a place for us to share any of our Scriabin performances/works in progress? I wonder how many Scriabin fans we have here at ToneBase! (I know,…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite @Andrea Buckland @Ursina Boehm @Michelle R @Vidhya Bashyam @Gail Starr Thank you for the kind words! Typically they'll let me play for a little while and then they make me stop.…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Ursina Boehm Lovely tone!
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Re: Week 1: Rhythm, Scales, and Leaps! I’m going to use this challenge to improve my Chopin Op. 10 No. 4. It has scales, arpeggios, leaps, etc, so every item in the practice plan series ought to help me with something!…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Michelle R I'm late to comment on this, but lovely piece, and nice terraced dynamics!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage Somehow I didn't see this thread till now, but I'm excited to join in! Here's Bach's F major 2-part invention. I got a little tense at the end, due to trying to balance a dragon mask on my head (and…
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Re: Where is Piazzolla? @Letizia ooo I forgot about that one, thanks. Libertango would be cool, as well as something on his fugues, which I think are some of the coolest music written.
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Re: Where is Piazzolla? @Superblonde DotOrg Cool. Can you recommend any pianists who play Piazzolla solo? I’d love to look into their work. Always on the lookout for good stuff that I haven’t heard before…
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Re: Group 1 @Gail Starr Ha, I just learned what xml files are. Here is the score, slightly touched up! It's a rough score with no phrasing or dynamics. It's also not exactly what I played because there was a…
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Where is Piazzolla? I’m not an authority on this question, but as someone who loves Piazzolla…piano for him usually takes back stage to bandoneon and strings. Piano solo arrangements of his works tend to be very…
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Re: Group 1 @Antonella Di Giulio Thank you, they were great fun to write and play! Now I need to re-work the sheet music based on some last minute edits I made while practicing the piece...…
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Music YOU composed Watch Party! @Sindre Skarelven Thanks, Sindre!
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Music YOU composed Watch Party! @Thurmond R Great work! So good to see you’re contributing to good sacred music and that your parish is using it. I especially liked the mortem tuam resurrectionem.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 1 I'm not sure where the best place to put this for the watch party is, so I'll put it on the livestream thread and here also. Here's a go at Riko's Variations! https://www.youtube.…
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Music YOU composed Watch Party! Here's what I've got. I added some random text commentary here and there in the video, for fun's sake (like Nahre Sol, except not as good haha). Also, my 1.…
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Re: Group 1 @Gail Starr great playing. It’s a fun piece so far! I look forward to hearing the latest and greatest version when it’s ready.
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Re: Group 1 @Juan Carlos Olite Lovely! I thought the quieter variation at the end was particularly poignant.
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Re: Group 1 @Antonella Di Giulio Thank you, and thank you for leading this course. It was a great inspiration and motivator!
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- 1 yr ago
- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1 @Antonella Di Giulio OK, I reworked it a bit, and here's what I've got! It's pretty silly but I'm hoping people will find it fun. The Lord of the Rings variation at the end sounds a lot better on a…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? @Rainer Joos Soooooo I ended up trading in the worker bee mics because (1) one broke due to bad mount construction, and (2) they were too heavy and unwieldy to use with my clamp setup.…
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Re: Group 1 @Antonella Di Giulio Good points...I didn't realize that, in the original piece of music, the harmonies changed a lot as soon as the main melody came in.…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1 Thank you, @Antonella Di Giulio! I'm familiar with the Bach-Busoni Chaconne, but haven't heard it in a long time, so I'll give it another listen and see if I can smooth out that transition.…
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1 @Antonella Di Giulio Thank you for your feedback! Here's where I am with the piece at the moment. I moved around some variations, changed some harmonies,…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? @Rainer Joos Interesting...I totally would have thought there would be clipping with the iphone, especially with the stock video app, and with that location. Thanks for sharing!
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