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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! Thanks @Gail Starr! On a tangent, I saw your comment in the other thread regarding blocking your husband in with mic stands. I can't use mic stands either because of little kids,…
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Ken Locke I'm trying to remember back to all those pieces I listened to 25 years ago, and I'm struggling, so I'm looking up what's available on Spotify, haha.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Alexander O'Shaughnessy Great work shaping the dramatic part from the middle to the end!
- Marc M
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Ken Locke If it makes you feel better, my post was even later than yours! Nice work so far with the Rondo Capriccioso. It has some good energy to it! Those thirds would kill me if I tried them.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Alexander Weymann I love it! Coolest piece by Debussy ever--such drama and tension. I hope that some day I will be able to play with your level of fluidity.
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Re: Group 1 Hi group 1, and Dr. Di Giulio! I haven't really composed anything in the last 15 years, and I've never composed under the direction of anybody, so I'm looking forward to this course as being a great…
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- 10 mths ago
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Sindre Skarelven Thank you! Some 25 years ago I listened to all the Leo Ornstein that I could, and that piece was my favorite of all his works. I learned it around then,…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! @Juan Carlos Olite Awesome work! That’s definitely one of the loveliest of the Goldberg Variations. I loved your phrasing and the general direction you take the piece.
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Final Submissions! Hello all, here's my submission. I was going to try Bach/Marcello, but decided Ornstein would be better for now, as I ended up playing the piece a lot to test out a new mic setup (stereo mic…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? @Rainer Joos Here is my first shot at the EBS setup. https://youtu.be/MLc-Rnqufb4 Ornstein again (uses many different registers at different dynamic levels, so I like it for testing).…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? @Rainer Joos Thanks, I’ll give this a try tomorrow or Saturday! EVS sounds like an elegant approach. Today I tried clamping the mic to the case, and it sounded clearer.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Biographies, autobiographies, memoir recommendations Thanks, @Geoffrey Grosenbach @Michael from London @Chris @Timothy and @Carolyn Cunningham! I'll add all of these to my to-read list, and will look forward to giving them a read/listen.
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? @Rainer Joos Thanks again--you bring up many things that I am still mulling over! No need to apologize about the length. I did some playing around with the stereo mic setup,…
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Biographies, autobiographies, memoir recommendations
I recently had the pleasure of listening to Jeremy Denk's book on Audible, Every Good Boy Does Fine, and have since gone on a biography/autobiography/memoir kick.…
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano? I've been recording using a Shure MV88+ microphone. Here's an example, where I put it 2-3 ft. above the hammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNqgv8lxIs&t=64s I ended up convincing myself that…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: What we've learned @Sam Gralla Whenever I hear a pair of NT5s I'm pretty well satisfied. I just got a budget stereo mic setup--some Worker Bee IIs (I hear they're great, but nobody records piano with these so hopefully…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: What we've learned I'm a little late to join, but I'm going to try to record the 3rd movement of Bach's transcription of Marcello's d minor oboe concerto (BWV 974). We'll see how it goes!
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: What we've learned @Sam Gralla Wow, congrats on getting a Fazioli. A bit better than what I'd consider to be a "nice piano", haha. Welcome to ToneBase. Lovely work on the prelude, and great sound quality, also.…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: changing piano technique I’d take the “only play with arm weight” idea with a grain of salt. The Taubman approach doesn’t exclude the fingers—from what I’ve seen by Durso and Dunn,…
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: Group 1 @Gail Starr Thanks! I think it will eventually fall into place as you say. It's easy for me to do a rising scale, but to make it start p and go to f in a short period ends up tiring out certain…
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Juan Carlos Olite Awesome work!!
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 Alright, here's a go at the first page or so of the Eb Impromptu. I'm still getting comfortable with it, and I slow down a lot right at the point where things start getting more interesting (need…
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 Thank you for this, @Ben Laude! I've only used your analysis to correct my first few bars, and I feel like I'm already a better musician because of it...haha.…
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Bryan Coryell Actually, I had it down as a ii chord initially, but then I second guessed myself. “No b-flat! Can’t possibly be ii,” I said. But you’re right, it’s a ii,…
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 Here's a stab at the written assignment...my first time doing anything like this, so I wasn't quite sure how to notate everything. I started learning the Eb major impromptu yesterday,…
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- Marc_M
- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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