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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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- 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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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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr ago
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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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- 1 yr 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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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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- 1 yr 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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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Juan Carlos Olite Awesome work!!
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 1 yr ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 I look forward to doing some Schubert with Ben and y'all! This will be my first time doing a harmonic analysis, so I'm sure this will be a good learning experience.…
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Tuning your own piano unisons? @Eduardo Hiramoto A ha, yes, I see what you mean. It’s true…doing some touch ups the last few days, I’ve found that I do need to hit the notes a bit more often when I’m tuning to get better feedback.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: I'm too timid when I play :o Everyone's advice is great! One small thing to add: I'd suggest picking specific parts of the piece where you'll intentionally smile a little, even when practicing.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Tuning your own piano unisons? @Eduardo Hiramoto Thank you for the notes! I’ll try to remember to lift that damper pedal before messing with mutes. That’s only necessary for the lower-to-mid register dampers that have ridges,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Marc_M

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