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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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
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- Unfinished Business Challenge!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Elizabeth Fabulous performance!
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 2
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 3
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 2
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr ago
- 9
- 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr ago
- 3
- 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
- 1 yr ago
- 9
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 1: Taking your first steps! @Gail Starr Yes, the two have some similar patterns. (I enjoyed your practice video, by the way.) I'm finding Puck to be easy to memorize but very hard to play at the absurdly fast tempo marking.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 1: Taking your first steps! I'm due for a technical challenge, so I'll try Puck.
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 4
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Let's Play: Spanish Music! @Juan Carlos Olite @Derek McConville @Sindre Skarelven Thank you!
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- Mini Challenges
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Re: Let's Play: Spanish Music! @Natalie Peh Cool, thanks Natalie!
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- Mini Challenges
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Re: Let's Play: Spanish Music! @Alexander Weymann Thank you! Turina is interesting...distinctly Spanish with a lot of Debussy-like gestures in many of his pieces. His piano writing can be pretty awkward to play, though.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 2
- Mini Challenges
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Re: Let's Play: Spanish Music! I wasn't able to record this in time for the initial watch party, but since it's been delayed, I gave it another try! Joaquín Turina: La Murciana Guapa, from Mujeres Espanolas Op.…
- Marc M
- Amateur piano enthusiast
- Marc_M
- 1 yr ago
- 8
- Mini Challenges
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Marc_M

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