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Re: The Superpower of Playing for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
Travelling back from London to the Isle of Wight. On the ferry across the Solent, which was delayed to assist three people. This means we’ll miss our train connection along with anyone else aiming to…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 days ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: 🎼 Week 1: Pick Your Piece
@Gail Ravin Starr how splendid! Where did you go for the lessons? I have a recollection that Penelope lives in Enfield, which is north London.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 wk ago
- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: 🎼 Week 1: Pick Your Piece
@Doug Weiss don’t worry about it. I use the challenges for focusing attention on the given composer. We moved house and I haven’t yet put my recording kit back together so I’m in a similar situation.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 wk ago
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- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: 🎼 Week 1: Pick Your Piece
My approach to TB Challenges is to review everything relevant in the TB library during the course of the challenge. This may not be possible in just one month given that it's Beethoven.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 wk ago
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- Beethoven Challenge
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Re: Unlock Your Best Practice Year – Premium+ Black Friday / Cyber Monday Special
I didn't see until now so Martin's presentation was scheduled for about two hours' ago. His presentation seems to be on a loop but it's too late to ask questions, of course.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 wk ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress - get feedback!
@Dr. Leann Osterkamp He Thank you for the feedback. I agree totally with your comment on reading the extremities of the bass notes. My thoughts were already moving towards playing lots of pieces with…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 4 wk ago
- Improving your Chords with Dr. Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress - get feedback!
Hello Dr Leann, firstly, I love the clarity of your teaching on Tonebase. Thank you so much for this. My plan for Week 2 is to have much more clarity about rolling chords and to achieve more beauty…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 4 wk ago
- Improving your Chords with Dr. Leann Osterkamp!
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Eloise Kim Hello Dr Kim, yes, it is the Op. Posthumous and yes, to the G# Phyrigian. I have a chart for modes and I mis-read the chart! Thanks for your feedback!
- Roy_JamesPike
- 1 mth ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Pedal Power: Unlocking Color & Clarity at the Piano
I have an email saying this livestream is happening now. I have logged in (late) but this session seems to have been streamed on 1 October, eight days ago.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 1 mth ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
@Roy James-Pike That should be C# not C~...
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 3: Improving your interpretation and performance!
Thank you Dr Kim, I am working on the C~ minor Nocturne. I shall take sections of it and approach them applying harmonic analysis/progression to them. I have focused my practice on the trills and…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 2: Applying Harmony and Form to Performance Interpretation on Chopin Preludes (Part 1)
Coming to this very late as we have been travelling. The good news is that one of my targets from Week One was to review all of the Chopin pieces that I studied many years' ago.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Chopin Month!
@Vidhya Bashyam Thanks Vidhya , we’re at a jazz concert, which is the last night of the Isle of Wight Jazz Festival: the Claire Teal Five. I’ll check out the links tomorrow.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Chopin Month!
@Betsy Nelson Me too. There wasn’t the usual sign up to this challenge. Others are asking the same questions about how engagement with students is being done.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Chopin Month!
The first thing I do these days for a TB challenge is review all the current teaching on TB. I plan to do two lessons per week, which makes eight for this challenge.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Study Group #1: Chopin's Prelude in E minor
This is a question for the Zoom call, which is in about an hour. A greater explanation of how to use the second escapement would be appreciated: to create quieter repetitions in the LH chords.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 mths ago
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- Study Groups
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Re: Week 3: Expression over Perfection
All the best laid plans... We are living on the Isle of Wight, which is a small island off the south coast of the UK. We had a buyer for our house on the mainland but the sale has fallen through so…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 4 mths ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
My plan is to review all the Schubert lessons on Tonebase, something I have been meaning to do for a very long time. I also plan to have a much more comprehensive understanding of chromatic mediants,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 5 mths ago
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- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Bach is Difficult! A Live Q&A for Curious Pianists
@Roy James-Pike I noticed after posting the the pdf was mis-named. It's a pity that the F and G on a computer keyboard doesn't sound the note of the key.…
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- Roy_JamesPike
- 7 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Bach is Difficult! A Live Q&A for Curious Pianists
Hello Dominic, firstly, I traded in my Schimmel upright, which I loved, for a Grotrian-Steinweg grand, which arrives on the Isle of Wight tomorrow morning!…
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- Roy_JamesPike
- 7 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages and Answering Your Questions: Live with Dominic Cheli
@Dominic Cheli thanks Dominic. We’ve been travelling again so only just downloading this 😊
- Roy_JamesPike
- 9 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: From Sheet Music to Screens: Playing and Practicing with Music Tech
@NANCY M I am sure you will benefit from having an iPad. You can buy them second-hand and you don't need the latest version. Mine is an A1 condition iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th Generation).…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 9 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages and Answering Your Questions: Live with Dominic Cheli
Hello Dominic, Would you please post a copy of your suggested fingerings for the Presto section in the Bach Prelude No 2 in C minor? I have two versions already in my Urtext score,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 9 mths ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski
Thanks Piotr for doing the first week of this TWI. I can't quite manage the minor 10th (yet). I am using f# instead of f natural. We moved house some months ago and my studio stuff is not yet…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 9 mths ago
- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: General Live Stream Suggestions! (Megathread)
@Wei Have you tried writing to [email protected]?
- Roy_JamesPike
- 11 mths ago
- Community Suggestions
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