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Re: Read Me First and FAQ: Schubert Discovery Month
@Rudelle Gaje Wow!
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Read Me First and FAQ: Schubert Discovery Month
@Susan Rogers Good on you Susan. You're not being fickle. Dominic spoke recently about mixing up our practice pieces. The challenges are good for shining a light on a particular piece and giving it…
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2 yrs ago
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Roy's Practice Diary
Month 1 went really well. Here is Month 2! I am so pleased that for the first time in my life I have played through all of the scales - majors and harmonic minors!…
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Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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Your Practice Diary
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Re: Roy's Practice Diary
@Gail Starr Just about to upload Month 2!
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2 yrs ago
Your Practice Diary
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Re: Roy's Practice Diary
@Steve Coffey You are very welcome. The planning has helped me hugely. I am really concerned to be more familiar with the scales, which have had very little attention over the years.…
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Roy's Practice Diary
@Brother Will Green Hello Brother Will. Thanks for your comment. I have only just seen this so apologies for the delay in responding. I am just about to put up my second month's diary,…
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
@Hilda Thanks Hilda. For information, I have never before played all of the scales and often I avoided hands together. It is interesting to me that putting the hands together in scales has been less…
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
Hello Hilda, I tried to post something on the Feedback area but all the sessions are booked at the moment. It's about fingering in scales. I watched again this month the very good class with…
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: Read Me First and FAQ: Schubert Discovery Month
What a lovely way to present this challenge. It coincides with my thoughts over the last month about pieces to practise, which were that I should revise the pieces I learned many years ago in…
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2 yrs ago
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February: Discovering Schubert Month
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Re: READ ME FIRST: Rules & FAQ for the tonebase Community Concert
@Roy James-Pike My main aim presently is to stabilise my playing before I submit any videos, which might take some time. I also need to sort out my audio/filming skills.…
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
tonebase Community Concert Challenge
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Re: READ ME FIRST: Rules & FAQ for the tonebase Community Concert
Please send me the zoom link for the Dress Rehearsal. Are the Community Challenge Concerts replacing the Community Challenge where you set us a piece to practise, or will there be both?
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2 yrs ago
tonebase Community Concert Challenge
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Re: The 'Environment', downloadable music and Ipad software
Thanks Rob, Good strategy, which I may well adopt. Roy
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2 yrs ago
General Discussion
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Re: The 'Environment', downloadable music and Ipad software
@junhao Thank you Junhao. Much appreciated. Roy
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2 yrs ago
General Discussion
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Re: The 'Environment', downloadable music and Ipad software
Thank you so much Dominic. This has saved me so much time and money searching around on the Internet. Kind regards Roy
Roy James-Pike
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2 yrs ago
General Discussion
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The Live Calendar
We talked in the chat on the live sessions about a live calendar. I have found it at last! This is the link: https://piano-community.tonebase.co/category/live-calendar It's on the Forum,…
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Audio Production
I have raised this a few times but it came up most recently on the new 'Feedback' page, where I wanted to post something on the need for audio training and how to make a decent video with good sound…
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General Discussion
The 'Environment', downloadable music and Ipad software
Dominic has mentioned a few times that there is downloadable music at no cost but each time I Google I go to sites that say that they are free but then it appears that they are not.…
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Roy's Practice Diary
I have found the diary in the drop-down lists - at last! I have written my diary in Excel - attached, as this allows me to copy in blocks each month. My format is quite standard:…
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Re: General Live Stream Suggestions! (Megathread)
@marina Good points. I would like to know what recording equipment I need to buy along with any recommended makes of equipment. Are people using their phones/tablets to record?…
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2 yrs ago
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Community Suggestions
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Re: General Live Stream Suggestions! (Megathread)
@Dominic Cheli Would you include the Fugue II in C Minor please, and the prelude too, of course.
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2 yrs ago
Community Suggestions
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Re: WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - Wrapping up the party!
@Juan Carlos Olite Well done for learning so much by memory in such a short space of time. I commented on this already but it did not seem to arrive, so apologies if there is duplication.
Roy James-Pike
Roy_JamesPike
3 yrs ago
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Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
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Re: WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - Wrapping up the party!
@Susan Well done Susan for accomplishing the piano technique and the audio technology!
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3 yrs ago
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Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
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Re: WEEK TWO Updates: Main Thread - Brahms could be so charming!
@Susan Hello Susan, we are very fortunate indeed to have this concert hall about twenty minutes drive from where we live. The next piano recital is in about a weeks' time.…
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3 yrs ago
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Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
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Re: WEEK TWO Updates: Main Thread - Brahms could be so charming!
@Monika Tusnady Hello Monika. We went to a concert by Sir Andras Schiff recently and he said that there is no personal opinion about good, bad or quite good music.…
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3 yrs ago
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Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
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Re: WEEK TWO Updates: Main Thread - Brahms could be so charming!
@StacyA Thanks. I heard that too and am trying to do it. He also said something about the timing of grace notes that I have used too, so I am timing the last of the rolled left hand notes to…
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3 yrs ago
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Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
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