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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended!
@Dominic Cheli Vikingur Olafsson too - he came to our local concert hall in the Essex countryside on 11 Nov this year to play the Goldberg Variations. This was a once-in-a-lifetime concert.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 1 yr ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Group 3
@Gail Starr Thank you Gail, for your concern. We have three people who come to help us with our garden, not very regularly, and the British weather prevents a regular plan.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 1 yr ago
- Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
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Re: Group 3
Hello everyone, I am in recovery. I fell off a ladder in the garden about two weeks ago. It was close to a wall and I broke my fall with my left hand, which resulted in my index and middle fingers…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 1 yr ago
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- Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Keith Hello Keith. I joined TB after the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown when I returned to the piano. I am in the UK too - in Essex. Welcome to TB!
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
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Re: "Harmonizing Against the Odds: Inna Faliks' Inspiring Musical Journey"
Sorry, can’t attend this session which sounds really enlightening. It classes with a dance practice. I’ll catch up tomorrow. Have a good time!
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Group 4
This is a thank you note to Dr Lindsay and Dominic for this inspiring two-week intensive. We just came home from a piano recital by Paul Lewis. It was the second of four recitals in his two-year…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 4
@Lindsay Garritson thanks for the feedback. I shall experiment with taking out some of the more elusive notes in the Chopin chords. The 16th notes in the Mendelssohn continue to require concentrated…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 4
I am practising separate treble and bass lines in my Mendelssohn, and combined too, trying to use the fingering that is needed when playing all of it, in addition to the fingering to play the melody…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 4
@Crystal L Thanks Crystal. I am moving towards uploading my current progress too. I am hopign that my wrist action is flexible, as this is something that I hope is part of my playing.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 4
@Jonathan Wing Hello Jonathan and welcome to TB. This is a two-week intensive. I do as much or as little as ability and time permits. My intention is to sort out my recording/audio/computer this year.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: A Performer's Guide to Bach's Dance Suites (with Magdalena Stern-Baczewska)
@Gail Starr Helllo Gail, I hope you are keeping well. Thanks for your comment but we have pulled out of the dance tests. We-re underprepared, which was clear when we filmed ourselves.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Group 4
Thanks Lindsay and Dominic for including in the this TWI. It is now 7:36pm in the UK and I could not log in until now. I shall start this assignment tomorrow - looking forward to it!
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 1
- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 4
@Tom Mackey Hello Tom, Don't worry about it. This TWI is for all-levels. My approach is to take a manageable amount of the score, which could be two bars, one bar, one chord, or one note,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 2
- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: A Performer's Guide to Bach's Dance Suites (with Magdalena Stern-Baczewska)
Hello it’s Roy here from the UK. We are on our way into London to a dance lesson so we shall miss this session and Bach’s binary dance forms. We are working on our intermediate dance tests which are…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: Interactive Masterclass with Jarred Dunn (All welcome!)
So sorry to be missing this live masterclass with Jarred. We are going to a piano recital at a tiny local festival. We’re hearing Alim Beisembayev. Will catch up with Jarred’s live show on catch up.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
@Albert It would be useful to be able to see (and hear) ourselves in the way that others see/hear us. For further clarity, I do not have any known deficiences, at least not yet, nor am I disabled,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
@Albert It’s really not very polite to tell people what they are thinking and feeling, but for clarity, I’m not feeling defensive, or thinking that I need to feel defensive. I am an empiricist.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
@Albert The student asked for an explanation of how to play the given fingering in the score. May I suggest you take it up with Tonebase if you think the given fingering is incorrect.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
@Albert I was merely responding with my personal suggestion to someone who made a simple request for help about how to play the thumb followed by the index finger playing a note below the thumb and…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
Forgot to say... you need to rotate your wrist from right to left so that the index finger rolls over the thumb and then rotate back to move up to D, E, and F.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
Tom, this given fingering is good. However, it's useful to remember that suggested fingerings are not prescriptive - unless, say it's an exercise designed specifically to address a fingering…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: I'm a beginner, and confused about the fingering on this measure
@Harrie Bannink Agreed, although the fingering without the mordant might be different, albeit not in this example.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@Jeremy Siskind Thanks Jeremy. Much appreciated. This two-week intensive has led to a qualitative shift in my approach to how to absorb the principles of Jazz piano.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@Douglas McCarthy it was a really useful comment from Jeremy in the video session to avoid parallel fifths, and using block cords will include parallel fifths. I haven’t thought about that before.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
I have just worked out the implication for the Zoom meeting of the time difference between GMT and PT, which is 8 hours, which means that this meeting is between 9:30 and 10:30pm in the UK.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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