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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
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr 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
- 1 yr 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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Re: Group 1
I have just watched Jeremy's Youtube video for Assignment 2. These couple of weeks have been so inspiring. The outcome is that I have put in place something that I had thought would be nececessary,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 3
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
I just saw a message in my Inbox from some-one in Group 3 that referred to a dead-line, presumably this relates to the Zoom call tonight.
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
The previous comment was in relation to Assignment 2
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
That's a revelation. I just played arpeggios over the chords. I wasn't trying to create a melody, although I changed the starting note of the areggio and the direction of travel.…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@David Thank you David. I shall investigate MuseScore. I have Microsoft Office so I imagine it will work with it. I have just made a comment to Michael that adults suffer from the frustration of…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 1
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@Michael Furmaniak I agree. Freedom comes from having structures that enable our freedom to be expressed. I think the 'child's mind' is the way to go when trying to deal with our adult frustrations…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 1
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Angela Hewitt on memory
Thank you Phil, I have followed the link and will read it later - working at the moment. My first thoughts are, "Is there a vegetarian option?"
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@Michael Furmaniak I think Jeremy is providing the option to improvise in your style of preference, whch could be classically, following on from George Ko's sessions on TB on improvising classically,…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 2
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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Re: Group 1
@Roy James-Pike A couple of observations on the relative minor: the V7 [G7] chord has a B natural - following the harmonic minor, whereas the jazz version of the minor scale uses the classical…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 2 yrs ago
- 1
- Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
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