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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Wild is the Wind. This and 'Nature Boy' are accompaniments, of course... The videos are of the first 3 pages of each. https://youtu.be/PKw4-qo5brE
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
Nature Boy - I have the notes but sometimes what I play is slightly different, which may lead to running out of fingers - the RH pinky is a tell-tale sign! https://youtu.be/QSMCRgpPIdU
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Re: Watch Party for "Music YOU Love Challenge!"
I have not been able to engage in this challenge in the way that I expected but I shall upload videos made today of the three pieces that I chose to play.…
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Re: A Guide to Hanon's Exercises (how to make the most of them!)
We're out this evening [7pm in the UK]. Sorry to miss this but will catch up at the weekend.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Michael Our cats do something similar. They visit me when I start to practise. My playing is their signal for demanding more food. I sit each of them on the side of the piano stool,…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Thurmond R Well done Thurmond! Such lovely harmonies from the early twentieth century French music: a second golden period for the flute after the Baroque.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Gail Starr It's a beatiful tune, but I forgot to say I am playing an accompaniement to it, which prompted me today to play the melody too on the piano, and then on the flute.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Gail Starr Thank you Gail. My plan is to revise tomorow how to record and upload to Youtube.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Sindre Skarelven Thank you Sindre. Much appreciated.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Michael My piano approach to 'Nature Boy' is as an accompaniest. Your comment reminded me to play the melody too, which appears, of course, from time to time, in the accompaniement.…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
@Michael Terrific, especially that you're playing something new to you.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
Wild is the Wind Johnny Mathis recorded the song for the film of the same name and released it as a single in November 1957. Mathis performed the song live at the Academy Awards in 1958 (where it was…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
Nature Boy This he said to me: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." Ahbez lived a bucolic life from at least the 1940s,…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
Mozart was once asked to define music. His response was 'love'. Please forgive me if I am misrepresenting Mozart. Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 10: II. Andante cantabile The Piano Sonata No.…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
My plan, when I started TB eighteen months' ago, was to record a piece every six months to monitor my progress, so this challenge prompts me to upload recordings that are well overdue,…
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Re: Problem Solving Chopin's Etudes with Marina Lomazov!
@Roy James-Pike Friday evening in the UK
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Problem Solving Chopin's Etudes with Marina Lomazov!
Sorry not to see this live. It will be Friday evening and we are going out tonight, so will catch up over the weekend.
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Angela Fogg thank you Angela. Much better than expected!
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Community Challenge Concert! (Preparing for a concert!)
@Gail Starr Hello Gail, Happy New Year and I hope your'e well. It wasn't my knee. It was a repair to an umbilical hernia, but thank you for your comment. The concert hall is called Saffron Hall.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Community Challenge Concert! (Preparing for a concert!)
@Dominic Cheli Thanks Dominic. I am amazed how quick the recovery has been. The Paul Lewis concert last night was splendid. I may have said before that we have an amazing concert hall about 20…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Community Challenge Concert! (Preparing for a concert!)
@Will Green both?
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Community Challenge Concert! (Preparing for a concert!)
@Sindre Skarelven Thanks Sindre. I called the Box Office rather than booking online. I mentioned the surgery and asked if it was at all possible to sit in the disabled section on the keyboard side at…
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Re: Unrequested feedback about Tonebase content
I have just seen this thread and it poses a number of issues regarding the two week intensives. However, thank you for providing the public space. Much appreciated.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Anne Could well be, it makes sense. I apply this to my job. I am a surveyor, often dealing with property law matters so process is all important: due diligence and all that!
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Re: Bass Clef Reading
I forgot to say that I had the following method with beginner flute students. It must be similar for the violin. The hardest problem to begin with is holding the wretched thing - under your chin in…
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- 2 yrs ago
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