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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Harriet Kaplan YES!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Michelle R I love how you memorize right away! That's a big weakness for me.
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Priya Viseskul Wow! Your playing already conveys every bit of the charm and whimsy of this piece in only one week. Once you have the muscle memory for the jumps,…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Michelle R You are learning so quickly! And i love HOW you practice.
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@Dominic Cheli So cool that you are doing the challenge WITH all of us. I actually prefer the tempo you're working with...I sometimes feel like folks rush it, but you don't.…
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Vidhya Bashyam Lush dynamics and a true barcarolle-y feeling. Great job feeling the phrasing and dynamics already!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Heng-Pin Chen Great job! In another week you'll be even more confident and these will become part of you. Sounding great!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Michelle R I like #1 so much that I use it for one of my ringtones!
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Re: Week 2: Share you progress
@Vidhya Bashyam That is exactly what I was thinking! Like Skriabin was channeling a young Chopin.
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Judy Kuan I’m beginning to think that my main problem is simply that I don’t practice enough,
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Re: Marc's Piano Diary
Brilliant!
For a minute there, I thought you were going to add a crying toddler as technique #4…
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Harriet Kaplan your audience will enjoy every moment of your playing!
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Khaled I know you’ll do a GREAT job!
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Harriet Kaplan You can play the WHOLE thing on ZOOM for me ANYTIME. Or even, every single night! Seriously. I'd be happy to listen every single day! (Just make sure I'm home before you start, LOL).
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
I know this will sound like that my advice is far TOO simple. You have lots more experience than I do. BUT...when I am getting ready to play for an audience (or when I used to do competitions as a…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Ching Lee Goh can’t wait to hear this!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Judy Kuan You're so fortunate that you have a local teacher. Now that we've moved to Orlando, the level of pianistic excellence is a bit...lacking. Even Atlanta was better!…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Alexander Weymann I am getting SO excited to explore Debussy!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Priya Viseskul We can organise our practice on Tonic together! What's your practice schedule tomorrow?
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Marc M oooh, thank you SO much! I absolutely love it. Gotta add it to my list. Started last night with the "Minstrels" that Alexander recommended. If that progresses quickly,…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Judy Kuan Do you study with Jarred? He's away right now! But, my TB buddies always give me great advice, so I don't mind. In fact, we sometimes just Zoom each other to play passages that are a…
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?
@Linda Clover agreed 100%
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Judy Kuan You will totally crush this (in a good way)!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Annie I’ll add that on to my list!
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece!
@Jack vreeland PG is so great! I loved your #6.
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My favorite activity is chamber music, but I love learning solo repertoire now here at Tonebase.
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