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Re: An Autumnal Recital! If there is room for one more, I'd love to participate. I just started the Chopin Nocturne in c# minor (the one Sandy played so beautifully today), so I'll give that a go.
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress! @Priya Viseskul WOW!! Such lush, calm yet moving lyrical lines. I love the way you breathe into the ornamentations and how you voice your chords.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Natalie Peh Thank you so much, dear friend!
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Alexander Weymann You are SO kind. I wish you lived closer so we could play 4-hands in person!
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement! @Jennifer Mehta Such a great system!
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement! @Jennifer Mehta Excellent points! I'm going to take a break from it now, and let it "marinate" a bit. That might help?
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Priya Viseskul I love your approach! I agree: let it marinate a bit more. Then, in a few months, we'll do "unfinished business", volume 2.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Alexander Weymann Don't be too hard on yourself, Alex! Putting in 14 hour days at such a difficult job makes adding on an hour of piano at night is really tiring.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Ursina Boehm So interesting that we share the same pianistic beginnings! I'm actually going to start some Bach now and take a break from the Etude. Sometime pieces improve when i leave them alone.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Michelle R Thurmond is such a talented young man, in so many areas! I bet you guys have a lot of fun together.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Michelle R That would be amazing next summer! Maybe you can call the organizers in advance, and ask Sindre to create something for 2024?
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Gail Starr Also, you do such a great job of really feeling the pulse/breath of the piece, especially the sensitive way you play the final chords and don't just leap of the keys at the end (the way I…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Priya Viseskul You've done an amazing amount in SUCH a short time. It's so nice that aunt could listen. It always helps to have a friendly person to play for!
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Priya Viseskul Thank you SO much for your excellent advice! I'll definitely work on making sure I'm not too tense during rhythm practicing. The wrist is really important, too.…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Juan Carlos Olite You are so kind! I try to be like YOU when I play.
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Ursina Boehm You are an amazing piano doctor! Or a piano detective? How did you know that most of my teachers were French (even before I lived in France, LOL... ou bien "MDR").…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Sindre Skarelven Thank you! I think I need some help, though. I'm not sure how to get the right tempo without making it sound too "rushed". Maybe I just need to let it rest for a week?…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement! @Jennifer Mehta I'm having a tough time getting it up to tempo now, though. I feel like I sound too rushed when i go faster....and my RH gets tense after 2 pages. uh oh.
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Re: How to mark up your score for secure memorization and faster “re-learning!” @Peter Golemme I bet I DID hear you at one place or another, since we definitely would have visited all of those locations. Small world! (I have NO idea how to play solo piano...…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to mark up your score for secure memorization and faster “re-learning!” @Peter Golemme Wow! We were there at the same time. I took theory on Saturdays with a great professor from Harvard (who was at NEC on Saturdays) and the Adult piano class and 2-piano workshop with…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Vidhya Bashyam Yes, I wonder why we have that issue? Is it muscle stuff?
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Priya Viseskul You’re right! I DO get tense after 2 pages!! It might just need more time to “marinate”. I just started it at the beginning of the challenge because I only tried it for 2 days when…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Ursina Boehm good point! I’ve only been working on it since the Challenge started so I bet it will come up to tempo over time…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Michelle R great point! I’d ideally like both,
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture @Ursina Boehm I think you sound wonderful!
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Gail Starr

Gail_Starr

Retired MBA

Winter Park, FL

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My favorite activity is chamber music, but I love learning solo repertoire now here at Tonebase.

I'm so excited to meet other pianists from all around the globe.