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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Michelle R Well, I might as well say what I was thinking...which is that you are an amazing mom!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Priya Viseskul Thank you so much for your excellent comments, Priya. I wasn't even going to make this recording, but this morning some of our amazing friends here on Tonebase (Sindre, Vidhya, Andrea,…
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Michelle R What brilliant advice. Thank you! It's so interesting how coaching from one artistic discipline can flow over into another one.
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Gail Starr I was worried about increasing the tempo because I thought it sounded rushed...so I looked at the "speed" of my two prior recordings. Week one, the piece took 3 minutes.…
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Michelle R What lovely articulation. Now we know where Thurmond gets his musical gifts from!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
@Michelle R Fabulous!
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Re: Week 4: Post your Progress!
Here's my Chopin Etude Op. 25, #2, even though it's not really "finished". https://youtu.be/NH_z_dvCfh4?si=9sP4wi9rHLKkgufh
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs 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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- 2 yrs ago
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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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- 2 yrs ago
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