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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos. I'm following YOUR excellent advice, and totally changing how I learn. Instead of rushing through because I have other things to do,…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michelle R It’s going to take me more than 3 weeks to learn so listen to it on YouTube. Margaret Fingerhut has a lovely interpretation.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Alice Lin Thanks! I’m going to learn it quite slowly since it is hard for me. Check out Margaret Fingerhut’s fun recording on YouTube!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael I bet ChatGPT would love to play some Beethoven for you eventually. (Now THAT’s scary thought!) But, you could ask it to tell you all the cool trivia about your piece right now.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Vidhya Bashyam I’m finding it tough to even read the score! Every other note is a double sharp with a c flat or some other weird combo. So I’m going REALLY slow.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) Here are some tiny videos of my Balakirev so far: 1 video after 30 minutes of sight-reading, 1 video of LH only since the LH jumps are challenging for me and 1 video after 2 more slow practice…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael I actually tried this on my kid when he was little and it was a huge flop because it turned out he hated marshmallows, LOL!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Andrea Buckland Me too! g minor and c minor are the BEST!!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Gillian YES! I am feeling the same using Juan Carlos' new approach. It's kind of scary, but I'm starting to get the hang of it.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Kerstin You do a great job bringing out the singing top line. So tough to do with the millions of accompanying notes in the bass and the middle lines!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Alice Lin Alice, I REALLY needed a lovely, calming bit of music now and your interpretation hit the spot. (We just had yet another plumbing "challenge" this morning,…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) Good afternoon, piano friends! The piece I've selected for this month is the Balakirev "Toccata". I piece I REALLY love is his "Islamey", but I'm just not advanced enough (yet? I hope!) to tackle it.…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Gillian Marshmallows are delicious every day, so we'll just keep snacking until we get it right. Or until someone in our house steals them to make 'smores!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael Well...we'll see how much it helps! I'll try to make a little practice video this evening.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael Now that I have just started memorizing as I learn, I realize that I’m being pretty quantitative. For example, I know the key my piece is in and there are 2.…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Gillian I’m nibbling my first marshmallows today! They are sweet and not too filling: I.E. I’ve memorized about a page so far of my 12 page piece.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael We need a logo for our new sub-group: The Nerds of Tonebase. We will be competing with a cat lovers of Tonebase, but I think we can grow our membership over time, right?
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael What a vivacious interpretation! No wonder your puppy loves it.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Andrea Buckland What a rich and serene interpretation. A day with Bach and kitty cats is the BEST!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Sindre Skarelven It sounds like you have put in a LOT of work already! Great job. So glad your back is starting to feel better, too.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Juan Carlos Olite YES!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael It can actually be a sort of "mysterious" variation, so your elastic rubato will enrich it. ( I grew up with a nearly identical dog and mine had a great dislike for contemporary music!)
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Derek McConville @Juan Carlos Olite Or, to simplify, M to the 5th power method? M-5? We could make a nice logo for that!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Serene I share your love of this piece and I'm so impressed that you are preparing for exams. I'd be too scared!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michelle R What a cool kid!
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Gail Starr

Gail_Starr

Retired MBA

Winter Park, FL

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Joined: Thu Aug 26 19:51:06 UTC 2021

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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.