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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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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michelle R I think a bunch of us on Tonebase are nerds at heart. I was premed in undergrad and still get all sorts of medical newsletters (NEJournal, JAMA, etc.…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Juan Carlos Olite Juan Carlos, your insights are golden! I am adopting your philosophy now with the new piece I started on Saturday. I just learned a few little fragments by memory and this time I…
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael You are definitely NOT under water! You’re doing a great job bringing out the singing top line while getting the LH to feel lighter. Gorgeous choice!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael so true!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michelle R please stop by when you are in the area!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Thurmond R As you know, I am a big Chaminade fan as well and you are doing a great job on this piece already!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michelle R You can send him down to Orlando anytime! We'd love to listen to him all day.
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Leslie Chong What a gorgeous sense of phrasing you possess. Your performance defines all the best things about this piece! You inspire me!
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Re: Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!) @Michael I'll join you! We can drive together.
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Gail Starr

Gail_Starr

Retired MBA

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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.