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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Peter Golemme oh yes I was using the pedal to achieve more of a legato in those measures for sure as my hand size can barely reach a 9th… I tried to aim for a clearer touch when I play with pedal…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Peter Golemme the entire Partita No. 6 is really challenging in so many aspects! It’s the epitome of the deep and powerful sentiments of Bach’s pieces.…
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Re: What Fugue Are You Working On (or Listening To)? I’ve recently been hooked on this Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Major on the Name BACH, where the Prelude resolve directly into the Fugue, where the Fugue is full of chromatic harmonies with…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite thank you very much for the kind words and advice! I do tent to use more sustain pedal than necessary especially when it comes to slower paced pieces like this,…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Peter Golemme thank you so much for the kind words Peter! And I absolutely love your performance of the P&F of F-sharp minor of book II (also one of my favourites)!…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage Just wanted to share this personal milestone of finishing learning the two books of WTC the past year, and the next chapter is a lifelong one — to try to polish each one of them… please enjoy one of…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Yes! I did find his interpretation wonderful with some interesting ornamentation for the prelude! I’m currently torn between Schiff and Richter haha…
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Re: Returning pupil There’s much more than the technical aspect of piano playing to offer a student coming from a teacher. An intelligent student can always figure out a lot on their own and I think it’s critical to…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite love the performance! It sounds like that it’s got a hint of dissatisfaction with the society as well a gental alarm… I think recital season is coming up for a lot of musicians or…
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions! I have picked Schubert Impromptu No 3. Could work on rhythm control and a few mistakes but feels like this one delivers my emotional interpretation aspect of the song.
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Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
Hey just curious what everyone's opinion is in why Schubert left the piece unfinished and kept in in the drawer like a treasure to himself. I personally believe that Schubert did it on purpose and…
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 @Victor Wong interesting! I usually find hand choreographing to help with this problem a lot in this piece!
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 @Peter Golemme wow. I also learn the Czerny’s edition but a lot of his interpretations are questionable as I often find him to be focusing on the technical aspect (e.g.…
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended! Just have to say this. This was a phenomenal show from last night for Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances with the phenomenal pianist Mackenzie Melemed! Extremely technically challenging and physically…
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Re: Hello music educators! In teaching your students, what do you struggle with and enjoy the most? In my opinion the textbooks shouldn’t really matter as we shouldn’t limit ourselves on the methods provided in the textbooks. There are so many different ways we could approach the learning process…
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 @Bill Walle probably. Didn’t really think of that. I feel like it also have something to do with how I hum the notes
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 @Rainer Joos thanks for the suggestion! Where did you get the inspiration from?
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 @Michelle R interesting. Is that why some notes in some of the recordings are half steps off?
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8 Interesting theory. But if he’s looking to have a book of a very organized sequence of keys it wouldn’t have been much trouble to transpose the fugue to E flat minor as well?…
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Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8
Hey just genuinely curious about what everyone’s choice of key to learn this piece since the Prelude was in E-flat Minor and Fugue was originally composed in D-sharp minor.…
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Re: Hello music educators! In teaching your students, what do you struggle with and enjoy the most? The biggest challenge in general is to get rid of distractions and learn how to play the music for their own enjoyment. Second is to really reflect on what would help them improve,…
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase? In depth musical history, stories of composers or even philosical discussions of the music and composers
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Re: Deja vu in Playing Music? @Fernanda Machado - PianoClass It most definitely is. Not sure if it’s related to cultural patterns but the composer is from Russia and I am from China,…
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Deja vu in Playing Music?
Has it happened to anyone where you're practicing a piece and it feels like you have definitely practiced it before (but most certainly hasn't). For me it's when it comes to playing Medtner's music I…
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Re: What's your favorite music-related book or movie? Rethinking Prokofiev. So much unique insight on this one…
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