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Re: Week 3: Progress Check! No matter how much I practice this Gershwin Prelude, I still struggle to get it right, especially when I hit the Record button. The LH sprawly chords are going to have to stay shrunken.…
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- 4 days ago
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Re: Week 3: Progress Check! @maijahildur I really like this piece and your tempo and fluidity. My Chinese name translates to "birch tree" (flower character with wood radical), so I certainly must add it to my bucket too.
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- 4 days ago
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress It has been a rough and frustrating week getting used to this Gershwin Prelude. I probably should have pushed more to learn it when I was young. The Peter Dugan video makes it seem a lot more easier…
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- Grace
- 11 days ago
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress @Priya Viseskul Great start!
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- 11 days ago
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Re: Week 2: Share your progress @Dominic Cheli I was watching a teenager compete this in the local music festival last week. It’s remarkable how quickly you can learn this to comparable quality!
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- 11 days ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! I spent the first couple of days just listening to various recordings of Prelude No. 1. I worked out the fingering that I feel comfortable with, compacted the gross LH chords by bringing in the…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your piece! Lit! The Gershwin Preludes have been in my bucket since I was a kid, and it is the only bucket piece that appears in my Tonebase "level", so I'm watching the lesson by Peter Dugan and listening to…
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- 3 wk ago
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- A Fresh Start!
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Re: 2 week intensives @Beth Lester but 2WIs aren’t “live” events
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- 1 mth ago
- Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Pedaling at the piano, from Level 1 to Virtuoso! with Dominic Cheli What pedalling do your recommend for Albeniz' Asturias in the Allegro section and ending?
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Group 1 Hi, I watched the video and then went back watching the Music Theory Course. As a returning pianist, it's like learning a new language as a lot of the jargon like Circle of Fifths & 2-5-1 weren't a…
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- 4 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Kick off to the Holidays Concert! @Dominic Cheli Here it is
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- 4 mths ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: Kick off to the Holidays Concert! I will be at a training camp on Friday without a piano. For the first time in 40 years, I performed Fantaisie-Impromptu on Monday in a seasonally decorated venue and have uploaded the recording.…
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- 4 mths ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Group 4 Hi@Dr. Leann Osterkamp He , I’m out getting my tires changed and don’t know if I’ll be able to make the Zoom. I have recently revived Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu after 40 years.…
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- Grace
- 5 mths ago
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- Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
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Re: Group 4 @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He I recorded these last week before I went on a trip to Belgium. The headless one is without soft pedal. https://youtu.be/P1zFW5G2YJY?feature=shared https://youtu.…
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- 5 mths ago
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- Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
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Re: Group 4 Hi @Dr. Leann Osterkamp He and Group 4, This is a fascinating topic for me. I have rarely used the soft pedal before. My previous Roland digital didn't have one. I got used to playing quietly.…
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- 5 mths ago
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- Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
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Re: Group 3 @Lindsay Garritson Thank you for the feedback. I completely forgot about the C-scale exercise. Here it is: https://youtu.be/7bsEGd7uh3Y After the Zoom and some more practice,…
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- Grace
- 6 mths ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Group 3 I spent last week in LA, trying to get my chum to get his piano tuned. It was awful, and then impossible to record anything. I've never learned any of these pieces before.…
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- 6 mths ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: Play for the 2nd Prize winner of the Chopin International Competition (feat. Charles Richard-Hamelin) Coincidentally, Charles' teacher Richard Raymond is in town at a new piano rehearsal studio giving a camp this week and a concert of Beethoven Sonatas on Saturday. See https://www.eventbrite.…
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- Grace
- 8 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Group 5 Hi @Jarred Dunn I have never played a Mazurka until now. I enjoyed seeing Janina Fialkowska play Mazurka Op 7 No 1 last week at the Music & Beyond festival in Ottawa and thought I would like to learn…
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- Grace
- 8 mths ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Happy Birthday Grieg! (feat. Watch Party: Lyrical Miniatures) @Dominic Cheli It take forever to process on Youtube but it is here: https://youtu.be/6SL2w-fTggM
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- Grace
- 10 mths ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Happy Birthday Grieg! (feat. Watch Party: Lyrical Miniatures) Hi @Dominic Cheli , If I can record a decent video for the watch party, where do I send it? Or is it a live Zoom happening?
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- Grace
- 10 mths ago
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! I played with Butterfly on my divine new piano so much that I was able to memorize it! Here's a condensed version with no repeats. I also used a USB mic and no una corda (soft pedal).…
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- 10 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Week 3: Telling your Tale! I'm so bad at recording myself. Here is my dusting off of the Butterfly from Op. 43 of the Lyric Pieces. About forty years ago, my teacher offered to teach this to me for my Grade IX (RCM) repertoire,…
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- 10 mths ago
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- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Read Me and FAQ @Alexander Weymann I'm also dusting off this Butterfly piece after 40 years. My teacher back then suggested I play it for my Grade IX (RCM) repertoire, but I preferred Reverie by Debussy.
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- Grace
- 10 mths ago
- Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
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Re: Group 4 @Leann Osterkamp Thank you for the advice. I have tried both your checklist approach and sight-reading cold without any previewing and analysis and the checklist is certainly very helpful,…
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- Grace
- 1 yr ago
- Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
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