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Re: Group 3 Two quick corrections on my analysis: Bar 35: should read "viiº7", not "iiº7" Bars 45-46: should read "IAC" (Imperfect Authentic Cadence), not "PAC." Good teachable moment here:…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
- Reported - view
Re: Group 4 Two quick corrections on my analysis: Bar 35: should read "viiº7", not "iiº7" Bars 45-46: should read "IAC" (Imperfect Authentic Cadence), not "PAC." Good teachable moment here:…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
- Reported - view
Re: Group 4 @Paige Keiser-Rezac Yes, it's recorded and we'll post it right here! If you have specific questions ahead of time, leave them here and I'll answer them in the meeting so you can watch later.
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
- Reported - view
Re: Group 1 Two quick corrections on my analysis: Bar 35: should read "viiº7", not "iiº7" Bars 45-46: should read "IAC" (Imperfect Authentic Cadence), not "PAC." Good teachable moment here:…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
- Reported - view
Re: Group 4 Dear Group 4, I hope you have a good week studying and analyzing Schubert! Welcome to WEEK 2. First, a reminder about the (optional) Zoom check-in tomorrow (December 12) at 11:00 a.m.…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 3 Dear Group 3, I hope you have a good week studying and analyzing Schubert! Welcome to WEEK 2. First, a reminder about the (optional) Zoom check-in tomorrow (December 12) at 11:00 a.m.…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 2 Dear Group 2, I hope you have a good week studying and analyzing Schubert! Welcome to WEEK 2. First, a reminder about the (optional) Zoom check-in tomorrow (December 12) at 11:00 a.m.…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
- Reported - view
Re: Group 1 Dear Group 1, I hope you have a good week studying and analyzing Schubert! Welcome to WEEK 2. First, a reminder about the (optional) Zoom check-in tomorrow (December 12) at 11:00 a.m.…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 2 @Jennifer Mehta Absolutely. In the old days, pianists would sometimes play a chord progression in between pieces to modulate from the even of the previous tonality to the new one.…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 2 @Jennifer Mehta I think it's a good analogy. I would add vocabulary too (meaning a kind of "harmonic vocabulary", not the terms we happen to give to chords).…
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Re: Group 3 @theoryman1 Yes the names are pretty arbitrary, and honestly most practicing musicians I know don't actively think in these terms. But it's the standard terminology among theorists and worth knowing…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 3 @Amy Oh yes I remembrer! Nice to "meet" you again here. It looks like measures 2-3 but I think you're actually talking about 1-2. That's just a quarter note pick-up before the first bar.…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Bryan Coryell Spoil away! Interested to see your analysis.
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 1 Thank you @Bryan Coryell ! You are spot-on. @Andrea A few more thoughts about what might be confusing about those two chords: first of all, as I mention in the video,…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 4 @Gail Starr Thanks Gail!
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 4 @Roy James-Pike ! Actually UK/US have the same terminology for relative and parallel minors! We both call the minor mode built on the 6th scale degree in major the "relative minor.…
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Re: Group 3 @theoryman1 Off to a slow start, yes, but I believe in Group 3! I think I could convince you to like Schubert, but sometimes our tastes are pretty fixed (mine seem to be with certain repertoire,…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 3 @Sheetal Patel I'm excited to be a part of your first foray into Schubert! I think a lot of us (me included) are juggling things these two weeks, but I believe it will be rewarding even if you just…
- Ben Laude
- Head of Piano @ tonebase
- Ben_Laude
- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 3 Hi @Amy , thanks for bringing some energy to Group 3! And I'm sorry, as it appears I've been neglecting you all a little in favor of the other, louder, groups.…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- 11 mths ago
- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Natalie Peh Oh gosh I know that feeling. Had you played the "little A major" before, or did you go straight to the big leagues?
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 4 @Roy James-Pike for me the best way to think of the augmented sixth chord (let's say, for convenience, in C major), is just what you said: take the IV chord,…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 4 @Stephen D Nightingale The harmony in #2 is especially wild. And he does a kind of reverse picardy third... like, he's riding around E-flat major and then the piece takes this tragic turn and ends in…
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Group 1 @Monika Tusnady Agreed. I certainly wouldn't be doing any of this without the group!
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 1 @Natalie Peh Are you talking about my harmony TWI from August 2022? That's somewhere in the archives. What sonata are you learning?
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- Head of Piano @ tonebase
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Re: Group 1 @Bryan Coryell I've been going through it again and it's unbelievable. I can't wait to talk about the development of the first movement.
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