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Re: Week 1: Beethoven Birthday Challenge – Choose Your Piece!
@Angelina Tan With pleasure. Ludwig forever and whenever! :-)
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Beethoven Birthday Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Beethoven Birthday Challenge – Choose Your Piece!
@Gail Starr Oh that one's a beauty. Looking forward to hearing it.
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Re: Exploring the Art of Chamber Music with Brandon Patrick George
@Sam Smith Hi Sam, I have been playing in amateur trios and quartets for some time now. One of us (usually the person who has some idea of harmony and music analysis or the one who plays best) takes…
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2 wk ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Group 4
@Juan Carlos Olite Great lyrics for a beautifully played piece. How do you do the lyrics editing on the video?
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2 wk ago
"Phrasing like a Singer" at the Piano
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Re: Group 1
@Dr. Leann Osterkamp Hi dear All, here is my piece set to lyrics. I chose measures 6 to 13 from Baldassare Galuppi's piano sonata no. 5; I skipped the beginning so as not to repeat the phrase.…
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"Phrasing like a Singer" at the Piano
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Re: Group 1
Good evening from Strasbourg Dr Osterkamp, thank you for the video. This is an interesting exercise which I had never attempted before. If I understand right,…
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3 wk ago
"Phrasing like a Singer" at the Piano
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Re: The Meteoric Talent and Human Tragedy of Jacqueline du Pré
Especially this one eally inspired me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB3mKWgQNhI SC
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1 mth ago
Live Calendar
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Re: Group 2
Dear Jarred, here are my takeaways from this TWI. I have learned a lot about Chopin and about my own playing. 1) Singing helps legato playing. 2) I need to learn to sing in tune,…
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4 mths ago
Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 2
@Dagmar Thanks for the eip Dagmar. Will do that.
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Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Suggestion Device (i.e. iPad) for having piano sheet music?
I have a Huawei MatebookE hybrid, i.e. a PC that can become a tablet. I use the Mobilesheets app which is easy to use (can import any pdf or jpeg sheet music, file it,, allow notations on it,…
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4 mths ago
Ask Me Anything - New Guests Every Month!
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Re: Group 2
@Jarred Dunn Thanks for the help Jarred. I am afraid it is not going anywhere yet. I have difficulty singing without the right hand as I have always had a difficulty producing the sound I hear in my…
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4 mths ago
Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
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Re: Group 2
Dear Jarred, thanks very much indeed for proposing this exercise. I am trying to learn harmonic analysis by reading on the subject so please bear with me.…
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Re: Week 1: Choose your waltz and start Dancing!
Thanks for this great idea Dominic. I was hesitating but listening to the performances here hooked me in. I will try my hand at 2 valses sentimentales, the 5 an 7.
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Let's Play Schubert's Waltzes!
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Re: How to choose an instrument
@Barbara Blakeslee Great decision Barbara. Carpe diem and what a lovely choice for colour.
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5 mths ago
General Discussion
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Re: How to choose an instrument
@David That's it. It is a bit deeper than a standard upright because of the horizontal action but has a neat design and a good finish. I hesitated between Kawai N5S and this one but the keyboard was…
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General Discussion
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Re: How to choose an instrument
Hi David, I had to give up my acoustic piano years ago as I live in a condo and could only practice in the evenings and weekends. I then bought a Roland digital but it was not a great experience.…
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General Discussion
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Re: Group 1
@Bernice vonSaleski Juliana Hun has a great course on this under the title "chiral hands". The common beginner challenges series she has done is interesting as she talks about neuroscience and the…
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TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 3
@Dominic Cheli Many thanks Dominic. This is so helpful.
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TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 3
@Letizia Indeed. Group practice forever!
A query: for the chromatic scale do you use the standard 12,12,123? I saw a youtube short in which a teacher was saying 1234 is faster.
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TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Hi Everyone, here is my d minor scale exercise and at the end I applied it to measure 34 of Mozart's Fantasia in D minor K 397 where you ahev a descending scale and then an arpeggio runup.…
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TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 3
@Douglas McCarthy Hi Douglas, you upload to your own Youtube studio (as public file) and give us the link here so we can all see. Cheers. SC
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6 mths ago
TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: Group 3
Hi Everyone, I am so glad we are doing this TWI. My number one difficulty when playing scales is not to be able to start form any point when playing two hands together.…
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TWI: Improving your Scales!
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
@Ken Radford Thx a lot for this. I am in awe!
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6 mths ago
Discussion of the Week
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Re: Chamber Music Secrets!
Thanks very much for organising this live session. I have a few questions based on my experience in a quartet and from several workshops I attended: How should one approach the first sightreading…
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Re: Week 4: Final Submissions!
@Juan Carlos Olite Vow. True to the spirit of Rachmaninoff.
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A Fresh Start!
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