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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Khaled - Did you have your performance yet? How did it go?
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Gail Starr it really takes a lot of time to begin to master any of this stuff
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Khaled I think the best way to practice is any way that gets you engaged with what you are doing as much as possible - so yes, mechanically playing through pieces without consciously paying…
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Linda Gould what is most challenging to me is keeping my concentration going throughout each piece and then through the entire program. Weird little blips happen in unexpected places.…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Tanya I need to try this.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
@Gail Starr always a good idea. Hard to stay in that mindset under pressure, though.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: What is your practice and preparation routine a few days before and the day of the performance?
I am in the same boat right now. I have a 45-minute recital coming up with five different pieces on it, and I am going back and forth between feeling confident and feeling scared to death!…
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- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Antonella Di Giulio @Vidhya Bashyam is really the composer; the rest of us provided embellishments.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1
A waltz by our group (still in progress). Contributors so far: @Vidhya Bashyam @Andrea Buckland @Harriet Kaplan
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
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Re: Group 1
I don’t know if my scribbling will be clear or if the files uploaded correctly.
Attachment
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
@Peter Golemme thanks - I’ve been working on this all year because I’m prepping for an audition. So yes, it’s memorized. There are about a million ways one could play the prelude,…
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage
A quick version of P&F in A minor from WTC II. It still needs direction and shaping. https://youtu.be/EU6WsanuymE?si=dxezceae72-JOsZX
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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Re: Kick off to the Holidays Concert!
I would like to play Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 No 2.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: What is your daily practice routine?
Though I’m not very methodical, I usually start by playing a piece of music to warm up (and check how well I can play something cold!); then if I have time, a scale and arpeggios,…
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 2 yrs ago
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: How to mark up your score for secure memorization and faster “re-learning!”
I have trouble in ForScore marking in the top and bottom margins - the tools bar covers up the blank space. Is there a way to work around this?
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Live Calendar
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Re: How to mark up your score for secure memorization and faster “re-learning!”
@Gail Starr The sound has been okay for me on my laptop.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 4
Is there a link to a recording of the zoom session? I couldn’t be there at that time.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 4
@Jarred Dunn here is my attempt at the left hand. Thanks for any feedback.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 4
@Jarred Dunn I will try Op. 6 No. 2. One thing I'm wondering is about the accents: how strong should they be in the left hand? Should they be exaggerated or subtle?…
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Public Space for: Improving your Chopin Mazurka with Jarred Dunn!
Question: when you say to clap the rhythm, do you mean the rhythm of the melody or of the accompaniment? Is it possible for you to demonstrate? Thank you!
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Public Spaces!
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Re: Group 4
Hi, thanks for including me. I’m looking forward to getting a better idea of how to play a mazurka.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Sindre's practice diary
@Sindre Skarelven very nice! A little bit Chopin, a little bit Grieg, a little bit modern. Do you have a written score for it?
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: "Clara Schumann: A Musical Pioneer and Composer You Should Know" (feat. Orli Shaham and Romanze op.21)
This is the book by Eugenie Schumann. She was the youngest child and never met her father. https://www.amazon.com/Schumanns-Johannes-Brahms-Schumann-Daughter/dp/0359747779
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Piano Extravaganza: An Exploration of Beethoven's Orchestral Style (feat. a performance of the "Pastorale Symphony"
I also enjoyed this! Very well done, both the discussion and the performance.
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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Re: Interactive Masterclass with Jarred Dunn (All welcome!)
If there’s still space - my options are: Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, WTC II Haydn Sonata in C major Hob XVI:50 Liszt Concert Etude No. 3, Un sospiro With anything I play,…
- Harriet_Kaplan
- 3 yrs ago
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