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Re: Memorizing
@Denise can you play each hand separately from memory? And first thing my teacher would ask me: Are you counting? (And can you count out loud while you’re playing?) Both of those help me.…
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Re: Group 2
@Henry kramer I'm still stuck on the second video assignment - I feel kind of embarrassed sharing these videos because I can see that my thumb keeps drifting out.…
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Re: Group 2
@henry kramer here is my attempt. Please let me know if I’m getting this at all.
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@henry kramer : I have questions about the Cortot exercises. The first two work, but I can’t figure out how to do the others. It seems like they would stretch the hand uncomfortably in any but the…
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If anyone needs a translation of the Cortot into English, I found one here: http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Composers%20A-D/Cortot,%20Alfred/Chopin-Cortot_Etudes_Op.10(Engl).pdf
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Vidhya Bashyam thank you! Four weeks away from piano must have been hard.
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
Continuing on this journey, here is No. 10. I know I rushed in the long trills near the end … what can I say …. My old Schirmer edition suggests a tempo of Presto with metronome marking 152 to the…
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Re: Group 2
@Kerstin I am waiting to see what sort of approach will be offered. I’m not focused on any specific etudes - they are all so difficult in their own ways that one could learn a lot from any of them.
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Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
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The Chopin etudes are daunting, but at the same time I can see they offer paths to improving technique and musicianship. I have worked on a few of these pieces in the past; IIRC they were: Op. 10 No.…
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@martin How do we know whether we got in?
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Sindre Skarelven thank you!
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
Thank you @Vidhya Bashyam @Andrea Buckland @Natalie Peh @Juan Carlos Olite I struggled with this - the tempo, the ornaments, bringing out the subject. Not where I would want it but definitely a good…
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
Here’s No. 11 - kind of a sleepy one. I don’t know why the preview isn’t showing here.
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Re: Memorizing
I came across this blog post today about memorizing and thought of this discussion: https://melaniespanswick.com/2022/09/11/on-preparing-for-a-beethoven-marathon-part-3-julian-jacobson/?…
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Re: Garrick Ohlsson and the COMPLETE works of Brahms!
@priscillayam I agree, but it’s daunting.
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1 yr ago
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Re: Garrick Ohlsson and the COMPLETE works of Brahms!
I have a general and perhaps too basic question: what is a good sequence for a student learning Brahms' music? It seems every student learns Op. 118 No.…
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Gail Starr very nice on both!
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Juan Carlos Olite absolutely.
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Juan Carlos Olite thank you. My old Schirmer edition has something crazy like 84 to the dotted quarter.
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Natalie Peh thank you!
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Kerstin oh wow, I just noticed this! Thank you so much! I wish I’d seen your video before I posted my version of this invention today. I will definitely use some of these ideas in the future.…
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
Thank you @Andrea Buckland and @Vidhya Bashyam
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
Here is No. 12
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Re: Community Concert September 2022!
I may be able to do this ... not sure what I would play yet.
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Kerstin please don't go to too much trouble! But I'm sure it would be helpful to a lot of us to see how you practice this.
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