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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!
@Martin thanks for including me in a group! Will we be getting specific instructions on what exactly we need to do and how this will work?
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1 yr ago
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Re: What kind of Piano do you play?
I have an Estonia 190 that I bought new in 2006. I also have a 1937 Steinway M that has new hammers and action from two years ago. Why I have two grand pianos ... it's complicated ...ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!
Iām interested
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1 yr ago
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General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: Best books and material for Scale Practice!
I've spent the last 10 years doing a scale routine my teacher uses, and I feel it's gotten stale and less effective as time goes on - though a lot of it fits well with the advice given inā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: What are the Two Week Intensives?
I'm interested.
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: What's the last LIVE concert you attended!
March 31, Simone Dinnerstein playing the Goldberg Variations at Columbia University.
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: Tonebase Community Concert: April 2022
@Carole Kincaid yes, I did the same. I didnāt see a Zoom link anywhere. I got an āupdateā email the next day that had the link, but of course it was over by then!
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: Tonebase Community Concert: April 2022
Did anyone else have trouble accessing this concert? The link in the email took me to the concert page but it said it had not started yet; the link to the discussion on the main page went nowhere.ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice!
I wish I could have participated in the event live, but I was at my piano lesson this morning! This was possibly the most interesting one I've listened to at Tonebase thus far and brought upā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: What are your difficult passages?
Really too many to list, but what has bugged me for the past few years: Chopin Ballade No. 1, especially the piu animato section in the middle (mm 138-179) and the coda.ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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"Improve your Technique!" Month
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice!
@Tammy FWIW, what I do when my interest flags (and I've worked on some pieces for YEARS, on and off) is try to pretend I've never played the piece before - basically imagine I'm starting fromā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: Mastering Large-scale work: Tips and advice!
Since I started this - Goldberg Variations. Also on my wish list - Carnaval (donāt know if Iāll ever get to that one).
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
@Dominic Cheli thanks! I've appreciated all your work in building up the interactive content here. I watched your performance of the Goldbergs, and it was impressive.ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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1 yr ago
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Re: What is a Fugue?
Very good lecture on fugues! I spent 14 years in music school and years in piano lessons and was never taught some of this.
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Re: WEEK 2: Bach in March Practice Updates
@Gail Starr Simone looks rather like Beatrice Rana in this pic ... :)
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: WEEK 2: Bach in March Practice Updates
First, thank you everyone for the nice comments on the video I posted last week. Second, this month is from he** for me because I am the administrator for an international string competition,ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
@Brother Will Green thank you!
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
@Hazel thank you. The prelude is a little gem, and not difficult. Fugue is another matter ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
@Peter Golemme thank you!
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
@Peter Golemme when I was working on this fugue a few months ago, I also tried to add the nachtschlag (what you're calling the afterbeat). I started the trills on the note because they areā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
@Vidhya Bashyam thank you!
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
Bach in March
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Re: Bach in March WEEK 1: Practice Updates
This is a video I made in January for my teacher (he said "just hands," so that's what I did) of the Prelude and Fugue in E major from WTC Book I. I started working on this last fall and have keptā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: Community Hangout: Bach Vibes
Another thing I just thought to mention: between 2014 and 2020, I performed all six Bach solo cello suites (on the cello!) on a local amateur concert series.ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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Bach in March
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Re: Welcome to Bach in March!
I wish I could participate in this, but these next few weeks are going to be crazy for me. Maybe I can play something short.
Harriet Kaplan
Harriet_Kaplan
2 yrs ago
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Re: Community Hangout: Bach Vibes
My husband had a conference in Cologne in May 2016, and I met him there after he was done and we traveled around Germany for a week. My one request was to visit Leipzig,ā¦
Harriet Kaplan
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2 yrs ago
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