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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
Thank you, I really appreciate everyone who listened and shared your encouragement! It's been such a long (ongoing), somewhat lonely journey with this piece.…
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
@Ursina Boehm You sound gorgeous!! I'm just in awe. You've inspired me to learn more about this piece just to be able to appreciate and understand it more. Thank you for sharing
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Re: Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
I squeezed in a playthru/recording yesterday after hiking & before dinner
Confession that the Grand Polonaise hasn't been somewhat missing on my repertoire practice list this week,…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Alexander Weymann When performing, definitely yes! I just have to memorize everything even if I'm planning to perform with the score... Overpreparing helps with my performance anxiety :)
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@Kerstin Oh wow, that is difficult for me to read... I'm glad you found your way back to the piece! 48/1 is so profound - a few years ago my teacher said I wasn't ready for it,…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Michelle R Absolutely makes sense, Michelle! I'm sorry to hear about your prior injury, and you are wise with your patience
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@Kerstin
Just trying to have fun with it
Thank you! Have a great weekend!
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Kerstin This is delightful! I don't know this Nocturne at all and am happy to be learning it vicariously through you
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@Michelle R I can't tell for certain because of your sleeves in the first video, but it looks like in the ornaments version, your right wrist is dropping quite a bit - maybe even forcefully - during…
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Gail Starr That's a good idea, without the RH acting as makeup to cover it up
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@Alexander Weymann This is really helpful perspective, thank you! No, I didn't take the Mazurka intensive, but I noticed @Gail Starr had posted a LH practice video on her Youtube channel and I was…
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@Michelle R I've read David Kish's "Practicing with Purpose" after a friend recommended it, but I haven't heard of Kaplan's book - will have to check it out!
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Re: Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
@Alexander Weymann @Michelle R @Vidhya Bashyam Thank you for taking the time to listen so closely and for your encouraging feedback! This is my first time participating on anything, really,…
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@Alexander Weymann I admire your discipline to practice hands separately so much! Do you also memorize hands separately too? And is this your typical process for learning/relearning pieces?…
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My goal this week for the Chopin Grand Polonaise is to practice playing more deeply into the keys, not only for the sonorous sections (which have too many gaps in sound),…
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@Michelle R Sounds lovely already, Michelle!
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Kerstin We have so many similar aspirational pieces! Yes, to all your questions... I played pretty much my entire childhood and stopped when I went to college.…
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@Kerstin Wow, you are a FAST learner! What wonderful & challenging pieces you are working on - all are on my wishlist. This summer, I started working on Beethoven Op.…
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Alexander Weymann @Vidhya Bashyam Thank you, I have my work cut out for me
Looking forward to enjoying your pieces too!
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@Kerstin Wow, how long did you work on the Scherzo prior to that video? It sounds amazing already! Re: memory, you seem to have a lot of solid pickup points and recover so quickly,…
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I will try to post a progress video like @Kerstin today/this weekend, but in the meantime, this is a recording of my playing the Chopin Grand Polonaise for a friend from October 2021,…
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Kerstin Thank you for sharing! Such great clarity! Really a good reminder to make sure I practice deliberately and cleanly, and don't just gloss over things in the pursuit of too fast too soon...
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
@Vidhya Bashyam The Andante Spianato is so gorgeous... hehe I'm not sure about the Polonaise yet either, but we shall see!!
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@Kerstin
I fell in love with Horowitz's recording of it when I picked up piano again a few years ago... so brilliant and carefree - hoping to get closer to that feeling,…
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Re: Week 1: Getting down to Business
Chopin Op 22 Grand Polonaise Brillante I tried learning this a couple of years ago and was able to "get through it" memorized when practicing on my own,…
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