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Sindre Skarelven
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Sindre_Skarelven
Pianist, composer and piano teacher
Oslo, Norway
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Sort of an “all-round pianist”. I specialized in popular music and jazz in my education, but have focused mostly on classical in later years. I do some occasional arranging and composing.
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Re: Week 3: Left Hand Magic
@CK Amazing impro, CK! Beautiful!
Sindre Skarelven
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Pianist, composer and piano teacher
Sindre_Skarelven
3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@Peter Golemme Thank you, Peter! It is fun to improvise and just see what happens.
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Group 1
@Dominic Cheli These are are very enjoyable exercises! Thank you for sharing!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1
@Susan Rogers Awesome! Thank you, Susan :)
Sindre Skarelven
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Sindre_Skarelven
3 yrs ago
Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1
@Susan Rogers Sounds great!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Vidhya Bashyam Well done! It's fun playing Czerny!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improve your Scales!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@George Ko Thank you, George! Your insights and feedback is very valuable! I will work on it :)
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos! Yes, it’s hard to participate without a piano :P Looking forward to our next challenge together! Hopefully, there’ll be more improv in later challenges.
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@Andrea Buckland Thank you so much, Andrea!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Group 1
@Vidhya Bashyam Thank you, Vidhya! Yes, it's a great (and fun) exercise to transpose!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improve your Scales!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@Susan Rogers Thank you, Susan!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Group 1
@Andrea Buckland Thank you, Andrea! :D
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
Improve your Scales!
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Re: Group 1
@Jarkko Janhunen Thank you, Jarkko! :D
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@Peter Golemme Great improv, Peter! It’s a very nice prelude to have as an influence for improvisation.
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3 yrs ago
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@CK So beautiful! Well done!
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Re: Group 1
@Jarkko Janhunen Great playing, Jarkko!!
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
One of my all time favorite pieces is the first ballade my Chopin! I love all of them, but this one has a special meaning to me. Here is an impro over the first theme. Enjoy :)
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
Hello everyone! I'm sorry to not have posted anything here until now. As I mentioned somewhere else, I had so tension issues in my left hand starting this week.…
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Gail Starr Thank you, Gail. Much better, will post an update here now! And a new impro ;)
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Re: Group 1
@Alistair Bertram Nice! Very good idea to play with metronome!
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Group 1
@Vidhya Bashyam Yes, I agree! Very fun!
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Re: Group 1
@Gail Starr Wonderful playing, Gail!
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Re: Group 1
@Andrea Buckland Well done, Andrea!
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Re: Left Hand Magic with George Ko!
Can’t join live today (got a gig), but looking very much forward to the replay! :D
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Re: Week 1: Kickoff! Start Improvising with F-E-D
@Peter Golemme Very interesting to learn about Hovhaness, Peter! I will have a listen. I’m also influenced by eastern/exotic sounds, and like to explore different types of colors particularly when…
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