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Re: Week 1 Goal “Pick Your Piece!”
Hello everyone! I have just started to learn Chopin’s Prelude in E minor, inspired by Dominic’s Study Group. This 4-weeks of living with the piece would be amazing!…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 8 days ago
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- Chopin Challenge
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music
@Jarred Dunn Amazing - thank you!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 5 mths ago
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- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music
@Jarred Dunn Have tried to work out the chords, with some success I hope. Bars 1-4, the progression is I-V-I-V if I take only the first beat of each bar; similarly Bar5-8 it is I-IV-?V-I.…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 5 mths ago
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- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music
Ah, noticed an error- the F#s have become natural. I think because I changed the key signature after entering the notes!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 5 mths ago
- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music
@Jarred Dunn Thank you for this TWI - the first time I have attempted splitting up the voices; also the first time using a notation software (MuseScore) :…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 5 mths ago
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- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: June Recital!
@Peter Golemme Thank you for taking time to reach out. I am looking forward to participating in the evening of Community concert - if nothing else, I shall be meeting some wonderful musicians 🙂
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Michelle R that’s so thoughtful Michelle 😊. Yes, still planning to play!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Michelle R thanks Michelle - sounds good!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Michelle R have you played in these Community concerts before? Do we get to know beforehand where we are in the performance queue?
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Michelle R @Alexander Weymann i have also read somewhere Mastery is an asymptote 😊, probably a good thing otherwise we will all be bored. On a more serious note,…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Gail Starr Thanks Gail. I’m guilty of not getting to know this exceptional community of pianists. I read somewhere that to become a better person one should surround oneself with those who are…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- 3
- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
@Alexander Weymann Thank you Alexander! Will refer to this post to remind myself if I start losing my nerve 😊
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: June Recital!
Signing up to perform Schumann’s Melodie, from the Album for the Young. Already pretty terrified - this cohort at ToneBase is a daunting place for a neophyte 😬!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Community Concerts!
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Re: Group 4
@Dr. Leann Osterkamp He A new world for me, as a newbie, this very different and detailed approach to planning before playing. Love it! Will take me years to internalise and implement,…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Re: Sign-up for the Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
Early January I submitted my Grade 2 TCL exam. In the examiner’s feedback one clear theme rang out. My dynamic shaping, rather, the lack of. This two week intensive touches the absolutely the right…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Your Practice Plan

Amazing! What a wonderful idea. I have now 8 lesson sets for my level and started with Dominic’s lesson on playing chords. Just wanted to say a big thank you Dominic and ToneBase for organising the…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- Tonebase Lesson Discussions
Re: 2024 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!
@Geoffrey Grosenbach hello Geoffrey, nice to meet you! I am telling myself I have 15 years to get good at this (playing the piano) so that when I retire I shall be an ameuter pianist 😀!…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: 2024 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!
@Gail Starr Hi Gail, thank you for the warm welcome. The videos on my YouTube channel are unlisted for now but I have posted the first one in my practice diary page on ToneBase.
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- 1
- General Discussion
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Rashmi‘s practice diary

Preparing for my Grade 2 exam. More importantly though, this Diary is part of my performance practice strategy! I don’t want to be a closet (aspiring-to-be-amateur pianist) 😊
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- updated 1 yr ago
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- Your Practice Diary
Re: Tonebase Lesson Discussions
One of my first lessons on ToneBase was Juliana Han's Chords and Arpeggios - love it and have returned to the lessons many times!
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Tonebase Lesson Discussions
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Re: 2024 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!
I am an adult beginner (54) - having started to learn some 6 years ago with no prior knowledge of Western Classical Music - began at the very beginning with learning to read sheet music.…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: Introduction to Harmonic Score Analysis
Dear Ashley, just watched the recording and will be coming back to it again. Very, very, VERY helpful and I really enjoyed the way you worked out things with ‘pen and paper’ !…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 1 yr ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Group 3
Hello everyone. I’m a beginner with about 6 years of learning (trying to) the piano under my belt. This is my first TWI and it looks somewhat daunting. But I shall have a go.…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 2 yrs ago
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- Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
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Re: How to improve your Sightreading (and why it is important)
I started sight reading Grade 1, 5 min a day, after Dominic’s talk on how to practice. This would be a great sequel. Thank you 😊
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 2 yrs ago
- Live Calendar
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Re: Reaching your practice goals: Systems and Routines
@Dominic Cheli Thank you! Watched the webinar in three sittings and took a few screenshots with your presentation slides. There is so much material in this webinar - I can see myself revisiting over…
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- Rashmi_Lahiri
- 2 yrs ago
- 1
- Live Calendar
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