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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots
@Vidhya Bashyam thank you!
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- 5 mths ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: What Fugue Are You Working On (or Listening To)?
Fughetta in G Major by Bach. It's grade 6 and it feels tooooo advanced. But my Russian technique teacher insists I work on it. However for 12 weeks now she keeps telling me how badly I am doing 😂 I…
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- 5 mths ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots
@Michelle R thank you 🥰
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- 5 mths ago
- Schubert Challenge
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Re: Week 2: First Impressions & Trouble Spots
As promised my progress on Schubert's waltz in b minor: This is how it sounds after 2 weeks into practise :) I really like how it improves! In week 2 - I gained more pedal control.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
@Derek McConville very beautiful already!
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
What I did this first week: - get familiar with the chord structure, the notes and the fingerings - already memorization happened automatically. It is fully memorized, but some parts need thinking.…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Choose your Schubert Piece!
I will see how far I can come with waltz in b minor D.145 Op 18.6 It's grade 5 Abrsm but I think the notes alone are a bit easier. So this might give me more time to look for an interpretation and…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
https://clara.imslp.org/work/7842 😊 @Miranda
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- 5 mths ago
- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Re: Poldi and I
Une larme by Mussorgsky Love this one :)
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Shaping counterpoint
@Santiago Alvarez ah, that same volume thing is good advise. I am so trained in playing one hand softer, but that seems wrong here. Focusing on equal volume has an interesting effect on my brain haha,…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Shaping counterpoint
@Stephen Hessert haha, that sounds WAY MORE advanced than I am!! Mine are only two voices same time.
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Announcing the Schubert Challenge – Learn a Piece this month!
I hope I can learn the waltz in b minor, D.145 Opus 18.6. It doesn't seem too difficult to get the notes down, but I am heading for a Jazz piano Camp in July (and need to practise at least SOME 7th…
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- 5 mths ago
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- Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
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Shaping counterpoint

I am looking for some ideas what else I could to to get my counterpoint voices more independent. I am working on Bach Fughetta in G BWV 902. Hands seperate I know exactly where the sub-motives are,…
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Improving Your Right-Hand Thumb Technique with Piotr Kozłowski
I have a max span of a ninth on white key edges. The stretch exercise is 100% tension, it doesn't feel save at all! Already after 3 times my hand hurts.…
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- 9 mths ago
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- Improve both Hands in 2 weeks with Piotr and Elois
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Re: Poldi and I
Worked hard on speed and more evenness. Still room for improvement, but believe me, this already went a long way, and I am very happy what I achieved with this. It's so mich better than 3 weeks ago!
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- 10 mths ago
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025
@Gail Starr Freelancer + ADHD. It's a survival technique 😂
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025
@Gail Starr Thanks. I try to set SMART (specific, measurble, achievable, relevant, timed) ,goals as much as possible, it's easier to evaluate and see what is done and to break it down for the next…
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: New Year's Resolutions 2025
Ok, my goals for this year. Many and lots of work, but I think I can do it if I stay consistent and break it down monthly. Plus some tasks can check several items on this list.…
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: Burgmüller hairpins
@Barry Stanton yes, his videos are the reason why this question came to my mind. Burgmüller is romantic, so I thought this concept could apply here, too.…
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: Burgmüller hairpins
@Angelina Tan but Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn described them also as Rubato. And I think in Brahms also... Seymour Bernstein had a video about it and it wasn't only Chopin. Hm...
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- 11 mths ago
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Re: Poldi and I
Ok, facile will remain a project for 2025... But Merry Christmas!
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- 11 mths ago
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Burgmüller hairpins

Hello, I have a question about the hairpins in Burgmüller. I read/heard that hairpins in romantic style rather mean rubato than crescendo/decrescendo. Is that always the case, or is it a mix?…
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- updated 11 mths ago
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Re: What do you think about the tonebase Practice Plans?
@SK ignore the feature completely so far :(
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- 11 mths ago
- Discussion of the Week
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Re: What would you like improved on tonebase?
@Zee Yeng Yun Agree. I'd even prefer to check videos as "completed" myself. Just because I've watched the full video doesn't neccessarily mean I have completed it.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Group 4
@Vidhya Bashyam sooo beautiful! I felt every note and word!
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- 1 yr ago
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- "Phrasing like a Singer" at the Piano
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