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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
There is so much variation within brands I feel it is hard to pick a brand vs a piano. I looked at a lot of pianos before I chose mine, and I bought a Mason and Hamlin Model A.…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 2 wk ago
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Re: What Fugue Are You Working On (or Listening To)?
Bach WTC 21 in B flat. Doing both the prelude and fugue. Great piece and very challenging and satisfying at the same time. Also working on the fugue in WTC C major; No. 1.…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 2 wk ago
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Re: Shaping counterpoint
You are both probably way more advanced than I am but I am working on a 4 part Bach fugue. My teacher has me identify all four voices and color the lines in the score with four different colors;…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 1 mth ago
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- General Discussion
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Re: What is your favorite piano brand?
When I looked for my piano about ten years ago, I was a bit embarrassed to play them in a showroom, and felt odd playing really nice pianos as an intermediate.…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 8 mths ago
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Re: 2024 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!
2024 Piano Goals: 1. Learn to play major, minor, melodic, and harmonic scales in all keys. and work on arpeggios and chords in all keys and inversions. I think this will help me learn repertoire more…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 1 yr ago
- 4
- General Discussion
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Re: What is the last tonebase lesson you watched?
Dominic Cheli's Livestream on scales, and Jerome Lowenthal's lesson on Schubert Impromptu Op 90 No 2. Both excellent.
- Stephen_Hessert
- 1 yr ago
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Re: A Review of Ben Laude's Music Theory Basics
I agree as well. I just went through my wife's college harmony book, and understood about 35% of it. Ben's course made sense of what was presented, in a very dense way in the text,…
- Stephen_Hessert
- 1 yr ago
- 2
- Tonebase Lesson Discussions
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