Group 3
Welcome to the NEW TWO WEEK INTENSIVE on tonebase!
Improving your Lyricism (feat Chopin)
Post your progress with videos and written commentary on how things are going for you!
- Course Period: June 26 - July 10th
- Class Size: ALL are welcome!
- Optional check-In via Zoom: July 2nd at 11am PT
- ZOOM MEETING LINK:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5557629304?pwd=F1jnbTtCaEZxci7lDSSss66kvLtCVT.1
Assignment #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQpw6fZBOlE
- Pick a short piece (Mazurka, Nocturne, Prelude) or excerpt of a longer piece (Ballade, Polonaise, Scherzo, Sonata, Concerto). Focus on lyrical/slow sections.
- Learn bass carefully, labelling all chords and cadences.
- SING melodic line. Practice singing until your voice can identify the melody instantly.
- Submit a video: playing the Bass while singing the Soprano.
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Assignment #2
https://youtu.be/ri2UD1z8sKE?si=w36XWzqb_rao3RAu
-Label all breathing points with an apostrophe between phrase markings. Practice deep breaths between significant points or use a regular breath for phrase changes.
-Sing Bass notes of all chords while playing Soprano melody.
-Submit a video: playing hands together (performance).
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Here’s my effort (Etude Op 10 No 6, first page)
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Harriet Kaplan that’s beautiful, Harriet!
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Harriet Kaplan Great Harriet!
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Harriet Kaplan You totally nailed the goal of this exercise.
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Harriet Kaplan this is lovely Harriet!
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Andrea Buckland Vidhya Bashyam Gail Starr Natalie Peh Thank you!
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Harriet Kaplan Great work, Harriet!
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Harriet Kaplan good analysis and LH work: that's a lot of new material in a short time. I would suggest on ends of phrases, don't change the syllable, keep singing an open vowel - feel the the sound/colour extend for longer time and the phrase tapering naturally. Singing some note changes continuously rather than changing the vowel will attract your ear to legato. Good work at 0:58 reaching the high point a second time - could this one be more supported than the first (compare your first E-flat at 0:25).
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Harriet Kaplan Sounding good - lovely warm sound.
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Analysis:
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Harriet Kaplan so...what exactly is Bflat elbow?
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Gail Starr
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Here's some singing from ballade 4
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Sindre Skarelven Wow, Sindre! You are singing this so beautifully!
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Sindre Skarelven That was great Sindre! I love that opening so much.
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Sindre Skarelven Sounds beautiful, Sindre! You are a great singer!
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Sindre Skarelven good work showing different rubato and colour. Second phrase good ear for most chromatic 16ths - really work out the last notes of each group (intonation, breathing, support). Tempo choice works for the voice. One thing to watch out for in singing is how your voice falls at the end of a phrase - save some tone for the last few notes and make them fade gently but clearly - you have the right tapering but it should be with colour rather than dynamics.
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Sindre Skarelven You are such a Pro! I'm impressed that you can nail tricky intervals with your voice. I'm getting so much from hearing you.
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After several attempts in the right tessitura, as I seemed like some kind of strange bird under torture, I decided to sing in a low octave to get out of the trouble (more or less
). In any case, I think my wife is thinking seriously about divorce...
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Juan Carlos Olite great solfège and natural timing on roulades. Think about breathing between phrases - I hear longer breaths between short ideas in a phrase and shorter breaths between whole phrases. Chopin's long phrases are often impossible to sing in one breath so we need short breaths to sustain them, but where slurs change we can take a bit more time because the ideas are so long. I suggest finding ways to use vary the main theme whenever it repeats.
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Juan Carlos Olite Loren is DEFINITELY going to ask to move in with Maria Jesus for the duration of this exercise. But, seriously, you sound great...and I love that you know solfege.
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Juan Carlos Olite well done, Juan Carlos! This is quite charming on the ladies, I’m sure!
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Gail Starr
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Sindre Skarelven Thank you, Sindre. I hope so...
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Jarred Dunn Thank you very much, Jarred. I'll do it.
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