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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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Ok, things I already learned:
- Solfege needs time. I tried and wrote it underneath, but to read it, sing in right pitch AND play the bass was too much. But I enjoyed trying it
- Really had a hard time to get the pitch of the arpeggio plus descending 5th in the last run. singing is really difficult
- Chopin has bigger lungs than I do.... whoaaaah, some phrases are looooong
- After 20 minutes my voice develops from dying turkey to improv theatre opera singer
Nice experience haha
And I'd like to "breathe" already on the deep sol-note befor the theme repetition (3 notes earlier). Also practiced that, but did wrong in the recording. But my breath mark is there ;)