Week 1: Status check! (also pick your piece!)
Hello and welcome to the WEEK ONE Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week between January 23 - 30 I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Here is this week's assignment!
1. Pick your piece!
2. If a new piece, post your sight-reading of it (never hurts to practice this valuable skill!) If it is an old piece, let's try and dust it off, and play through what we can, to evaluate its current condition. Let us know what your "piece status" is!
3. Optional: Tell us WHY you picked this piece that you love so much!
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Hello TB friends!
For this challenge about love I had to go for Chopin, and one of my favorite pieces that I've been wanting to play, the nocturne in D-flat major Op 27 nr 2.
Still a long way to go, but here is the first half. Just getting started :)
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Sindre Skarelven how beautiful, Sindre!
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Sindre Skarelven Beautiful playing! Love this nocturne no matter how many times I listen to it.
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Sindre Skarelven amazing nocturne! Sure it will sound great when you have it :).
It鈥檚 a great start :)
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Sindre Skarelven GORGEOUS, elegant and already refined!
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Sindre Skarelven Sounds pretty good already. One of my favourite nocturnes.
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Sindre Skarelven Well done! Does not sound like it鈥檚 brand new at all
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Sindre Skarelven love it! You play it so beautifully and expressively!
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Sindre Skarelven BRAVO ... Beautiful, Sindre!! What warmth here... ahhh..... <3
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Sindre Skarelven Beautifully sung, Sindre! To listen with eyes closed.
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Sindre Skarelven so delicate and elegant. It was a pleasure to listen.
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Andrea Buckland Vidhya Bashyam Adriana L贸pez Michael Hazel Tammy Natalie Peh Will Green Juan Carlos Olite Michelle R Thank you so much, all my friends! Much appreciated! PS I鈥檓 taking a few days of the piano because og huge back pains, but will return ASAP! Hopefully ready to post again next weekend :)
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Sindre Skarelven sorry to hear about your back pain, Sindre! Hope you get well soon!
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Sindre Skarelven Take care and get well and soon, Sindre!
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Sindre Skarelven you are wise to take care of your back pain. I too have suffered from this life-altering problem for years. Yesterday I made the mistake of experimenting with rotating my torso rapidly to reach different parts of the keyboard, and today I鈥檓 paying the price. I hope you recover soon.
I have noted with admiration that your posture always seems perfect when you play, something that I need to work on. I鈥檝e wondered if posture when playing is an issue that others have too.
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Sindre Skarelven You are playing wonderful.
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Sindre Skarelven I'm so sorry to hear of your back pain - I hope it feels better soon. Take care!
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Sindre Skarelven hope your back recovers soon!
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Andrea Buckland Juan Carlos Olite Michael Michelle R Natalie Peh
Thank you so much for all the well wishing! :)
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Sindre Skarelven sounds great and hopefully your back has improved
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Sindre Skarelven It sounds like you have put in a LOT of work already! Great job. So glad your back is starting to feel better, too.
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- For the last few weeks I found myself waking up every morning with the g-minor Prelude or Fugue of Bach WTC 1 in my mind. So I have decided to learn those. I truly love these pieces and I鈥榤 happy to share my progress for the challenge. Here the Fugue - not purrfect , still plenty to work on - but at least there is a cat in the video
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Andrea Buckland Love your Bach Andrea!
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Vidhya Bashyam thank you, Vidhya! <3
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Andrea Buckland Isn't it wonderful to wake up with a Bach fugue on you mind? Do your fingers twitch?
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- For the last few weeks I found myself waking up every morning with the g-minor Prelude or Fugue of Bach WTC 1 in my mind. So I have decided to learn those. I truly love these pieces and I鈥榤 happy to share my progress for the challenge. Here the Fugue - not purrfect , still plenty to work on - but at least there is a cat in the video
