Week 1: Dancing with Liszt and Schubert!
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 August 16th and August 21st I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Download the music:
Liszt's: Soirees De Vienne No.6
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Section you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Section you worked on: 1
- One thing you found easy: Learning the notes, and rhythms were rather straight-forward, and not challenging!
- One thing you found difficult: Playing the trills/ornaments in an elegant way was what challenged me the most.
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Hi, everyone.
My first post here. Thanks in advance.
- The section you worked on: section 1.
- One thing you found easy: harmonic analysis.
- One thing you found difficult: Pedaling.
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Hi, everyone! My first post here.
I just start reading the score.
- The section you worked on: section 1.
- One thing you found easy: the section does not have technical difficulties.
- One thing you found difficult: bring the dance feeling in this very dramatic opening.
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Nice playing Bruno.
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My contribution to section 1. Generally found the chords quite straightforward, though tend to trip up in the middle.
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I have enjoyed reading through the beginning. No video yet.
- Section you worked on: 1
- One thing you found easy: Analysis and waltz feel.
- One thing you found difficult: Securing a few of the shifts. I know how to do it, and where I'm going, but it doesn't always sit easily under my hand.
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- Section you worked on: 1-4
- One thing you found easy: Less technique required so far than the Handel (last challenge) and so seems easier.
- One thing you found difficult: Consistently hitting the octaves at speed. Plus my hand gets tired, probably because I'm too tense/stiff on octaves.
I've enjoyed everyone's videos so far! I hope to make a video of sections 1-4 this week (or early next) if I can practice enough. My plan is to work on 5-9 the last 2 weeks of the challenge because that will require more time.