Week 4: Final Submissions!

Dominic_Cheli
1 yr ago
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WELCOME TO THE LATEST COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!

For this challenge "A Fresh Start" the goal is to pick a BRAND-NEW piece to work on this month.

This is the time to finally open that score that you have been thinking about and get to work!

WHAT ARE WE DOING IN WEEK 4?

1. Let's share our final progress this week - post a video of a selection, part, or entire piece to showcase your progress this month!

- PViseskul
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Here's my submission for the Debussy Golliwogg's Cake Walk.

I had a lot of slips today so getting a clean run through turned out to be quite an exhausting business (lost count of the many takes and false starts) ... though I'm glad I finally got a somewhat decent one in the end.

It has been my plan to eventually learn all the pieces in the Children's Corner Suite so I'm happy to have picked it for the challenge. Three down, three more to go. I hope you enjoy it :)

https://youtu.be/czNn9OZfbio
- HengPin_Chen
  
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  Priya Viseskul Very well done! Bravo!
- Amateur piano enthusiast
  
  Marc_M
  
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  Priya Viseskul Sounds great! You bring out the humor well and your tempo/rubato decisions made sense to me.
  
  I know the feeling of going though 50 takes to get one that’s “good enough”…haha. Pretty amazing for a month’s work.
- Philosophy teacher and piano lover
  
  Juan_Carlos
  
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  Priya Viseskul Great playing, Priya! You show all the varied nuances of the piece.
- Sedef_CANKOCAK
  
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  Priya Viseskul Bravo Priya, you played with such verve.
- Personal trainer
  
  Judy_Kuan.1
  
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  Priya Viseskul Great job capturing the playful spirit and mercurial nature of this piece! Really enjoyed listening and hope to hear your work on the other Children's Corner pieces in the future!
- Pediatrician
  
  a_weymann
  
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  Priya Viseskul fabulous - so crisp and precise! That's exactly what generates the right effect and the humor in this piece. Very polished. I did enjoy it! 🙂
- PViseskul
  
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  Michelle R Sindre Skarelven Vidhya Bashyam Heng-Pin Chen Marc M Juan Carlos Olite Sedef CANKOCAK Judy Kuan Alexander Weymann Thank you for listening and your comments! It has been nice participating the challenge and hope to do more and share more music with all of you ❤️
- Angela_Fogg
  
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  Priya Viseskul Love the way you have captured the cheeky nature of this piece. Thank you!
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  Jack_vreeland
  
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  Priya Viseskul Lovely touch! Well done.
- maijahildur
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Here's my final submission! It's not perfect but I'm happy I got to record on a proper instrument. After recording this I had a lesson with my teacher who gave me some great advice on how to move forward with this piece. It's a fun one to play for sure, and I look forward to learning the other Op. 75 pieces as well.
- PViseskul
  
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  maijahildur Such a lovely piece and you played it so well - I can really get a sense of a woodland listening to it. Thanks for introducing me to Sibelius piano work ❤️
- vbashyam
  
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  maijahildur Beautifully played! I echo Priya-Thanks for introducing this Sibelius to all of us!
- HengPin_Chen
  
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  maijahildur This sounds great! Thanks for introducing this piece. I've never played it before.
- Michelle_Russell
  
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  maijahildur So lovely, Maija! Your playing is light and so effervescent. It is a joy to watch and listen to you. Thank you.
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  Marc_M
  
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  maijahildur Sounds super good on an acoustic! 👏👏👏
- Andrea_Buckland
  
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  maijahildur very colorful playing, Maja! Beautiful sound!
- Andrea_LeVan
  
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  maijahildur gorgeous and it sounds so perfect to me already! Your rolling notes and hand crossovers sounded just flawless well done!
- Philosophy teacher and piano lover
  
  Juan_Carlos
  
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  maijahildur Beautiful sound, rich and warm, very appropriate for this lovely piece. Excellent playing, Maija!
- Pianist, composer and piano teacher
  
  Sindre_Skarelven
  
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  maijahildur Beautiful playing! I really love those transitions in this piece, it’s like everything is slowing down on a deeper spectrum.
- Personal trainer
  
  Judy_Kuan.1
  
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  maijahildur Beautiful and sounds very natural/intuitive! Love the additional dimension on the acoustic too.
- Pediatrician
  
  a_weymann
  
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  maijahildur a beautiful piece - quite unusual, and the ending is so mysterious. You are playing it very well now and it really has a lot of character; there is more energy added to the bucolic colors you had found in earlier versions.
- Angela_Fogg
  
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  maijahildur Thank is very lovely, thank you. What an unusual ending!
- Retired marketing and design firm owner.
  
  Jack_vreeland
  
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  maijahildur Wow. Impressive all the way.
- Pediatrician
- a_weymann
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Here's where I currently am with the Sonata in B minor K. 87 / L. 33 by Domenico Scarlatti. Given that I have had other pieces to work on this month, I think it's a decent start that encourages me to one day finish the piece and get it performance-ready. It still very "notey" and static and needs a lot more flow and phrasing, but with enough practice, it can get there, I think.

https://vimeo.com/940580117/448fe2ab88?share=copy
- Andrea_LeVan
  
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  Alexander Weymann just gorgeous! You did such a fantastic job of really articulating both melodies in each hand giving each of them a little give and take kind of feel but both still very distinct 🎶😎