Week 4: Final Submissions!
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!
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Here is my week 4 video. I played it slightly slower than last week to see if I like it better- not sure yet if I do. Happy to have started learning a new piece with everyone in this challenge.
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Vidhya Bashyam absolutely beautiful! You really did an amazing job with this piece - capturing that tranquil soft wave-like motion in the left while bringing out the melody in the right. Just awesome!
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Vidhya Bashyam Sounds beautiful, Vidhya! Elegant and very gentle in the phrasing. I think that the tempo is perfectly appropriate for the mood of the piece, breathing calmly every phrase.
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Vidhya Bashyam Beautifully calm and soothing - feel like gently floating along the river under the twilight. Well played!
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Andrea Buckland Andrea LeVan Juan Carlos Olite Richard Littlewood Priya Viseskul Thanks for the kind comments everyone.
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Vidhya Bashyam Warm and Calm, Bravo!
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Vidhya Bashyam That was so beautiful! Calm and soothing, I felt like floating on air and just let the world pass by. Well done!
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Heng-Pin Chen Thank you!
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Sindre Skarelven Thanks Sindre!
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Vidhya Bashyam Just lovely. There seems to be a lot of room to play around with tempo for this piece, depending on how you're feeling and how the piano/acoustics are on a given day.
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Judy Kuan Thanks Judy! Good points too on the tempo.
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Vidhya Bashyam Beautifully played, Vidhya. So warm and flowing.
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Michelle R Thank you Michelle
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Vidhya Bashyam very nice work! A convincing performance.
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Vidhya Bashyam That is just so lovely thank you Vidhya!
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Marc M Thanks Marc!
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Angela Fogg Thanks Angela!
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Vidhya Bashyam What a lovely selection. Confidently and emotionally done, all the way.
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Uploading my progress on Chopin Nocturnes Op. 55! I just came back from my travel (went to NY and Baltimore to see concerts by Yunchan Lim and Minsoo Son!!!) yesterday and took a shot of my nocturnes. Might not much improvement.. or even degraded cause I wasn't able to practice much last week. I also feel I'm at that period of time of transitioning from practicing to be more fluent comportable for live performing in mid May.
It was a great expericnce exchanging progress with folks here, it's very motivating and great to know that there are so much energy going into making music. Will be happy to join future threads too! Thanks!
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Miyoung Choi Great piece and such polished playing. I love the pace and the dynamics. Thanks Miyoung. And you saw Yunchan! Green with ejalousy.
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Miyoung Choi Sublime! Absolutely in awe with your complete control over the dynamics
I'm actually intrigue about your Yamaha N1X .. it sounds pretty good .. how do you find playing on it?
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Miyoung Choi Sounds pretty perfect to me! Very beautiful playing.
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Priya Viseskul Yea I'm pretty satisfied with my N1X..! It does sound good. The way I record is just using the default #1 voice (Yamaha concert grand sound sampling) out of the piano speakers with an external mic. I would say the sound you can hear from the recording is pretty much the same as what you can hear in person, if you are using a reasonably balanced ear buds or headphone. Still sometimes it sounds digital cause it doesn't produce that acoustic attenuation sound from the piano sound board, but beside that it's a really good piano for practicing purposes. I mainly got this due to the complete grand piano action, so I can be prepared for any grand pianos that I have to perform with.
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Miyoung Choi Your last video was already at such a high level of refinement, this take still sounds lovely! I'm also very impressed with your N1X, it sounds much better than my prior U3-SH did.
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Miyoung Choi So beautiful playing! I’m guessing you have played a lot of Chopin, because it feels very natural and authentic. Bravo!
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Miyoung Choi you play this piece so beautifully you inspire me
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