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What would you like improved on tonebase?

What would you like improved on tonebase?

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    • Roxi_S
    • 5 mths ago
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    After watching the 'live streams' live I like to watch again.... but it means sitting an hour...  is it possible to put a speed button on live stream .5x   1.5x  2x

    • NaKlar
    • 5 mths ago
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    En realidad, es más bien una pregunta que tengo. ¿Tiene subtítulos en varios idiomas? Hablo español y mi inglés es muy básico. Soy nuevo aquí y no vi esa opción.

    • Gabriel_Pettersen
    • 5 mths ago
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    Dominic hey this is Gabe P in Northern California.  Listen I think you guys need at tonebase video series that looks at different piano techniques.  It seems that the Taubman technique is overly promoted and I see no videos about Russian, Suzuki, etc technique.  Why not?  How about getting a video with the Mckeever, for instance, concerning the Russian method as taught years ago by Leon Conus?  I am sure other experts on Suzuki.  Your students on tonebase need to objectively evaluate all these methods for there individual merits and decide which is best for them.  There is a fair amount of expense when utilizing a Taubman teacher, for instance, for somewhat vague guidance and all techniques really need to be exposed for their merits to guide students.  Thanks for considering! 

    • Peter_William
    • 4 mths ago
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    Hello Dominic,

    First of all I want to thank Tonebase immensely for inspiring me on a musical journey for the past 2.5 years at the age of 56+. ( no formal musical training of any sort - am now playing sections of a entire concerto - I couldn't have played even a single line in Sept 2023). Now watching Tonebase videos and starting from scratch - am able to read and play some lines from Beethoven's Emperor concerto - and can follow along.  So watching the great masters at Tonebase are definitely helping a lot.  Now here is my principal request.. I notice that almost none of the Tonebase edition scores have fingerings on them. I am totally perplexed why the great masters don't put in their fingerings on the score section by section. This would be immensely (almost infinitely helpful ) to rank beginners like myself who would like to learn .. Would it be possible to add fingerings into at least all lessons upto level 6 ? I get it that the very advanced conservatory trained pianists here will take 1 look at a score and read it fluently ( maybe not be at full tempo ) but there may a few like me who really can't do that .. So how about marking up the scores with fingerings and republishing..? Thanks  a lot.. 

      • Larry_K
      • 2 mths ago
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       Great idea. Why not publish the same piece with and without fingerings?
      How about also letting users submit their copies with fingerings and we can rate them?

      My teacher has impressed upon me that there is no shame in writing copious fingerings when working on a piece, say, a Bach prelude. 

      I have struggled with the feeling that I am cheating but I’m trying to get past that, lol, so, I bought boxes of Blackwing pencils and some good erasers and have at it.

      I know from studying the violin and the classical guitar that good fingerings can help unlock a piece. 

    • Qohelleth
    • 4 mths ago
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    Getting some more modern stuff like rag, stride, and jazz would probably have to come first and I know it's niche, but I think it would be cool to eventually have a class on silent movie piano playing.

    • Helen.5
    • 4 mths ago
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    Personally, when watching courses, I'd like to be able to rewatch them until I can do what's in the video, then mark them complete--instead of having the course "completed" when I'm done watching.  When actually learning a new piece or technical skill, I might need to rewatch segments many times and try them out before being ready to move on.

    Something else small, but concrete:  the ability to watch past livestreams on full screen mode (you know, when you flip your phone sideways and the video takes up the whole screen?).

    Another thought: the challenges are great, but, for those of us without the time to watch everyone play or the inclination to play for a large group, it might be nice to have the option of exchanging video recordings with one random participant and listening to each other sometimes.

    • Thord
    • 3 mths ago
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    I would like to see something like recommended courses/lessons relevant to a specific piece like for example:
    i want to learn Schubert's Sonata in A Major. what would be the recommended lessons or courses in order to prepare for learning this Sonata.
    It would give me more of a pathway to learn the specific piece of music, and simultaneously strengthening my overall skills on a certain topic.
    I also find it a lot easier to work on a specific arpeggio lesson or similar if I have an end goal to the work I'm putting in (except for just learning arpeggio technique of course:))

    • tonebase_user.275
    • 2 mths ago
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    Hi! thanks for such many good courses on Tonebase! I've learned a lot from it. Just would like to suggest the camera should also be taken on the pedals so I can learn how to use them for each repertoires. Thanks!

      • Akzent oder Diminuendo? • Hanon/Herz student
      • Maria_F
      • 2 mths ago
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      I agree. 

    • Akzent oder Diminuendo? • Hanon/Herz student
    • Maria_F
    • 2 mths ago
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    I think Tonebase needs additional new courses. Is there a thread dedicated to course suggestions/ideas? If not, someone should start one. 

    • Cynthia_Crawford
    • 2 mths ago
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    I wanted to participate in the Mozart challenge, but could not go to the first session. I am a lifetime member. Can't seem to access to recording of that session, and would love to know when the final session will be with submitted recordings. Trouble negotiating the site in general too. 

    • Joyce.5
    • 2 mths ago
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    I would like Tonebase (or Vimeo?) to save my place when I have to stop viewing a recorded livestream in the middle. I would also like the in-progress livestream to be included in my content so it is easy to find. (As you would find it on any TV streamer, “continue watching”)

    At the moment, even if I keep the window on my tablet, when I come back the stream is frozen and I have to restart by searching out the stream, unless I’ve bookmarked it, and then try to scroll to where I left off, and the scrolling along does not work really well. 

    • Johann_Petrak
    • 5 days ago
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    Really annoying how broken the continuation of videos on the site is: if I watch some course video half-way, then try to continue later, it ALWAYS stops and refuses to continue. Reloading the whole web page with the video does not solve this. One has to completely go back and out of the lecture page, go to some other page, then navigate back to the lecture page and manully find the spot where to continue.

    This is a really terrible implementation and countless other video pages (including YouTube) show that it should be no problem at all to do this right. 

      • Michael_Furmaniak
      • 5 days ago
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       I have been experiencing the same. Good point. Tonebase is generally becoming disappointing.  

      • Larry_K
      • 5 days ago
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       I was wondering about that too but it seems like I could keep a course paused on my iPad and come back to it at the same spot the next day but I’ll check on that.

      • Terence_W
      • 5 days ago
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       It seems to do with the streaming of data. The data in the buffer may be losing sync with the server.  Internet connection may affect the throughput, too.  I usually jot down the timeline when I go back to the video.  But sometimes you need to play from the nearest section.  Tonebase needs to keep putting on new materials, attracting more subscribers to make a profit in order to at least break even.  This glitch is unlikely to be the priority. 

      • Johann_Petrak
      • 5 days ago
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      I rather much dislike sloppyness and professional incompetence: as a piano player, especially a professional one, you would not just accept a "glitch" because it may need some time to practice to get rid of it and as a *professional* developer accepting such a "glitch" which is equally annoying and really a sign of incompetence. 

      I judge the quality of what I get from Tonebase also by how easy or difficult they make it to watch their material. In my view this is not just a glitch because it robs me of my time trying the get that damned video to play again. 

      • hot4euterpe
      • 4 days ago
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       I look forward to visiting your professional website / online service that has absolutely no bugs of any kind! Keep us posted!

      • Johann_Petrak
      • 3 days ago
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      My many Open Source Software projects and contributions are there for everyone to see and even though I got paid nothing at all for those I fixed bugs that were reported to me. It is all documented over many years and visible publicly, quite differently from how the tonebase software gets improved  -- or actually not improved as we have seen in many cases. 

      My professional projects are not public but I can assure you that I am not ignoring bugs that get reported, especially not those which really impact the user experience. 

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