What would you like improved on tonebase?

Thank you I do now have a reply and I did email [email protected]

For me the most important three things would be:

* Some obvious place for the community to request pieces for which to add courses or other resources.  Perhaps something where the community could also vote or otherwise show their support to suggestions. Do not hide this somewhere in the discussion forums. Personally I find that the content with regard to repertoire pieces is stagnating and not much gets added. 

* Make the discussion forums clearer and more organized, in comparison to many other forum or discussion board sites they look messy, hard to navigate and rather badly implemented. Just take a look at a few of these other sites and you will see how much more convenient it is for users to navigate discussions if you can get a more tabular overview of topics, can get a nice list of threads with more active ones first, can have search functions that allow to find topics you or another user commented in, search topic titles or dates etc. 

* Offline access: there are many situations still, e.g. travelling in a train or plane where it would be great to be able to watch the conentent without internet access. Also in situation where access speed is slow, the offline access could prevent interruptions. 

So here is my take:

I have been using the platform for almost a year now and when I first started using it, there was a great course on a piece I was practicing. Now that I am almost finished with said piece, I have made a selection of pieces I want to practice next (all of which are fairly well known pieces, with lots of information and practice tips online), but there are no courses on Tonebase for any of them. In general, there is not a tremendous quantity of lessons on pieces on the platform (the most popular ones are understandably prioritized), but I have difficulty finding materials to help me in my practice right now and as far as I can recall, there have not been many courses added in the past year. This makes me consider, if there is a point in continuing my subscription for the next year.

I am now ignoring all the live events because being in Australia or South East Asia, whenever a live event takes place, it is always in the middle of the night.  I can only watch the replay if it is available.  Setting a time that suits all regions will take some organizing, I understand that.  But I simply cannot get the full benefits of being a paid customer.

Hi! I am really enthusiast about tonebase and it's really motivating me every day! As an Italian "solo player" withouth a teacher i would like to see: 

Subtitles! Every teacher has his own accent and sometimes Is hard for me to understand everything!

More level repertoire suggestions! I am currently between level 5 and level 6 and would like to see more suggestions (more scarlatti sonatas, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn's movements, Chopin waltzes and nocturnes!)

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

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.

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! 

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.. 

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.

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.