What would you like improved on tonebase?
What would you like improved on tonebase?
291 replies
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I am new to Tonebase, love the content and the courses are amazing. I do find that the website is confusing with so many courses listed and different levels and categories of study. It is unclear how to navigate within specific course modules. I am taking "Arpeggios: from Beginner to Virtuoso" with six modules. Once I completed a module I had trouble getting back to a previous one within that course. Also, my repertoire is between Levels 6 and 7, but I was placed in Level 4 after taking the quiz, probably because of my answers relating to theory and articulation. I should probably retake the quiz, but I am learning details about articulation that I did not know before, so that's good!
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Please 🙏
Video of piano hand exercises... Fundamental finger changes...
Isolated exercises...
Comprehensive guided lesson... quick routine that could eventually be done in 10 minutes.... complete rudimental to advance guided workout for fingers changes... in one video to be done at the piano to warm up and stretch fingers...
I'm a beginner at piano... I want a lifelong routine I can practice of moves to flex [.... if I did ballet, karate or tai chi etc you would do basic insolated moves] to get familiar with finger changes and strengthen my finger in preparation for what's to come.
... I seem to jump straight into playing pieces without warming up. I physically limber up my body like Penelope Roskell says I just want some mindful exercises for hand / finger working way round keys of piano.
Thank you 😊
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workbooks and readable music for all courses /exercises (that can be printed- don't have iPad for practice and phone too small to read while playing)
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Videos/courses will sometimes get stuck on a particular section and keep repeating the same section rather than moving onto the next lesson. For example, the Body and Finger Warm-Up course, my lesson has been stuck at the Daily Sitting Routine video "Step 6b". When that section's done, the same section will load and play again. Even when I pull up the syllabus and click on another section within the same course, it won't play. This isn't the first time this has happened.
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I would like to see more piano selections demonstrated by the instructors with flowing accompanying notes at the bottom.
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It would be great to learn Rialto Ripples by Gershwin from Jeffrey Biegel or other instructors?
I am having difficulty playing this in technical retention and relaxation and rag style. 😊 -
It’s a good platform. But it needs more repertoire breakdowns - outside of Chopin and a few other composers, there’s just a handful of pieces.
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I agree with Angela.
I’d like to see more in Handel repertoires such as Haydn, Kuhlau, Diabelli, Ginastera, Granados, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Alveniz , Liszt, Gershwin and many more 😊 -
Dear TB,
What is the significance of the quotations that pop up when you log on to the website? Is it just for speed-reading tests? They stay up for a couple of seconds and then they are gone, leaving no time for the reader to grasp their meanings.
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Below are a couple of things I'd like to see implemented on the Practice Diary (assuming that they're not already there and I just haven't found them). I have contemplated using it but have not done so yet, because I think it might be a little inefficient and difficult to navigate around, one several entries get posted. Here's what might encourage me to utilize it:
1. the ability to bookmark an entry, so as to be able to refer to it on other ToneBase pages. For example maybe I'd want to post a mistake-filled early version of a piece and then when discussing the piece on another thread, be able to send someone a quick link to my version in the Practice Diary as an illustration of a problem, etc.
2. I'd like to see those little triangles implemented where people could expand or collapse a discussion under a single topic. For example take a specific piece, make it a topic, and then post entries of problems and solutions encountered along the way. Without being able to hide the related postings, a single piece could easily fill up many screens with verbiage (at least in my case!), making it difficult for readers and User alike to navigate around the diary to find references to anything else other than the latest postings.
I don't have any 'complaints' about ToneBase, it's been amazing to me. But fine-tuning some things like the above might encourage me to use it even more. Thanks for a great site!
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Here's another thing I'd like to see: In the My Contents/BOOKMARKS page, I'd like to be able to organize my Bookmarks into folders. e.g. separate folders for Practice Tips, Repetoire, Recording/technology, Theory, Jazz etc.
That would help me locate and visit lessons that I had identified as relevant or interesting but didn't have time to watch when I first discovered them (often because I was scrolling to look for something else at the time). While scrolling through the lessons, I bookmark many of them; but now I also have a lot of bookmarks to scroll through!
The folders would help me zero in on the particular topic when i'm ready to work on it, and make me more likely to view the lessons.
thanks for a great platform and for your interest in continuing to improve it!
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I'd like to see more repertoire and tutorials for late beginner an early intermediate pianists.
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I really wish you would add more repertoire tutorials, especially for beginner to intermediate level, not just virtuoso pieces.
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This is a very good suggestion! I feel the same!
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The quotes when you open the app go by too fast. Can never finish reading them.
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I've noticed....
Thank you for changing the platform index selection in account. By separating the choose platform and other platforms... Sorry finding it hard to describe but glad you changed it for easier selection.
That really helps
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I would love to see a sports-style podcast, maybe weekly, discussing performances from around the globe. This could include chamber and orchestral music too. There could be “judges” or “musical pundits” who analyse each performance and talk clearly about the pros and cons of both the performance and the composition, comparing it with other interpretations as well.
There could be episodes where classical music is compared with other styles of music such as jazz, pop, heavy metal etc and their links to classical music and the influence of each style on each other.
I think this would be very engaging for a music-loving audience, and helpful to musicians as well. It will help people sharpen their musical wits and understand how to listen to music and what to listen for in a performance. It would be a great cultural contribution.
Thank you,
Max