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I would like to see more solo jazz piano instruction - especially if it entailed a step-by-step approach from beginner to advanced player. I like your step-by-step recommendations for developing a classical repertoire with proper technique. Would love to see a guidance system like that devoted to solo jazz piano, along with sighting reading coaching applied to the jazz idiom.
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I’m 78 and during Covid I resumed piano having stopped age 15. I have an excellent teacher but decided to join Tonebase (life Subscription) as the best on line resource. I think I’m not alone in finding joy in piano once again but I’d love to see more for the early intermediate slow learning player. Not just exercises but pieces dissected and simplified for an older slower brain. My aim is not just to rattle through pieces, but to play melodically within my ability and a fraction beyond.
Thanks Kaja….. PS. I also play tenor Sax with my local country town Concert and Stage bands, bit beyond my ability but enjoyable.
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I'm a lifetime member of the guitar forum and I love it, but here are a few suggestions:
1. More content for beginners and intermedite players, particularly of the classical repertoire: i.e. complete opuses of etudes from Sor, Guiliani, Carulli, etc.
2. For some reason I find the navigation menu somewhat confusing, please consider redisigning it.
3. Just today I received a message about an interesting workshop, so I eagerly clicked on the link but instead it took me to a landing page asking me to subscribe or login. After I login, I'm not taken to the workshop but I have to look for it manually, and it took me a while to find it. This is a usability and user's experience issue.
4. A regular course of harmonic analysis of staple pieces, i.e. one that is updated regularly and builds up over time.
5. There is a lot of emphasis on technique and performance topics. But what about a course on arranging for classical guitar? That'd be fab!
Happy practicing
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I really don’t like the layout design and functionality of the community pages. Too much information, and it’s hard to find things. My head hurts looking at them so I avoid going there. I also posted a question two months ago which is yet to be answered. I had hoped it would be answered by the TB team. Did I post it in the wrong spot?
Sorry for the grumble. I love TB, but a part of me thinks perhaps the site is now trying to cover too much? -
It would be appreciated if live and recorded uploads were pitched/grouped at a level that is appropriate for the student.
The latest 4WI is a good example. I have reviewed the comments and my understanding is that many of the contributors so far are teachers in their own right.
There appeared to be a prevalence for Rachmaninoff in the pieces that are going to be learned by those students - from scratch and within a four-week time scale.
It's not helpful to me to be spend time and effort uploading videos that are much less advanced than others and I am sure that you would not appreciate my efforts with Rach 3, that is, over the defined four-week timescale.
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When TWI was on, it didn’t seem l was invited/ informed of anything, but after some days, after the courses were divided in groups, I started to get notifications. This happened a few times.
I would like ‘Bookmark’ via ‘Menu’, too. It feels intuitive to look up my own content from’Menu’.TB is wonderful. It’s difficult in my area, an adult playing piano as hobby, to have access to a high quality teacher with conservatory education. So thank you, and please keep developing TB.
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Hello! The app on the phone has got so much better so good job on that. I would quite like the possibility to have a library of downloaded videos on my phone like on Spotify, so that I don't have to use big amounts of data when using the app outside of a WiFi connection. I would also find it useful if each lesson on repertoire would have a full performance of the piece by the teacher attached in order to be able to see body position, pedalling , hand position etc throughout the piece and see all the elements of the lesson blended into a performance.
Other than that, bravo for your work Dominic et al!