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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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Robert Ryan I very much second this request! I would love to see more jazz on Tonebase
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I would like tonebase to come out with a large statement on the complete and dismal failure of tonal harmony (Rameau's legacy) for the understanding/analysis of music written in 1200AD-1920AD and a disclaimer posted on all lessons including these failed theories.
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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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Manuel I second point (1) as a beginner/late beginner … and point (4) would be great for musicianship!
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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? -
On the piano part, I would love to see more beginner content and more music theory related material.
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Is it possible to bring back sorting all videos by most recent? There are now so many categories to click through, it will be nice we could sort by most recent videos and see what videos we might have missed quickly.
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jimmy - You can still sort videos by most recent from the Skills page. I agree; I really like this feature and hope it never goes away.
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mel Yup! We can sort through each individual category, but I wish we could sort through all videos at once, that will be so useful.
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jimmy - Is there a particular lesson that you're looking for that you cannot find in the Skills & Knowledge link embedded in my post above? It is a legacy page that should include all lesson videos.
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mel oh you are right, thank you so much for the link!
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mel Thanks for introducing me to the Skills page!
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For practice challenges, there might be more involvement if students could use their general level information to opt into a subgroup of learners of a similar proficiency, unless that is counter to another objective or teaching philosophy .
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I'd like to be able to manually mark a lesson as completed.
Sometimes I'll go back and re-watch a single lesson for review, and it resets my progress through the rest of the course. It makes it look as if I haven't completed the course.
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Geoffrey Grosenbach +1
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I agree that this feature would be a grate improvement.
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It would be great to have an index and timeline for the livestreams. The value of the content is variable compared to the lessons and often less dense. It would really help us find the parts most relevant to our own studies quickly.
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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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I should have said earlier that I love each of the two Tonebase platforms, where I am a member.
I would like to see sound and video engineering as a course on TB. Yes, there's lots of teaching on Youtube but it would be good to have a coherent approach presented and a forum for discussion too.
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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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I agree that the black background is really hard on the eyes. It might be my internet but the classes buffer terribly. Annoying!
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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!
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I enjoy the platform and have learned a fair amount on technique and interpretation but I would like more content on ear training and learning harmony- both "keyboard harmony" and away from the keyboard, the content that is already there is quite good but limited
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