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Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!

Hey everyone - this is Dominic from tonebase 🙂!

 

As the lead of tonebase PIANO it's such a pleasure to welcome you to the tonebase community. We would love to get to know you! Please introduce yourself in a post below with the following format: 

  • Where are you from and what's your favorite food from there? ;) 
  • What are you currently working on? 
  • What are you hoping to get out of this community? 

I'll go first: 

  • I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and you better believe that I love my barbecue! It is hard to pick my favorite food between ribs, brisket, or a beautiful grilled steak, but if I have to decide...nothing beats a juicy, fall-off-the-bone rack of baby back ribs!
  • Currently working on some old favorites of mine by Carl Vine (Piano Sonata No.1), Beethoven (Piano Concerto No.4) and Scriabin (Fantasy op.28) but also adding some great repertoire by H. Leslie Adams (Etude in A-flat minor Book 2), Laura Kaminsky (Alluvion), and Clara Schumann (Romanze in A minor Op.21 no.1)!
  • I am hoping to getting to know and helping all of you achieve your musical and artistic goals. Let's have some fun and get to work!

Now over to you (after some participation from our tonebase team members!) 

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    • Larry_K
    • 4 days ago
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    Hello,

    I’m Larry. I live in Pittsburgh but I grew up in Connecticut and lived in Manhattan for twenty years. 

    A move to Dublin may be in our future. That will be stressful. I hope to be able to enroll in a music school so I can keep playing while living out of a suitcase.

    I spent a decade each studying the violin and classical guitar before waking up and realizing that I had to learn the piano a decade ago.

    I am humbled by the level of playing on this forum.

    Food, ok, I’m a big fish guy these days and buy direct from a boat in Alaska. Message me if you want to join my fish club.

    I’m working on Chopin’s Op 17 No 4.

    I went back to Siloti’s arrangement of Bach’s B Minor Prelude. Excellent timing with that lesson 

    I hope to gain motivation to keep on practicing. I am looking for advice on which pieces to play and how to play them. 

    I have a private teacher but sometimes I despair regarding my progress. Practicing can feel lonely. The community here makes me feel less lonely.

      • Larry_K
      • 3 days ago
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       That’s impressive! How long have you been studying? You have a private teacher, don’t you?

      • Maria_F
      • 3 days ago
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       Yes, I have a teacher, and I have been playing for 5 years. 

      • Larry_K
      • 3 days ago
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       Wow, I am stunned. That’s a significant amount of work in five years. I want to study with your teacher, lol.

      I think I started piano about seven years ago but the pandemic upended my life.

      My wife and I were pandemic refugees. I lost my teacher in New York and lived out of a suitcase for five months and then moved so I didn’t have a piano or a teacher for over a year.

      I have a wonderful teacher now but my progress has been slow.

      How did you learn all of that music in five years? I am impressed.

      • Maria_F
      • 3 days ago
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        My teacher did not teach me those pieces. I learned them on my own.  

      • Larry_K
      • 3 days ago
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       If you see your teacher every week, how could they not help you on those pieces? I’m confused. You have time to learn all that and play different pieces for your teacher? 

      • Maria_F
      • 2 days ago
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       Yes, I do have time.

      • Larry_K
      • 2 days ago
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      One last question, are you enrolled in a conservatory?

      • Maria_F
      • 2 days ago
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       no

      • Alexander_Harvey
      • 20 hrs ago
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      5 years is astonishing! You must have extraordinary talent.

    • Trisha
    • 4 days ago
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    Hello Larry. Good to hear all about you. I only joined Tonebase about two weeks ago and it was the best thing I did. I have really enjoyed working through some of the videos and they are amazing. My piano playing has already improved and I feel I have more focus on areas to improve. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Trisha 

      • Larry_K
      • 4 days ago
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       Hello Trisha, that’s great to hear. I hope I can improve my piano playing too. 

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