Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
Hey everyone - this is Dominic from tonebase 
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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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Hello everyone! My name is Ahmet. I am from Turkey / Istanbul. I have been studying classical piano for 2 years. I must say I am pretty keen on it. I have always dreamed of being a good pianist through my life. Piano has become the passion of my life after my 40s. I would love to learn more from tone-base community.
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Hi, I am Marco
• I was born Hermosillo, Sonora and I love to eat Carne Asada.
• I am wanting to build a technical foundation.
• I hope to get resources and guide to build my skills.Nice to meet you.
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- Hello, i am from Lima, Perú and love food from the coast of my country in general i should really recommend you try " Aji de gallina " is difficult to pick just one but there you go.
- Now a days i am working in some fusion pieces on the electric guitar for auditions to college.
- i hope i can a get a decent piano skills and learn from you all fellow piano musicians so i can a have a better healthy life as popular music composer and producer.
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Beto welcome to Tonebase! Good luck on your auditions. We can’t wait to hear your music!
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Hello!
1. I live in Boulder, CO... Colorado can be known for its breweries. There is one closeby that I frequent with neapolitan style pizza that I would probably consider my favorite.
2. I'm currently alternating between Venetian Boat Song (Op 19, No 6) by Mendelssohn and Arabesque by Debussy.
3. I don't know many people who love Classical music, so I'm excited to have this as a channel to learn more and connect with other Classical music lovers.
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Annabel Hi Annabel! We lived in a Denver for 4 years and we loved it. Boulder is one of my favorite places, especially the Dushanbe Tea House.
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Annabel Lee I absolutely loved visiting Boulder when my daughter went to school there . I loved the transportation , the general laid back atmosphere and of course the scenery was gorgeous .
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Hi everyone,
I have been on Tonebase for more than a year now and I really LOVE this community!!
I am from Porto, in PORTUGAL, and I have to tell you this: if you happen to visit my city, you cannot go away without trying our Francesinha (go Google it, and you will see why...)
I am an industrial engineer, management consultant, entrepreneur, and... a serious amateur "piano player" (I do not think I should use the title "pianist")!! I have played since I was 6 years old (I am now 46) and my mum was my first teacher. I did complete the conservatory piano programme, including all the related subjects and then I had some master classes with professional pianist and professor (and friend) Constantin Sandu. And I still play almost every day, trying to keep my technique and main repertoire, as well as trying to learn some new pieces.
I listen to a lot of music and watch countless videos in my permanent search for new music, new renditions of well-known repertoire, new musicians (mainly pianists) and conductors, and interesting insights about music.
My favourite pianist: Claudio Arrau. He will always be my reference... I also admire Tatiana Nikolayeva very much, especially in the J.S.Bach (and Shostakovitch!) repertoire.
My favourite composer: L.v.Beethoven (I have actually learnt some of his sonatas over the years: 1, 7, 14 Moonlight, 19, 20, 21 Waldstein, 23 Appassionata; and the 2 Rondos op51 as well, and I hope to play more and more of his music, including some of his concertos)
Right now, I am working on the J.S.Bach Keyboard Concerto no. 5, BWV 1056, which is a wonderful short concerto, full of intricate yet beautiful rhythms, melodies and harmonies.
I suppose you understand why I enjoy so much this community and all the activities going on here on Tonebase. I wish I had more time to watch more lessons and live sessions!!!
Let us keep in touch!
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Hi all, I’m Jason from Texas and just signed up! my favorite food is definitely Mexican, could eat three meals a day that way (and have on many occasions!)
I jump around between a lot of books that I have, including classical, jazz, and broadway but came here to start focusing more.
I’ve been playing multiple instruments for about 18 years now. I spent most of that on guitar but started picking up piano around 8 years ago. I would describe my skill as early intermediate as I can read pretty well but struggle to read quickly and don’t spend enough time on fundamentals like scales, specific keys, etc. I’m hopeful that being here will give me a dedicated path to improving!
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shelljb Welcome, Jason! So cool that you play many instruments.
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shelljb Hello, Jason! Welcome! This community has so many dedicated, energetic people who want to improve. And Dominic, the Tb Piano LIVE Director, sets the right tone with his intelligent lessons, positive energy, supportive, practical comments and his respectful responsiveness to members. I love it!
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Hello! My name is Amy Hana. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska in the United States. I work full time in communications managing social media for a public library system, but my true love is piano. I returned to college (after many years off) as a double major including piano performance. Ultimately, I only finished my other degree to save time and money, but I have continued to take lessons at the same college.
My main motivations for continuing lessons as an adult are:
To stay motivated to push myself in practice.
To keep learning and learning and learning.
And especially - to be a skilled and appreciative listener. Learning a piece of music yourself (at whatever level you are able) enhances listening so much because you gain an understanding of just how nuanced and skilled playing is, and you can really hear the different choices artists make in their interpretation, which is just so fabulously interesting and moving!Currently learning:
Bach Preludes and Fuges (Book 1) side-by-side with Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues
Mozart Sonata k. 333
Schubert Little A Major d. 664Thank you, Tonebase for providing this fantastic forum and access to world class performers.
P.S. I can’t pick a favorite pianist and I also can’t pick a favorite food.
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Kathleen Merwin can’t wait to hear you. I’d guess that pizza
wins over piergies?
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- Born in Delaware (crabs!) and raised in Illinois (deep dish pizza!), currently living in Northeast Ohio (pierogies ... ?)
- Orchestra reductions for several concerto movements for my students. Just picking up Schubert Impromptu D. 946 for myself.
- Eager to explore a LOT of repertoire!
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Kathleen Merwin Hello, Kathleen!
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I play piano as a hobby and I am currently specializing in Scarlatti sonatas. I am a retired computer programmer who loves to work with software tools for the piano (and violin). I do a little bit of composing. I just started learning the violin a year ago to enhance my love of music. I started piano at 10. I may be writing some music software in the near future now that I discovered WebMIDI. I do some off-camera recordings of Scarlatti Sonatas on my YouTube channel but hope to do more on-camera recordings soon. The one on-camera piece on my channel, is a short famous LDS hymn which I added a variation to.
I am experimenting with Virtual Pianos for recordings since it is difficult to get a live analog recording to my satisfaction in my living room. Right now, I am taking some Scarlatti Sonatas and arranging them for 2 violins to use for my violin lessons. It works. For example, Sonata K322 sounds really good for 2 violins if you adapt the notes a bit. We are going to try it with Violin + Viola next.
I created a little page turner (using the middle pedal) when playing violin with my teacher using WebMIDI events. I use a large MAC monitor for the score on top of the piano. I want to eventually record my childhood favorites: Beethoven's Appassionato, Pathetique and Waldstein in the next year. Tonebase has some really good lessons on these.
Other favorites: Mozart, Chopin, Schubert. I also like David Nevue's pieces. However, D. Scarlatti is my obsession right now.
I am also into computer animation + music, since computer graphics is a specialty of mine.My favorite pianists in the past: Arthur Rubinstein, Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin, Alfred Brendel. Particularly for Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert.
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Jeffrey Segor Wow! Our group would love to learn more about your technical expertise, since lots of us just record using our phones. Can’t wait to check out your YouTube Scarlatti!
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Jeffrey Segor Hello! Welcome, Jeffrey!
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Gail Starr Thanks. Here is an example Scarlatti K298 I did recently. I showed this to my violin teacher and we are going to work on a 2 violin version of this. The repeated notes sounds neat on the violin. This is a really cute piece. This is an example of using 2 virtual pianos (Bechstein and Steinway) sort of blended together. No microphones needed in the process, just a MIDI recording using my Kawai CA5 electric piano, and using Logic Pro X for processing the audio.
I am overdue for more Scarlatti pieces. K298 blew me away when I first heard it. Hard to believe it was composed during Bach's time. So innovative. The 2nd part has a Mozartian passage in it.
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Jeffrey Segor I love your recording! The repeated noted remind me of K141 (which I think is sometimes also called a Toccatta, not a Sonata?). I need to learn both of these! Did it take you a long time? Great job!
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Jeffrey Segor Wow this recording is wonderful! So interesting to hear about how you recorded the Scarlatti! It sounds amazing! Welcome!! :)
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Gail Starr Yes, indeed, K141 is another piece I want to learn relatively soon. K298 is easier than some of Scarlatti's other pieces where there are these giant spans of hand-crossings. However, the repeated notes are the challenge to get up-to-speed. I haven't decided the best fingering yet. I am using 4-3-2-1 so I don't lose count, however then the hand has to make big leaps, slowing down the flow. Other fingering combinations are possible I am exploring.
Surprisingly, this piece is easier to play on the violin than say K322. My violin teacher loves K298 and will be working out violin bowings and fingerings for me. The repeated notes on the violin allows me to learn quick short-note up-down bow motions. What we do now, is take a Scarlatti Sonata (usually one in D or A major) and we transcribe it for either two violins or a violin and viola. So I get to practice Scarlatti on both the piano and the violin. Piano I played all my life, but violin I just recently started.
Scarlatti, like Bach, can be played on many different instruments (K141):
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Dominic Cheli Amazingly enough, in all my years familiar with Scarlatti Sonatas (starting with listening to the Ralph Kirkpatrick record on vinyl LPs as a kid) I only discovered K298 recently. Here is another one (K135) that came out pretty nicely. I love the 6/8 or 12/8 Scarlatti pieces - so dancelike.
It is interesting how the 2nd part is usually more complex and exciting than the first part in most of these pieces. I usually like adding abrupt contrasting dynamics which I think I got from playing lots of Beethoven at one time.
https://youtu.be/yWN72AMU9Hk
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HI, I'm Sara from northwestern PA. I like the wine from the local vineyards, as well as the local homemade chocolate shops.
I'm currently interested in approaching Ravel's Sonatine, but spend most of my time preparing for my students' lessons (beginners through advanced).
I hope to gain valuable information for myself and my students.
