Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
Hey everyone - this is Dominic from tonebase 
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As the tonebase Piano LIVE director, 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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Hi
I am Bruno
I live in Brazil, Salvador, BA, and my favorite food is coconut shrimp stew. I live near the sea.
Right now I'm working Bwv 928 by Bach, a sonatina by Diabelli and two etudes of Cramer.
I hope i can learn more about technique and tone, and make some friends.
I start to learn piano with 19 years old, but until today in university I don`t have yet, the necessary discipline to study everyday and these gaps go backwards to my progress in piano. Right now, i am back studying, and i hope achieved the most I can get.
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Bruno Andrade de Britto Hello, Bruno! Welcome!
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Bruno Andrade de Britto Welcome, Bruno!
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Gail Starr Thanks! I hope we can learn with each other.
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It is great to have the piano platform like this
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Hello!!! Excited to start this new journey with Tonebase.
- My name is Zayi and I live in Panama City, Panama. I like saus and guacho :)
- I´m currently restarting my piano education. I would like to continue with scales so I can start with musical pieces and being able to move more fluently on the keys.
- Right now my plan is to master scales and I'm very optimistic with the platform, yet I know 95% of my results are up to me and I´m very committed with this. Already promised my family a small Christmas concert this year, so I better get on it. As I stated before I have some knowledge of scales and chords, so hopefully that helps me :)
One day Ill be talking about pieces of Bach and Chopin! You'll see :)
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Zayi Welcome, Zayi! We can't wait to hear you play!
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Hola,
I'm Mark, I'm from the UK, but been living in Spain for a while now.
Although, I've played a bit of keyboard over the years, and so know some music theory (sight reading etc) - however, I'm very much still a beginner, and have only recently started to practice more seriously with focus.
Currently, I've been working on technique (scales, hanon, improv), but I really would like to start working on some pieces - which is why I've joined Tonebase!
I'm finding it a little tricky to find where to start on tonebase.
any suggestion on starting points (and pieces) would be much appreciated :)
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Mark Greetings, Mark! We are so glad you are here. I wonder if maybe starting with the search term "beginner" might point you in the right direction? I know there are pieces for all levels, plus a section on "Common Beginner Challenges". Feel free to message me if you'd like to go through the different pieces to pick a few that "feel right" for you!
Everyone at Tonebase is so warm and friendly!
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Gail Starr thank you for the welcome, and also the suggestions... which indeed yield some good starting points - I'll start giving some a go, and see how I get on - thank you again.
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Mark Hello, Mark! Welcome!
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Mark Good point about there being TOO much choice! When I get home this evening, I'll go through some of the options and see if I can pick a few pieces that might be a good starting point.
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Hello all. I’m Chris from Utah. Been playing piano most of my 46 years in life and have been loving the tonebase content on YouTube. I’m great at sight reading but not at the level of what may be presented here on Tonebase. I’m looking to start teaching soon and was looking for some suggestions here as well as ways to improve my own technique. Still interested to figure out if this is the right fit for my goals.
Either way what a wonderful idea to bring together classical musicians in this space.
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Chris Bunderson Hello, Chris! Welcome
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Chris Bunderson Welcome, Chris! Can't wait to hear you play!
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Good Morning (UK time)
I hope you are all well, looking forward to extending my Piano playing journey with a year of Tonebase. I only started playing in January this year, I feel I’ve learned so much already, and have the rest of my lifetime to continue learning.
Philip Aitman
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Philip Aitman Welcome, Philip! Well-said! I applaud your determination.
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Philip Aitman So nice to meet you, Philip! You will enjoy the wonderful courses here. Hopefully, after Covid is over we can get back to the UK to visit our family there.
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Hello everyone! I' m Theodora from Athens, Greece. I' m really glad I joined Tonebase! All videos are so interesting and helpful, you can' t stop watching! I studied piano for some years and after that I continued with singing and music theory studies. At the moment I am studying composition, and I want to improve my piano playing as well. Besides the satisfaction you get by playing all pieces you love, I believe that studying new works and expanding your repertoire, enhances your musical imagination and knowledge! Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
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Theodora Theodora So nice to meet you Theodora. Can't wait to hear you play!
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Gail Starr You are the first person I speak to in Tonebase and I'm really happy to meet you too! I read you got semi retired and I thought how lucky you are you have more time to practice! I wish I had more free time from my job to play...
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Theodora I'm so excited to be the first person you are speaking to on Tonebase! I have been a member for a while, but, like you said...I never had time to practice until we retired in March. (I'm still doing some work, but not 12 hour days and NO travel now!). It was so hard to practice with work, a child and travel...but now our son is at university and I try to play piano every day.
My son visited Athens when he was in high school and I was so happy for him. Now I want to visit, after Covid is over.
What pieces are you working on?
I love doing the Community Challenges every month.
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Theodora Hello, Theodora and Welcome to the Tonebase Piano Community!
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Gail Starr I' m working on the moment on some Chopin's Nocturnes and some pieces from Mendelsshon's lieder ohne worte. They're so lovely!
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Hello Pauline! Thank you for welcoming me! It' s really nice to meet you!
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