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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Hi all!
Elated to be here in this group! I hope that financially I can remain here long term. I have been an avid follower of Tonebase and other instructional content, mostly on YouTube. I am 26 y/o, happily married with a month-old daughter. It has been a challenging journey from music school to the real world, learning how to support a family, and continue my love of music and working to improve my own education and practice.
I live west of Boston in the Springfield area and my favorite food from here is probably the seafood. Maine lobstah
Since my last recital in March I have been preparing for my next one hopefully in January. It is a Liszt/Schubert recital containing:
- Liszt: Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca
- Liszt/Schubert: Standchen
- Liszt/Schubert: Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen
- Schubert: Impromptu No. 3, Gb
- Liszt: Un Sospiro
- Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
It has been an increasingly difficult task understanding how to keep my pianistic abilities in shape whilst also working a full time teaching job, being a husband, and now a father.
What I hope to get out of this program is quite a lot. Firstly, I want an opportunity to really improve my playing. I haven't had a formal teacher in four years, although I am a disciplined individual I would like some more formal direction. Secondly, I deeply desire to connect with other musicians, which again has been lacking since college. Lastly, I hope to learn specifically want I can do with my musicianship in accordance with my current stage of life. Overall it has been a somewhat lonesome and confusing time, in terms of my life as a musician.
Many thanks!
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Jonathan Weir Welcome Jonathan! Glad to see you here!
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Jonathan Weir So happy you are here, Jonathan! Please record your concert and post it so we can enjoy it on video. What a fabulous, challenging program you have. Enjoy every moment!
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Andrea Buckland Happy to be here! Hoping to get a lot out of this community!
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Gail Starr Sure thing! That will be good for me because I HATE recording. Audiences can be forgiving but a recording never is! But I am itching for feedback so I can improve. I'm not sure how to do that quite yet but I'll figure it out
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Jonathan Weir message me and I’m happy to walk you through the process
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Hey there!
To introduce myself, let me share this article with you: https://www.tonegym.co/blog/item?id=michael-seves -
Hi EVERYBODY! I'm a new subscriber, 14 day trial but if it'll go well I'll become a LIFETIME subscriber (thanks to Black Friday offer, 50% discount, TOP!).
Play piano for quite years but we few results as adult with job, wife, two children, etc. as many out there!
Really want to improve in particular to don't spend ages learning a piece, in the last time tried to improve the sight reading and to play without looking the hands, again to understand how to do it efficiently, in some spot I guess it's necessary to look down and reposition the hands/fingers so play from memory but I loose the point in the sheet music...then mistakes comes up.
Mainly focused on classical style but likes too blues, ragtime and some pop music.
Tonebase library is HUGE and my first concern is where to start and follows the right path, just took the quiz and I'm Level 3, in doubt if start instead from Level 1, from scratch.
Any suggestion on how to advance in the Level choosen?
Happy music to EVERYBODY!!!
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Roberto welcome! There are a lot of us, who like you, want to balance life and music. There’s so much to view and such great videos and live streams! My advice is to just jump in! A really supportive environment.
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Roberto Welcome, Roberto! You've come to the right place. Feel free to ask questions anytime from those of us who have been with Tonebase nearly from the start. We're a friendly, non-judgmental group of music lovers who are having tons of fun in this space.
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I am extremely grateful for the wealth of knowledge at tonebase, I am from Winnipeg Manitoba, in the middle of Canada. My favourite food is Indian food. I am working on several of the Brahms Intermezzos, I have an excellent teacher here and combine her teaching/feedback with the information picked up here. I am also working on ensemble music with a cellist.
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Hello everyone,
Frédéric from France, living next to Paris. I have been taking lesson for 10 years as a child/teenager, never really stopped playing since then. Playing on a freshly restored Pleyel model F from 1927 since July, quite a change compared to my former Yamaha u3. Chopin is my favorite composer (what a nice podcast by the way), I'm currently playing Mozart K332 sonate, my favorite food would certainly be a japanese one like gyozas. My dream would be to be able to tackle Chopin first ballade, Hope tonebase will help to make it real in a not so far future !
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Fred You are definitely in the right place to master your Ballade! Lots of members have worked on it with success. Can’t wait to hear your gorgeous Pleyel.
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Is this forum still ""Alive""?
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Hello, I'm from Connecticut which some say is famous for pizza and high taxes. I do like a thin crust on my pizza with prosciutto and arugula on a rich tomato base.
I'm now in my late 60s and happy as a clam. My piano journey began with formal lessons at about the age of seven which I didn't particularly like. I never learned how to read music beyond the most basic level but I've always had a piano in my life. I would just sit down and play (not much variety but I can do what I do pretty well).
I love to improvise on mostly minor (slightly bluesy) melancholy themes for hours on end which provides me great satisfaction and release. However, now I'm in a bit of a rut and I would like to get some more information (and inspiration) and techniques for adding more unique harmony, exotic chords and/or arpeggio/scales.
I truly believe there is a rich base in western classical music for me to draw on; most of which I enjoy listening to and some drives me crazy.
I would also like to learn how to better sight read music. I was fascinated by the simple idea I heard in one of the first tonebase videos I just watched: starting with just one hand! This never occurred to me!
I'm now just in the 14 day trial, but I'm 99% certain that I will stay on for life. Looking forward to it all. Thank you all for being there.
Tom
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Tom As a lifetime member for nearly 3 years, I can confirm that you have landed in the right place! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
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Tom Welcome. I also started Tonebase in my late 60’s and love the resources. I live in Alaska so we are somewhat limited in opportunities, and Tonebase helps a great deal. I especially enjoy the live streams. Check them out if you can.
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Hello there!
My name is Aurora, but friends call me Aura. So exited to be here!
I'm from a small town in northern Italy, hard to say what my favourite italian food is, but I'll just be basic and say pizza, because it never bores my tastebuds!
I'm currently a conservatory student, and I'm discussing with my teacher about the pieces I'll be studying this year. As the program is not decided yet, I'm working on my technique with some studies from Cramer and Czerny and also using the time to play some of Bach's Sinfonien and Clementi's op 40 n°2. I'm also trying to perfect my performance of Francesco Parrino's arrangment of My Way. If you don't know him, you can find him on youtube: I enjoy the way he arranges modern songs for piano and how he plays!
As for what I'm hoping to get out of this community: I've never been much of a social media person so I probably won't be here often and maybe I'll mostly be reading others rather than writing myself, but I still hope to be able to share, sometimes, with people that embarked in this journey and also read about different experiences. Most of all, I'm hoping to find a supportive and kind environment.
Pleasure to meet you all and goodbye for now!
Have a nice day
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Hi everyone, my name is Alessandro and I live in Rome, Italy. I started playing the piano only a few years ago, with the "excuse" of covid I had time to become passionate about this wonderful musical instrument. I started with a Yamaha weighted keyboard, then moved on to a Clavinova, so I definitely love digital instruments!
In everyday life I am a computer engineer who also does a lot of sports (swimming first and foremost), although in order to study piano I had to put my competitive activity aside a bit.
At the moment from the point of view of the repertoire I am studying some pieces by Valerio Aiello and Antoine Bernollin, but the one that is driving me crazy is a piece of only three lines by Mozart that I can't play as well as I would like. I hope to learn a lot here on Tonebase!-
NANCY M Alessandro Just listened to both! Thank you Alesandro. I particlularly enjoyed the sweet lyricism of Bernollin - fabulous for beginning pianists and also for sightreading.
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Welcome Alessandro! It's wonderful to hear about your musical adventure. I too am an avid daily swimmer, and sometimes, during my laps I am mentally practicing something that I am currently working on at the keyboard. I will look up the composers Aiello and Bernollin - I am not familiar with either. And dear Mozart - is so demanding because even one note out of place can be so terribly obviously wrong - it's a kind of perfection. I performed a Mozart duet yesterday with a flautist friend, and my nerves overtook me :( and I got too many wrong notes. A very humbling experience.
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The piece by Mozart is Canzonetta from the Cesi-Marciano collection (n.3). Even though it is short I have difficulty with the dynamics, the detached and tied notes... in short, with every performance I change the mistake I make. If by chance you have some particular lesson here in Tonebase that you can suggest to me to study this type of piece I would be very grateful ;)
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Hi - Jim from Adelaide, Australia.
just joined Tonebase this week. After answering the initial questions I have been assessed at Level 9. I think this is the level of my playing, knowledge and RH BUT certainly not my LH which would be a level 7 at most. Consequently I am seeking help in getting my LH up to speed.
i can tackle level 7 repertoire fine AND I can play most of Chopin Ballad 1 slowly.
so any suggestions would be helpful.
thnx
