Week 2: Beethoven in Focus “Mastering a Passage”
Welcome to Week 2!
Goal: Work on a challenging excerpt or section of your Beethoven piece.
- Challenge: Pick a passage from a Beethoven piece you admire (or struggle with!) and aim to master it by the end of the week. Whether it’s a movement or entire piece, break it down into smaller sections
- Practice: Focus on technical aspects like fingering, articulation, and phrasing. Consider using a metronome to gradually increase tempo.
Share with us your progress from "day 1" to the end of the week! Let's get focused this week!
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Hi, everyone.
Working with tricky parts. Day 2 (it’s Tuesday so).
1) ghost notes here and there, voicing right hand2) tempo: my favorite recording is Ashkenazy. Listen him carefully
3) dynamic: same. Listen Ashkenazy
4) pedal: it’s too much. how to less pedal without losing flow of music…
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Hi everyone, please see my update for the Pathetique Sonata which I am coincidentally working on for another challenge. Just the first part this week and main challenge is balancing the voices which is work in progress!
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This week I post the Second movement of Moonlight Sonata. To match the dear fellows' Pathetique II.
Take a listen and let me know!
https://youtu.be/l2aDBB4BYds?si=lFpmKsGSkMcpvPH8
Ciao! 🌞😎✌🏻
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My work in-progress on the Bagatelle op33 no1 after a week of bringing it back
https://youtu.be/RAV3mVmRulA?si=35jfuoIuIx_hS2jH
Still rough on the edges: can do more with the phrasing, dynamics and crispier runs, so that will be my focus next week.
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Beethoven sonata no 24, Op 78: I have worked a lot on different passages this week. Here are two of my practice session videos to check on my progress:
(1) development and begin of recapitulation 1st mvt
https://youtube.com/shorts/ExVPpe7SdsA?si=uTQ7vEoEGgrMd5XX
(2) end of 1st mvthttps://youtube.com/shorts/Ycx4IWwJceA?si=ZIjc9Y7g9bEXoAMy
I didn’t have the time to make a full recording. Hope to do that tomorrow evening 😄
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Here’s some metronome practice, starting from the middle. For fun (and added challenge) I set my loop pedal to a samba beat. 😂
https://youtu.be/TCQFGPD9xgYI goofed the transition at the end of the minor section…Will need to fix that.
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Hi all
this probably should have been included in week 1
anyway , here is a run through of first movement sonata op101
happy I got through it without too many mistakes, but still a fair bit of detail to work on
comments welcome!
Beethoven sonata
Op101
First movement