WEEK THREE Updates: Main Thread - Beethoven smiles in the Coda!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE Main Thread for this challenge! 
Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.
Make sure you've read the rules before replying (<- click)
Twice a week between October 4 - 11th I hope to be reading your daily updates in this very thread right here!
Download the music:
Beethoven: 6 Variations on an Original Theme
Please use the following format when commenting (feel free to copy & paste!):
- Variation you worked on:
- One thing you found easy:
- One thing you found difficult:
- (Optional): a video of you performing it!
Sample daily update:
- Variation you worked on: No. 1
- One thing you found easy: Learning the notes, and rhythms were rather straight-forward, and not challenging!
- One thing you found difficult: Shifting the Hands was a bit tricky to get smooth!
Feel free to make these updates as short or long as you wish!
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Juan Carlos Olite I have a really interesting fingering for the Goldberg Variations that I got from a friend. If I can find it, I will scan it and post it for the group. However, we moved a few months ago...and I can't seem to find ANYTHING. (I just discovered my bicycle shoes in a box with shampoo...).
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Juan Carlos Olite PS: Is your city of Zaragoza near Barcelona? I had the pleasure of spending 2 weeks there a few years ago because we had a client nearby.
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Sindre Skarelven I'm going to start it when I get back home at the end of the month. I have to travel a bit for some meetings first! Good thing we don't have a community challenge next week, otherwise I couldn't work on that.
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Gail Starr Well, Zaragoza is right in the middle between Barcelona (300km) and Madrid (320km). So, a bit far from both cities. It is neither as interesting as Madrid nor as lively as Barcelona, but it's a nice place...
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Juan Carlos Olite Well, as long as you can travel to Barcelona when you have time to attend excellent concerts, then that is totally fine. Hopefully, it is less expensive than either big city, too!
We used to live in New York City, and it became too expensive, so we left. I miss it alot!
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Gail Starr I would love to learn them too!
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Susan Let's work on a few of them together. If you look at the thread above, I sent Juan Carlos a document that has useful fingering from Paul Barton.
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Gail Starr okay! I love that idea. I will check out the finger numbers you sent. Thanks very much for that. I am a big fan of Paul Barton!
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Gail Starr Will you memorize if you learn ALL the Goldberg variations and could I join in if only to listen to everyone ? Paul Barton has been a great inspiration to me too !
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Gail Starr I would love to join the Goldberg Group if that's okay! How about looking through the music and choosing a few - three or four - variations that we might like to start with? Some variations are both cute and offer a lot of latitude in terms of interpretation: 4, 7, 13, 18, 22, 28, 29 are among my favourites.
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Monika Tusnady Do we have a Goldberg Group? I didn't know it...
I have simply thanked Gail for her document with the fingerings. Well, we will have a new community challenge next week, it won't be a lot of work? I don麓t have much time... Anyway, ok, choose two o three variations to start little by little..., and you will tell us.
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Monika Tusnady I love these variations! I just started a new Goldberg thread under "General Topics". Let's see who else might want to join us on these.
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Juan Carlos Olite I just started a "Goldberg Variations" thread under General Topics. We can all pick our favorite variation for the group to learn, perhaps?
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Gail Starr Thanks for this Paul Barton document! I will be perusing it soon and looking at his thoughts! Also, thanks for starting the Goldberg thread! I am joining in there :)
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Newbie here. Thanks for sharing.
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yaaboo Welcome! :)
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yaaboo Welcome, Yaaboo!
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yaaboo Welcome! Hope you can join us for the next community challenge :)
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