Week 1: Choose your waltz and start Dancing!
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to Week 1 of celebrating Schubert's Waltzes!
Below are some collections of waltzes that are quite delightful. Take a look and decide which waltz(es) you want to work on during this challenge! Keep in mind that they can be quite short, so it can be fun to pick several!
Let us know which waltzes you pick in the comments below!
Week 1 Goal:
Choose a waltz or several to work on! Let us know why you selected the particular waltz!
Additional challenge:
Post your sightreading/first play through video!
Popular waltzes to choose from:
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Here's a first attempt at sightreading some Waltzes! Gotta work on them now. (Sorry about the wet hair. Early morning class at my gym.)
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Very impressive videos so far! Will chose which ones to work on shortly!
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My teacher and I are discussing if there is a level-appropriate waltz for me, and if I should add something new to all the other musical balls I’m juggling right now! But even if I don’t join this challenge by playing, I’ll be here to encourage everyone. 🙂
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Thanks for this challenge. I have never played it before. Funny enough, I have found the scores in my shelf - an old one. So it is really a sight reading challenge. I love it. 🙋♀️
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Lovely playing Dominic. Every time I see your and others' wrist action(s) it reminds me to ask whether my understanding of the 'Taubman Approach' is correct, which is that the usual 'down-up' for a slur seems not to be applied, and the wrists have no give in the traditional way, possibly because Dorothy Taubman identified this as a possible source of injury, The latter seems unlikely as there is a moment of relaxation when the wrist reaches its point of resolution.
Today is the start of a new reconnection in so many ways. Life happens - enough said.
I am trying for the third time to produce something for one of the piano challenges /TWI. I have a plan to put key dates in my diary, as I keep missing events and have had no accurate sense of the intended running order. How long is this challenge? What are the start and end-dates and is there a date for a Zoom meeting?
My piano and flute playing has been spasmodic for weeks not least because I had eight weeks of the wretched respiratory virus, coughing constantly so just too debilitating to do anything. I need to do several days of several hours a day just to orientate myself again with the keyboard. Therefore, I shall sight read each of Nos 9 and 10 of the Zwolf Valses nobles in a few days' time, having played again in the meantime Nos 15, 18, 21, and 28 of the Vierunddreissig Valses sentimentales.