Group 2
Improve your Chopin Ornaments in Two Weeks with Jarred Dunn!
When playing Chopin, we face a tremendous challenge in using ornamentation to enhance musical expression. In this two-week intensive, we will learn how to make Chopin ornaments easier to play by targeting technical skills used in effortless trills, turns, grace notes, and arpeggiated chords. We will look at specific examples in Chopin's Mazurkas
Assignments
Your videos should show all three assignments!
- Learn over snap movement: practice for five mins per day on arpeggiated chords in Mazurka op.50 no.1
- Trills : the one I show is a preparatory step, because it’s a short trill. Try this movement of changing the key place with fingers 2-4-3 on many different locations/keys. Do this also for five mins per day.
- Grace notes: same as above, try grace notes on different keys, with forward arm movement.
Fellow Participants in Group 2:
AJ
Juan Carlos Olite
Susan Rogers
Angela Fogg
Jeff
Patrick Wong
Carol Chua
Leanne
Harriet Kaplan
Andrea Buckland
Some tonebase productions to get you started
Penelope Roskell on Developing Cantabile Playing
Course: Jarred Dunn on Crafting Scales
Wrist Movement: A Pianist's Secret Weapon with Norman Krieger
Arpeggios Regiment with Jeffrey Biegel
How to get the most out of this course
- Start by watching the introduction video and practice the passages given in the video.
- Write a post where you have been struggling with ornaments in Chopin's music!
- Share two videos per week and help your course partners through feedback on their submissions!
Zoom Check-In: Tuesday July 26 10:00 PST (13:00 EST/19:00 CEST)
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During our final meeting some people asked about keeping in touch and you're more than welcome to send a message to me here on Tonebase or look me up and contact me via my website! Thanks everyone!
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Jarred Dunn I’m very sad I won’t be able to attend your Masterclass on the 16th. Will be on holiday then. I hope something like this will happen again soon after. I definitely like to stay in touch! These last two weeks have been very valuable for me. And I f you (or your teacher) give a concert in Germany (or Austria) please do let me know.
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