Week 2: Share your progress
WELCOME TO THE LATEST COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!
For this challenge "A Fresh Start" the goal is to pick a BRAND-NEW piece to work on this month.
This is the time to finally open that score that you have been thinking about and get to work!
WHAT ARE WE DOING IN WEEK 2?
- You should have selected your new piece by now, so this week let's start sharing our progress
- Share a video or type what you have been working on this week! It is always interesting to hear how people start the learning process!
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Oh, I just posted my recording in the first week forum. Let me move it here -
Here is the result of first week. Although I played No 1 before, I just realized that it was more than 10 years ago. It's kinda hard to get back to the condition. Hopefully I'll be able to perform it by the end of the challenge. No 2 and No 3 are new to me. Thanks to this challenge opportunity, so I finally could pick them up. Personal opinion, No 2 and No 3 are easier than No 1. I feel playing 3 pieces together could be a very good program for performance, so I recorded all 3 in one recording.
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Heng-Pin Chen Love this piece! Looking forward to hearing the whole set.
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Vidhya Bashyam Thank you! These 3 pieces are short, so I recorded in one recording with title at the beginning of each one.
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Heng-Pin Chen Ah! I listened again. Nice set. The last piece sounds so chopinesque
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Vidhya Bashyam Yes, I have the same feeling about the 3rd piece. It sounds like Mazurka. High five!
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Heng-Pin Chen Great playing, Heng-Pen! This is a wonderful set. Very different types of pieces that goes well together.
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Heng-Pin Chen Lovely playing. My son played no. 1 in a piano competition last December, so I know that one VERY well. I look forward to hearing your progress.
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Sindre Skarelven Thanks! You are right, very different, yet very nice to be together.
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Michelle R Thank you! Now you are giving me more pressure to do it well
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Heng-Pin Chen What a beautiful music of a young Scriabin and very well played!
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Juan Carlos Olite Thank you!
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Vidhya Bashyam That is exactly what I was thinking! Like Skriabin was channeling a young Chopin.
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Michelle R I like #1 so much that I use it for one of my ringtones!
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Heng-Pin Chen Great job! In another week you'll be even more confident and these will become part of you. Sounding great!
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Gail Starr I liked #1 the first time I heard it. It's so beautiful!
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Gail Starr Thank you! I'll try to practice more, but I'll be busy in the coming weeks.
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Heng-Pin Chen Yeah, I’ve been away so I only really started my new piece yesterday…and I have more travel starting soon! This will be a very “condensed”
learning experience, LOL.
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Heng-Pin Chen Awesome work!
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Marc M Thanks a lot!
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Heng-Pin Chen sounds great. So many voices to play with. Have you listened to Horowitz performance?
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Jack vreeland Thank you! Deciding which voice to come out more is a challenging and fun experiment. And, yes, I've listened to Horowitz's performance, he was just incredible!
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I've arrived a week late. I will try and get Brahms' Album Leaf piece up to standard in the time left. It was part of a TB video last year I think. I can't remember who gave the talk.
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Here is my first post of an excerpt from Rachmaninoff’s Moments Musicaux- #5 in d flat major. I am going to try to post regularly throughout this challenge to make sure I can complete the piece and see progress while doing it. This is actually one of his simpler pieces- technically only things to worry about are lots of flats (and double flats), melody constantly switching between being in a polyrhythm and not, and maintaining a kind of barcarolle feeling with the steady left hand triplets. Harder part is on the dynamics side and having a beautiful singing melody.
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Vidhya Bashyam Great start of this beautiful piece, Vidhya!
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Vidhya Bashyam So lovely, Vidhya! I enjoy very much your gentle touch on the piano.
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