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WELCOME TO OUR LATEST TONEBASE PIANO COMMUNITY PRACTICE CHALLENGE:
The Music YOU Love!
Here is our NEXT Community Challenge: "Music YOU Love!" For the next 3 weeks we will work on music that has a deep meaning for us, culminating in a watch party on...you guessed it...February 14, Valentine's Day! You DON'T have to work on music that represents romantic love, but could pick pieces that made you fall in love with music in general, the piano, a composer, or anything! You DON'T have to share WHY you picked a particular piece - this is simply an opportunity for us to come together and practice with renewed vigor!
Start by picking your piece, and then each week I will provide a different objective for you to try in your practice!
The Watch party of February 14th will be of RECORDED videos from the challenge, NOT a live community concert! So make sure to submit your videos and work!
When does this take place?
Challenge start: January 23rd (check out the KICKOFF livestream here:)
https://piano-community.tonebase.co/t/q6h0598/kickoff-music-you-love-community-challenge
Challenge days: January 23 - February 13th
Watch Party of selected submissions: February 14th at 11am PT
(Link coming soon!)
HOW TO START:
1. Pick a piece that has alot of meaning for you! It could be a brand new piece, or one that you have already started working on! Dream big, and pick the piece that's right for YOU!
2. Follow each week's practice advice starting on January 23rd!
3. Practice every day and try to post 2 videos a week!
Why are we doing this?
Because we want to challenge ourselves to practice every day
Because learning together is more fun than learning alone
Because we get to share our progress with others (whether video or just text)
Because new music is wonderful and these pieces were written especially for us!
Because we want to meet our fellow tonebase community members
Because we get to hear new music which we might not play ourselves
ASK ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE BELOW!
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I’m planning to play a Mozart Piano Concerto! (Dominic did say to dream big!!) Actually, it’s a transcription of the slow movement of no. 23 in F# minor. It’s one of my favourite pieces ever.
It’s a bit tricky though as you have to play all the orchestral bits too.-
Hazel xx
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Hazel If you want, I could record the Tutti and you could play along and edit the videos together. Monika and I do that sometimes!
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This sounds like fun as well as challenging...
I hope to participate with the third movement of Beethoven's Pathétique sonata. I used to play this well but have left it for so long. Will have to brush up!
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Linda Saroucos Fabulous! I need to learn that.
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Dominic Cheli , when posting updates is there a way of consolidating one's updates so they appear together in the forum chat, perhaps by editing an initial reply and adding them in? Would that just negate their value because they would be buried amongst older entries? Good idea or no?
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Hello! I hope to participate in this. I'm debating between two pieces, both which I've worked on before and want to pick back up. There are a lot of pieces that I love , but I felt for this challenge it felt appropriate to pick Prokofiev since he's special to me -- I often consider him to be my absolute favorite composer.
The first is the piano transcription of "Waltz (Cinderella and Prince)" from Prokofiev's Cinderella Suite. The Cinderella Suites, which is typically played by Orchestra, is one of my favorite pieces by Prokofiev and I was really excited to learn there was a piano transcription of this. I don't think it's played very often because I can't find too many recordings. Since this is meant to depict a waltz between Cinderella and the Prince it seems to align well with the love theme :)
The second option is the 1st Movement of Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Sonata. This is a piece I've liked since I was young, when I heard a friend of mine play it. Especially evocative to me is the second theme which is super dreamy and magical. I love it! Otherwise, the piece is a bit aggressive so maybe a little less in line with the love theme -- but maybe it's ok!
Thanks everyone for your posts. This is my first time participating in a challenge and seeing everyone has inspired me to get more serious about practicing again.
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Leslie Chong Oooh! I adore Prokofiev and can’t wait to hear you.
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Leslie Chong I too would love to hear some Prokovief. For the piano, I am familiar only with the concerti. You are inspiring me to look further into this. I’ve had the suspicion that his piano compositions might be wicked difficult.
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