Group 1
Improve your Scales!
Scales are integral to your technique - all of music is built on them! They are singularly one of the most important things to master for piano playing!
Fellow Participants in Group 1:
Vidhya Bashyam
Ko
Michael
Andrea Buckland
Denise
hanqi4
Barbara Blakeslee
Sindre Skarelven
Jarkko Janhunen
Gail Starr
Harry Neuwirth
Peter Hirsch
Susan Rogers
Fides Cutiongco
Alistair Bertram
Some tonebase productions to get you started
"Creative Scale Practice" with Jarred Dunn
C Major Pattern Scales with Juliana Han
"Choreographing Scales" with Seymour Bernstein
"Scale Technique" with Penelope Roskell
How to get the most out of this course
- Start by watching the introduction video and practice the exercises given in the video.
- Write a post with your experiences with scales.
- Start Practicing Czerny Op.599 no.61, and 69!
- Share two videos per week and help your course partners through feedback on their submissions!
Zoom Check-In: Wednesday, June 29th at 11am PT!
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I had fun playing the Czerny 61 trying to increase the tempo a bit each time. Kind of addicting!
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Vidhya Bashyam thanks! :)
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Susan Rogers Sounds great!
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Susan Rogers that sounds great Susan!!
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Andrea Buckland thank you!
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Sindre Skarelven thanks Sindre!
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Alistair Bertram thank you Alistair!
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Susan Rogers Way to go, Susan!
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Hello Everyone! If you would like to join a zoom meeting check in today, follow this link at 11am Pacific time! I will be in the meeting for one hour to check in with you!!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85357940967?pwd=ZFNqZDRKVWRBdU5xa0RQdnE3OFJIUT09 -
It was great seeing you on Zoom Vidhya Bashyam @Michael and Dominic Cheli
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Andrea Buckland Nice to see you too and thanks Dominic Cheli for the great feedback.
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Andrea Buckland I was so bummed that I couldn't attend the Zoom.
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Gail Starr hope to see you the next time
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I finally managed to connect each section together. I think it could still be polished but overall happy with it. I’ve been using a different keyboard which is in my room as it has heavier keys.
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Alistair Bertram wow! Excellent!
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Alistair Bertram That's excellent! You improved so much just in a few days!
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Andrea Buckland thank you!
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hanqi4 thank you so much!
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Alistair Bertram Sounds and looks great!
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Alistair Bertram Wow! Amazing improvement so quickly!
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Does anyone use a special stand to position their phone ABOVE the keyboard looking down on the keys?
(I was trying to invent a way to hang my phone from the stairs above my piano but my husband noted that it was looking a bit too risky...LOL!)
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Gail Starr Hi Gail! I just updated my ipad stand. This works for both ipads and iphones. This might help get the angle you want. https://a.co/d/d0Y669y
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Vidhya Bashyam This looks perfect. I just ordered it!
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Gail Starr Great. It’s very easy to put together and use. Enjoy!
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Here my last attempt of the Ballad excerpt for now. It takes all my concentration to use the correct fingering for the chromatic and the g-minor scale. So this is a super slow recording. No way I can seriously use the grouping method yet I think. It‘s not a problem of my fingers but of my brain at the moment. But I hope to get used to practicing scales regularly from now on - and I‘m confident that speed will eventually come. Thank you all for the support!
