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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Parts 1 and 2 of this weeks assignment. Enjoyed the Burgmuller. Playing C major with the groupings was harder than I thought it would be but I can see how it would help in gaining speed. Rewatched Jarred Dunn’s lessons on scales and also Penelope Roskell’s lesson. Definitely have questions on my technique (hand shape/alignment/position on keys, etc) after watching those videos.
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Ko Thanks!
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Vidhya Bashyam I like your interpretation of Burgmulle! Great musicality!
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hanqi4 Thanks!
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Here is my first recording of Burgmüller's Progress. Thanks for watching. There are definitely a few hiccups and I didn't take the repeat. I still need to download a couple of things, but I had Progress on hand. Everyone who is posting videos, great! If you are on a laptop you can embed your link in the post. I dont think you can do it from your phone. I just tried, so I hopped on my computer.
https://youtu.be/8_0J_3_-tN4-
Denise well done, Denise!
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Denise
great start, Denise!
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Denise Really nice. I hope to get to your tempo.
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I am having trouble "assimilating" the new chromatic fingering when I put hands together. Anyone else? I will continue with slow practice to see if I can make the switch. I love Dom's rationale. I am just so use to the traditional fingering. It's also how I teach it, but I am open to new fingering!
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Denise just trying to relearn the chromatic scale in the Pathetique. To relearn the fingering is bad enough with just one hand I think . On the other hand I was never really able to play it fast enough with the traditional fingering either. So I‘m hoping to improve
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Andrea Buckland I will put that on my todo. I am currently working on Schubert's Impromptu #3 Op 142. Hoping the scale intensive will help me with the last variation. But I definitely should look at some pieces with chromatic runs. :-)
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Denise it is difficult for me as well
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Denise I keep meaning to work on that Schubert! Thank you for the reminder.
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Denise Agree. Trying to work on that now.
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Thanks so much for hosting this.
here are my recordings
https://youtube.com/shorts/fIW63dUKQKM?feature=share
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Harry Neuwirth Great finger work on the Chopin!
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It’s nice to see all the videos everyone posted! I worked mainly on the grouping notes regimen of all the scales on the last page of Ballade. I’m hoping if I keep it grouped long enough on the chromatic I can make the change with using finger 4 - when I try to play the scale straight the 3 on all the black keys automatically resurfaces! I revisited Progress which I played a long time ago. I also spent time practicing 4 different scales a day (2 major, 2 minor) bringing back how I used to practice them. I think Dominic said it was called the “grand” scale where it’s parallel and contrary. That was what I was assigned in my second year of music study at college about 15 years ago. All the majors in the first semester and the harmonic minors in the second semester. I was extremely thankful to my professor for making me learn all those scales since before that I see only one D major scale in my old Schaum book. I must have played that D scale when I was a kid and had lessons for a couple of months, but I don’t even remember. I didn’t think to make a video of my regular scales practice since it wasn’t listed in the instructions but now that I see others have posted regular scales I’ll do that next time too. I will get started on the Czerny. I had a little trouble figuring out how to get into this forum site at first but I think I’m dialed in now…
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Susan Rogers Bravo, Susan!
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Susan Rogers Great job, Susan!
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Susan Rogers Very nice Susan!
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Susan Rogers They are very nice! I can see years of foundation practice in your performance!
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Susan Rogers great playing, Susan!
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Jarkko Janhunen thank you Jarkko!
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Vidhya Bashyam thank you Vidhya!
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hanqi4 thank you so much!
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Gail Starr thank you Gail!
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