Week 4 Beethoven Challenge – Recordings Watch Party 🎥🎶
Week 4 is here, and it's time to share!
For this final week of the Beethoven Challenge, your goal is simple:
record your piece and submit it for our community Watch Party.
It doesn’t have to be “finished” or perfect. In fact, it’s more useful if it isn’t. Record where you are right now with your Beethoven and let that be your snapshot of growth from Week 1 to Week 4.
How to participate:
Record your Beethoven selection (phone video is totally fine).
Upload it to Youtube!
Post the link in the Week 4 thread below with:
Piece and movement
One sentence: “The thing I worked on most in this piece was…”
We’ll collect submissions and feature as many as we can in the Watch Party, with live commentary, encouragement, and a chance to hear how everyone has grown over the month.
This week’s challenge:
Don’t wait until you “deserve” to record. Hit record, share your current best, and join us for the Watch Party!!
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https://youtu.be/h2Jq0EI0CeE?si=bFmPOLkEzNcZWEC6
Beethoven sonata op. 7, 3. Movement. The game for me was to play from memory. 🙋♀️
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Hi everyone!
Here is my video of the "Tempest" Sonata, 3rd movement (Allegretto). Playing it feels like being on a roller coaster, with the sense that you could fall off at any moment.
I didn't repeat the exposition, mainly because of the video's length and, you know, to minimize the possibility of mistakes 🙂.
Like in previous challenges, I wish I'd had more time, as others have mentioned, to refine the interpretation and achieve a cleaner execution. But, well, we are among friends..., and we always have the opportunity to keep playing and revisiting the pieces we learn for Tonebase challenges. At least, I hope a little bit of the Beethovenian spirit comes through.
The thing I worked on the most in this piece was restraining my use of the sustain pedal, reducing it as much as possible following Beethoven's score.
Thank you so much, as always, for this challenge!
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The thing I worked on most in this piece was ... the first 8 bars, as they encompass the majority of the work!
Here's my slow rendition of opus 119 no. 9 (Bagatelle). I just put all the parts together last Thursday, and am happy with my progress over the 4 weeks. This amount of progress on a piece typically takes me twice this long. I think in about a week I'll have the tempo up to a decent performance level (50-75% faster than in the recording), and in so doing can find the single gesture I'd prefer for the ascending figure of the first 3 measures.