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LONGTERM ONGOING - Bach's Goldberg Variations
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Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska Mentorship
Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
Jarred Dunn Mentorship
Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
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Welcome to the NEW TWO WEEK INTENSIVE on tonebase! Back by popular request, Leann Osterkamp leads a crash course on the technique behind controlling dynamics! This course is highly technical focused,…
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Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
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Welcome to the NEW TWO WEEK INTENSIVE on tonebase! Back by popular request, Leann Osterkamp leads a crash course on the technique behind controlling dynamics! This course is highly technical focused,…
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Level 1 – Repertoire, Course Lists & Discussion Space
Level 1 description Your piano journey begins here! Get acquainted with the keyboard and start developing your technical fundamentals and musical understanding.…
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What's your favorite classical music era and why?
What is your FAVORITE classical music era and why?
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8 mths ago
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8 mths ago
Discussion of the Week
Jazz/pop/rock player, reverting to the most basic lower-beginner-intermediate works and it's driving me crazy. Advice?
I've played piano most of my life, but grew up playing it more by ear and with simple chords, accompaniment and melodies. Over the years I got into jazz and started learning music theory and learned…
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8 mths ago
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8 mths ago
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Choosing an edition
I'm looking to update my Beethoven music and I'm wondering how to choose a publisher/edition. Is there a "definitive" version? I had heard the best edition for Chopin is the Ekier National Edition,…
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11 mths ago
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One of the most valued skills in music is having the ability to sightread with ease. That is because it aids in so many things: learning music quickly, being able to play with friends/colleagues on…
Dominic Cheli
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1 yr ago
Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
Jackie's Practice diary
I am practicing Mozart D minor concerto, Bach Toccata in E minor BWV 914, Chopin B flat minor scherzo and Alkan Aesop's Feast at the moment. All of these pieces are at the early stages of learning…
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1 yr ago
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What's the most surprising thing you have learned about the piano?
What's the most surprising thing you have learned about the piano?
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1 yr ago
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Discovering Schubert Month: Piano Community Challenge!
Hey Everyone
Hilda here! Do you have questions or This month, February 2022, feel free to post questions, enthusiasms, and other content on this general discussion thread about our latest piano…
Hilda Huang
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2 yrs ago
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2 yrs ago
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I have been pondering for a week now what to add and what to take away from my practice list. The New Year is always a great time to evaluate and plan.…
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2 yrs ago
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2 yrs ago
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Which tonebase workbooks have benefited you the most?
Which tonebase workbooks and downloadable content have you most benefited from? Please share in the comments so that we can all share in our learning! Complete list of tonebase workbooks
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1 mth ago
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Tuning your own piano unisons?
Do you tune your own unisons at the piano? Is it a terrible idea or a good one? A tuner showed me how to do it a few months ago, so I got a tuning lever and mutes, and have been doing it since then.…
Marc M
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Dottie's Practice Diary - Beginning Again
I feel like I'm beginning all over again. I graduated with a BS in Music Education back in 1984. I made a lot of progress during my program but was not able to continue taking lessons after I…
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1 yr ago
4-Hand Piano Hub!
Community Hangout: Bach Vibes
My first time in Leipzig was such a special experience. I had the chance to study German at the University of Leipzig, and listen to some of the world's best Bach at the Leipzig BachFest.…
Hilda Huang
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2 yrs ago
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Victor’s practice diary
Hello, Always working towards improving my playing. One of the pieces I am working on is the Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capricioso but the technical challenges of the piece,…
Victor Wong
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2 yrs ago
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Colors and Sound!
Do any of you see colors when you hear sound? Do you associate certain key signatures with colors? Let us know below!
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2 yrs ago
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Need some advice on trills after getting injured
Hello everyone at Tonebase ! I injured my right hand / wrist like 4-5 months ago with some weight at the gym but it seems to be better. However I kinda developped some wrist tightness / stiffness.…
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4 mths ago
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Level 5 – Repertoire, Course Lists & Discussion Space
Level 5 description You’ve built a solid foundation at the keyboard and you’re ready to develop your skills and expand your repertoire. Get serious about counterpoint by studying Bach’s 2-part…
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Euphoria and the Taubman Technique
In the following YT video, Dorothy Taubman proclaims that "the feeling of playing at the keyboard should feel euphoric". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suwdLaYBaAs I am just beginning the Tonebase…
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Roskell and/or Taubman?
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In this two-week initiative, we’re moving beyond the black and white of the keyboard and into the colorful spectrum of instrumental timbres. In week one,…
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Community Concerts!
Community Suggestions
Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
Community Challenges
A Fresh Start!
The Practice Plan Challenge!
End of the Year Challenge: "Showcase Your Progress
Franz Liszt Birthday Challenge!
Unfinished Business Challenge!
Mini Challenges
Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
Celebrating Tchaikovsky's Birthday!
Challenge Archive
The Pillars of Piano Technique (Mini-Challenge)
Celebrate Rachmaninoff's Birthday Challenge!
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
Finding Colors in your sound (Mini Challenge!)
Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century!
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
The Music of France!
"Improve your Technique!" Month
February: Discovering Schubert Month
Bach in March
LONGTERM ONGOING - Bach's Goldberg Variations
tonebase Community Concert Challenge
Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
Beethoven Variations Community Challenge!
Tonebase Holiday Challenge!
Liszt's Soirées de Vienne Community Challenge!
Handel G-major Chaconne
Two Week Intensives
Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska Mentorship
Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
Jarred Dunn Mentorship
Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
Narrative Musicianship w/ Konstantin Soukhovetski
Sara Davis Buechner Mentorship
Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
General Information and Sign-Up!
Public Spaces!
Two Week Intensive Archive
Lesson discussion archive
"Improving your rhythm!": Beyond the Metronome
"Becoming an Orchestra" TWI with Daniela Bracchi
Bach's Polyphony Intensive with Magdalena
Improve your MOZART sonata with Orli Shaham!
Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
Improve your Arpeggios with Claire Huangci
Improve Your Harmonic Analysis with Ben Laude
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Improve your Scales!
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Welcome to the tonebase Piano Community!
Piano Level System
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4-Hand Piano Hub!
Live Streams and Events
Live Calendar
Community Concerts!
Community Suggestions
Upcoming Challenges and Two Week Intensives!
Community Challenges
A Fresh Start!
The Practice Plan Challenge!
End of the Year Challenge: "Showcase Your Progress
Franz Liszt Birthday Challenge!
Unfinished Business Challenge!
Mini Challenges
Lyrical Miniatures: A Sonorous Journey feat. Grieg
Celebrating Tchaikovsky's Birthday!
Challenge Archive
The Pillars of Piano Technique (Mini-Challenge)
Celebrate Rachmaninoff's Birthday Challenge!
"Music YOU Love" Community Challenge!
Finding Colors in your sound (Mini Challenge!)
Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century!
Improvising Classically with George Ko!
The Music of France!
"Improve your Technique!" Month
February: Discovering Schubert Month
Bach in March
LONGTERM ONGOING - Bach's Goldberg Variations
tonebase Community Concert Challenge
Brahms Waltzes Challenge!
Beethoven Variations Community Challenge!
Tonebase Holiday Challenge!
Liszt's Soirées de Vienne Community Challenge!
Handel G-major Chaconne
Two Week Intensives
Crash Course on Controlling your Dynamics!
Intensive Workshop: Compose your own Piano Piece!
TWI: What makes Schubert GREAT with Ben Laude
Improving your ability with the Left Pedal
Magdalena Stern-Baczewska Mentorship
Improve your Cantabile Playing with Dr. Garritson
Jarred Dunn Mentorship
Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
Narrative Musicianship w/ Konstantin Soukhovetski
Sara Davis Buechner Mentorship
Improvising a simple ABA Piece with Jeremy Siskind
General Information and Sign-Up!
Public Spaces!
Two Week Intensive Archive
Lesson discussion archive
"Improving your rhythm!": Beyond the Metronome
"Becoming an Orchestra" TWI with Daniela Bracchi
Bach's Polyphony Intensive with Magdalena
Improve your MOZART sonata with Orli Shaham!
Improving your Sightreading with Leann Osterkamp!
Improve your Chopin Etudes with Henry Kramer!
Improve your Arpeggios with Claire Huangci
Improve Your Harmonic Analysis with Ben Laude
Improve your Chopin Ornaments with Jarred Dunn!
Improve your Scales!
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