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Sight Reading app recommendations
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good app / website for improving sight reading? I have downloaded the Schafer exercises recommended by Dominic, but I'm also hoping to use an app.…
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Bach Partita 6 BWV 830 Toccata piano fingering
Can anybody suggest the fingering of measure 25 (the end of A section)! I tried different ways, none of them is convincing, including my own Bärenreiter version. My hands are small. Appreciated!
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How many pieces do you work on at a time?
What is the "right" amount (if there is such a thing) of pieces one can work on learning at a time? I find I get bored easily if I'm only working on 2 or 3 pieces, but am I just being impatient?…
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Ken’s practice diary
Hi I have been practicing a contemporary arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de Lune that introduces the main theme of this classic piece and is intended for grade 2 - 3 pianists.…
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Great songs let down by a terrible movie
Hi folks, i was just thinking about movies with a great theme song, but the movie was horrible. Can you help create the list? Here we go. My vote for number 1:…
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Problems with the platform
Hi folks, don't know if this is the correct via for extern problems, but I've been contacting with the support team since this morning and I don't have any answer of them.…
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Lessons suggestions for not quite intermediate
Hello! I've recently joined Tonebase piano (was on guitar before), and I'm looking for less-than-intermediate lessons to expand my repertoire and improve my technique.…
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TWI Signup: Improve your Cantabile Playing with Lindsay Garritson
Welcome to the latest TWO WEEK INTENSIVE on tonebase! For the next two weeks we will be working through assignments given by Lindsay Garritson to improve your Cantabile Playing!…
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Counting Clair de Lune
In the video on this piece in 9/8, normal counting is shown as 123,123,123. However for a bar with a couple of duplets, it is shown as 123,12,12. Is it wrong to count duplets as 123 and playing the…
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How has your taste in music changed over the years?
How has your taste in music changed over the years?
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A Review of Ben Laude's Music Theory Basics
I am subscribed to Tonebase on Youtube and received a notification from Youtube that there was a new video between Ben Laude and Seymour Bernstein about the Moonlight Sonata.…
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EXCLUSIVE: Apply for the tonebase mentorship with Jarred Dunn!
Led by one of the leading pianists of our generation and tonebase piano favorite,, this program is limited to just 5 participants for a month-long session from September 10 - October 8th.…
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Tell us about a concert or musical event that has profoundly impacted you.
Tell us about a concert or musical event that has profoundly impacted you.
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Week 3: Seeing the Big Picture
Hello and welcome to the WEEK THREE Main Thread for this challenge! 🤩 Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.…
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Week 2: Status Update and one NEW improvement!
Hello and welcome to the WEEK TWO Main Thread for this challenge! 🤩 Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.…
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Keerthi's Practice Diary: "A Journey Through My Exam Preparation"
Hello, my name is Keerthi, and I'm a second-year music diploma student majoring in piano in India. I must perform a 30-minute repertoire with a theme for my final exam in April or May.…
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What classical composer most makes you think of the beatles?
I know this is a strange question, and I will not give me answer so as not to bias folks. If you want to answer, interpret the question quite broadly. I don't mean that the music sounded similar,…
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How to get Connected with the Local Musical Community
Hello all. I live in Cincinnati and am looking for recommendations for how to connect with local musicians. When I was in high school, I participated in many honor bands (through my clarinet playing)…
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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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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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Week 1: Getting down to Business
Hello and welcome to the WEEK ONE Main Thread for this challenge! 🤩 Alright everyone - this is the thread where we'll all be posting our daily updates.…
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Clarification of Music Theory Basics: Intervals Workbook
I don't know if this is the right place for this. I am going through the Music Theory Basics course and am confused on something in the workbook for section V, Intervals.…
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What advice would you give your beginner-self?
What advice would you give your beginner-self? Be kind! 😄
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Can anybody explain the "felt" grand piano
I have been enjoying playing the virtual Steinway D Felt 1 (Pianoteq). Has anybody played a "real version" of this kind of piano ("Felt" is the key, not steinway).…
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Favorit past live streams?
I'm new to tonebase and looking through the archive of past live streams there is so many topics that seam interesting and, that I'd love to watch. But I don't have time to watch them all.…
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