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lois	Dec 9 2010, 12:17 PM Post #601
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 692 Joined: 14-November 08 From: Walsall - West Mids Member No.: 44946	I have learnt today after finally getting round to listening to the Grade 4 pieces CD that I have been playing the wrong notes in the LH for the last few bars of Alone at Sunset. Correct chord, wrong inversion (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Solari	Dec 9 2010, 01:08 PM Post #602
Unregistered	QUOTE(lois @ Dec 9 2010, 12:17 PM) I have learnt today after finally getting round to listening to the Grade 4 pieces CD that I have been playing the wrong notes in the LH for the last few bars of Alone at Sunset. Correct chord, wrong inversion (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) I found out last night that I'd reverted to the wrong LH fingerings in one bar and also was playing the wrong chord (missing a sharp) in one of my pieces. I still keep playing a C# instead of an A in another piece too, despite drawing a big circle around the offending note! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Benjy	Dec 9 2010, 01:41 PM Post #603
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 260 Joined: 5-January 10 From: UK Member No.: 86293	Still ploughing on with Chopin Etude op 25 no 12. Progress is slow but steady - maybe the smallest pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel. Next up is Brahms Rhapsody op 79 no 1. Jon

Mad Tom	Dec 9 2010, 03:52 PM Post #604
Unregistered	With exam pieces put on one side, all forthcoming events fully prepared, and Brahms Op 118/2 sounding good I took another look at one of my "must play before I die" pieces ... Scriabin's 5th Sonata. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) #$ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) $^& (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) *@! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dust.gif) Ah well - keep practicing - one day it will be do-able. Meanwhile back to Chopin etudes, Rachmaninoff concertos, Liszt transcriptions ... you know ... easy stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Rosie91	Dec 9 2010, 04:55 PM Post #605
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 570 Joined: 10-June 07 Member No.: 11983	I'm practising Scarlatti K427 obsessively. I won't be taking it as fast as this! My teacher introduced it to me as one of her favourite Scarlatti sonatas, but suggested another one that might be 'more manageable'. I love this one, but I'll see how realistic it seems after ten days or so! Another probably unrealistic obsession I might attempt over the holidays is Schubert's Moment Musical no. 2...but I am so in love with this piece I think it might be better to play something else in the meantime and leave this one until I can do it justice with less danger of playing it so badly I get sick of it!

Invidia	Dec 10 2010, 02:26 AM Post #606
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 572 Joined: 29-June 07 From: London Member No.: 12564	My teacher has suggested I learn the Ravel Concerto in G for uni final recital... On one hand I'm thinking great a good reason to learn a concerto properly On the other it will take up space I could fill up with other repertoire... Don't know how to react at the moment!

corenfa	Dec 10 2010, 07:52 AM Post #607
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4222 Joined: 28-March 10 From: Here Member No.: 95861	QUOTE(Invidia @ Dec 10 2010, 02:26 AM) My teacher has suggested I learn the Ravel Concerto in G for uni final recital... On one hand I'm thinking great a good reason to learn a concerto properly On the other it will take up space I could fill up with other repertoire... Don't know how to react at the moment! Well if you think about it, everything you learn takes up space that could be filled with other repertoire (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) it's a bit like saying, ifyou have sausages for dinner you can't have fish & chips. But you could always have fish & chips tomorrow, and you could learn other repertoire later on, if you see what I mean?? OK glibness aside, I suppose if you learnt one big piece where you could otherwise learn 15 smaller ones, you might be giving up variety for the sake of learning one piece really really well. I guess it depends on whether it was more impotrant to you to learn one piece in depth or more pieces with less depth.

Invidia	Dec 11 2010, 12:15 AM Post #608
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 572 Joined: 29-June 07 From: London Member No.: 12564	yeah that makes sense. to be honest I would rather use my time at uni learning a few things well while I have the time and the teachers. so what I think I am going to do is just learn the first movement of the Ravel which is great on its own and carry on with stuff I'm already working on at the same time to get a more varied recital. If I learned the whole concerto that would take up the whole recital, and I already play a LOT of Ravel; in fact I spent the whole of my first year working on Gaspard, so I won't really learn much from just focusing on the concerto.

stetenorve	Dec 11 2010, 08:21 AM Post #609
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2773 Joined: 25-March 09 From: Born and bred in Derby. Now living on the outskirts of Chesterfield. Member No.: 60099	Next lesson is Monday evening, and I'm hoping to look at the exam pieces for grade 3.

Robodoc	Dec 23 2010, 02:23 PM Post #610
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2720 Joined: 30-March 07 From: Chorley, Lancs Member No.: 10431	Having got the Diploma out of the way (at least until the results come through) I am playing a mix of old & new stuff: Some sight reading every day, a little jazz and improvisation, some exercises scales & arpeggios but in terms of pieces: Beethoven, Pathetique sonata. Chopin, Op. 25 no. 2 and no. 9. Debussy, Jardins Sous la Pluie. After that some Gershwin, some Ireland, some more Chopin, some Mozart, some Schumann, some more Debussy, some Rachmaninov, some more Chopin, some Liszt, some Haydn, some more Beethoven, some Brahms, some more Chopin, some Bach . . . not necessarily in that order and not necessarily exclusively! Next lesson 7/1/11

lilly763	Dec 23 2010, 08:11 PM Post #611
Unregistered	QUOTE(Robodoc @ Dec 23 2010, 09:23 AM) Having got the Diploma out of the way (at least until the results come through) I am playing a mix of old & new stuff: Some sight reading every day, a little jazz and improvisation, some exercises scales & arpeggios but in terms of pieces: Beethoven, Pathetique sonata. Chopin, Op. 25 no. 2 and no. 9. Debussy, Jardins Sous la Pluie. After that some Gershwin, some Ireland, some more Chopin, some Mozart, some Schumann, some more Debussy, some Rachmaninov, some more Chopin, some Liszt, some Haydn, some more Beethoven, some Brahms, some more Chopin, some Bach . . . not necessarily in that order and not necessarily exclusively! Next lesson 7/1/11 Any reason for the 6.5 month break from lessons? And nice repertoire (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

sbhoa	Dec 23 2010, 08:53 PM Post #612
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 18918 Joined: 31-October 03 From: Tameside Member No.: 24	QUOTE(lilly763 @ Dec 23 2010, 08:11 PM) QUOTE(Robodoc @ Dec 23 2010, 09:23 AM) Having got the Diploma out of the way (at least until the results come through) I am playing a mix of old & new stuff: Some sight reading every day, a little jazz and improvisation, some exercises scales & arpeggios but in terms of pieces: Beethoven, Pathetique sonata. Chopin, Op. 25 no. 2 and no. 9. Debussy, Jardins Sous la Pluie. After that some Gershwin, some Ireland, some more Chopin, some Mozart, some Schumann, some more Debussy, some Rachmaninov, some more Chopin, some Liszt, some Haydn, some more Beethoven, some Brahms, some more Chopin, some Bach . . . not necessarily in that order and not necessarily exclusively! Next lesson 7/1/11 Any reason for the 6.5 month break from lessons? And nice repertoire (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) That's only 2 weeks. UK style date. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

lilly763	Dec 23 2010, 09:22 PM Post #613
Unregistered	QUOTE(sbhoa @ Dec 23 2010, 03:53 PM) That's only 2 weeks. UK style date. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Ohh, that makes sense now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Forgive an American... was totally reading that date as July 1, 2011...

Robodoc	Dec 24 2010, 11:56 AM Post #614
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2720 Joined: 30-March 07 From: Chorley, Lancs Member No.: 10431	QUOTE(lilly763 @ Dec 23 2010, 08:11 PM) QUOTE(Robodoc @ Dec 23 2010, 09:23 AM) . . . Next lesson 7/1/11 Any reason for the 6.5 month break from lessons? And nice repertoire (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I live in the UK where 7/1/11 is the 7th of January 2011! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (And thank you!)

lilly763	Dec 24 2010, 01:51 PM Post #615
Unregistered	QUOTE(Robodoc @ Dec 24 2010, 06:56 AM) QUOTE(lilly763 @ Dec 23 2010, 08:11 PM) QUOTE(Robodoc @ Dec 23 2010, 09:23 AM) . . . Next lesson 7/1/11 Any reason for the 6.5 month break from lessons? And nice repertoire (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I live in the UK where 7/1/11 is the 7th of January 2011! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (And thank you!) Haha, yes... sbhoa straightened me out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) As for repertoire, I just happened upon a couple of pieces from very long ago and I think I might have some success with them now! Specifically, Mozart K. 457, of which I learned the first two movements to "performable" standard and dabbled with the third, but my performable standard when I was 13/14 was nowhere near what it is now, and Chopin's Nocturne op. 27 no. 2, which was the first Chopin I heard as a track on my very first classical CD when I was 12 or so. The music I'm using now was printed out then, but not really played because it was way too difficult! No... not so much (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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