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Adult Beginners Forum
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When you've achieved security at a moderate tempo (say, mm=60) and you're starting to increase the speed, every once in a while during your practice return to mm=60, then back to the faster speed. This will help to keep your playing accurate, and can
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Digital Pianos - Synths & Keyboards
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Seems like every time someone asks about a beginner piano someone will suggest the Casio PX 130. I saw the demo on Kraft music and it sounded pretty good but I am no expert so what do I know. I would like some advice from someone that owns or has pla
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Rachel J - I like the look of your teaching method, I'm currently teaching myself using Alfred, it's a pretty good course but the choice of pieces leaves something to be desired, many are very dull! Your use of classical pieces throughout appeals! On
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Rodmichael, yup I'd say that merits a pass If you're anything like me you can probably play it better than the in the video anyway? I always make more mistakes when recording than when I'm just "playing for me"!
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Originally Posted By: jotur p.s. - kbk, must you?!? Yes, he must - too much sugar maybe... JF
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Piano Forum
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Nothing wrong with either brand. However, a fairer test would be to try a 5'3" Hailun, not a 5'00" against the 5'3" Ritmuller. Regarding your thoughts that they would feel the same, I think you will find that they don't. Especially
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Another really nicely done Bach Prelude David.
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Pianist Corner
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Just wanted to comment on your wonderful choice. This to me is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed.
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Keep playing it slow even when you get it right at a slower tempo. There's something about really having it driven into your brain correctly at the slow tempo that is helpful. And really work on the fingering consistency. Inconsistent fingering will
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Adult Beginners Forum
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bp- A couple of suggestions I've seen the teachers make over in the teachers forum: - read from the bottom up. - keep your eyes moving forward with the pulse. Think of the kids videos where you sing along with the bouncing dot. A suggestion that
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Piano Teachers Forum
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The Wiz is right to insist the ear is more important than the eye but obviously both need to be developed. Wieck taught Clara by ear for the first few years but he was teaching her keyboard harmony not Mrs Mills!
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Digital Pianos - Synths & Keyboards
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Hi, i'd also like to know if the "ivory touch" keys and slightly more powerful speakers are worth the extra £100? I'm not too sure if i prefer the looks of one over the other ( i actually kind of like the silver above the keys on the 730
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Digital Pianos - Synths & Keyboards
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Originally Posted By: library loverI purchased the EVENT ASP8 Powered Monitors on sale at Sam Ash Music for $700 pair demo. They seem to have a problem at my home with the tweeters emitting a high level of noise even ehen nothing are hooked up to th
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Adult Beginners Forum
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Rui725 is right - you'll always want more. Many at PW view learning a piece as a kind of acquisition. In a sense yes, the skill is acquired but the modus operandi is to play the piano. i.e. not whether you win or lose...
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Adult Beginners Forum
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My situation is comparable to yours, and that song is about the only one I'm able to play until the end at the moment. There are various self teaching methods, the one you choose depends on your own preferences. For example there's tutorials on yo
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Adult Beginners Forum
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loveschopintoomuch: I so much envy you. I'm only 24, so naturally I have never seen the great 20th century pianists such as Rubinstein, Horowitz, Richter etc. Elene: I've read a book about dialogs between Horowitz and a Harvard professor of piano's
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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The first scale is very very interesting. Some of these scales are so exotic and harmonically ambiguous that really jumbles my mind. Of course, trying to categorize these scales into the Western harmonics is a pretty futile effort, as most Eastern
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Piano Forum
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hi everyone, i am a newbie here, my 13yr old daughter has just begun taking piano lessons and after looking around, i settled for a used yamaha UX ( 52" ) upright with a serial number in the 6,XXX,XXX range, i looked it up on the net and it is
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: xtraheatAre those double note glissandos in the third movement even possible? Are you talking about those passages where you are supposed to play seconds with fingers on the cracks between the notes? I assume they are possibl
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Piano Forum
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Just browsing.......and just wanted to say that this is an EXTREMELY interesting thread. If I were out there, I'd go and check out this piano, not to buy it but just out of curiosity after all that's been said on here. Speaking as an amateur observe
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Piano Forum
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Originally Posted By: Marty Flinn......For those that consider resale, buyers for used 9' pianos that don't say Steinway & Sons, Mason & Hamlin, Yamaha, Kawai, or perhaps Bechstein are slim and none in the U.S. Just a question about this par
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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What I do is use programs like Transcribe! and listen to it over and over again. Transcribe can actually give you an 'estimate' of what notes are being played, so that's a good start. The next step is to hear the top and bottom note of that voicing
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Piano Teachers Forum
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Originally Posted By: Wizard of OzCarol is trying to get the kid to sight-read more and learn "proper" fingering. I say hogwash!! If the kid can play that well, by just listening to a song once, why bother to change the method. Encourage
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Pianist Corner - Non Classical
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So I guess as far as major triads are concerned the possible slash chords are Db/C-Inversion of Dbmaj7 D/C-Inversion ofD7 Eb/C-Cmin7 or Ebmaj6 inversion E/C-Cmaj7#5 F/C-inversion of F triad Gb/C-C7b9#11 G/C-inversion of Cmaj triad Ab/C-Inversion of
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Pianist Corner
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Originally Posted By: HorowitzianIn general, I don't think music by Debussy and his Impressionist contemporaries admits well to being forcibly removed from it's intended instrument. Debussy wrote La Mer for orchestra for a reason; same with his pian
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