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praise, reviewing is always a good strategy! as far as the G position, it's just something that will take a little practice and you'll be fine.....it's funny I just had a similar issue, while learning 'London Bridge' the whole right hand moves one key to the right, so while reading the treble cleff, when I see a note on the bottom line (the E line) my mind automatically says "ok, that's the middle finger!" but it was in fact my index, so that was a little tricky.....but after some repetition I got my brain on track so...moral of the story: keep practicing and you'll get it... hope all goes well with you, keep us updated! Zak
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my poor wrists are killing me to the point where I am gonna use the linement..... I have a lesson with a new piano teacher tomorrow. I spent 2 hours on the practice keyboard then half and hour on the live one,then tore down a show with my boyfriend. I now have one piece down to the point where I had it before I hit the road and the other close to it. the bad news,.Not used to seeing a C sharp. I put my paw on the key and but the brain and hand just freeze.
Am I am the only one who freezes like that?
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Originally posted by Dave123: You started about the same time I did, I only started with Alfred's when I started taking lessons. I took a backward step when I realised that I couldn't just buy a book and learn myself so I decided to get the lessons and Alfred's is what he wanted to use . Do you have a link for the site you found, as I do need to get better at sight reading the notes, I have a tendency to recognise the intervals, my teacher doesn't think that's all bad but (there is always a but ) I should spend some time learning them. I don't think you got an answer to this question. If this isn't the same site she mentioned, I would be surprised. It's a daily stop for me until I consistently get 100's. Which I still don't, after a month. http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/pianoKeys.html
Casio Ap-200 Almost midway thru Alfred's All-In-One Book Two Blogging my family's piano learning experiences: http://aw2pp.blogspot.com/
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Originally posted by mom3gram: You all are scaring me! I just started "London Bridge", so I'm only two songs away from "Blow the Man Down". I haven't actually looked at it yet. I've seen several of you struggle through it and eventually come out the other end successfully, so I hope I can do it too. I'm working on my own, so I'll have no one to ask for help. I guess we'll see in a few days. Jillian says remembers me playing Blow the Man Down many, many times.
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Originally posted by Always Wanted to Play Piano: Originally posted by Dave123: [b] You started about the same time I did, I only started with Alfred's when I started taking lessons. I took a backward step when I realised that I couldn't just buy a book and learn myself so I decided to get the lessons and Alfred's is what he wanted to use . Do you have a link for the site you found, as I do need to get better at sight reading the notes, I have a tendency to recognise the intervals, my teacher doesn't think that's all bad but (there is always a but ) I should spend some time learning them. I don't think you got an answer to this question. If this isn't the same site she mentioned, I would be surprised. It's a daily stop for me until I consistently get 100's. Which I still don't, after a month.
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/pianoKeys.html [/b]Thank you, cool program
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Originally posted by Muzak: I have a feeling tomorrow my curiosity will get the better of me and i'll start on Blow the Man Down lol....those hanon exercises are good, especially the sixth.....with my right hand i do great moving up the keyboard but when its time to start heading back down to the left....well...my pinky kinda struggles hahaa..... Same here. key notes do you take any lessons? if so how frequent and what do you guys typically spend your time working on??
Zak [/QUOTE] I'm teaching myself at the moment. Perhaps somewhere down the road. Key Notes
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Nice program AWTPP. I'm having fun playing with it. Thanks! How are you doing? What songs are you working on right now? Key Notes
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Hi, Key Notes. I was gone all last week, so did not practice at all on Scarborough Fair. Nevertheless, when I returned, I found I had actually improved during my week off. I played it again this morning before work, and made it through like three times in a row without errors. That's good for me! (Even when I get things "down", I still tend to make a flub or two.)
Thing is, this piece supposedly requires a lot of pedaling. But when I do the pedaling correctly, the extent to which our piano is out of tune becomes painfully clear.
Next up: Raisins and Almonds.
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I'm finally making a big push to move out of Book 1 and onto Book 2, I have Book 2 here awaiting my attention, I'm trying to abstain from being side tracked by playing music outside of the Alfred's book. As a self-learner I do not have the luxury of a teacher to guide me, therefore, I have to adhere rigidly to the Alfred's programme missing nothing out. Before I move on my aim is to play through all pieces, at least once, going back to "O solo mio", including pedaling, error free and without ever looking down. Although the Theory in the book would be considered basic I'm going through it "off piano" just in case I've missed anything. I've had a shuftie into Book 2 and I think my progress through that book will be somewhat speedier than my progress through Book 1, mainly because the music in it is more to my liking.
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crusader, my plan is similar, although you are a month or three ahead of me. I figure it will take me maybe another six weeks to get through the last handful of pieces, after which time I will go back (probably further than you) and see if I can perfect some of the pieces I gave up on earlier.
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crusader, my plan is similar, although you are a month or three ahead of me. I figure it will take me maybe another six weeks to get through the last handful of pieces, after which time I will go back (probably further than you) and see if I can perfect some of the pieces I gave up on earlier. Hi AWPP, I have to confess that I haven't given my piano practice the time it deserved, and I've been away from a piano for a number of weeks also, although it amazes me how much easier some pieces are if I leave them alone for awhile; perhaps a Shrink could enlighten us as regards to that phenomenon? When you revisit the earlier pieces in the book they are much easier than when you first encountered them, which is perhaps indicative of what a good progressive method the Alfred's are.
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Originally posted by Always Wanted to Play Piano: Hi, Key Notes. I was gone all last week, so did not practice at all on Scarborough Fair. Nevertheless, when I returned, I found I had actually improved during my week off. I played it again this morning before work, and made it through like three times in a row without errors. That's good for me! (Even when I get things "down", I still tend to make a flub or two.)
Thing is, this piece supposedly requires a lot of pedaling. But when I do the pedaling correctly, the extent to which our piano is out of tune becomes painfully clear.
Next up: Raisins and Almonds. Sounds like you are making great progress AWTPP. Good for you! Yes, I'm still amazed at how well I can retain and even improved whenever I return from a day or two breaks from the keyboard. It goes to show once again how amazing our brain powers are, they obviously continued to process and work through problems, be it conciously or subconsciously even when we are away from the keyboards. I'm looking forward to the pedalling challenges of Scarborough Fair. Thanks for the heads-up. And I'm glad to report that I'm making head-way with "Blow the Man Down". It sure is a hard one in terms of HT cordinations. I think I must've repeated it a million times in the two hours that I worked on it last night, and with so much concentrations that I caught myself with shoulders all tensed up and exhausted wrisks afterwards. Please remember to come back as an experienced alum and give us pointers once in a while. I can definitely use the help. I like your solid plans, especially to revisit and review book 1 away from the piano. It's a fantastic idea which I'll also learn from and adopt once I'm finished with mine. Keep up the good work my fellow classmates, and good luck with book 2 crusader! Key Notes
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Always Wanted to Play Piano:Check out this link to another thread in the forum. Randall Faber is giving a free piano recital in Chicago this Friday. I saw you posted in your blog that your daughter wanted to see a recital. I recently took my daughter to one here in Miami and she enjoyed it a lot. http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/26/39.html Regards.
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Hello again. I see everyone's making progess, and also a warm welcome to those who have joined this thread over the past few weeks. Here's an update from my end.
Key Notes, I'm finishing up Kum-Ba-Yah, London Bridge & Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, but I gave "Blow the Man Down" a first shot this weekend. Ouch. This is the hardest one so far and the first one that tenses me up trying to get HT to work. I actually like the silly song a lot, but lets see how I feel after a gazillion repetitions.
Mom3Gram, How are you? I think we will both be spending a lot of time on "Blow the Man Down". I think I read in a recent post you were just getting to that point. Good luck with it. You too, Key Notes, although I'm sure you will conquer it quickly.
My side trips these past two weeks were to work through a few simple songs in one of my daughter's earlier repertoire books. A simple and very nice german lullaby called "Sleep, Baby, Sleep", a lively french tune, "Vive la Compangie", and I'm ok with Czerny Op.599 #11 so I moved on to exercises 12 & 13. None of these are specifically related to the challenge of the moment being taught in the Alfred's book, just easy pieces that catch my eye (or is that ear).
I seem to have developed a thing for Russian and Hungarian folk songs. I have no idea how, but everyone I hear makes me want to play it. I guess it comes from liking those pieces in violin. I just heard a piece from Alfred's book 2 played by John Frank in the June Piano Bar. It is a great song and I'm going to try it and see how hard it is, even though it is beyond my current spot in Alfred's Book 1.
Oh, I am also trying to figure out the best way to make/post recordings. I don't want to spend the cash for a zoom H2, much less anything even more complex or expensive. Anybody here recording their songs? How?
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I'm looking forward to the pedalling challenges of Scarborough Fair Hi Key Notes, Just a few weeks ago I was having difficulty with pedaling in "Scarborough Fair", now I can't undestand why. It's all down to focusing and practicing...and resting!! One advantage of a DP is I can wear my headphones and bloke out everything else around me...focus....practice. By the way, the pedaling in "Raisins and Almonds" is much easier.
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I've been holding off on my practice as I'm awaiting my new Roland FP7 to play on. It should be here tomorrow. Finally a weighted full size digital instead of my unweighted 61 key Yamaha starter piano I got for Christmas.
I'll head back towards the beginning of the book and review pieces when I get it to help get used to the new piano.
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I started "Blow the Man Down" last night. Yikes! There is a LOT more HT in this song than anything I've ever tried. I feel so slow and uncoordinated. I think I will be on this one for a long time.
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Originally posted by redeagle: [b]Always Wanted to Play Piano:Check out this link to another thread in the forum. Randall Faber is giving a free piano recital in Chicago this Friday. I saw you posted in your blog that your daughter wanted to see a recital. I recently took my daughter to one here in Miami and she enjoyed it a lot. http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/26/39.html Regards. [/b] Thanks, Redeagle, I will certainly check this out.
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Originally posted by mom3gram: I started "Blow the Man Down" last night. Yikes! There is a LOT more HT in this song than anything I've ever tried. I feel so slow and uncoordinated. I think I will be on this one for a long time. It's one of the tough ones, thats for sure.
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I had my first lesson yesterday....she said she was amazed I haven't had any lessons so that was a definite confidence boost, but that's probably the most I got out of it. I mean it went alright, we went ahead in the book 'n looked at the fingering and timing for some of the upcoming songs, but, I'm just not sure it's worth the $$ for me.
Maybe if I start getting stuck on songs or start losing motivation it could be beneficial but for now I'm just not sure if I'll go back anytime soon. I will say the one positive is since we flipped ahead, I'm now working on three or four songs and it's fun to have the variety. Also, she has a Kawai grand and that was my first time playing on a grand which was alot of fun. But yeah, the lesson confirmed it: I'm definitely of the self-learning variety haha....
good luck with your current songs everybody!
Zak
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