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What about the 2nd Glazunov Impromptu? It's 6 pages long but there's a fair bit of repetition throughout.

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Hey Guys!
What a brilliant suprise! Thank you all of you and thanks Dave me ol' mate for organizing it! I shall make sure the little lady sees all your messages in the morning before she goes to school. As for me, I'm still trying to work out how a decade could have evaporated so quickly!

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Evening Dave et al! It's music to a piano teacher's ears to hear you all enjoying your learning and playing so much. As Dave says, I'm Grade 8 plus (honours degree and performance diplomas to be precise) but I will NEVER reach the stage where I feel I know enough to stop learning. If I do, my husban...

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I'm thoroughly looking forward to the Ravel. It is one of the first pieces I ever heard my duet partner play all those eons ago at college. Roll on September! I played the Gminor rhapsody donkey's years ago as a teenager and just to prove my advancing years, I had a senior moment when I said I was g...

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I've been working on the Prelude from Bach's English Suite No3 and a really lovely Impromptu by Glazunov. My fingers are itching to get started on my next projects - the Gavotte from the same English Suite, Ravel's Sonatine and one of the Brahms' Rhapsodies but they are going to have to wait until t...

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I just wondered whether it was music, education or psychology.

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I pay £45 to my tuner who is Steinway tuned and travels a ridiculous distance from the other side of the county to see me. He's the best tuner I've had in the last 40 years and worth far more than he charges. Not only do I ply him with Earl Grey as soon as he walks through my door, I also ...

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Nobody likes exams! You just have to get on with it, it's all over in 10 minutes. The last exam I took was grade 3 several years ago, before I stopped bothering with them. I think i got 141/150. I was chuffed! If it's any consolation to you, I was up at our local exam centre yesterday accompanying ...

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Hi Lee
What course are you studying?

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They obviously haven't heard MY style of playing!

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Definitely won't be Bach!

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Especially if I played Catachurian!

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Indeed, dear chap! A thought just ocurred to me - perhaps I ought to get my violin out it's case again and give them a tast of their own medicine, then perhaps they'd stay off the joanna!

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My piano's scared of the cats - bloody things will NOT stay off it!

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Gill the Piano wrote:This thigh-playing, Dave; your thigh or someone else's? Just wondered...

Ah, Gill, would that be the alternative Thighs (Thaiis) Meditation, then?

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I get plenty of those even when I'm not doing anything!

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Have you ever wondered how you always end up with the whole seat to yourself, Dave?

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Have you ever heard of the concept of "armchair practice", Dave? It requires a reasonable degree of concentration but you basically practice with the score away from the keyboard, ie, you "play" the piece in your mind. It does away with non cooperative fingers (but doesn't do muc...

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Has anybody used the Alfred's Basic Adult Beginners Course, and if so, what did you think of it (either as a teacher or as a pupil)?

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Dave, the only difference between someone having a bad practice for Grade 1 and someone having a bad practice at post degree level is that the more advanced practicee cocks it up for longer and has fistfuls of more wrong notes and dire sounds! After years of swearing, throwing paddies and banging my...

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Chuffing tragic. And all the time, Polish colleges are turning out technicians. There is a real lack of respect for this profession in this country. In Germany, piano technicians are treated like royalty. Can I join in on the professional forum please then Barrie!? PG PG, I have the utmost respect ...

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38? 42? Pah! Gentlemen, you are mere babes in this game! My gran started having lessons at 72 because she wanted to be able to play Onward Christian Soldiers and the oldest pupil I have ever taken on was a chap of 78 who wanted to be able to play Dambusters!
(Could explain my mental state

)

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Believe me, Dave, 8 or 38 makes no difference in the overall scheme of things! After nearly 42 years at this lark, the only difference between you and me is that my finger wiggling problems are more complicated!! You're doing fantastically - don't be impatient!

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Hubby's just suggested it depends where you insert it

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Aren't the wrong notes the ones the composer forgot to write down when he was sticking all the others on the manuscript? My metronome has two very useful functions: a) It hides the scratch the wretched cat put on the casework when it was chasing a daddy long legs. b) It's one less spot to have to du...

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How about just having a go at the left hand on its own to familiarise yourself with the sound of it, especially since the left hand has the tune and is the part you're going to want to bring out in this piece. Make sure you have the correct hand position before you start then try to think in terms o...

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Nope, dear chap. It just means that you read all the notes as written but rather than having loads of ledger lines because the left hand is playing above middle C, both hands are written in the treble clef, ie what you would normally play in the right hand is still the same but your left hand is jus...

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Whilst listening to Sugar Plum Fairy?

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Mine'll be Earl Konig-rey, please.

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Dave, just check there isn't any Haydn in the back of the fridge and I'll add it to the Liszt!

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Anyone for a Beerthoven?

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If it's fish you fancy you could always go DIY and Khatcha Churian

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Ah, Pomme and Circumstance!
We've just been listening to Margheritta Thingy on Classic FM. She thinks she has the gift of the gab, we just wish she'd shut up!

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Vernon, don't you mean Ross(t)ini Byrd?

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Sorry Guys, this one's just occurred to me. Tonight's culinary offering is one of Mr Celestite's prawn stir fries. Guess we ought to chill to a little Praughan Williams as we dine!

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Indeed Vernon, indeed! We have a cabinet (it used to be a set of shelves until our toddler started helping himself - it now has locked doors on the front!) which contains 100 opened bottles of different malts which can be replaced when empty, plus another 50 or so dotted around the place, opened but...

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Just a little insight into the minds of your customers, Mr SussexPianos? Bet you just never knew what was lurking in the grey matter between our ears, did you, dear boy?!

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Hi Nat Our Music Services operate through our local county council so you could start by contacting them and finding out how they provide peri teachers in their local schools. The interview I had with ours involved an audition where I had to play a couple of pieces on my first instrument (they didn'...

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Hi Nat Our Music Services operate through our local county council so you could start by contacting them and finding out how they provide peri teachers in their local schools. The interview I had with ours involved an audition where I had to play a couple of pieces on my first instrument (they didn'...

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Evening all! I am coming under increasing pressure to start performing in public again but the nightmares I go through before hand (and during) my public performances are just horrendous. I so want to give in to the pressure and be able to enjoy the experience a little into the bargain so I am start...

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I've been meaning to consult a homeopath for all sorts of reasons for quite some time now. Perhaps it's time I stopped procrastinating........

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Hi Gill Thanks for the advice, sorry it's taken so long to respond - life, kids, the universe, you know how it goes! I'm a big fan of homeopathy and the Bach remedies but I think mine is a psychological rather than a physiological problem and I don't have great enough mental control to get control o...

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Ok Guys, moving on from the motivation theme, I'm now faced with another dilemma. Having got myself playing for 90 mins. most days and had another meeting with my mentor, she's now asking me to take part a) in her pupil concert in June and b) in an EPTA recital in October for accompnists. I've whimp...

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You under sell yourself. The secret is to pretend you're practicing and that takes the pressure off. I find it extremely nerve racking playing to hubby, he is used to listening to the great pianists and has a very discerning ear, but if I'm just practicing and then go on to play the piece all the wa...

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Yoh, Dave! Next stop Carnegie Hall! Well done, old bean!

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http://www.whiskybembel.de/L/07.gif Back to the original thread and my dear little coffin lady, I now know where she gets it from. Her mother phoned me this afternoon with the most original excuse I've ever had for cancelling a lesson. She informs me her daughter will not be coming for her lesson t...

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I had a tuner visiting recently who told me that most don't, he said it interferes with the ability to listen to the sound of the instrument, rather than the sound of the music. "Now! tuners who don't play tend to tune longer and tend not to suffer tinnitus later on but I know of a few who pla...

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Hmm, I don't know about blissful silence, but I certainly seem to have the knack of bringing about stunned silences! You must be some sort of wonder woman, Gill - not only are you one of those very rare tuners who plays aswell, you also have a book on crystals. Does this mean you have a passion for ...

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I just had to share this little gem with you all! One of my dear pupils went to a local museum on a school trip today and then came up for her piano lesson. Showing a general interest in her day, like the dutiful teacher I am, I asked her what she'd liked best in the museum to which she replied &quo...

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Hi Nat Pam Wedgewood has devised a series of books called "Up-Grade" which are specifically designed to be grade appropriate material to bridge the gap between each grade. You could also look at ABRSM's Keyboard Anthology Series which again is in graded volumes and covers repertoire throug...

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