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Are you underwater, Gill? I saw aerial footage that said Marlow and it looked like an ark full of animals was going to float into view any minute. Hope you're OK!

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But i was under the impression that 'practice makes perfect', especially scales/arpeggios as they are the building blocks of music. And that repeated practice would help to iron out bad habits It's more a question of Practice Makes Permanent. And I know you're not exactly doing this, but when I ask...

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dave brum wrote:So many minuets for so little spondulicks:

http://www.gumtree.com/p/business-servi ... 1043616470

Really made my day!

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dave brum wrote:No trip to Cardiff as originally planned

Oh no! What happened?

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If only I knew of the existence of this video BEFORE I did my ABRSM exams. It puts a whole new angle on the whole concept of sight reading and it would have cleared all of my anxieties on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrRtFxbhTtQ Carrying on and good rhythm, even when you're playing a...

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Just brought a brew into the lounge and caught my wife watching 'Long Haired Lover From Liverpool' which was No1 in England 41 years ago. I wish that bloody executioner would hurry up and pull that lever....... That's a bit harsh, couldn't you try marriage guidance first? :twisted: Oh, sorry, I pre...

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She's gotten back to me. It seems her 'diagnosis' is that again I'm expecting too much of myself too soon. Again, deja-vu. Bur ironically enough, that is NOT in any way shape or form what I was anticipating when I started out again with Amanda. So I shall be arranging another lesson in Cardiff with...

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apparently Christmas is early this year and has caught everyone unawares. And although they haven't had the piano tuned for ten years, it is IMPERATIVE that it's done before Christmas. And they are AMAZED to find that I'm booked up solid...after all, I should have kept my diary clear for the last t...

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From the online news feed of my Local Authority:- Sir Albert Bore, Leader of Birmingham City Council, said: “This time last year I talked to you about ‘the end of local government as I’ve known it’; and this year I am still talking about ‘the end of local government as I’ve known it’, but just to b...

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Wymondham in Norfolk on the A11, pronounced Wyndham. Not that I've ever been there, as far as I'm concerned the land east of the M1 is uncharted territory, a kingdom one only hears about in the mass media and reads about in books. Arr we do be all savages 'ere. We 'as customs of our own, and we don...

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dave brum wrote: and is pronounced 'treezle'!

That's how they'd pronounce your wife's name in Brissle!

We stayed in Stiffkey in Norfolk, pronounced Stewkey.

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dave brum wrote: No I don't like Elvis either. I think he's saft.

Probably is by now. A bit like Beethoven: de-composing

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Would you like back-up requests for the same thing? There was a recording of it by Ben Luxon and Robert Tear, I don't know if it's still available.

Meanwhile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3LcXb6hns

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Talking on here recently about god 'walking his porpoise out' got me thinking about misheard lyrics. Heard loads of them, lots of them have became famous in advertisements (e.g. TDK tapes: 'Me Ears Are Alight' by Desmond Dekker). My two favourites are A-Ha 'The Living Daylights' Bond theme: Comes t...

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Oh, most people who do grade 1 don't know diddly squat about theory. But one really useful thing to latch on to is inversion of intervals - I don't mean that a third below G (E) becomes a third above (B), I mean that if you take a third, G over E, and stick the lower note up an octave, or alternativ...

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Now, I'd call that a failure..... On the contrary - you did read your mark sheet, yes? That tells you a bit more than just "merit", it tells you "stuffed up your scales - OK, only passed them by two marks - apart from which this would be saying Distinction Dave" What would you t...

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Dave, why are you still telling people you failed grade 3? You were two marks shy of a distinction

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God, improvisation - now that would terrify me! You can only avoid sight-reading until grade 5 and after that - wallop! I have one working slowly towards grade 6 TG and I wonder if she'll ever take it. She can sight-read after a fashion, as I didn't let her get away with not reading while she was n...

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Sorry I've had my head in the sand for the past few months - particularly to Gill who must thnk I've died - been thinking of you, honest, will get back soon - but the Community Opera did a performance last week. I know Gill's not going to like this. It was Gilbert & Sullivan. The thing is, I hav...

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lol worth a try! So just to confirm although the flat symbols at the start are not on the same "A" note line, every "A" whichever key "A" is in, has to be a flat? That's right - there are eight As on my piano, imagine having to do a key-signature with four flats and ha...

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Often, though, a slow beat is harder to keep steady than a fast one.

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...just in case you're lurking

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21st December: Winter Solstice http://youtu.be/DL14q_QQQDM This is a song written by two friends of mine, and entered for a carol competition last year (didn'y win unfortunately). I was partocularly proud of this slideshow. I know the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance isns't actually associated with the Sol...

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http://youtu.be/_5xiMgk-ydw
20 December Angels are Everywhere

This was something I composed in 2002, but there's never been a recording with voices. I'm quite pleased with it, though not with the recoirding

Gizzy, confidently expecting the world will still be here by the end of the 21st

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Oy vay, messed up on this one! http://youtu.be/SkehnNhy5rk Last year I put this one out on December 20 as it was the start of Hanukkah. I looked at the calendar and found that this year's Hanukkah FINISHED three days ago. However, it's quite a nice one - took me ages to make, you'll see why when you...

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December 18th - got it in just in time! The Monkey's Carol by Charles Villiers Stanford http://youtu.be/PENQzlJAxAg I loved making this one. I found loads of photos and pictures from Victorian and Edwardian times on the internet and "tinted" them, and I found out more than I ever dreamed o...

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December 17th: Hallelujah, we are the choir!
http://youtu.be/DHmM33lfD-8
I had quite a lot of fun with this - breathing-in-and-out effect in Silent Night, and gradual splitting up in This Little Babe. Not to mention several (increasingly blurred) pictures of my ex in a long white surplice

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Quite a simple pretty one this time
http://youtu.be/Ty8lMECfH9o

Gizzy in Cambridge

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This one was originally one of Joyce Grenfell's Nursery School monologues, but I couldn't get her recording for love nor money, so I did this one myself. I wonder, do I really talk like this?
http://youtu.be/XmmkFPBdx-8

Gizzy, quite relieved only to get them one at a time these days

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Okay, here's today's, it's another set of anagram Christmas song names, with a bit of help from Mr P'doo (see my previous post)
I really enjoyed making this one, especially the one featuring messrs Cameron and Osborne (you'll have to watch it to see what I mean)
http://youtu.be/KT4i39NlE-M

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Sadly I think Gill's right, I just had a quick look, and while one or two of the songs from WSS may be available separately, I think that one only comes in the score. Ah, just looked on ebay. Some sheet music there, but for that song I think you'd have to contact the seller to ask if it was included...

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Posting a letter for 3p....those were the days! This calendar is brilliant Gizzy; however long did it take you to do???????? Once I got going with it, most of my waking hours when I wasn't actually teaching. I didn't even write up lesson notes or anything. I hardly did any cooking. Each one took be...

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http://youtu.be/Uv1f1_cRAlc

This is a very special voice for me - one of my favourite tenors.
And an important carol, since I see Christmas above all as a time for giving

Gizzy in a very cold Cambridge

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http://youtu.be/aQtJOzb1hxY December 12th Carols from the New World I love both these recordings. I've done the Huron Carol with kids in school many times, but never sounded like this. ("Ostinato" is the answer they give to every question you ask, once you've taught them the word). My kids...

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December 11th Winter Sports
http://youtu.be/aytMbVu4HuU

I'm staying indoors!

Gizzy in a frosty Cambridge

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December 10th The Twelve days of Christmas.
Keep an eye on the size of the gift
http://youtu.be/DZ7TmVe5upg

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The Rector where I was playing the organ one Christmas asked if I had the music to We Will Rock You. I was rummaging under Q for Queen before I twigged what he meant... LOL :lol: Sorry this one's late; there'll be two in one go. December 8th Jumbled Songs, the solutions (haven't you solved them yet...

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December 7th. A Christmas Lullaby, We Will Rock You Looks awful (transitions are all black, and I've lost the original so I can't edit it - this is last year's copy) Sounds awful - I just played it on a keyboard, and although I am sure there was no phantom typist in the room when I recorded it, I se...

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OK, today's is one of the funniest songs I know. Unfortunately there aren't too many good recordings of it, and the best by a long way, Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon, isn't available for love or money http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3LcXb6hns btw the answers to last week's Jumbled Songs come up in...

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Gill might want to sit this one out from 2'10" to about 4'40"

Advent Calendar December 5th (Saint Nicholas' Eve) http://youtu.be/PZMAIwSZsac

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Beautiful :) Now I can't get the Carol of the Birds out of my head! I got completely obsessed with Casals' playing of it when I had finished making that one. I found a (rather bad) you-tube video of him playing it on United Nations day after something like 14 years' silence, at the age of 90-someth...

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December 4th. Creatures of the Nativity. Two bits of sugar and a stunning performance of one of the most moving pieces of music I know, from an unlikely source
http://youtu.be/LYnXcblVxYk

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December 3rd. This one's particularly jolly. See if you can spot my little bit of silliness a short way through!
http://youtu.be/pHL1BKh_lKU

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December 2nd, it's one for word-game addicts. Jumbled songs, five Christmas or winter titles in anagram form. You get the tunes as a strong hint, but they're all played over the wrong song title.
Answers come out in a few days' time
http://youtu.be/SvCZmAd-gbY

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(Actually I'm beginning to wonder whether that should read "you both" as there seem to be so few of us here now) I made this advent calendar last year for my pupils. They're all slideshows made using software called Aquasoft, and it started out simply and innocently enough, until they star...

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Colin - Ah, yes, that clarifies it. I taught a child on Alone at Sunset, and I was puzzled by that pedalling. I assumed that although it was counter to what I did when I first played through it, that it was INTENDED to break at the barline - otherwise surely they ought to have just printed what you ...

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I would go along with much of what Colin says, though I'm slightly surprised to read: Hi Jake, For example, around Grade 1-2 standard, the sustain pedal is introduced - BK 2 First Year Piano lessons has some exercises, and good study pieces. (Bk1 is for a beginner). However, the actual application o...

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I don't recognise the exam requirements either It's certainly not any of the "regular" British boards. Sounds like the Royal Conservatory of Music (not British despite the implication behind the name), since I know Alone at Sunset is set for grade 5 in their syllabus. However, they are ver...

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Well, organisation is going very slowly - lots of enthusiastic and approving cooing noises and a couple of singers, but nobody who wants to help me to organise it yet - but I just had my 15 Minutes of Fame, me and Sara Mohr-Pietsch :o) 8) 8) :D 8) 8) I was on Your Call on radio 3 just after 7:30 thi...

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I get an hour lesson every friday by the sea, excelent tuition and nearly finshed the Alfred,s 2 book, starting on ABRSM 2 book next month. I am so happy. :piano; I'm not sure that makes it a "cure" exactly, but it's marvellous medicine and can keep many of the worse symptoms at bay Music...

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