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by vladimirdounin
31 Jul 2021, 21:28
Forum: Piano Showcase
Topic: Concert consisting of your requests
Replies: 0
Views: 5259

Concert consisting of your requests

In the USSR there was a popular radio program: "Concert consisting of requests of radio listeners." Many listened to it with pleasure. I want to do a similar Internet concert on my page. I invite everyone who is interested in my music to write requests at the bottom of this page (in the co...
by vladimirdounin
27 Jul 2021, 10:29
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: Unbelievable story of Russian Song No 11
Replies: 1
Views: 3625

Unbelievable story of Russian Song No 11

https://vk.com/video487582480_456239032 Tchaikovsky's Children's Album is one of the most popular works in the world. Every pianist on the planet has probably played at least some pieces from this album. The album consists of 24 pieces, most of which are known, loved and, of course, played in every ...
by vladimirdounin
18 Apr 2019, 05:26
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: "Rule, Britannia!" - right and wrong way to perform
Replies: 2
Views: 9134

Re: "Rule, Britannia!" - right and wrong way to perform

Triplets are quite tricky. Accent can on be on ANY of three notes of the triplets.
by vladimirdounin
17 Apr 2019, 16:47
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: "Rule, Britannia!" - right and wrong way to perform
Replies: 2
Views: 9134

"Rule, Britannia!" - right and wrong way to perform

Today, many music schools and bad teachers stamp musicians with the same defect. They teach all musicians (including singers) that notes on the counts "one" and "three" must be louder than others. If you are going to perform all your life only soldiers' songs and marches, then yo...
by vladimirdounin
17 Apr 2019, 15:24
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: 20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.
Replies: 5
Views: 11470

Re: 20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.

Stresses in lyrics and in music of the song USUALLY do not coincide. They should be different. Otherwise singing turns into speaking like it usually happens, for example, when children sing "Jingle Bells". They sing only first vowel in the bar and then just speak all the rest syllables of ...
by vladimirdounin
15 Apr 2019, 21:37
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: 20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.
Replies: 5
Views: 11470

Re: 20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.

You do not need to listen to all 25 songs, of course. You can choose just something of your interest: for example, only Old McDonald and Happy Birthday To You or only Bach's and other Baroque works, or only jazzy pieces. It is entirely up to you. Each piece is recorded TWICE. The first time - it is ...
by vladimirdounin
15 Apr 2019, 11:11
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: 20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.
Replies: 5
Views: 11470

20+ songs with the same mistake before and without it after the lesson.

Recently, a "young piano teacher" sent me recordings of 20+ songs along with the question: why do they sound boring, although all the notes and rhythm are perfectly correct? In all these recordings, I found only ONE the same mistake that almost all pianists make today. But this mistake, as...
by vladimirdounin
05 Mar 2019, 15:32
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: "Fur Elise" by Beethoven. Common mistakes to avoid.
Replies: 2
Views: 8371

Re: "Fur Elise" by Beethoven. Common mistakes to avoid.

I wish you good luck in making friends with "Fur Elise".
If you have any problem - let me know here or by email
vladimir_and_ music@yahoo.com

I am going to test a project of teaching on the Internet.
by vladimirdounin
03 Mar 2019, 04:11
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: "Fur Elise" by Beethoven. Common mistakes to avoid.
Replies: 2
Views: 8371

"Fur Elise" by Beethoven. Common mistakes to avoid.

Let's imagine that you are a composer and you demand in court to exact (collect) $ 100,000 from me for defaming your good name and undermining your business. You claim that I'm doing this, playing fake notes and a fake rhythm on my record of your composition. I say that I play everything exactly as ...
by vladimirdounin
20 Jul 2018, 22:19
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: A Musical Test for those who can count up to four
Replies: 0
Views: 13047

A Musical Test for those who can count up to four

I always say that a musician should be able to read sheet music and understand what is written by the composer. But today people are laughing at such naive people, they say that it's much easier to take a recording of a celebrity and just copy by ear what sounds on celebrity's record. Recently, five...
by vladimirdounin
08 Nov 2017, 09:10
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: Only Schumann's Traumerei at AUTHENTIC Tempo
Replies: 0
Views: 13093

Only Schumann's Traumerei at AUTHENTIC Tempo

The only recording  in the world of Schumann's "Traumerei" at the correct,  AUTHENTIC  "Tempo = 100",  indicated  by Schumann instead of the usual "tempo for funeral". Can we imagine that instead of light-hearted,  joyful  "Jingle Bells"  everyone in the world...
by vladimirdounin
07 Jan 2007, 06:11
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

"I am free - you are not"

Dear Andrew, Thanks for this very interesting information. I could not listen to yourScriabin because it always says to me: Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest flash player. I downloaded this LATEST FLASH PLAYER 4 times - it say...
by vladimirdounin
05 Jan 2007, 19:04
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

"I am free - you are NOT! You are brainwashed - I am no

Dear Andrew, Maybe these quotes from my correspondents will be interesting for you and other Forum readers. By the way, I am still waiting for your comments on "STYLE" as a LASH OF SLAVERY"! All the best! Vladimir "A lot of what you are saying sounds like Godowsky's teaching meth...
by vladimirdounin
05 Jan 2007, 12:57
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

Dear Andrew, Thank you for your listening to my recordings and your comments. I do not object them - it is a FUN for me to play with LEFT accentuation for a change. And, probably, I pay too much attention to this variant forgetting the necessary ballance between both paterns. Do you know: all of us-...
by vladimirdounin
04 Jan 2007, 15:37
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

Habitual accents (without thought) are usually a negative thing, regardless of what beat they arrive on. A vocal line is not a series of strong or weak points. It's a smooth line that usually leads to one particular peak. A feel for connection between notes, that is developed by careful listening, ...
by vladimirdounin
03 Jan 2007, 17:16
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

My answer to Andrew

Dear Andrew, Thank you very much for your very deep-inside and interesting answer. Tell me please, what would you recommend for the person, who overdeveloped his Right arm and leg, while the opposite arm and leg have practically no muscles and are just hanging from the body without any use? This is ...
by vladimirdounin
03 Jan 2007, 16:55
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: "STYLE" in performance as a LASH OF SLAVERY!
Replies: 0
Views: 4631

"STYLE" in performance as a LASH OF SLAVERY!

Formerly:The meaning and importance of “STYLE” in performance. Now revised and complete. (Personal experience: very long and very boring like always) Before 1981 I had a fantastically nice and interesting life: I was a pianist free-lancer. Everyone knows that two things always poison our life: our b...
by vladimirdounin
01 Jan 2007, 18:45
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!
Replies: 12
Views: 18405

I am free - you are NOT ! You are brainwashed - I am not!

I am free - you are not ! You are brainwashed – I am not ! You are still under musical ‘Soviet’ occupation ! I want to discuss the problem that undermines and ruins our business like nothing else does on Earth. At the same time, this problem is still “invisible” for many pianists. Question : Can a p...
by vladimirdounin
20 Jul 2005, 06:55
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: Congrats! We just made history.("Fur Elise", "
Replies: 0
Views: 8773

Congrats! We just made history.("Fur Elise", "

Congratulations! We just made history. (“For Elise”, “Moonlight” by Beethoven). Dear Colleagues, First of all, please allow me to congratulate each of you who answered my questions, as well as this wonderful Forum and myself, because in the last week we altogether started at least a new chapter in t...
by vladimirdounin
15 Jul 2005, 13:31
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: Beautiful way to play favorites by Beethoven.
Replies: 1
Views: 6210

Beautiful way to play favorites by Beethoven.

My performing and teaching work is based on an accurate indication of Note Strength. Without playing, just by looking at any score for the first time, any of my student or choir member (my other work - chorus master in opera companies) can say about each note - whether it should be played louder or ...
by vladimirdounin
13 Jul 2005, 21:28
Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
Topic: Accurate indication of Note Strength
Replies: 1
Views: 6038

Accurate indication of Note Strength

I am used to an accurate indication of note strength in my teaching and performing work. (By this I mean that my students and me always know about each particular note in any sequence of notes or chords, whether this note should be played louder or softer in relation to the previous and the followin...