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Welcome back Nutroast! :D Its nice to see you are ok and still around, I did miss you. it's been Ruddyhard, but I'm still here, still practicing and (just about) smiling. Tis true, life has been ruddy hard :x ...hope everthing is ok and you are still enjoying your pratice. I did grade 2 last Thusday...

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Thanks for that detailed account of your exam, Annacakes :) Like one of my piano lesson blogs a bit!!! 'WAIT THERE TILL THE EXAMINER CALLS YOU'!!!' I wonder if she would have said that if you were a little girl of about seven on tenterhooks, or an elderly lady or man (in the case of the latter she ...

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markymark wrote:Quite a lot of reflection comes of the polished ebony and brass - wonder why?

Mr Sheen?

...no wait, wouldn't that be bad for it?!

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Awwwww Thanks guys! Sorry for late reply had to make dinner and have a rest before blogging! So I won’t keep you waiting anymore, I'm going to go into detail for Dave and anyone else eager to know how it went! Well I walked to the house, I don’t think it was the examiner’s well, it might have been b...

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awwwww thanks guys!

See my exam topic Grade 2 july 9 -OMG for how it went! Makes sense to put it in there I think, sorry you need to move topics.

Please click here: http://www.uk-piano.org/piano-forums/vi ... f=7&t=7330

btw Hi Stuart I hope you did well too!

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Hi Dave That’s great! Very well played I think, even though I’m not familiar with the piece. But you played it really nicely and the dynamics between the hands were very good! :D Bravo! So cool you did it, and you were once nervous about playing in front of one of your friends? *claps* * throws some...

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Thanks guys :) for the good luck hope it pays off! Last lesson tomorrow before the exam! Aaaaaaahhgggg hope the lesson goes well and I don’t mess up to much in front of teacher, or she will be like OMG by student will fail! Ha ha ... :cry: Here is my prediction on what I will do worse at: sight read...

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This is an interesting topic and here are some of my thoughts. When I learn a new piece it takes me a while to play it ok, so by the time I have sorted out the technical side of the piece like fingering and any other things I find difficult, the piece is virtually memorised. Stetting a target or mil...

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my best course of action to take would be to unofficially do a Grade 1 SSR exercise immediately before I tackle the daily G2 Paul Harris that Britney's got me on. Yes that's a great way to see if you can do it and thats what I did. I made my teacher wait a while, I told her I was still below grade ...

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Hi Dave, :) Do a bit of sight reading everyday! Moaning about it won’t make it happen, you need to overcome the pain barrier for this. Can you read a grade 1 sight reading piece ok without many mistakes? if you can then carry on the the grade 2 sight reading. If not I think it’s best to go back a bi...

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Hi Marky My teacher said ‘you’ll do fine’ last lesson so I think she must have some faith in me passing, I only really want to get a pass; a higher mark will be a bonus. I just want this exam over with so I can work on repertoire and technique with her, which I’m sure she would rather do now as well...

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I had hoped I might get through one grade per year... ha ha ha... what was I thinking! Hi Kim nice to hear from you agin! I thought about doing a grade a year too and metioned doing grade 3 next year but my teacher thinks its too soon. I will be happy to to see the back of this grade 2, can't wait ...

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Hi Dave That’s so cool! Are you really going to do it? Is it a proper concert or a get together with her other students? It’s funny you should mention that, my teacher asked me if I wanted to play in a concert too! But I’m not sure about doing it, or what I would have to play, its in my local town. ...

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I simply use the term to be specific when talking about pianos. If I was going into shops that sell only the real thing then I would say piano – I use the word acoustic piano to separate the real ones from the imposters. My teacher calls my digital piano a ‘keyboard’ even though she knows it’s not a...

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Thanks for that Dave and Gill I will keep your advice in mind. I don't like eating in the morning much anyway so theres no problem of me eating to many carbs - I might try a banana like you said. And thanks dave for the 'good luck!' , I will try to give a detailed account of how it goes so you will ...

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Hi everyone, :) Haven’t been on here for a while been busy and had a lot happen that made me unable to come on here and blog away. Just an update on my progress, I have my exam on Thursday July the 9th at 11.25, about a 25 minute walk away, I think it’s in the examiner’s house had a look on Google s...

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Hi all How have we been then? Just had my first week at work and have been really busy! Only just looked at my emails today. Sorry you won’t see me on here that much anymore as after about 9 hours staring at a computer screen everyday its one of the last things I want to do when I get home. I found ...

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Helloooooo!! Anna, well done on getting an internship!!!! That is FANTASTIC news!!! And well done for progressing so much on piano! Grade 2 in July, how exciting!!! Its so great that you are playing Chopin too, I've never played any as I thought all his stuff would be Grade 8+! What pieces by him h...

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Welcome back Abi!! We've really missed you and in the time you've been away things have happened, notably that myself and Anna have met each other! (I have the photos so if Anna doesn't mind, I could send them 2u via email! - Pm me) Hi Dave Yes you can send the pics of me to Abi I don't mind. But I...

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Hi I have been learning the piano for a year and 4 months, and I get nerves too when playing in front of my teacher, although I would say it’s a more excited, self conscious kind of nervous rather then afraid. Often when I can play a piece or scales etc fine at home it often goes all over the place ...

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YAY! :D Hello Abi I missed you! wondered where you went, but now you explained it, it all makes sense. Not that much has happened to me, I was STILL out of work but just only yesterday I have been offered a 2 month internship, with the possibly of fulltime employment after maybe. So I’m very very re...

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Yey hope you enjoy your lessons too, and most importantly you get on with your teacher! :wink: I’ll wish you luck on Wednesday, I be working when you have your lesson so will catch up with you on here when I get home. Just remember now matter how much practice you do and how well you can play the pi...

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I shall google Markson pianos after this - and if it's near Euston we could possibly meet up again as it only takes 90 mins to get to Euston from Birmingham New Street on the Pendolino express train! Oh and that programme on Purcell was great in HD, you would have loved it! I liked the bit with Gwy...

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Well, it's that time of the year again! Are we ever going to see any singer-pianists (remember Jan Teigen from 1978?) ever again? I think Andrew Loyd Webber is going to play the piano for the song he composed, so it will be him and Jade performing. I will watch that that bit and some others but not...

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I'm finding You Tube to be a good scorce of infomation for classical music too. Just type in say: 'Chopin prelude in B minor' and you can hear all kinds for performances of it by well know pianists to pros, students, to amateur.

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Hello Dave and Hello Carol! Nice to meet you, all the way from America! Yes it was fun meeting up with Dave just before Christmas and we went to Chappell of Bond street ( music shop in London) and annoyed the sales people by playing on the pianos for about an hour! (Poor Teresa, Dave’s wife got bore...

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Thank you very much for your replys everyone. I see there are some mixed opinions on this, obliviously it would be good for me to go and have a look at and play on some of these pianos and see for myself, at least to see how they sound etc. I noticed a lot of you said they are expensive, how expensi...

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The 370 was nice, because it didn't scream so much, and the Natural Wood keyboard had a nice weight. One thing, although it had the same weight as a grand piano on impact if you like, the key doesn't return as quickly and I became tired playing it. However, it seems to me that the 370 is the best v...

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Hi Does anyone on here have a Pleyel Piano or have any of you ‘Action men’ and ladies (piano techs and tuners) serviced one? Basically I want to know a bit more about them, are they a good make? what is the starting price for a new upright? Are they reliable as far as tuning stability and maintenanc...

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There is a left handed piece by Scriabin, a prelude for the left hand Op 9 No 1 in the current issue of Pianist magazine I noticed. Its sounds nice but is for advanced players.

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How do you get your left hand to play detached notes while the other plays flowing ones. Not sure if that is the proper way to describe it. Hi Detached notes are know as staccato and notes that are played smoothly and blend into eachother are called legato :) . You could first try a little exercise...

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Hi what one are you talking about? Nocturne in Eb Major, Op. 55 No. 2 ( Lento ) OR Nocturne in Eb Major, Op. 9 No. 2 ( Andante ) :?: Unfortunately I can’t help at the moment as I’m only a beginner myself however if you are talking about the little zigzagy symbol above a note it’s called a mordent, i...

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This is is funny too and is to do with geeky classical music fan that loves to clap at recitals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsWuH0-Q8UU

If you like classcial music you will find it hilarious - i did!

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I am about 80% through my 3 grade 2 songs and just need a lot of tidying up.. 1: A2, Allegro Grasioso BIEHL 2: B1, MAzurka, Delibes 3: B6? Reviewing the situation, lionel bart / Triest something Ha Ha you picked the ones I was going to do! I'm doing: 1: A2, Allegro Grasioso, Biehl - ( 95% finished ...

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dave brum wrote:Surely you don't mean the rubber one Anna?

No I mean a keyboard. Didn't you say you started learning on a Casio keyboard first? You could play on that at least if you still have it...
I still have my rubber piano! was only £2!

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:arrow: GENERAL IMPRESSIONS - 9/10 Looks nice! The Clp 370 comes in a big box ( roughly H 25'' W 58'' ) the box is very heavy and will require two relatively strong people to move it. The box will fit into an estate car or bigger but not a smaller car. The piano stool comes flat packed and is very e...

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It'll probably look like at the very least 2 months Mark :( :( :( Don't you have your keyboard still? when you move in and are decorating etc at the end of the day you could play on that? at least you would keep your fingers trained, kind of?! :? or you could set up you Clav in a room thats not bei...

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Thats great work Stuart! :) Keep it up, you seem to have a natural ability for playing by ear. I look forward to any more improvs or 'remixes' of pieces you do! I would love to put some of my improvs on here but I have a digtial piano and the recordings sound very souless on them I think. I'm waitin...

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Nice topic marky :) haven't bumped into you on here for a while! For me I wanted to learn the piano when I was 17 but was busy with college so didn't have such a structured pratice routine. I was also playing on a very old early 80s? electric piano ( my dads ) the ones with the fans in them! can't r...

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Hi and welcome I can only help you with a few of your questions at the moment as I havn't done any of the tests yet but am preparing to take my grade 2 at some point this year ( Hopefully! ). There should be some other guys on here who can help you with the other questions though. there is a practic...

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Hi ilovemypiano ( nice name! :) ) My advice is for now, try to familiarise youself with all the notes on all the clefs so you know what they are almost straight away, learn a few note names at a time and recite their names everyday when you pick up a piece of music. Then try to read very very very s...

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Hi Lazyhaze, Yeah bar 12 is a toughy for people with small hands that don't have much of a stretch :x but it is doable! . Some people arpeggiate this chord if its too big for them, but I don’t think Chopin had this way of playing the chord in mind – he hated people altering his scores and playing it...

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Hi Dave :) , Thats great you are progressing in your book! I'm not really following a set path at the mo, just picking pieces here and there from various sources :wink: . The mordent not Morden :wink: in the piece you sent me is in bar 9 its the little ziggy zaggy thing above the G, I don't know ext...

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markymark wrote:
Is there an echo in here?

Maybe the acoustics in the forum need sorting out, unless there is two piano playing parrots in here somewhere?

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awwwwww Beaten to it!

by Mark and Dave. I thought I was gonna be the first to help out,

See how helpful we all are!

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Hi Steve and welcome! This is what I did when I was a complete beginner: have a look at a pice of easy music ( or even a piece of hard music! ) and try to recite the names of the notes in that piece at a steady pace. Do this everyday until you become familar with all the names of the notes on the st...

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Over the page tho is Landler by Schubert - which is a piece I really do like (twas on Radio 3 a few weeks ago) but the left hand part includes big jumps and pedal work. Oh how I wish my name was either Gill the Piano or Celestite as I really want to play it but it looks way beyond my ken at the mo ...

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Practice was a little off these few days as my dad is decorating the bathroom and cutting tiles in there so it’s very noisy and annoying. I’m happy to say my practice has picked up again though. Here’s what it looks like: ABRSM grade 2 pieces: A2: Biel. Allegro grazioso: 2nd mvt from Sonatina in C O...

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...oh well at least we haven't had any adverts for pianist enlargement as yet :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Or even anything involving organs! Though I think I may need some pianist enlargement in order to play one of those designer Bosendorfers or a Yamaha concert grand!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :shock:...

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dam...and heres me thinking there was an intresting reply to this topic! No offence designer handbag poster, but I think most of us on here would be far more Interested in buying a 'designer' piano then any designer handbags. Gosh for the money a bag costs I could get myself a gorgeous shiney new Ya...

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