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Hi Dave & company! I have finally managed to play through that bleeding Kummer tune, just need to 'glue' the bars together so I can play it more smoother. Don't know why it took so long, I played through the Don't Vex a T-Rex tune and that in comparison was a walk in the (jurassic) park :P . I j...

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Hi guys, Hi Dave!! :) So glad to hear your lesson went well, and you enjoyed it!!! :) :) :) Thats realy good you got a teacher you get on with, I hope I find a nice one when I finally get a job and get lessons too. Job hunting is going slow as normal, although I did get a guy from a recritment ageny...

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Hi Dave,

Good to hear the practice cheered you up!!

Music is medicine!! ( or if its bad a poison )

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Hi Guys!! Dave that's so typical of cats!!! They always sit in the most inconvienient of places......its like they know!!! Yeah I know what you mean!! I was trying to read Pianist Magazine ( gosh, I'm becoming a reall piano geek now! ) the other day and my cat went and sat on the pages! and then he ...

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Hey Dave, Hey Sparkley I don't think I have seen that Little Britain sketch It sounds funny. Did you ever see the episode of My Family were Nick becomes a piano tuner and tunes all the keys to C ? Then his dad goes and presses a note then another and another and they all sound the same! :lol: I thin...

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Hi Guys!! Really Joseph? is that what concert pianists think before they perform? And there I was thinking they had just been doing some kind of Zen Buddhist meditation before hand, to keep the nerves at bay :roll: . Seriosly though how do you cope with nerves etc. If I was good, (which I'm not beca...

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Hi Gill :) , No all that jargon in learning music etc doesn't get me down, I find It intresting once I find out what it means. I was just agreeing with Dave about all that jargon and how it might seem elitist or posh or whatever; especially as an adult learner your more aware of all these foreign wo...

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Hi Sparkly, Hi PianoAngel :) :) Yes I think I might have that symbol sorted out now...I hope! Maby I should get the CD?? to have a listen? :mrgreen: Really is the piece hard? for grade 1?. Well I wanted to set myself a challenge instead of going for the pices with nice long minims them. That way I w...

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Hi Dave, I think I stared to get into classical when I was about 15 or 16??? I never listened to it before, my dad used to listen to it, and I would say 'whats that piece?' and thats as far as it went. I never thought it was 'uncool' though. When I was in my teens I was into (I still like it now!) H...

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Hi Dave how are you?, I find that if I'm having trouble with a particular bar like what you said about the Vivaldi piece, I 'loop' the bar by playing that bar over and over again to drum the correct way to play it in my head, I'm not sure if thats a good way to learn music but it works for me :shock...

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Hi PianoAngel! :) Ah ha! I think I got it! I haven't played that bit yet, but your explantion makes sense while I read the music. Sorry one more question! does the word sost. mean sostenuto? Do I treat the notes in that bar in the same way I would treat a note with the sotenuto line above it. i.e ho...

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Hi Piano Angel, I think I might be getting it (?) , Is the line saying the Ds are the same note or same Key on the keyboard or are they two seprate Ds an octave apart. Has this got something to do with the way the music looks when printed because there is no room in the bar to fit all the notes mayb...

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hey Dave Its quite an addictive tune init? My hands arent that big, smallish I would say. I can stretch an octave with fingers 1 - 5 just I need to move to the edge of the (white) keys for that, looks kind of awkward when I do it. Yes size Isn't too important, some kids are really good at the piano ...

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Thinking about it, Its quite amazing how this simple post of mine trying to inform people about the Clp 370 has got 30 replies ranging from topics about moisturiser too the Young Ones!

Funny old bunch aren't we?

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Yes! I used to love watching The Yong Ones and my farvorite characters was Neil and Vivian, Its been ages since I saw it. I used to like watching Bottom too. Yeah Neil did say heavy a lot, remember the episode where they put a black bag over his head to stop him from getting all that snot everywhere...

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Oh! I love Beethoven's piano concerto No 5 (especially the adagio), this concert your doing in November is it anywhere near London is it??

Wow, it must be so exciting and nerve-racking playing with an orchestra!

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dave brum wrote: another word that needs to be revived is...

HEAVYYYYYYYY!!!

The last time I came across Heavy was when I was in college about 5 years ago...Sorry this is not piano related.

How about: Dat piano is bear heaaaavvvvy init?

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Hi Dave, Yes that Vivaldi tune is really fun and bouncy and really nice to play, although I find bar 9 a bit difficult as my hand needs to stretch an 8th and I sometimes miss the F and play E accidentally grrrr! :evil: . I find that if you pretend your a posh toff ridding on a horse you can actually...

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Hi Gill, Yes I think it is the same D, well, both staves are treble clef staves anyway and both notes are the D above middle C if you like. So does that line mean that the Ds it is pointing to are actually the same note? in one stave or does it mean play both Ds an octave apart? I'm geting even more...

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Hey Dave, I'm not sure about making a flim, I don't think any of us would make good actors... maybe a documentary would work better, like the ones you get on BBC 1. It could be a documentary flowing the progress of adult learner musicians, flimed over years from beginner to grade 8, I'm fed up with ...

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Hi everyone! I just learned my first piece for section A of the grade 1 exam, Vivaldi's L'autunno (it was really fun to play :) ). I would like to learn the next piece for section B and I have chosen Gedike's Kummer but am a little stuck as it has a symbol I don't understand in it. Its a dashed diag...

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Hi Dave, Yes I did see that flim about 3 weeks ago on BBC 1. I remember seeing bits of it years ago when I was a kid, I watched all of it this time; its a really good film. Yeah its based on a true story I think. I think we should start a new post called ' Favorite films about Pianos' or somthing? h...

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Hi Sparkley, I can practise so much as I'm out of work at the moment, when I go back I might have less time although I try to keep it up! Yeah Hanon is really repetitive but quite useful. I often find myself swiching off when I do them and start sight reading the next piece I need to learn on the ot...

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Oh no, to boycott would be rather extreme of course! But the CDs still remind me of cheating ( a bit ).

I'm sure i might need to use the CDs oneday?

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Ok marky, no need to get all agitato :wink:... What I meant was, it would be better for lower grade students to nurture their ability to sight read; by trying to figure out how to play the piece on their own first then when they have learnt it have a listen to see how they got on. If they were reall...

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I bought the 09 exam pieces recently but without the CDs because 1: I didn't want to spend too much on them and 2: I think they are rather unnecessary when you can read through them instead. I kind of agree with Descombes on this one, I think Its a bit like cheating, especially if its for a low grad...

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Hi Mark,

Personally I think 'Flight of the Bumblebee' sounds really cool on the piano, not that I could even think about having ago at it at grade 0

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I was wondering though, out of interest what grade level is Flight of the Bumblebee?

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:lol: :lol: :lol: So your wish is to be Markymark hey Dave! Don't worry you will get there one day and me too I hope! I have short (ish) pratice and split the hours into short lessons sometimes, but I'm quite happy siting at the piano for hours at a time. Hanon is the name of a guy called Charles Lo...

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Hi everyone! :) What a fantastic idea sparkley! :D I have just managed to play ' Moccasin Dance' (Its quite an aggressive sounding piece in A minor) on page 47 of John Thompon's Adult Preparatory Piano Book, recently worked out how to play the etude on the next page (just), and will soon be able to ...

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Hey guys! :) I also take pride in my piano and dust it every day and always have the dust cover down on it when it not in use. I would never play on it with unwashed hands too (actualy its to warm them up in water). My cats hairs also end up on the keyboard and strangely the dogs :? even though hes ...

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Hi Dave, My poor old Casio is siting under the dinning room table at the moment. I'm not sure whether to sell it or not because it is a MIDI keyboard and I might get back into making music on the computer one day, it has some really nice sounds on it. I have never conected it to the computer I never...

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Hi Dave & Mark The Clp 370 doesn't have the iAFC feature but the 380 does, Its so annoying they took it out of the 370 because I wanted to get the 270 and it had the iAFC but the 380 is too expensive for me. So it shouldn't make any difference to the sound on the 370 if I connect it I guess. But...

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Hi everyone! :) Mark, are you saying that if I put the Clp through an amp the piano wont be able to play the Damper Resonance effect? is that the word you were looking for? Does that only happen if it goes through and amp and not a speaker? Ah ha ! So its moisturiser and Fairy that makes people into...

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Hi Mark, Hi Dave! I am enjoying my new Japanese toy actually, but I am a little sad about the mid range sounding muffled; especially as a beginner most of the pieces I can play are in the mid range. When I pratice I can't seem to make up my mind as to what piano voice to stick with; I keep swiching ...

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Hi everyone! I'm writing this post as a brief guide for anyone thinking of buying a Yamaha Clp digital piano or a similar one in size, because some people ( me included ) think they might be easier to transport then an upright and this may be one of the reasons people buy them, and are mislead into ...

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sorry I meant EGBDF in the treble clef lines. Its Every Good Boy Deserves Females

Silly me I'm Baching mad!

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Hey Silvermist, I remember when I was at school in music lessons ( not that I was bothered with learing music then, regrettably :x ) to remember the AGBDF notes my teacher said: All Good Boys Deserve Females!!! Its probably the only thing I remember from music at school so it must have worked for me...

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Thanks, I'll try and find out more about the piano makes you mentioned, although I don't think I could afford a Steinway unless I win the lottery or something. I've read something about practice pedals before, its a nice convenient feature. I might condsider a Yamaha B3 or U1??? who knows, I wonder ...

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Thanks Mark, I was beginning to think I had imagined hearing that tune, or was the only one who liked it :? ( its defiantly not romantic Chopin kind of stuff ). Thanks for that guys name I will check it out, is there a website were I can find some recordings of his stuff..? I'll try and search mysel...

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Hey Sparkley, If you're familiar with the treble clef then I guess you also know that its called a 'G' clef, Its the same with the bass clef its also known as an 'F' clef, because it rests on the second line that repesents the note F. This is the way I learned the notes on the bass. The first I memo...

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Hi Mark, Don't worry, I wont rely on a digital for too long, by the time I'm grade 5 I'll have an upright ( knowing me I will probably get one when I reach grade 3 :wink: ). I mostly want the digital so it will fit in my small bedroom and so I can practice without annoying anyone. When I have the up...

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Hi everyone, I was wondering did anyone watch the Proms last Friday? Did you hear that REALLY cool 8) solo piano piece by Elliot Carter called Catenaires? (wow :shock: ,it was certainly not a piece you could hum along to!) I never new a piano could sound like a synth, it sounded like electro or some...

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Hi Gary,

Thanks for your advice. You mentioned your digital is over 10 years old, is it still as good as when you bought it? because I have heard people say digtals don't last long and wear out easily.

Anna

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Hi Nigel, Thanks for your reply, Its reassuring to know that your digtal is proving to be a benefit to your progress. I gues a digtal is the way to go for me as I don't want the hassle of an upright in my bedroom (no idea if it would go up the stairs) and I dont wan't to annoy my family, especilly w...

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Hi everyone, I'm new :D I'm thinking of getting a digital piano and have my eye on the Yamaha Clp 270. Problem is I keep hearing people say digitals don't feel anything like an acoustic and that the touch is too light (although I have heard some people say it was the same as an acoustic or even a gr...

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