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Thats good news Dave! yay.dave brum wrote:...And my piano stays putThe management has told me that it makes me happy, so why should I get rid of it! So she's got her cats and I've got my musicbox! Everybody's happy
dave brum wrote:I can't wait to meet you in London AND I was thinking about you earlier on while I was wrapping up your Chrissie pressie!!!
Breakfast sounds very yummy! But how can you have a fry - up without black pudding???! ( I guess its an acquired tastedave brum wrote:I've just finished tucking in to a lovely healthy brekkie. Fried egg, fried bacon, sausage, tomato, beans, fried bread, everything but the black pud.
Healthy - for the morale!!
Absolutely! I've been learning some Christmas songs and have been having problems getting the chords right, a break definitely helps. I think your brain keeps practicing without the problem of having your hands in the waydave brum wrote: and voila, as if by magic, the mist has cleared and you can make that connection between the printed music and your hands without having to avert your gaze from the music!!
Scales and arpeggios perfectly too! If only there was an AB examiner up here with me!!!
Has anyone else noticed that - especially you Nuttiecrunch!
OMG that is so funny I have neaver heard of her looks like Sister Wendy playing a piano! I like her piano car thingy in the video.dave brum wrote:Annacakies![]()
just after I left you on Charing Cross Road yesterday who and what shiuld we see tootling down a very busy Oxford Street...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vN35E9fGRAU
www.musicalruth.com
I knew who she was, she came to Kidderminster in September!
I LOVE that tune! it is so funny ( in German acent: ) ''I saw herr on ze coverr of a ma - gaanize'' ( high pitch synth sound: ) di didi di, diiiii di, di !dave brum wrote: I seem to have that Kraftwerk song from 1982, The Model on the brain today.
Hi Dave and Teresa!dave brum wrote: BTW Anna I wish you well in your interview tomorrow. Teresa and I will be thinking and praying for you that it will lead to a job. AND new jobs of course lead to new acoustic pianos, don't they?![]()
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Good luck A n n a c a k e s xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Was that a Billy Piper song?ebonyivory wrote:Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind! Hey mickey! ... Hey Mickey
No, I had the second interview today. So next time I find out I either have a job or notdave brum wrote:hiya Anna![]()
yeah, let's hope something good happens soon - at least if they've asked you back again you've survived the first hurdle and it also means you're on the old 'shortlist' butit'll also mean the stakes will be higher next interview.
Now you can have a good old de-stress on the piano!
uuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! WHAT ABOUT THE POLYESTER HIGH GLOSS FINISH, AND REAL MAMMOTH IVORY KEYS!?dave brum wrote:If you've ever seen the cover to The Complete Piano player Christmas book Anna, it's a really Christmassy scene, with cards, mince pies, a decanter and glasses, Christmas cake and presents all on top of the piano.
Personally, I've never really considered Bach's ornaments to be relaxing.Moonlight wrote:Yes I will de - stress and go on the piano later! nice Minuet in G by C. Petzold ( not Bach! ) ornaments and all.
I love learning Baroque ornamentation, but those mordents are tricky if your hands are cold or asleep. My lesson is a 4.30 tomorrow not 3 btw. Teachers bussy with a concert or something! Oh la di da!
I guess I find it fun or whatever because its new for me! the ornaments really make a piece just that bit more intresting. I'm sure after the novelty has worn off I will loathe them.markymark wrote: Personally, I've never really considered Bach's ornaments to be relaxing.
Preambulum, for example, is a pain that Joseph and I find to be a pain in the head if your mind is tired! Mind you, it has hand cross-overs too!
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My shoulders are waterproof Annacakes. And they're nice and squodgey too! Hope yours are.
yeah and I will keep trying!dave brum wrote:At least you tried, which is all you can do. Know Ive said it before, but a recession affects everyone in the world, not just graphic designers in Essex! And if the jobs aren't there, you can't go after them can ya! But at least you have the piano to take it all out on, hey
Hi Linzylouttrim wrote: I'm practising like mad, on the new (to me) piano; it's amazing how different they sound, and the feel on this one is much better.
I do have homework, its to get the timing etc for Kummer correct, and to pratice it hands separately as I'm so used to playing it with the wrong timing with both hands I need to relearn how to play it, as its been memorised as 'muscle memory' if you know what I mean.dave brum wrote:Sorry about that Annacould your teacher not give you homework directly from the g1 syllabus or some sample sight reading tests to get your teeth in to in the two week gap you go to lessons? Sounds to me all she is interested in is lining her pockets!
Hi Linzy,louttrim wrote:hi Moonlight!
my new one is a Steck upright. Probably from the 30s I'd have thought. It's not as pretty as my original one, but looks aren't everything!![]()
My first lesson of the year is tomorrow morning.. so we'll see if my teacher notices any improvement. Dave's right, your teacher could be setting you work to do inbetween lessons. Do you go to her house? Maybe having shorter lessons more frequently would be better? Depends on cost of course![]()
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Isn’t it another name for a tetrachord? Thats what I would think it is...but can't find an explanation for it in any of my music books!dave brum wrote:could anyone tell me what a 'microscale' is? Is it part of a scale or something?
Its fairly self explanatory I think. But I will try to help we are talking about Kummer only? In the first bar start of really soft, I like to try to play it at pp so I can get time to do the crescendo, the last note of bar 1 an 'A' is a lot louder then at the start of the bar the next note 'E' is the loudest of that phrase. The bar 2 and 3 gets louder still. Bar 4 will be as loud as the start of bar 2 because of the diminuendo. Looking at the piece now the notes with the tenuto lines above need more emphasis so will be a little louder then the other notes before them. I could keep going on like this but Im sure you get what I mean, just experiment with the crescendos and diminuendos but don't get too loud.dave brum wrote:AnnaI was wondering whilst practising it, how do you cope with the all over the place dynamics in 'Kummer'? I can't fathom them out one bit!!!Have you by any chance mentioned it to your piano teacher???
I wouldn't go as loud a ff ! in Kummer. Theres nothing 'slight' about mf either I think. Play the whole pices quitely varing the loudness.dave brum wrote: So its a slight crescendo up to let's say mf by the time we get to the E, then another crescendo up to an ff see now
I had it already this week. I really like my new teacher I think we just clicked. And I even heard her play! I never heard my other teacher play anything other then whatever bar I was having problems with. We went through all 3 pieces, a bit of scales & arrps all in 30 mins!dave brum wrote:BTW I did get your email but I did mean your old teacher, sorry! Do you have a lesson this week??
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