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Offline arensky

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Reply #200 on: July 09, 2007, 07:04:10 AM
I am gonna duck out of this one old chap, i cannot bring myself to practice.

Been there, I can dig it.

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Reply #201 on: July 09, 2007, 10:33:24 AM
OK. Which one and what's the date?

I'm doing both, so if you're up for it, both. Else, you just pick one. How about August 1st?

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Reply #202 on: July 09, 2007, 12:06:54 PM
I'm doing both, so if you're up for it, both. Else, you just pick one. How about August 1st?
Might be both movements. As for the date, sorry, I'll be out on vacation for the next 4 weeks. So August 15th will be the first safe date. Does it suit you?

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Reply #203 on: July 09, 2007, 05:10:28 PM
Sure, August 15th is fine. Good luck :P

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Reply #204 on: July 12, 2007, 09:40:39 AM
So are we on? What mvts?

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Reply #205 on: July 12, 2007, 01:38:36 PM
So are we on? What mvts?
We are on, movements 1 & 2 of Op. 2/1, deadline 8/15.

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Reply #206 on: July 12, 2007, 09:14:00 PM
Good luck, have fun  :)

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Reply #207 on: July 12, 2007, 11:04:31 PM
Sorry, just ignore

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Reply #208 on: August 08, 2007, 05:13:47 PM
Prepare for defeat. :)
august 1st. don't forget. 10/2 . opus10no2

I am excited for this one
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Reply #209 on: August 08, 2007, 06:58:57 PM
august 1st. don't forget. 10/2 . opus10no2


I am excited for this one

oh dear... i forgot all about that ..  can we reset the deadline?

also, anyone for.....

Alborada del gracioso?

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Reply #210 on: August 12, 2007, 06:51:30 PM
I have been wasting time for a while and need some motivation to practise. A duel of any of the following would be great:
Chopin nouvelle etudes 1 or 2
Chopin etude op.25 no.5
Bach italian concerto slow mvt
Brahms op. 119 no.3
Schubert sonata D664 1st mvt
Rach etude tableaux op.33 no.2
5 or 6 weeks time for the harder ones, or 2 or 3 for the easier ones.
Anyone???
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Reply #211 on: August 12, 2007, 10:50:01 PM
ok.  let's play the schubert.  wait.  i don't have the music.  can somebody post it?  or, i could play the chopin etude opus 25 #5.  i have that score.  i think i also printed out the novelle etudes - i'll  look for them because i don't know where i put them.  ihave stacks of music everywhere.

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Reply #212 on: August 13, 2007, 03:18:25 AM
Whichever you want. Is October 1st okay?
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Reply #213 on: August 13, 2007, 08:26:30 AM
...oooh oooh let me in let me in ;D

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Reply #214 on: August 13, 2007, 12:55:10 PM
Prongated: Based on your audition room recordings I'm sure i'm making a huge mistake, but this will be the challenge i need. I want to duel Chopin etude op.25 no.5 (the wrong notes etude) with you on Oct 1st. Is that possible? We could maybe throw in one of the nouvelle etudes too.

Pianistimo, how about the Schubert sonata?
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Reply #215 on: August 13, 2007, 01:12:56 PM
Prongated: Based on your audition room recordings I'm sure i'm making a huge mistake, but this will be the challenge i need. I want to duel Chopin etude op.25 no.5 (the wrong notes etude) with you on Oct 1st. Is that possible? We could maybe throw in one of the nouvelle etudes too.

...I was referring to the Schubert one ^^ and I can't play Chopin Etudes for jack except the easier ones like op. 25 no. 9 :-[

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Reply #216 on: August 13, 2007, 01:25:54 PM
Prongated could you pleaaaaaaase try and do both the Schubert and the Chopin? :) Would 6 weeks practice be enough to get the chopin passable? (even if we give two disasterous etude recordings, you will have another chopet sort of in your rep). I REALLY need a reason to go nuts with the practice, and this certainly would be one.
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Reply #217 on: August 13, 2007, 01:51:41 PM
ill do rachmaninoff 33/2
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Reply #218 on: August 13, 2007, 02:33:41 PM
there you go!  three people to 'duel' with.  don't think i'm going to be an easy target (cough cough) - because my kids go back to school in two weeks.  i'll turn into a maniac.  schubert day and night.  what for?  is there any money in this?  no matter.  yes.  we are all crazy.  although schubert is good for weddings and parties, right? 

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Reply #219 on: August 13, 2007, 02:34:55 PM
i played this beautiful piece before (rachmaninoff), but a while ago. So ill have to almost completely relearn it.
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Reply #220 on: August 13, 2007, 02:53:18 PM
Okay, the schubert is a definite, but i would much rather finish off this damned chopet than the rach. If i can't persuade prongated to take the bait then i will do the rach instead, although i'm only about 8 bars in at the moment.
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Reply #221 on: August 13, 2007, 03:01:24 PM
I've just realised that you (imbetter) did a no-show in the last duel. I'm not how motivated i'll be knowing that i'm the only one taking part...
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Reply #222 on: August 13, 2007, 03:17:22 PM
its summer i have nothing better to do then do re-learn a great piece such as 33/2.

anyway, the point in this duel in the first place is to get you to learn your pieces.

im gonna take a look at the chopin and see if im up to it.
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Reply #223 on: August 13, 2007, 03:25:26 PM
Ye
its summer i have nothing better to do.

anyway, the point in this duel in the first place is to get you to learn your pieces.

The motivation for practice comes from the fact that there is a deadline that you are both sticking to. If you decide not to bother, or simply give up (which isn't out of the question) then there is a chance i may be tempted to do the same. If, on the other hand, i am preparing a piece with someone who will definitely bother to finish the piece, then I will force myself to do the same. If it were that easy to motivate myself to practice a piece to perfection in a few weeks without the carrot of the duel, then i wouldn't bother doing it at all,  would I?
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Reply #224 on: August 13, 2007, 03:45:24 PM
then i guess you just have to trust me. of find somebody else that you trust will learn the rach and i guess ill learn it at the same time.
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Reply #225 on: August 13, 2007, 07:55:22 PM
So kd, deadline coming up. This was harder than I thought - The 1st movement is coming along nicely, but I have almost nothing on the 2nd -I've just sightread it twice.

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Reply #226 on: August 13, 2007, 10:33:13 PM
schubertiad - i found the score for the schubert in the 'international music score library project' and recognized it right away.  ok.  i can basically sightread the first movement.  piece of cake.  let's do this september 1st and not october.  that way you can have the rest of the time to work the rach or chopin. 

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Reply #227 on: August 14, 2007, 12:59:12 AM
So kd, deadline coming up. This was harder than I thought - The 1st movement is coming along nicely, but I have almost nothing on the 2nd -I've just sightread it twice.
I haven't forgotten, I'll put both movements 8/15 around 11 am (of the forum clock).

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Reply #228 on: August 14, 2007, 05:37:52 AM
I don't know if i'm Stilgar and PITA BREAD is Muad'Dib or if in fact I am the Kwisatz Haderach and Bread is simply the Count Fenring or whatever but............................there is a Prokofiev 8th sonata duel on the horizon 8)
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Reply #229 on: August 14, 2007, 06:15:51 AM
ahahaha da Robbah vs paztry prok 8 mvt 3 duel possibly on da horizon

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Reply #230 on: August 14, 2007, 08:12:45 AM
I haven't forgotten, I'll put both movements 8/15 around 11 am (of the forum clock).

Good. I guess it's about time I start the second movement then.  :P

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Reply #231 on: August 14, 2007, 03:08:01 PM
Pianistimo: The schubert certainly isn't rach 3, but i would like to learn it very thoroughly, not just rush it together, and i'm not sure 2 weeks will be enough. How about mid-september?
Besides, aren't you sometimes guilty of half learning pieces yourself? Here is a chance to really 'nail' something instead. And if you're looking for a challenge then try the chopin or rach as well.
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Reply #232 on: August 15, 2007, 01:16:12 PM
Prongated could you pleaaaaaaase try and do both the Schubert and the Chopin?

...just Schubert will be fantastic ^^ sorry ><

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Reply #233 on: August 15, 2007, 05:40:38 PM
No problem. I look forward to hearing it  :)
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Reply #234 on: August 16, 2007, 12:21:24 PM
you mean playing it?  yours will be polished.  mine will be  - well, i am working on something right now.  i don't like taking those middle c's with the right hand and am sneaking them in with the left hand - so i can keep the train going down the tracks.  i can't wait to post my 'trash' - and probably will not bother with the two extra weeks.  schubert bores me a little bit.  but, i love him immensely.  probably doesn't make any sense at all.  he was such a good songster.  i just don't like the repetitive schumanesque dotted eighths everywhere.  i'm certainly not one that goes around skipping every moment of the day.  in fact, some days i just want to bash schubert and schumann - but mozart i never do.  why?  strange.  when i feel in the mood - schubert and schumann are like icy popcicles.  on bad days - like dripping sugary stickiness.

my power cord causes this immense static - so it will be a few more minutes before i post my first 'happy happy.'  actually, this morning - my feelings match the mood.  i don't know why.  usually i am at my peak around 11 am  2 pm.  and 3 am. 

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Reply #235 on: August 21, 2007, 05:56:57 PM
anyone for a chopin study?
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Reply #236 on: August 21, 2007, 06:17:56 PM
anyone for a chopin study?

Alborada, by September 3?
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Reply #237 on: August 21, 2007, 11:01:37 PM
who wrote that? granados? ravel?  liszt?  just curious. 

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Reply #238 on: August 22, 2007, 12:16:38 AM
anyone for a chopin study?

depends on which one

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Reply #239 on: August 22, 2007, 05:19:52 AM
25/5?  :)
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Reply #240 on: August 22, 2007, 09:19:07 AM
Thursday next week, my teacher will pick an etude for me to learn - If it's a Chopin etude, im up for a duel.

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Reply #241 on: August 22, 2007, 09:21:05 AM
who wrote that? granados? ravel?  liszt?  just curious. 

Alborada? I assume iumonito's referring to alborada del gracioso, so that's by Ravel...

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Reply #242 on: August 22, 2007, 10:33:21 AM
oh.  ok.  thanks!  (i'd never have that by september 3)  ravel and debussy are living daylights difficult to me.

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Reply #243 on: August 30, 2007, 01:10:47 PM
schubertiad - i found the score for the schubert in the 'international music score library project' and recognized it right away.  ok.  i can basically sightread the first movement.  piece of cake.  let's do this september 1st and not october.

...uh oh...seriously? :-X

*off to piano*

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Reply #244 on: August 30, 2007, 02:52:26 PM
Haha had you not seen that? I was a bit shocked too, and thought that 2 weeks would never be enough time. Normally an average sonata movement would take me about a month. Well, I panicked, started working hard, and found that a week later I had it learnt. The problem is that no run through is perfect, and the mistakes happen at different points each time. In order to perfect it i want to leave it for about a month, and then tackle it again, which should cut out some of the stupid mistakes. Unfortunately I don't have that luxury for our duel, so it will just be posted in its current state instead.
Btw I've seen some of your youtube videos and they're all great, so you should be fine!
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Reply #245 on: August 30, 2007, 03:04:17 PM
anyone for a chopin study?

which one?
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Reply #246 on: August 30, 2007, 03:24:14 PM
ill do the octave study. relatively easy if you have good octave technique. still doing rach 33/2 for a duel its coming along.

the octave study is 25/10
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Reply #247 on: August 30, 2007, 03:41:23 PM
with who?
if you are talking to me I can't. LOL my hands are really small, I can play octaves but a whole piece like that....
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Reply #248 on: August 30, 2007, 05:07:07 PM
how about 25/8 then?
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Reply #249 on: August 31, 2007, 03:55:35 PM
alright...but just to warn you, i'm going to take a pretty long time now cauz i'm learning a few other pieces that my teacher recently gave me plus a whole lot of other stuff.
Chopin Etudes are not my cliche
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