Anybody wanna congratulate me?

[keyboardclass]

One of my students just got perfect marks for his grade 6 Chopin Mazurka!

[spencervirt]

Congrats!

[keyboardclass]

That was quick!  and thank you.

[mcdiddy1]

Congrats ....I am sure your student has something to do with it as well ...lol

[keyboardclass]

Well..., he supplied the fingers!

[pianisten1989]

Congratulations to the student!

[keyboardclass]

Congratulations to the student!

Exactly.  Especially when you consider how handicapped he must have been by my '***'d up fingering'!

[pianisten1989]

I never said that your fingerings were ***'d up. What I said was that If the fingerings were ***'d up, and you started blaming your student's listening-skills, then that would be a major problem (it's late, and I'm tired- I don't know if that sentence is grammatically correct at all..)

[keyboardclass]

And then to have the guts to say that it's the student's fault if he isn't capable to play a legato with your ***'d up fingering!

[bachbrahmsschubert]

Wait wait wait!

Let me get my popcorn first.

[keyboardclass]

Move along now, nothing to see.

[pianisten1989]

That was only about the c# minor arpeggio. Didn't say anything about your mazurka, or anything else.

[spencervirt]

Guys,

We have to all come to the understanding that two experienced/accomplished teachers and pianists such as yourselves are going to have different viewpoints about a wide range of things. All that we can do to preserve some measure of friendliness here is to learn to respect those viewpoints. It's fine to respectfully question others' ideas, but not to dismiss them as pointless and attempt to discredit the other. I would feel comfortable asking either one of you how to finger a C# Minor arpeggio, and would simply choose the one that worked the best for me. Who knows, I might have chosen keyboardclasses "f'ed up" fingering. Obviously he has a reason for using that fingering!

Many of us here, not including me, are very accomplished. That also makes many of us strong willed, and it is easy to get in fights with others. Chppin and Liszt both had different ideas about how things were to be played, and the best of friends soon became the worst of enemies, if my historical facts remain correct.

I haven't read the previous thread to which you are both referring, although i'm sure both of you could have handled it better. Offering an alternative solution to his fingering, and saying "have your student try this, it works for me" is a much better and EFFECTIVE way of transmitting your point. Simply arguing is not.

I like both of you guys (from what I have read) and have found both of you extremely helpful. I would be crushed if one of you stopped giving advice because one person didn't like it. The reader can choose which advice to take, simple as that.

Anyway, I have rambled. This is a friendly place! Can we accept that these disagreements are going to pop up and handle them like gentlemen?

Thanks!

Spencer

[keyboardclass]

We have to all come to the understanding that two experienced/accomplished teachers and pianists such as yourselves are going to have different viewpoints about a wide range of things.

Thank you for the compliment.  Sadly the other party's no such thing - just a bored teenager who still lives with his mum.

[pianisten1989]

Thank you for the compliment. Sadly the other party's no such thing - just a bored 50 year old virgin who still lives with his mum.

[keyboardclass]

Thank you for the compliment. Sadly the other party's no such thing - just a bored 50 year old virgin who still lives with his mum.

I know you are but what am I?

[spencervirt]

I see that my comments have helped none 

[pianisten1989]

Seconds ago you said I was a teenager? Like, what, make up your mind!

And well, I'm sorry. But there hasn't been much going on here lately...

[lostinidlewonder]

Yeah did you know that keyboardclass was the examiner.

[jasonpiano]

wow...Congrats!

[jonnyjohn]

I'd be interested to hear the recording if you managed to get one ^^

[keyboardclass]

He's never recorded anything as far as I know.  Kind of a healthy attitude if you ask me.

[spencervirt]

Which Mazurka did he play, exactly?

[keyboardclass]

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