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Topic: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed  (Read 1519 times)

Offline pianoplayjl

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Ok, this is happened 6 months ago. I was learning Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C minor from WTC 1 and I was on the prelude. In bar 19 in the first note of the right hand there is an F. When I learnt it I mistook it for an F# and so stayed with me until near the piano exam period. I didn't realise my mistake until my teacher pointed it out. It took my a while to unlearn the mistake. But these wrong note things mainly happened in my earlier eyars of piano studies.

So, what about you?

JL
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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Re: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed
Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 04:09:57 AM
When I learned La Campanella, somewhere in the middle of the piece, I trilled with f# and g# for both of the trills in the passage.  Then my piano teacher pointed out that the first trill is from f# g natural to f# g#. 

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Re: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed
Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 04:54:31 AM
When I learnt 3rd mov of moonlight I had a repeated wrong note, F# instead of Fx i think it was. My teacher didnt notice. Infact, no one did until the competition adjudicator... :/ - ohwell.. he still gave me 86/100 i think it was..

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Re: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed
Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 10:03:58 AM
I could write a book about the wrong notes I learned.  And I'm still finding them out!!!!!

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Re: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed
Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 10:34:46 AM
I played an excerpt from Britten's opera "The Turn of the Screw" with a singer.  After playing it three times, the musical director stopped me to let me know that I played a particular section in the wrong clef.

He said that the first time he heard it, he thought it could be an accident.  The second time: he knew I learnt it wrong.  The third time: he had to tell me...

I can't say it made much sense to me in either clefs !  Ah well ...
learning
Chopin etude op 10 no 6
Chopin mazurka op 24 no 4
Szymanowski prelude op 1 no 1

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Re: Wrong notes you have been playing along but never noticed
Reply #5 on: February 22, 2012, 06:51:24 PM
I LOVE that opera.  One of the few satisfactions I had at the opera house.  Also, Midsummer night's dream.
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