WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
Welcome to the Main Thread for the first week of the Nikita Koshkin challenge! This is the place for the Week 3 Submissions!
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Here's the last 3 measures of Koshkin #1. Just about everything about this is challenging for me. The timing, making the slurs more audible, playing piano, and the fingerings are all a little hard for me. (I did decide that the written fingerings were still the easiest option) I'm playing super slowly with the metronome set for eighth notes.
I'm doing a little experiment in practicing for just a few minutes at a time. I'm often pressed for time, so I thought I would just concentrate on a few measures, so that's why the video with just 3 measures.
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Elizabeth Uyehara You made it to the end! Good job, Elizabeth!
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Elizabeth Uyehara that’s great Elizabeth, thank you for sharing.
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Elizabeth Uyehara Yeah! Congratulations, wonderful and dedicated progress, absolutely fantastic to keep updated in such a detailed way, thank you so much! Those studies are really not easy, not even the first one, so you really made it a challenge for you! I'd recommend to pluck the e-flat and the c in the bass, the lines are probably indicating that you can use the same finger and slide with the finger down, but not played as true glissando!
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Martin Ah, thank you! I noticed that Marina didn't even use the same finger going from C# to C. Hmm, might have to try that.
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Elizabeth Uyehara That's what I did! The stretch between 3 and 4 might be a little hard, but ultimately I enjoyed the added legato!
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Elizabeth Uyehara well done Élisabeth, thank you for sharing
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Finally sharing my fingerings for Study No.10!
Blaise Laflamme Barney get going, waiting for your Study 10 updates
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Martin Thanks Martin! I only have time for the challenge deadline to work on #7. But I would like to look at this #10 later on, when I can spend the time needed for this tough one.
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Barney
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Martin yeah! my last submission was #4 in week 2, next is #5 and then #10... lets see how it goes!
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Martin I was wondering how you're using finger 3 in the last chord of mesure 12 since it seems to still be an A flat, so I suspect you're just using 1 from the barré, or 1-3-2-4 seems to be a good choice if you're not using a barré there.
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Blaise Laflamme Oh--- Ooooohhhhh. I did miss A flat, good catch! In that tempo I'd try to avoid barre chords if I can, they cost too much time to set up and release!
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Martin am working on this one as well! But time is limited. I don’t want to just touch a few pieces and then move on. These studies take time and effort. It’s a very challenging challenge, this one….
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Martin same here
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joosje you're right, but it pays off when it begins to shape. Hope to listen to your version by the end of the challenge.
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joosje fantastic, looking forward to hear you, maybe my fingerings help you!!
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Blaise Laflamme Nice!
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Blaise Laflamme can’t promise
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joosje no need to promise... but I can hope
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And here we go, getting my feet wet with Study No.9! Day one passed without any epiphanies, there's probably a lot to say about left hand stability and barre performance, but since it's already late I went with the path of least resistance here!
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Martin Thanks so much, Martin, very helpful! I now get to practice it!
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Eric Phillips Yeah, Study no.9 crew ready for take-off
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Martin thank you. It’s very instructive. I still have a problem, because I don’t hear the triplets where they are written. They sound like a division of sixteenth notes . Is that what the composer meant?
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joosje This piece is still very new to me, so I when I look for a fret I might have missed the rhythmical details! It is a common problem with quarter triplets that they rather sound two dotted quarter and one regular quarter as in “1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2”! Will definitely work on that flow a little longer!
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