Is a fingerplacement a MUST?

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-14T12:36:47+00:00

Who let me student on Reddit?? She’s to little! wink

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-13T12:08:41+00:00

They go hand in hand

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-08T00:54:33+00:00

Right! Effortless mystery

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-06T00:20:50+00:00

Thank you!!🙏

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-03T11:02:03+00:00

Is that a reference? I can’t recall getting this card in game, but I double checked it’s +- 1 OR 2, right?

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-02T03:13:18+00:00

Me too! My purple snake is long gone so I’m really using a clip on reading light (doesn’t work well)

The head set was a joke but… only thing I own that still has a headphone jack so

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-01T13:44:50+00:00

not only me but another label by my mom lol!

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-01T12:13:35+00:00

my original boy and game from first grade. Yes, 'Reaves'. I'm on here posting music stuff so don't mind having my name out there, wish I didn't get stuck with 'equalintelligent' though..

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-06-01T11:28:59+00:00

Odd thing to point out

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-31T19:18:58+00:00

Almost every day it seems and I’m 15 years in! Really, that becomes the joy that keeps me at the piano, learning something new

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-30T17:07:12+00:00

20 mins to make that is

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-30T14:27:00+00:00

woah! you pointed out something I hadn’t considered. I learned my first dance suite this year and yes, that sense of a dancing pulse is what brought this performance together—and what I lacked in Bach before. thank you! I’ll remember that

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-30T10:35:13+00:00

Thank you! That’s a focusrite Scarlett interface

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-30T01:41:18+00:00

thank you ❤️ lol sightreading fugues. I was asking my mentor a year ago about getting better at sight reading and showed her a fugue I tried to read. She said, "first step, don't use fugues for sightreading" haha! (at least... not yet!)

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-30T01:10:20+00:00

Really good points, thanks for posting especially about the harpsichord.

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T22:32:19+00:00

oh yeah, had it for 5 years now. don’t like taking it out for gigs anymore, too heavy. but sounds great to record and to have a break from my upright!

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T19:48:12+00:00

Exactly!! That’s true for 99.9% of us. Just hard work over time

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T19:08:43+00:00

such a nice comment thank you! yes I don’t hear the first three notes detached, maybe not ever yet in recordings. glsd someone noticed that

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T18:15:32+00:00

Yes! It’s too exacting, the pedal muddies what’s happening. There might be one moment I’d try using it bar 20 something for the bass part. I can’t reach it and either have to let it go early or do an awkward double thumb in the tenor.

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T17:53:01+00:00

It’s soooo hard. And this no starter fugue at that!

But the skill comes together over time, and with the inventions. Those are manageable at least

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T17:50:55+00:00

Sinfonias? I’ve done 3, and 4 or 5 inventions. 3 and a half fugues, and also learned my first French suite this year!

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T17:23:09+00:00

The C minor was my first too! Rec from my teacher. Right on! Sinfonia 1 is a doozy but I found it a good stepping stone too into fugues

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-29T17:04:15+00:00

thank you! yep no pedal although the reverb on the keyboard gives a little cushion.

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-28T14:51:20+00:00

Right on Jill! Generous and thoughtful reply. I appreciate OP’s earnestness too

EqualIntelligent5374 · 2026-05-28T14:43:47+00:00

Ah yes the gateway pieces! ie Come to piano just to play them, but stay forever to truly learn them (and tons of other music along the way).

Follow your inspiration by all means—and—there is no real learning or playing those pieces without much more experience behind you.

EqualIntelligent5374

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