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Having problems maintaining a full erection or one at all?\/lagra works=20 excellently for your problem. Get your confidence back, and have great s e x. ...
Alphonse Pearce
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Jul 14, 2006
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Hi Guys and Gals, I seem to go in bits and spurts: first I am all enthusiastic, then I don't want to even think about the piano. I don't like to practice but...
Valerie Kuhn
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Jul 19, 2006
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... Hi Valerie: Find some technique exercises that you really like and practice them at least for 30 minutes every day. This way you'll be always "in shape"...
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Jul 19, 2006
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Eduardo, Thank you for the tip. I will definately keep it in mind. Valerie ... Hi Valerie: Find some technique exercises that you really like and practice...
Valerie Kuhn
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Jul 19, 2006
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My new piano teacher has assigned me the Bach Invention in C major. I have never before played Bach and I am having an awful time with the trill in the very...
Valerie
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Jul 23, 2006
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Some suggestions for practice. When you can't focus any more on a piece, change. Go to something different: another piece, technique, sight-reading. Everything...
Lya Ferrer
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Jul 24, 2006
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I have the Urtext edition and one revised by Ruthardt of Bach's 2-part Inventions. The first measure has an embellishment, which we play with only 3 notes...
Lya Ferrer
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Jul 24, 2006
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Thank you. I will try this strategy. Valerie Lya Ferrer <lyaferrer@...> wrote: Some suggestions for practice. When you can't focus any more on a piece,...
Valerie Kuhn
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Jul 24, 2006
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Hi everybody. I just joined this group, and I'd like to introduce myself... My name is Max, I'm Italian, 39 y.o.. I live in Rome. I found Matt's site a few...
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Aug 8, 2006
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Greetings, This article is a humorous and insightful look at the horrors we all face with stage fright. The article centers on professional actors and some...
Matthew Harre
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Sep 14, 2006
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... Matt: How can I access this article, please? Best regards. Lya __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus...
Lya Ferrer
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Sep 17, 2006
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Same question - I see no article....
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Sep 17, 2006
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Folks, The stagefright article was not included in my notice of it. Currently it's only available in the paper edition of the New Yorker. At the moment it...
Matthew Harre
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Sep 18, 2006
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I tried going onto New Yorker Online, but I can't get to that article from the website. "Petrified" hmmmm ... kind of reminds me of how I feel about my next...
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Sep 18, 2006
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I am a real fossil and a real beginner and probably beyond the age where one should try his luck at the piano. Still, I have been with it for three years now...
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Oct 7, 2006
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Dear Karl Karl-Heinz Isleif, I'm sorry to hear about your hand. A common source of pain in the arm is over extension of the hand. The natural extension of...
Matthew Harre
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Oct 7, 2006
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Dear Karl, I am a fossil too and fortunately I do not have now any pain in my arms. I would tell you more - my left hand which was broken at the wrist level...
Victoria Achim
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Oct 7, 2006
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Thank you for the advice, Matt and Victoria! It seems as if Matt's put the finger on it: For the last year I have been practicing a piece which forces me to...
Isleif
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Oct 8, 2006
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Hello Karl-Heinz, I have what they call "tennis elbow" (although not from playing tennis - about 6 years ago (I was 42 at the time I think)....I injured my arm...
CHRJ
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Oct 9, 2006
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Hi Carol, Your posting makes sense in my case. I also happen to work with my hands and sometimes too much so. I may be able to cut down on it, but I can't...
Isleif
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Oct 11, 2006
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Hi -- I'm a 52 year old female "fossil" and delighted to find this group and know there are others like me out there. I'm taking trumpet lessons and teaching...
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Nov 2, 2006
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i am looking for pre-reading and primer music that is NOT hand position based...any suggestions out there?...
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Nov 2, 2006
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... Welcome Meg! I'm also a 53 fossil female, in México; but with 30 years of enjoying piano playing, piano classes and piano teaching. After my family, piano...
Lya Ferrer
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Nov 4, 2006
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Oh, Lya, What a lovely quote from your niece. Give her my best. This is true for all of all of us, just by degrees. The better one gets, the more particular...
Matthew Harre
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Nov 6, 2006
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Hi Matt and Lya, Thanks for the encouragement (and the great quote!). happy playing, Meg...
Meg Wilkinson
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Nov 6, 2006
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Hello fellow fossils! What are the magic tricks when the piece you're practicing becomes stale, because you've played it a million times, progress is close to ...
klavierneuling
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Nov 10, 2006
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Magic tricks? No magic tricks, I'm afraid! But I've had wonderful success with playing in rhythms. I find that practicing in rhythms not only helps me learn...
Nina Rogers
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Nov 10, 2006
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Hi Karl, ... I've got two suggestions, and they aren't mutually exclusive -- you can use them both, and in either order. The first is to just leave it alone...
Meg Wilkinson
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Nov 10, 2006
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When this happens to me I put it aside for a while and work on something else. Or if I can't do that because it is a piece I have to learn for a ...
CHRJ
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Nov 10, 2006
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Thanks to all the nice girls for the advice. I'll try everything. It seems to be a common phenomenon, which somehow consoles me! Karl...
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