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Piano Practice Idea: Waltzing in 4/4 time?

24th July 201824th July 2018Tommy Doyle

This post is to go with my YouTube video Today I’d like to share a neat trick I found to help when trying to master a couple of tricky Waltzes on the piano. That trick is to play it in 4/4 time. You might think I’ve gone mad – a Waltz by definition is in...

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Chopin ‘Valse du petit chien’ – the ‘little dog waltz’ (Op. 64 No. 1)

23rd November 201618th November 2018Tommy Doyle

This fabulous little waltz is more commonly called the Minute Waltz – almost always pronounced ‘minute’ as in hours, minutes and seconds but actually intended as ‘minute’ as in very small. Chopin’s inspiration was apparently watching a little dog chase its own tail. This is the type of piece that I would never try to...

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