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Summer projects:

Bach BWV 1056 Concerto F major
First and second movements: polish
third movement - learning
(Using Music Minus One)

Rachmaninoff Etude Op 23 No 4 - revive
Bach prelude/fugue BWV 881 WTC book II polish
Bach prelude BWV 887 WTC Bk II polish
Bach fugue BWV 887 WTC book II learn
Bach prelude/fugue BWV 853 bk I polish
Bach prelude/fugue BWV 866 bk I polish
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 3 revive for Mom who loves it
Schumann Opus 13 Etude #2 revive

Now to find some uninterrupted practice time!

I'm currently attempting to write some of my own music... attempting being the key word!

I'm new to the forums, and this is in fact my first post, so hi everyone!

Charlie N.: Hi Charlie N., and welcome to the PW forums!

Yes, originality is indeed unique. I like to create/compose some of my own music. (Not that I am that good at any of it ).

Take care,

Rickster

Thanks Rickster!

I'm gonna get one of my pieces on youtube in the next couple of days, so you can have a look at the competition

Hi Charlie,

That’s great! I’ll look forward to being “shown-up” . (Of course, it won't take much. )

Here’s a quick little true story that happened to me when I was a high school student (many years ago).

At the time, I was learning to play the 5-string banjo and we had a little blue-grass trio band that included myself and a guy that played the acoustic guitar and one that played the electric bass. We were actually pretty good as amateurs go. We participated in the FFA (Future Farmers of America) string- band contest and won a couple of local and regional string-band contest.

It just so happened that our high school principle was an avid blue-grass music lover. He was so impressed with my banjo picking (and the fact that he was a retired US Air-Force man) that he called the local US Air-Force recruiter to come to the high school to interview me for the US Air Force special services music corp.

Needless to say, I was just a young country boy that could pick a 5-string banjo a little .

During the interview, the Air Force recruiter told me that he would set up an audition for me but added that I would be competing against individuals with master’s degrees in music. Well, that scared the he** out of me. I had not even graduated from high school and couldn’t even read music. (But I could pick a 5-string banjo and play “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” pretty well ).

Sorry for the long post but this is a true story. Music is fun and enjoyable no matter how good or bad we are at it. One thing is for sure, we can all learn form each other .

Best regards,

Rickster

I'd love to hear that! Huge bluegrass fan here!

Tina

Wow.

Three pages in just a couple days.

Let's see. What am I working on?

I am just finishing up Hungarian Dance 5 from Brahms and the Bumble Boogie from Jack Fina. They both need much polishing, but at least they are both at a point where they are fun to play as long as I am the only one listening.

I just started my next ragtime piece from Joplin which is The Easy Winners. Nice piece there.

My teacher has some small preludes he's given me to work on from William Gillock called the Lyric Preludes. Anybody ever hear of him? I am working on "Fountain of Diane" and "Dragonfly." Those are nice little pieces.

That's about it for now.

Joel

I'd just like to add that it's the middle of winter, not the middle of summer!!

I'm currently working on buying my first piano and finding a teacher, so I can have my first lesson. I definitely fall into the adult beginner catagory. Complete beginner, although my wife would argue that I don't behave like an adult

I hope to one day be posting what I'm working on beyond learning scales and such. Can't wait to begin!

Balf

I'm working on a new age piece - I figured I only needed to learn one...

My teacher has also set as a long term project the op33 Gmin Rachmaninov Etude Tableau - getting the 'toccata' section up to speed is a 'little bit' of a challenge...

Polishing:
Tchaikowsky Barcarolle
Granados Valses Poeticos #1 and #3
Grieg Arietta Op 12 #1

Pounding away with grim determination:
Bach Prelude & Fugue C minor WTC1

Almost getting it to sound like music:
Grieg Lyric Piece No. 66, waltz variation of Arietta.

Bringing up to tempo:
Granados Valse Poetico No.5

Learning the notes and the booby traps:
Mozart C major Sonata K.545 Allegro movement

Lifetime nemesis steel cage death match:
Piano arrangement of Monti's Csardas. Take a trip into staccato heck. Gypsies will take your wallet when you stumble and fall.

Gosh, I feel so un-ambitious - if there is such a word

yep..talk about work loads.

Im working on the last 5 pcs in book 2. (not counting the canon) did that january for my 1st recital.

Learning Kiss the rain (very very beautiful)
and polishing Fur Elise.

I am going ask my teach for more classical pcs.

WOW!!

You people are way too ambitious!!

Now I feel like such an underachiever.

I’m only working on one piece, David Nevue’s arrangement of Twinkle, Twinkle
plus some scales and Hanon.

I flubbing my way through:

Sibelius op40 #2 - Chanson sans paroles (wierd sounding if you ask me, I just picked it out of my book)

Chopin Preludes op 24 #4 and #7 (both relatively easy)

Mendelssohn Op 19 # 4 - Song without words (notice a pattern here)

All of the above came out of the same "Classics to Moderns" book.

I have a few other pieces that I'm doing with my teacher, but these I can't name off the top of my head. All are from the baroque to early classical period.

I've been learning Nefeli from Einaudi.

Every other piece I ever played are lost from my memory because I haven't been practising enough lately. Correction; when I practise I play Nefeli only. Some pieces would come back quickly by reviewing the sheets however.

Peter

[ProdigalPianist howls with laughter so much that she falls out of chair and lands, breathless, on the floor...still giggling]

Bach - Little Prelude in D, BWV 936 - basically nailed now, I think.
Chopin - Mazurka in G Minor, Op 67#2 - still needs a lot of work

Tinkering with a few other things, but really just waiting for the ABRSM syllabuses to be published tomorrow so I can really get to work!

Grieg and Granados! My two favorite Gr composers! I knew Valses Poéticos 1,3,4,5,6 and 8 at one point. Some day I plan to go back and learn the Introducción and the two I missed. It is a wonderful collection.

Ted

The Granados waltzes are fun. After you learn the notes you have to learn to bring them to life with a real waltz feeling. It will be many weeks at least before I can play number 5 that way at tempo. A nice thing about these is that each one is only a page or less so it's easy to commit to learning one at a time.

Is that Volume 37? I played a bunch of pieces from that book. My two favorites that have remained in my maintained repertoire are Solfeggietto, C.P.E. Bach, and The Horseman, Kabalevsky. Of the pieces you've selected, I've only played Song Without Words. I remember that I enjoyed playing it. Good luck!

Well, I got my syllabus today.

I didn't like most of the pieces in the book (bah), but have decided to work on the following:

Gliere - Prelude in Db, Op.43
Oscar Peterson - Jazz Exercise No. 2

and (wait for it...)

CPE Bach - Solfeggietto

Spooky, eh?