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PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD! USE THE DISCUSSION THREAD!I am delighted to introduce our 16th quarterly Adult Beginners' Forum Recital! So, pull up a chair and have a listen. I would like to take this opportunity to ask the audience to please refrain from commentary in this recital room. A separate room has been provided for the purposes of intermezzo discussion. Please take any and all comments to the General Discussion Room. Thank you. A template has been created for those who wish to provide individualized feedback: Recital 16 Response Template In addition to the zip files linked below, mahlzeit has added a feature to his program that creates an online streaming player. Just click on the link to hear all the recital pieces without having to download the zip files: Recital 16 Online Streaming Player For the convenience of forum members, mahlzeit's program has normalized the files for consistent volume and standardized the ID3 tags in a collection of zip files. This makes it easier to create personal CDs and playlists. These zip files have been posted at the following URLs: Recital 16 zip 1 Recital 16 zip 2Recital 16 zip 3Recital 16 zip 4 Recital 16 zip 5Recital 16 zip 6Recital 16 zip 7 Recital 16 zip 8The zip files, along with past recitals, have also been uploaded to: http://www.esnips.com/web/PWRecitals Let me express my greatest thanks to five very special people: mr_super-hunky for coming up with the idea of our online recitals, which have proven to be more successful than any of us ever dreamed; Bob Muir for working out the technical details of pulling together the recital and doing so tirelessly for the first six, count 'em, six, recitals; LaValse for hosting the zip files and recital software on his server; Copper for also hosting the zip files and trouble-shooting help; and last but not least, mahlzeit for writing the absolutely fantastic web-based recital program that we are using. THANK YOU MAHLZEIT!!!  AGAIN: DO NOT REPLY OR POST ON THIS THREAD!!
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| 01 | | | Performer's name: | jazzyprof | | From: | Ann Arbor, MI | | Experience: | Self-taught as a kid. 5 years of lessons in this incarnation. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne op.48 no.1 | | Composer: | F. Chopin | | Duration: | 06:42 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Steinway B | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I think this is the most difficult piece I have yet attempted. I hope I didn't butcher it too much!:) Isn't Chopin just amazing?!!! |
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| 02 | | | Performer's name: | dannylux / Mel | | From: | Connecticut | | Experience: | 3 years 9 months since I started playing again. Lots as a kid. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Bersagliera | | Composer: | Manuel Maria Ponce | | Duration: | 02:24 | | Source of music: | This extremely rare sheet music was very kindly transcribed for me from the Hector Rojas recording of Ponce's "Complete Works for the Piano" by a tremendously talented friend. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-140 | | Recording method: | Keyboard line-out to computer sound card line-in. Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Manuel Maria Ponce's Bersagliera is a very jaunty, energetic piece, with a little Baroque feel to it.
This is one of Ponce's rarest, most difficult-to-find pieces. Only one recording exists, and it is out of print.
Bersagliera is in three sections, A, B, and C, played in the order ABBCAB.
The first section has a staccato melody in the right hand and a nice work-out for the left.
The second section has the second melody mostly in thirds, with a triplet accompaniment.
The third section is for those who love lots of octaves.
This is one of my favorite pieces. It's such fun to play!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy playing it for you. |
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| 03 | | | Performer's name: | epf | | From: | Southern California | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 50+ years with lots of long breaks. I've been playing regularly for the last two years. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUo8UVODnyU | | Title of piece: | Prelude No. 16 in Db Major | | Composer: | Robert D. Vandall | | Duration: | 01:57 | | Source of music: | Complete collection of Preludes by Robert D. Vandall (sheet music) | | Instrument used: | Privia PX-800 | | Recording method: | Direct to Zoom H4 then normalized with Audacity. Video shot with Mino FlipVideo and resulting file edited in Windows Movie Maker to synchronize with the audio and to add titles. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is certainly one of the prettiest of the preludes and I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. As a result I ordered the complete collection of preludes.
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| 04 | | | Performer's name: | Ode2Joy | | From: | So Cal | | Experience: | Returning adult since Jan 2008; several years as a child | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Piano Sonata in C, K330 Andante cantabile (2nd movement) | | Composer: | W A Mozart | | Duration: | 04:07 | | Source of music: | Henle Album: Piano Music from Bach to Debussy | | Instrument used: | Yamaha C3 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 --> MP3 conversion with Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I didn't take the repeats with this movement. The "cantabile" quality needed for this piece still eludes me, but here's my best shot at it. I'm a huge Mozart fan.
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| 05 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | Experience: | 1 3/4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | German Dance in A Major, WoO.13, No. 11 | | Composer: | Beethoven | | Duration: | 00:53 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Milton Spinet | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This was the 2nd piece I learned after starting last year. I try to keep all the pieces I've learnt in my rotation so as not to forget them. This short piece was deceptively hard because of the percusive action of one hand while the other is playing sustained notes and vice versa, while playing it in a refined manner.
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| 06 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super-Hunky | | Avatar: |  | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Cristofori's Dream | | Composer: | David Lanz | | Duration: | 06:25 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB | | Recording method: | Zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I used to improvise as a way to avoid the difficult sections of a piece I could not play. This is what a hack does and I did the math!
In an effort to redeem myself, I need to resubmit a few pieces (which I will over time) and perform them correctly as written. This is my first one.
It's certainly not perfect but at 6 min, 9 pages and NO editing, my nerves are shot.....Phew! |
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| 07 | | | Performer's name: | TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, US | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year and 9 months (I gave wrong info in the last recital) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Autumn River | | Composer: | Me | | Duration: | 02:39 | | Source of music: | self composition | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia | | Recording method: | DP to computer via Line In, Audacity to remove noise. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Originally I planned another piece for the recital. This one came up when I tried to write some simple tune for my 8 years old to play. The whole song has only 2 chords. While I like the melody of the other one better, I think my playing on this one is a little bit better (despite some clunkers) |
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| 08 | | | Performer's name: | Peyton | | From: | Maine | | Experience: | Many years of knocking around blues, folk and rock and then a few years of serious study. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/Biffer5#p/a/u/1/OTgYDJu3umY | | Home page link: | http://www.peytonart.com | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in Bflat Minor Op.9.1 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 05:43 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Pramberger YC grand | | Recording method: | digital using Mac/metro | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I worked on this nocturne along with 72.1 for the nocturne recital. This was the first Chopin piece that I ever fell in love with. I learned it many years ago and had to relearn it for the recital. I had a heck of a time recording it.. one of those times where you get one part just perfect and then ruin another. I settled for this take although I messed up the ending by leaving out a measure. |
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| 09 | | | Performer's name: | Sam Smith | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Several years as a kid, a couple of years as an adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Song Without Words, Opus 19/4 | | Composer: | Mendelssohn | | Duration: | 02:36 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha UX1 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | My piano bench creaks... |
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| 10 | | | Performer's name: | kokomo61 | | From: | Oak Hill, VA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 3 years formal lessons, a bunch of self-taught lead sheet fakery. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.holliworks.com | | Title of piece: | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Adagio Cantabile | | Composer: | Ludwig Van Beethoven | | Duration: | 04:59 | | Source of music: | John Thompson Modern Course for the Piano Level 5 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-250 | | Recording method: | Direct to Garage Band, convert to MP3, post to forum. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I would have liked to have done this on the Estonia, but my iMac blew up its encrypted hard drive, and I've been working on restoring it for about a week now. I had to pull a previous version off of Box.Net just to make sure I had a submission this time around. |
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| 11 | | | Performer's name: | flyingfroggy | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 1 year of lessons at age 6, then about 10 years as adult | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne #20 in C# minor (posth.) | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:39 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Schimmel Konzert Grand K 189 | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had a really bad case of “red dot syndrome.†I should be embarrassed to tell you how many times I pushed that red dot, but suffice it to say that after totally screwing up the (easy) third to last measure of take number 17, I decided to rerecord the last section. I hope you enjoy one of my favorite Chopin nocturnes, complete with a few wrong notes, several hesitations, and one edit. |
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| 12 | | | Performer's name: | Glen R. | | From: | Alberta, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 6 months with lessons (a few years tinkering before that). | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz (Op. 39, No. 15) | | Composer: | Johannes Brahms | | Duration: | 01:07 | | Source of music: | Piano: 2nd Time Around (Bastien and Bastien) | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YDP-140 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first piece that I've played with the pedal, so it's the first piece I've played that I really enjoy listening to :-).
I had a PB&J sandwich. Tasted pretty good, since I haven't really felt like eating for the past few days :-) |
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| 13 | | | Performer's name: | HomeInMyShoes (HIMS, Homey, Home, Aaron) | | From: | St. John's, NL, Canada | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | enough to know better by now | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://homeinmyshoes.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Trois Gnossiennes | | Composer: | Erik Satie | | Duration: | 06:39 | | Source of music: | Sheet. Erik Satie Piano Album. J.B Cramer & Co | | Instrument used: | Roland Fantom X8 | | Recording method: | straight resampling | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I love these three little pieces., especially No. 2 with the hypnotic running eight notes. I also enjoy all the little interpretation notes written in French above the music, although I'm still a little fuzzy on how one would play something "sans orgueil" or "seul, pendant un instant".
I had leftover spaghetti for lunch and a ginger ale. Burp. Excuse me. |
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| 14 | | | Performer's name: | Kalai1/Chris | | From: | Hawaii | | Experience: | 4 years 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://www.koawoodhawaii.com | | Title of piece: | Leo O Kapo (voice of the night) | | Composer: | Chris Allen | | Duration: | 03:15 | | Source of music: | Self taught, play by ear | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 piano | | Recording method: | Digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I hope you like my music, please comment, aloha.
I have never played infront of people and I dont think more than 12 people have ever heard me play the piano, since I am self taught I don't know if I can say I can play the piano or should I say I play around with the piano. I also do not know what chords I am playing or anything like that, I tought myself by listening to George Winston and then trying to play his music then I was able wo write my own pieces, please critique, thanks and aloha.
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| 15 | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | 2 years and 4 month of piano playing (plus a few years of accordion and guitar playing more than 26 years ago) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Stranger in Paradise & Love Letters (medley) | | Composer: | R.Wright & G.Forrest / V. Young | | Duration: | 06:26 | | Source of music: | Lead sheets | | Instrument used: | DP Roland FP-7 | | Recording method: | DP to audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the 1953 musical Kismet and is credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was based on music composed by Alexander Borodin, in this case, the "Gliding Dance of the Maidens," from the Polovetsian Dance. – Wikipedia
"Love Letters" is a 1945 popular song with music by Victor Young and lyrics by Edward Heyman. The song appeared, without lyrics, in the movie of the same name. – Wikipedia
I couldn’t decide which one to submit so I merged them into a medley.
Creating my versions of these two beautiful tunes out of lead sheets – you know, only melodies and chords - presented a fantastic experience to me. As somebody wrote, “faking†music from lead sheets (contained in the fake books) gives you the freedom to stylize a song your own way, rather than to play it as arranged in a sheet music version. So far there is not even one tune I learned from a full piano score ... “Faking†a tune (I love the term!) really gives you a tremendous freedom in all imaginable ways. The slightest note depends on you, quality of every chord, tempo and so on. It can’t be compared to “classical†playing i.e. playing from sheet music where even one additional note means a mistake.
Trying to describe the style they are in I would say it’s bordering cocktail piano, maybe, but really maybe pop jazz. At least I did my best to give them the jazzy flavor, as I see it. Have I succeeded? As always it’s up to you to decide  .
They are not a pro renditions, far from it, they are only adult beginner’s ones but nonetheless I hope you will like it.
I will never be a good classical pianist but being a decent "faker" would make one of my piano dreams come true. There are tons of beautiful tunes out there which can be "retold" one more time in a different way, even by an adult beginner “faker†.
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At the end of the strings of my recordings I switched my FP-7 to jazz scat tone. I liked the result so much ( the jazzy flavor! ) that I couldn’t resist the temptation to share it with you.
I truly hope doing it I didn’t break the recital's rules – it was piano played so was piano related |
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| 16 | | | Performer's name: | Sandy Moore | | From: | Nova Scotia | | Experience: | 8 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Hills of Purple Heather | | Composer: | Martha Mier | | Duration: | 01:46 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Roland Digital | | Recording method: | digital to PC | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Healthy lunch of veggies and chicken....repenting after the weekend.
I learned this for my Scottish brother-in-law..but I haven't played it for him yet!! He lives in Saudi Arabia...perhaps I'll send him the mp3 |
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| 17 | | | Performer's name: | b528nf7 (Bill) | | From: | Gaithersburg, Maryland | | Experience: | 6 1/2 Years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2d8bACOkw | | Title of piece: | Layla | | Composer: | Eric Clapton/Jim Gordon | | Duration: | 03:34 | | Source of music: | Hal Leonard Fake Book | | Instrument used: | Roland KR17M Digital Grand Piano | | Recording method: | Flip Video HD | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is a piano/vocal of the 1970 Derek and the Dominoes song from their Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album. I used a harpsicord voice for the piano solo portion of the song to provide a little contrast plus I like the way it sounds. |
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| 18 | | | Performer's name: | Todd Vance | | From: | Bowie, MD | | Experience: | About 9 months, after a long hiatus after 2.5 years childhood lessons. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonatina (Clementi, Op. 56 No. 3) | | Composer: | Muzio Clementi | | Duration: | 06:53 | | Source of music: | Piano Literature Vol. 3 | | Instrument used: | Yamaha YP-400 keyboard | | Recording method: | Audacity, as 7 files (4 for first mvt., repeats not done to save time, one for 2nd mvt., one for 3rd mvt.) concatenated. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I should have put some more empty space between movements. |
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| 19 | | | Performer's name: | Bunneh | | From: | Germany | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 15 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Première Gymnopédie | | Composer: | Erik Satie | | Duration: | 03:51 | | Source of music: | Edition: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2006 | | Instrument used: | Roland HP-203 | | Recording method: | Line out to Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | A favorite of mine, and one of those melodies that everyone seems to know and love. The piece proved to be far more challenging than it looks and sounds at first glance.
It seems every single note has to sound just right or you've instantly ruined the piece. Considering that this includes some big pp chords that need to be voiced carefully, it gave me quite a headache.
It's listed as a BC grade 8 piece, and I suppose to really get everything out of it you do need a lot of experience at the keyboard. But I think even a beginner can make it sound like music! Listen and judge yourself whether you think I'm right 
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