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welcome Waltz...book 3 really moves you to the next level...enjoy!

Thanks Mark... Are you currently on Book 3 or have you already finish it?

I haven't had time to read much of this thread yet. I only skimmed the posts on the last page. I have a lot of catching up to do, and I plan on reading this entire thread, from page 1, in the next few days. Thanks again for the welcome

Undone - good job on "Day" - well played.

Regards, JF

Waltz - welcome! Nice to have you here.

If you bump this thread once a day it may crash - it's not used to that!

Regards, JF

Thanks JF, It's really nice to be here!

Thanks JF – this was another one (of the many) Alfred pieces where I started out thinking “Okay, this isn’t going to be anything ‘special’” and then wound up really liking it and wanted to keep working on it. After getting the above recording I had to convince myself that “That’s good enough for now, time to move on to the next piece” which just so happens to be “A Classy Rag” – another challenging number (at least I’m finding it challenging at this point).

Undone

Welcome aboard Waltz!

I'm still in the back working the ambitious stuff as well as my favorite Prelude in D. I've moved to some intermediate books but still in book 3 too...

Thank Undone and Mark... for the replies.

Calypso Rhumba:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p43-gHGBlqo

I'm working on Fandango now, which I really like. Nothing of yet has been too challenging, but I'm sure that's going to change soon. I still have lots of catching up to do with this thread.

I just had a chance to watch this - and you did wonderfully! I think you slowed it down in this second version just enough. Nice job and great recital piece. I spent 40 mins this morning working on my Canon in D (The Coates version); but don't know if it'll be recital ready by next week.

Just curious - what did you use to record the video and sound for you tube? i have a camera that can take video; but I don't know how the sound quality would come out.

Thanks Nancy !

I use the camcorder's audio for the sound, I don't have an external mic or anything like that. My camera is a sony, and it's fairly new, and when I bought it, it was "in the middle" as far as quality is concerned. So obviously the sound/video isn't the best, plus I generally compress the files to between 15-25 mb, so they'll upload nicely.

nancy w - just a little note to let you know that I answered two questions you asked in separate posts above (since you haven't responded to either answer I'm assuming you missed them and I wanted to draw your attention to them).

Regards, JF

I did see your messages. I read the new posts by watching the thread and it emails me the new posts when there's an update, but don't always get a chance to reply.

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome - I'll have to get to work on my Super Special song which is the first one in the book.

Waltz – nice job on your first two book 3 pieces. I look forward to being able to listen to your recordings of the pieces I’m beginning to work on.

Undone

Thanks Undone! Haha, by what I've read on the first ten pages of the thread, I'll probably be slowing down "big time" soon. On which piece/page are you working?

Well to jump in and steal Undone's thunder (never of course) I'm hitting "A Very Special Day" this week. It's a very nice piece (unlike it's previous ones) and I'm prob going to be here for a good 2-3wks..


SC

Very nice playing everyone! I'm only starting Book 1 but I love hearing everyone's recordings of the more advanced pieces. Keep up the good work!

PS

Well, since you asked PS, here's my version of "An American Hymn", which is in the new key of A Major and is the first piece in Section 2 of Book 3.

This piece is much more commonly called "Shall We Gather at the River" (after the first line of the first verse) and was written way back in 1864 by Robert Lowry.

The Book's arrangement is nice, but I've enhanced it a bit by adding (1) and "intro" based on the last phrase (a very common technique) and (2) insertng a D.S. al Fine at the end of measure 16, which jumps back to the start of the chorus at measure 9.

These same techniques can be used often to spice up many of the study pieces found in any number of methods and songbooks.

Enjoy!

An American Hymn

Regards, JF

Very nicely played JF. It’s great to get a glimpse of where we’re headed. This piece certainly does have a lot going on behind the melody.

Undone

Waltz – I’m currently working on A Classy Rag. This is another one that is going to take some time to get through.

Undone