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Christine, blavo! It sounded very beautiful together. Great job for 8 min on stage. Wow.

Yes, her point was that it's harder to make a well known piece "your own" than one that's not well known. I can see her point but, to be honest, if I could play it identically to (for instance) Valentina Lisitsa's version I would be jumping up and down with joy

Oh gosh, I hope that it was clear that the youtube clip IS NOT ME!!!! I just posted it so you could hear the music.

I love this piece and most of the work of Arvo Part.

+1,000 That version is sublime. I listen to it regularly. BTW do you recognize her mistake?

Did she made a mistake? I only noticed the violist dropping his bow against the piano in the beginning.

Or maybe you mean the missing notes at 1:40? I have two versions, one without the notes and one with the notes. But they are both interpretations from the original. Also because modern piano's have a greater resonance.


Btw, nice that you have your duet with a cello player. I hope there is more to come.

Hmm, I just watched it again but I don't think I hear it. So, if I manage to copy her exactly, I'll have made a mistake?! Rats!!

My bad. I totally assumed it was you. Sorry!

rofl. Right.

My achievement is that my teacher complimented me on my study of the Kabalevsky waltz

She has also given me a technical exercise for this week, from my Duvernoy book. It is the most brain twisting thing I've come across in a while. Both hands move up and down in a scale-like pattern, in the key of D, but the left hand starts on D and the right hand starts on F#.

MY BRAIN HURTS. Mamma mia!!!!!!

Checking back in - never quite sure if I should, but anyway I just finished re-recording one of my favorite Christmas songs: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which will probably show up in Mr. Super Hunky's annual Christmas music thread (he usually starts this around Dec. 1st) - anyone else working on Christmas music?

Trap

Just for the record, I didn't hear it myself, but learned of it reading the Piano Teacher's forum thread regarding simplified classical music. I believe "Gary D" pointed out that beginning with measure 14 you play a series of D sharp then E (six times total) in the pattern left hand, right hand, left hand, right, right, right. She repeats only 5 times.

It was a very interesting day for me.
1) I completed my preliminary recording but i hate it. - I will record it again tomorrow and submit one that is better.
2) A friend of mine called me for a small recital of young (very gifted artists areound here). So I went. One of the performers played the Pathetique all parts. It was a very intersting experience. He had a noticeable (to me) memory slip on the 1st movement at about the same spot I had memory slip when I played it in my recital. But his recovery was much better. He played the 2nd movement beautifully. It was much more emotional rendition than mine, and of course, much better. Anyway, I compared my recording to his performance at home. I realized that the major difference is that I play measure by measure even when I think I am playing the whole phrase.. My video shows myself bobbing head with the beat measure by measure.. Got to fix this. No wonder it does not sound beautiful. Retrospectively, I should record my practice performance regularly. I would have noticed it long time ago. So, DECISION - I SHALL RECORD MY PRACTICE.
3)Husband and dogs did not leave the house. In fact I wound up with a funny video of those two. My husband is crawling by the piano with the dogs. He thought if he crawls he would not be capture by the video. I got both of them captured and intend to share it with you once my husband's computer becomes available. I need to buy my personal laptop. My company forbits us to download any software for security reasons. So it makes it impossible for me to download / upload zoom pictures. Next week, I am buying an apple computer, Mac Air:) since I it's so inconvenient not having a personal laptop. I figure Apple is better for youtube and related activities.

Another achievement = I remembered how to upload videos from youtube.. Yay! I posted it another thread but it's too funny not to post it here too. Enjoy

I'm not crazy by this sort of topics but here it goes... After the first lessons i took following the learning piano material provided by playpianoTODAY.com (David Sprunger, member here), i was able to arrange my own little Amazing Grace with some simple triad voicings. Im absolutelly thrilled about it. For me at least that's what primarely piano means. Sitting down and improvizing songs you enjoy:)

I dont know who to say it was funnier...you, your dog or your husband:))

That's fine. But buy the Mac Air because you want an ultra-thin, lightweight (and designer-priced) laptop, not from any idea that it will do YouTube better than a cheaper machine!

Hey, guys. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. With my hubby's request, I made it "private" so it soon becomes unavailable after 50 views or something like that. He told me that he does not want to be a youtube sensation. I told him "relax, you weren't nakid" but he is kinda shy about things.

Hey Farmgirl, it was so excellent I watched it three times!

I managed to practice 3 consequtive days with absolute concentration. I found the secret in making progress faster - it's called using my brain while I play which is a brand new concept for me but I am getting used to it. I kind of expected my hands to do everything till now and played on autopilot

So in 3 days I did more than I did the past month, I corrected all the problems my teacher pointed out in my current pieces.

C,



Don't look now, but it sounds like you are playing D major scale in (major) thirds as I understand it.

I've only tried that a few times and also found it pretty mind twisting. I think there is a standard hannon exercise for this but will have to look when I get home.

One of my favorite pieces! The first time I heard this was last year in a live piano/violin performance, and it brought tears to my eyes. Just lovely! I'm sure you will enjoy playing this.