Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Adult Beginners Forum March Piano Bar

Mark, this was very well played and you managed to get a good recording from the piano, which can be tricky with acoustics.

Mark: the Fantasy is very good. Thank you for the good music in the end of the month.
ty.beiginer: The Debussy piece is very difficult, but you can play it! You are working very hard. I am not expert so can't give you suggestion.

you mean i can hack it thank you for the compliments. i have a long list of things i need to fix:

1. add dynamics to the chords near the middle
2. split some of the left hand arpeggio to the right hand so it can be faster and smoother
3. make the key change section faster
4. figure out the melody among the arpeggios so i can play it louder
5. that's the big changes i hope to make with lots of other things to improve on

Well.. i've put this in back of my mind to practice as time goes. I'm learning the bridges for fur elise now since my wife liked the piece. So i'm guessing the progress wont be as fast now for this one.

ty.beginner, a valiant attempt at Debussy's famous piece. I'm sure you know the arpeggios need to be a lot faster (though slow it sounds decent). The pedal obviously needs to be toned down a lot, but you know that too. Nice going, you'll get there.

Mark, sweet piano I'm not familiar with the music. Who is Bossa again?

Weiyan is getting so good, he can play with one hand tied behind his back

Eager to hear the finished product!

LarryShone, you're missing a few notes - listen again or peruse some sheet music - but this sounds like a nice start to your piano career

Is the high pitched noise from a metronome?

LarryShone~ Welcome to the Piano Bar! Excellent submissions. Be patient with yourself and don't worry about the recorder. You are playing very carefully and listening to the music you are playing, which is a very good. The notes are one thing, the music is another. Keep up the good work!

Mark~ A fine improvement with your Bossa. This time around, it sounds like you are capturing a Bossa rhythm, which is a diffiult one. Keep listening to lots of Bossa Nova music to get a good feel for the accented rhythms and syncopations. It's great to see how much more music you bring to this piece.

Weiyan~ Thanks for sharing your left-handed Bach. Keep the tempo and the dynamics.

tybeginner~ Thanks for sharing your practice session! Your comments on Claire de Lune are all spot-on. My main comment is to take your foot off the sustain pedal. The music calls for it, but your dynamics and arpeggios get lost in the sustain soup. Yes, many of those arpeggios start with the left hand and end with the right as it plays the main melody up top. Keep playing it to get it better under your fingers. Do it in sections and focus on the more difficult passages singly to get those secure under your fingers. Good job!

"Who is Bossa again?" This is a common term understood only by those over a certain age . . . .we were brought up on it. "Bacharach" is the same.

That is a superb piano; beautifully tuned. . . .the music? doesn`t have to be a bossa. It`s really good anyway. Keep `em comin` man. . . look forward to more!

Hi everyone,

I would like to share this piano piece with you, and I would love to hear what you think about it. I'm not the most accomplished pianist, but I do create a new piece every day.

Thanks
[color:#33CC00][b]DPP349 - Stories Of Love And Dance[/b][/color]

Very good.

Ah that's probably my nose whistling, lol,full of cold at moment.

Allard,

wiki page for bossa nova

Oh, and Mark, that was very nicely played. Thank you.

Mark That was a lovely piece very well played! Great job! Your recording is great too!! These Zooms are so small but they provide such great recordings! Amazing.

Ty.Beginner Loved it! You play very well. Was this all from memory?

inlanding: thank you for comments. I will need more help as i delve more into the piece. I think the current goal of moving some arpeggios to the right hand and a better sustain foot should be crucial to not fall into a bad habit of memorizing wrongly.

Amaruk: yes. i memorized it 2 weeks ago. and for the past 2 weeks i've been trying to smooth the transitions between the sections i learned. i still make mistakes now and then. Hopefully i'll make less errors in the long run.

DPP: sounds very good. That's one of the very few original pieces i hear, and i enjoyed it till the end. Reminds me of a game soundtrack and i meant that as a compliment

This is my first video of my keyboard playing. Its very cramped in there so getting a good camera angle isnt easy-you have to share the view of my Tarantula tanks too
After a brief watch of a tutorial that a friend made for 'Song For Guy' by Elton John I had a go at the first verse. I'd had a few good runs with no mistakes, then the camera was rolling and I hit bum notes!!
Yamaha PSR 225, Portable Grand, Octave-1, Reverb level 12/127.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUGah6JEkRZn8fv9KHbu7WIg&feature=player_detailpage&v=BOg3oafLgG8[/video]

I fell far behind in responding to this month's submissions, but not
in listening. I meant to respond earlier

Newman - Juilia - much appreciated

Greener - Meditation - well done

LadyPayne - When You Wish Upon a Star - very playful
- Down by the Sally Gardens - beautiful

TheodorN - Yesterday, nice work.
I find the overhead view a bit uncomfortable.

Amaruk - LOTR Into the West
I really enjoyed that.

Codi - Sally's Song
That was one of my daughter's favourite movies.
I like you video, the room makes me think of a movie set.

BillM - Strawberry Fields Forever. I like your interpretation.
Looks like you were injured (bandaid on one finger), but I couldn't tell from your playing.

Allard - Return to the Heart, well played.
Congratulations on the new piano, sounds great.

Saranoya - Handel, nice steady tempo and good dynamics

peterws - contemplation 2
This has the characteristic peterws feel. I enjoyed it.
Am I correct in assuming the white dots were cloned sheep instead of cows?

Inlanding - Trailing lights
I like your improv. Nice job on the repeated notes, I've been having a but of trouble with those lately.

SwissMS - 12 O'Clock Jump - this one is lot's of fun

TromboneAl - If I Only Had a Brain - and more fun

Weiyan - The Moon Is My Heart - nice effort, your playing is
progressing

peterws - you certainly are versitile

Inlanding - some standard - more great playing

ty.beginner - Canon in D - good tempo, very musical

Weiyan - Love is Blue Melodian Cover. This made me smile.

LarryShone - Ode to Joy, Song for Guy
- you have good steady sense of time

Weiyan - Minuet in Dm (left hand) - good start

Mark - Fantasy Bossa - nice piece, sounds quite polished to me.

ty.beginner - clair de lune
We've all hacked well loved pieces. You at least kept to a tempo you can manage. When I hack a piece there is usually a lot more blood and gore.
My only comment is regarding the arpeggiated chords around 2:29. These are usually played rapidly, effectively rolling the chord. Here is the description from the wkikpedia entry on List of musical symbols:

"Arpeggiated chord A chord with notes played in rapid succession, usually ascending, each note being sustained as the others are played. Also called a "broken chord".