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I submitted what I have for now since I don't know if I can get to record it again on wednesday.

in the past two weeks I have no less than about 46 takes. I already submitted a recording, but I would like to submit a better one.. However, it's difficult to get a recording without a glaring mistake or a satisfactory feel. Let's not forget interruptions or loud street noises...

Finished a decent recording of my Nocturne. Only a very minor slip up on one of those massive grace note leaps in the middle section. Pretty proud of it. I've been working on it pretty consistently for months now as a major project.

I'm pretty much a Chopin newbie so I had to learn polyrhythmic ornaments, basic pedaling, fastish double sixths, grace note leaps and all sorts of stuff I've never done before for the first time, and in a very challenging piece to boot. Phew!

I had to get it done early because my singing group will be on tour from the 18th (tomorrow) to 24th in Hawaii where I will have no way to record it. I think for me an even better recording is possible, with a faster middle section and zero mistakes. Ah well!

I will start making recordings today, I think, but I may have to piece together a couple of different takes for the sake of time. I've made a lot of progress, but it's still not enough to my liking. I also have one nasty page turn to contend with and I haven't been trying to memorize, so I'll have to get creative with that too.

When I was growing up, we were not allowed play such nice music as chopin but have to spend lots of hours for Bach, Clementi, Koulau.

Morodiene :

Have you thought of downloading a page of your Nocturne from IMSLP that you can place beside your copy to avoid the awkward page turn? That way, you may be able to play through part of the copy page until you come to a spot where you can conveniently turn the page on your own volume.

I've been working on "your" Nocturne and two others for an up-coming recital and I, too, have an awkward page turn in two of them. Fortunately, I have three different editions on the Nocturnes and one can be used as I describe above to get me through the page turns.

Regards,

Guys, I'm totally editing my performance for pageturns, and also choosing sections from among the two best takes. Full disclosure here.

..same here. I memorised so no problem with pages but had a couple of stops and starts.

I would love to know how to do editing. I don't have time now but I am depressed every time I see my rather plumb figure. It was not like this before. I need to learn to add a picture of dog or something instead of myself. On top of my mistakes my husband dropped something in the background.

Not me, I memorize everything and do a bunch of takes until I get a good one, I prefer it that way.



Farmgirl, if this is such an issue, why don't you just record yourself like I do. Position the camera to show just your arms and hands.

That angle is worse for me. I have fat arms. I would like to provide 100% coverage. Last time I saw a function of making the picture darker. But I could not find it any more in youtube setting. Anyway I will learn the skill by next time.

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