I love the mixture of classical and non classical!!! I would have liked to submit Chopin Prelude in A major but I'm only now getting to the polishing stage. I'm really looking forward to everyone's submissions and ever so pleased we have a little something of everything 😄

I hope to submit a short one of mine, if I can get it recorded by Wednesday.
Be warned, it is a bit depressing, but thankfully short!
It is over fifteen years old, but hoping to get a half decent new recording.

Rubens Hopefully I will add one more classical piece. I already have some recordings that are "fine" and I still have some time today to do another one. But that hasn't stopped me from missing the deadline before...

    Rubens I don't know enough music theory to know what Russian chromatic counterpoint might sound like, but you've got me excited to hear it now.

    A month or so ago I heard Rach's Op. 39 Etude Tableaux pieces for the first time. All but one of them made it immediately to my way, way, way in the future bucket list.

      I recorded a few takes today. It was ... humbling ... 😃 The problem is that I don't know the words well enough yet, so I keep thinking "what's the next verse?!" and then my piano playing crashes. I'll try again the next few days and post the best of the bad bunch Thursday. If nothing else, it might help people to get over their perfectionism: if I can embarrass myself like this, so can you!!!

      Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.

        We're holding at 15 submissions... but good to see folks are still planning to submit!

        I feel like I'm cutting it a little too close. I think I have a viable submission but today was not a productive day in terms of getting it ready. I still have to go through all the video and audio and somehow put it all together. 😅

        Here's to hoping you all get those submissions coming in!

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          One thing that has streamlined my recording production is the new AI Mastering Assistant in Logic Pro. I set the microphones, record with logic pro, turn on the mastering assistant on the stereo output, and it analyzes the audio and applies EQ and reverb. Sounds better than anything I can come up with it, and saves a lot of time and fiddling with things. Bounce to Final Cut to automatically sync the audio and video, trim the ends, and I am done.

          Of course the hard part is still actually playing the piano...

            TC3 I have a similar problem. I'm not singing, but I use the lyrics as sung by a particular performers' recording as a guide to rhythmic nuances to make my performance less boring. The trouble is that I keep forgetting the lyrics and rhythmic nuance for one particular verse. Trying to dredge it up to get the rhythm right results in a cascade of mistakes.

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                I realized that this piece is so long and complex I am probably not going to get a 'perfect' recording - not for a while anyway. But it does communicate the sense I have of what the Ballade is about and that is probably enough for now

                lilypad For some reasons, words seem to override music in my brain. That's probably why I tend to ignore lyrics, even to some of my favorite songs!

                navindra Here's to hoping you all get those submissions coming in!

                Definitely. I already have one take that I can live with, considering it's a work in progress. I'll try again tomorrow and then just post the best I get.

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                    I made my "ok" recording a week ago. Don't want to look back. Every time you hear the recording you always find something to improve. Even a modest 2 min piece took 3 recording sessions to get something satisfactory.

                    People singing Jazz & Pop tunes don't usually do everything on the beat. When playing piano against a singing version, I'd listen to a recording a few times. Each time I'd write in changes on the sheet.

                    Sam One thing that has streamlined my recording production is the new AI Mastering Assistant in Logic Pro. I set the microphones, record with logic pro, turn on the mastering assistant on the stereo output, and it analyzes the audio and applies EQ and reverb. Sounds better than anything I can come up with it, and saves a lot of time and fiddling with things. Bounce to Final Cut to automatically sync the audio and video, trim the ends, and I am done.

                    Whoa! Mind blown! 🤯

                    I couldn't tell you how much I struggle with the audio... and to think it was all just a button press away? Too often I just go back to doing everything manually with Audacity... I had no idea Logic Pro was so powerful.

                    Thanks a lot for the tip! I'm actually looking forward to this now! 😃

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                      OK, I fulfilled my promise and uploaded something. 🙂 Not too bad but still a bit sloppy. Good enough for now!

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                        TC3

                        And you didn't wait until the last second either!

                        You go!!

                            Here's the current tally.

                            1. iternabe — O mio babbino caro by Puccini, arr. by Faber
                            2. keff — Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg, arr. by Brent Edstom
                            3. plop_symphony — The Midnight Ball by Naoko Ikeda
                            4. Schubertian2 — Ballade 4 by Chopin
                            5. WieWaldi — Quick Five Blues by Christian Fuchs
                            6. Nightowl — What A Wonderful World by G D Weiss & B Thiele, arr. by G P Tingley
                            7. Sophia — A Classy Rag
                            8. rogerch — Slow Steps by rogerch
                            9. thepianoplayer416 — When You Wish Upon a Star by Ned Washington & Leigh Harline
                            10. Sam — The Never Finished Piece by Sam
                            11. MarieJ — Waltz in F minor by Tim Neumark
                            12. Player1 — Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar
                            13. Rubens — Sonata no.2, Op.36 (1913), 2nd movement, by Sergei Rachmaninoff
                            14. Cratersmash — Sonata No. 3 in A Minor by Sergei Prokofiev
                            15. Gooseberry — Pigalle by Virginio Aiello
                            16. Rob — Lost by Rob
                            17. TC3 — Worried Life Blues by Big Maceo Merriweather
                            18. lilypad — God Bless the Child by Arthur Herzop and Billie Holiday

                            Nice! There's a day or two left.

                            We'll go live on Friday... not promising an exact time though. 😉

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                            Player1 Just the next to the last second ... 😮

                            Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.

                              Looks like my procrastination strategy has paid off. Final Cut Pro 11 is here.

                              I really could have used that AI masking feature when I was working on this video:

                              You wouldn't imagine how painful it was to do the masking by hand! 😃

                              Now to update to Sequoia and see if FCP 11 is a free upgrade. I really hope Apple doesn't make me get a subscription for this... that would force a real clash of my principles. 😃

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                              So at least two weeks ago I think I said I was going to starting recording at each practice… but you know that didn’t happen… 😁

                              So today, I finally did a recording. It’s not perfect, but if I can’t get a better recording tomorrow, I’ll use this one.
                              Now I just have to remember what my SK YouTube account is… 🙄

                              In other news, I wanted to experiment with placement of the phone (I’m recording w my phone) to maybe get better sound. so I put it on top of a shelf at the tail end of the piano. I had the piano on the short stick, so that blocks my face in the video but you can still see my hair. Which I think looks very funny! 😀

                              Rubens Oh I love it, super excited! I'm about to submit a Scriabin piece that is MUCH easier than yours and @Cratersmash entries - and i looked up the composition and publication date and it just squeezes into late 19th century rather than early 20th so we can travel back in time a few years!