PianoTell Recital #3 Is Now Live!

plop_symphony Thanks for sharing this. Such a fun little piece and well played! It also looks fun to play with hand overs. But I am sure it is harder than it looks. So probably out of reach to me (for years) but I am bookmarking the score for future. Thanks again.

Player1 great to see your entry here. I hope you will get back your usual practice routine back. I've enjoyed listening this piece. Reminds me some eastern melodies. This piece actually sounds really nice. I am not sure if I want to follow Faber 3B after finishing AIO2. But I think I should get it just to pick and choose pieces like this one.

MarieJ I enjoy listening Einaudi and this one was no exception. It is more than six minutes long! I am always impressed when people play so smoothly for such a long time. Well played. Thanks for sharing.

Pathbreaker that is so impressive. That score has so much ink And it sounds as impressive as it looks. Thanks for sharing.

Calavera I agree that is a great title. I spent good chunk of my life with games but never involved with Final Fantasy somehow. But it keeps popping up everywhere. Anyhow, you have played this wonderfully. From what hear, I guess it is quite advanced. And this is one of your shorter gems? It is three and a half minute! Well done.

WieWaldi See you are doing it again. You are making it look easy peasy. I've started to appreciate the difficulty only after attempting to follow very basic blues lessons. It is difficult in a completely different way! Christian says "We are just playing simple chords with blues scale". Yea.. right. It just has this horrible syncopation, triplets, big chord jumps, funny slides etc. OK. I will stop ranting. Well done on this piece. And thanks for your blues support in PT.

Sophia Thank you.

Sam Schumann op 15-6 - "An Important Event" from the Scenes from Childhood

I played your version in 1.25x speed and of course at normal speed, too. In my humble opinion the normal speed sounded way better, nothing wrong with that. If you hadn't written it is under tempo, I would have never realized by my own. Your playing is very expressive and I can only
say the piece is very good performed as it is.
Sad to read about your friends situation. This will happen to all of us and it is good to have a friend like you, helping out in her distress. If she is still able to play her piano, you could do a duet with her, or maybe someone else? How often do you have the possibility to play 2 grand pianos in one music room?

bSharp that’s was wonderful!!! Very nice arrangement and very, very nicely played!! And it was the perfect combination of the original (which I can sing along with 100%, takes me back to junior high!!!) and also the pianistic qualities we want in a solo piece. Lovely!!

I need to get a collection of Dan Coats arrangements, all the ones I’ve heard have been really nice.

Listening to this recital is gonna cost me a lotta money…

SalmonJack Just Mist by SalmonJack

Very lovely and musically. I think your playing is quite well and I really enjoyed to listen to it. So nice your music is, the thing that baffled me more, is how you managed to create the video with the spray bottle following the notes. Well, it is not about the spray bottle itself; it is how you did the perfect synchronization with the music. Is there a tool, or a software addon or did you just put a lot of manual effort into your video editing? If I think about my editing software, I have no clue how to realize that. Maybe one way could work, but that is a lot of hard work and very error prone, too.
I find it also interesting, you wrote:

SalmonJack The more I played, the worse I played.

This happens to me all the time, especially when the camera is watching me. Either one of the 1st takes is good or it gets worse all the time. I usually start very musical, play freely but make some random mistakes. And then do a retake and pay attention to make the same mistake not again. But then another one happens. And the more I repeat, the more robotic my performance sounds until I have one recording without a major mistake. I am not sure if it wouldn't be better to use a musical and enjoyable recording with a few mistakes over a unmusical, but error free one.

navindra that was great!! Fantastic playing and a very nice arrangement. And your piano sounds great!

The perfect way to close out the recital!!

Rob 'Pembrokeshire Promise.' by Rob

Oh my god, this one is so thoughtful and lovely at the same time. I am currently in a depressive mood as well and this one hit me into my heart. I catches my feelings and also gives me hope. You did a wonderful composition, you performed it with so much expression, and I have to say thank you for this wonderful piece of music.

rach3master — Call of Silence: Attack on Titan OST
Wow, I never watched anime (I don't even know exactly what it is, I always thought cartoons for adults). So when I started to listen, it was with the idea of listening to "Tom chases Jerry" type of soundtrack... and I was very pleasantly surprised to realize how pensive and (your words) emotional it sounded! Thank you for opening my eyes/ears!

MarieJ — I Giorni
I can't even imagine recording a six minute piece... very nicely played! What caught me too was your search for the music you want to play... I can absolutely relate to that. I'm still in the process of finding out exactly what I'd like to play someday... so right now I still try "a little bit of everything" (though I'm also finding more pieces I'm very happy to skip in my method book, so it's a process that's already happening). But you found your "musical calling" and the passion/love shows in your performance! Well done!

Sgisela — Danza de los ñáñigos
A very interesting piece! It always fascinates me how tastes can vary from person to person - yet it's all excellent music and can be enjoyed by many. I loved how flawlessly you performed it! When the passion shows this much, it becomes a delight to listen and teaches me to widen my horizon at times. Thank you!

Greta99 — Berceuse, Op. 23 No. 1
What a sweet piece, well played! It's nice to see something from a female composer - not unusual now, but definitely back then. Sweet how she dedicated it to her daughter - very fitting for such a delicate piece.

ShiroKuro — Wind
This is the type of music that often used played in hotel lobbies if they had a live performer and rightfully so - it flows pleasantly and puts people in a good mood. I also much prefer the camera angle you use now - before all we saw was this big piano... it was nice to see your hands dance deftly over the keys.

Sophia I always thought cartoons for adults

I would say that's not an inaccurate description, just add that anime is from Japan, and you've covered the most important details. An interesting thing about anime is that the quality of music used in anime, as well as music used in Japanese games (e.g., Final Fantasy) is often quite high. By which I mean, very good music composed by classically trained composers, unlike a lot of animated movies made in the US, which often have pop songs as the driving music, and then more generic movie music in the back.... Hmm, maybe this isn't super accurate, take it with a grain of salt!

Sophia I also much prefer the camera angle you use now - before all we saw was this big piano...

I know, like that one video I shared where you could kind of see the top of my poofy hair
I still hope to some day make cool videos like @iternabe where the keyboard is horizontal, or @Pathbreaker where you can add the score to the video.... Maybe some day!

it was nice to see your hands dance deftly over the keys.

Thank you! And thank you for your other kind words about my playing!!

iternabe I think this is excellent both technically and musically. And by technically I don't just mean you're playing the correct notes and the correct rhythms. I mean the movements of your fingers, wrists, and arms look very good. Both teacher and student should be commended here.

Sophia Thank you!

ShiroKuro Thank you!

Peyton Boy does that bring back some memories

... of those blissful days before I had to pay bills
Thank you for listening and commenting!

hebele I am not sure if I want to follow Faber 3B after finishing AIO2. But I think I should get it just to pick and choose pieces like this one.

From a performance perspective, 3B isn't necessary, the AIO and 3B cover the same ground in this respect. From a theory perspective, it's probably necessary depending on the student. The AIO series leaves out too much theory (and explanations) while numbing the brain with the world's most horrible pieces to practice.

I would suggest that if you have a solid grasp of the theory, then 3B isn't necessary. But, if you have any gaps, then either go through 3B strictly for the theory stuff or pick up an early intermediate level theory book to ensure you are where you need to be and move onto the next level in the Faber regular series.

Currently I'm getting help with the theory stuff from another source besides Faber. Simple things that Faber doesn't tell us - like the V7 chord is pronounced FIVE seven - and why the chords progress like they do. It's slow for me because I don't have a sufficient background in theory, thanks to Faber, but the internet helps fill in the gaps. Gaps like; is the F in the G7 chord Natural or Sharp? (It's Natural in the G7 but sharp in the GMaj7 chord. Yeah, go figure.)

Anyway, assess where you are and if you have a solid grounding in theory, and can play Canon in D at the end of the AOI, then 3B isn't necessary.

Animisha Sweet. Sounds great.

ShiroKuro Beautiful lyrical playing. Very nice. Ending worked well I thought.

Seeker Thank you!!

Sam I admit that I am not very familiar with Schuman's Kinderszenen. So I've looked it up. Apparently he described them as "more cheerful, gentler, more melodic" than his earlier works. And they were originally titled as "Easy Pieces". Yes, this peace is very cheerful, full of excitement. But not gentle! And definitely does not sound easy! Thanks for sharing. So informative for me.

SalmonJack ah it is definitely pleasant to listen to. And it was fun to follow to follow the music on the first video with the help of the spray bottle. I like how it guides me through key and meter changes Thank you.

Rob thanks for sharing this. Wales is a special place for me. I got connected to it because of a bittersweet twist of fate. So this was emotional. Thanks again.

BicBic I had associated mazurkas with Chopin but nothing about him is simple. So never occurred to me that mazurkas are based on folk dances! I agree that this one sounds fun. It is a yet another impressive submission from BicBic. Thanks.

Sgisela I am not familiar with this at all. But sounds wonderful and exotic to me. You should more than "reasonably happy" about it . Thanks for sharing.