twocats I like "Play It Your Way" quite a lot 🙂
I like it too! And (following WieWaldi's idea) we could insert the name of the piece into the title: Play "Twinkle Twinkle" Your Way. That would work if we only do one piece at a time.
twocats What if it's a monthly thing except for months that have a normal recital?
That's not a bad idea... I worry it might be a lot of work for someone, but if, unlike Reddit's Piano Jam, we only do a single piece per month and rotate genres, it could be okay.
Sophia I took inspiration from you and did the same with Gemini.
I'm very impressed with Gemini's creativity!
Based on our discussion, I'm revising my original idea into this:
At the beginning of a non-PT-recital month, a piece is announced, along with links to lead sheets and/or sheet music. The genre/difficulty of the piece will vary each month.
A "recital/challenge/event" thread is created (maybe in the "Member Recordings" forum?) where people can submit their recordings. If Navi allows it, we can publish it the same way as the recitals: keep everything hidden until the end of the month. Unlike the recital, we allow late submissions.
How to choose a piece? Since interest seems to be high, informal consensus by discussion seems like it will be cumbersome going forward. At reddit we did it like this: everyone can submit suggestions at any time into an online form. Those suggestions are kept in a little database, and each month, the person in charge chooses a few pieces from that database. I don't mind being that person, but we could also rotate the responsibility.