TC3 Something for our next recital!
Smart move! I know that I had a recording ready a few weeks in advance and it felt sooooooooo good 
I will make sure to do the same next round too!
To stay on topic: I'm still working my way through the Alfred book (just about to start Blue Rondo which claims to be a blues) and also just started lesson 14 of the blues course. Not working on anything on the side 
Sophia is "Blue Rondo" written in 9/8 (as 2-2-2-3) by any chance? Or am I confusing it with a similarly-named piece by Dave Brubeck?
No, I'm mistaken. That's "Blue Rondo à la Turk":
Yeah, no that's not the one. I wish! I'm about 379 years (give or take) away from that level of playing 
Edit: but if I were a little a heck of a lot better, I'd really, REALLY would like to marry Bach and Swing (the good part starts at 1:18):
I'm working on this. It's pretty much done. I'll submit for the next recital.
Just recorded ‘O Sole Mio! I suppose it is a rite of passage for all method-book-beginners? 
iternabe Just recorded ‘O Sole Mio! I suppose it is a rite of passage for all method-book-beginners?
Haha! I thought I was done with that kind of thing now that I'm on Piano Adventures 5. I had a recent encounter with "Come Back to Sorrento". It was major eye roll time when I saw it was next up in the performance book. It turned out to be a very nice arrangement, which was a good thing because I spent almost a month on it.
Yesterday the piano teacher got her students started on Christmas tunes out of the Faber Christmas book.
Working on "Baroque Dance" pg 26 in Faber 3B.
Eww. Eww, eww, eww, eww...
Fingering is horrible and it sounds like a dirge, yet they want allegretto in tempo.
Even my phone didn't want to listen to it. I had problem after problem trying to record it so I could review my playing.
Just eww.
The teacher got her students into playing 2 seasonal pieces out of the Faber Christmas book including "What Child is This" & "Auld Lang Syne". Found the original version of "What Child is This" from 1871 online in SATB (soprano-alto-tenor-bass) as a church hymn. The Faber version is simplied with 1 melody line & simple chord arpeggios for LH filler.
"Married Life" from the movie "Up". Yep, I'm still working on it after starting it way back in early September. I finished the Piano Mission arrangement but decided it was too short. Then I found a longer TutorialsByHugo arrangement that was longer and had a nice little chromatic run and lengthier slow ending. There were elements of the new arrangement that I didn't like though and I ended up cobbling a hybrid arrangement out of both. I have the 'hybrid' memorized, so now I'm working on the dreaded polishing stage.
Method book piece - "Poetic Theme and Variations" by N. Faber from Piano Adventures level 5 Performance Book.
Bucket list (wrapping up my grade 3 section) - "Ripple Effect" by Joanne Bender from RCM Celebration Series Piano Etudes.
Quick Study piece - just finished "From a Distance" arrangement from Piano Adventures 3A Popular Repertoire book and about to start on Christopher Norton's "Walking Together" from a Trinity grade 1 book.
I did learn a very simple Faber version of Jingle Bells which shall remain unrecorded. Mostly because my idea for a Christmas piece is something along the lines of I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and/or Mele Kalikimaka.
The first and last piece I played for myself is the birthday song. My special is coming up. Last week was my last piano class before the teacher takes Christmas break. I started the session playing the song to remind people. I told them it's not "today" but coming up soon.
Last Saturday I was invited to a Wassail (pre-Christmas) gathering. There were at least 30 people in a tiny living room. We sang Christmas carols. Before that I played the birthday song. I told everybody my special day is coming up in a few weeks. Next make a wish and play "When You Wish Upon a Star". I uploaded the birthday song for a few people on social media but yet to hear anybody play it for me.
Moved on to Legend of Madrid.
Interesting melody (very Spanish guitar) but a bit weird sounding while learning each hand separate. The 6/8 time is a pain in the patootie. And of course, it changes to 4/4 later but you have to keep the same rhythm through the change.
But, at last, real playable nice sounding music. From Faber no less.
The last piece recorded was The Huron Carol from Christmas just passed. It's a hymn by French Catholic missionaries in Canada in the 17th century for the Huron natives.
Working on a new quick study piece, "Always With Me" by Yumi Kimura from Studio Ghibli Recital Repertoire Vol. 1 - Elementary level.
I'm at the stage where I need to add pedal to Legend of Madrid and then start polishing, polishing, polishing, etc.
Listening ahead and we're back to discordant dirges after this piece.
sigh
Sounds like you might have found your next recital submission then, P1 That way you have an excuse to stay with that enjoyable piece even longer without feeling guilty
Pallas I just recently watched a video about Married Life that I found interesting. Before seeing this video I'd never heard of it before. (I don't get out much.) I really like this guy's channel.
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