PianoTell Recital #1 Meta Feedback
WieWaldi I suggest to do a gentle re-work of the template in about two weeks, when this recital is finished and all impressions have settled down.
Absolutely! That's the goal, things are going to be rocky at the beginning.
As I've been readying this recital, fixing up links and such, I had a chance to listen to one or two of the pieces. It feels like cheating but it's really just part of the job. And Oh My... Some of the pieces I accidentally listened to are so so good and the note on one of them is just so humble at the same time.
- Player1 — Energico by Nancy Faber
- rogerch — Improvisation 6 by rogerch
- keff — A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Manning Sherwin & Eric Maschwitz
- Sophia — Fascination by F. Marchetti
- Sgisela — Joropo by Moisés Moleiro
- pseudonym58 — Images (5) for orchestra by Claude Debussy, arr. Kurt Kaufman
- Sam — Perpetual Motion #1 by Francis Poulenc
- hebele — Downtown Abbey theme by John Lunn
- MarieJ — Week #7 by Fabrizio Paterlini
- plop_symphony — A Lincoln Tribute by Carol Matz
- thepianoplayer416 — Air in D minor by Henry Purcell
- BicBic — Prelude in B flat minor - No.16 from Op.34 by Shostakovich
- Nightowl — Plaisir D'Amour by Giovanni Martini
- bSharp — High Heels by Ludovico Einaudi
- WieWaldi — Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (Fix needed! PM sent.)
- SalmonJack — Alia by SalmonJack
Will we get to an even 20?
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Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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I was too busy to submit anything in the previous PW recital, but this time I'm sharing a really exciting piece. It's good to be back!
Sorry if it's already been asked before, but is there going to be playlist (in audio format) with all the performances, or will we need to play each recording separately?
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Calavera No audio playlist is currently supported. I could make a YouTube playlist and interleave it with the other non-YouTube submissions.
But I have a feeling it might also be kind of nice experience to play a video while scrolling through and reading. It's different from the Piano World experience but it may just work. Let's see how it goes.
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Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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navindra Got it!
It looks like most people who are participitating here have also submitted their recordings to PW anyway. Since Sam usually provides an audio playlist and zipped MP3 files on PW, it's probably not necessary to do the same here.
That means I'll be able to listen to your performances while I'm, say, working or washing the dishes. I hope you guys' recordings make for decent washing-up soundtracks!
I'm going to record today, see if I can get anything useable. Between today and tomorrow at most, I'll just use whatever take I'm happiest with.
Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.
I'm never going to have a perfect take, so I went for one I'd be happy enough listening to.
I record every piece I play in order to mark it "completed", so my standards can't be too high or I'd never get anything done.
plop_symphony Exactly my approach. Now that I've submitted my video, it's time to move on to a new piece!
Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.
I have no idea how it worked out this way, but my submission already has almost 60 views, with less than half of those being "first time" views so there's a lot of re-watching going on, and the recital hasn't even started yet.
Not that I'm complaining about the traffic on my channel or anything but who knew that a duet with the cat would be so popular with a certain moderator? 
I had some memory lapses / flubs in my submission, I'll just call them ornaments!
Just got mine uploaded in the nick of time. Whew!
Deadline is same as PW recital, so Aug 15th at 6am Eastern time?
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Player1 Hah! I'm very confident the leak is not from PianoTell and it's not just me who did all the watching. Your submission is literally only viewable by you and me.
Couple of thoughts:
- A lot of people already figured out the Piano World recital layout. It is trivially easy to preview a recital before it happens. So if there was a leak, it's more likely to be from Piano World than PianoTell!
- Maybe the Rumble algorithm just likes your video!
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Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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Rubens This is where Sam absolutely shines... his discipline in handling the recitals is unmatched.
So no, there's no way I'll be that prompt. First, this is smack dab in the middle of the work week for me. Second, 6AM ET is 3AM PT for me... I would die if I had to wake up that early! So let's just say I will aim for Aug 15th, it will be several hours after Sam with a more fluid time range, but I'll do my best.
This is why I originally didn't think it would be sustainable for me to be the RC, but now I'm starting to see it wasn't such a bad idea to pioneer the first one (or several)... I get to learn first hand what needs work! A lot of this could be automated — the recital could auto publish in the future.
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Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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I've been really busy so I'm not sure I'll make this one...I'd have to get a decent take tomorrow and that seems unlikely (I will try...). But @navindra you mentioned in another thread that you had created a DropBox account as an option for audio uploads. I don't see a mention of that in the official submission post/form?
JB_PT Here's hoping!
It's covered in this section:
...you may submit your audio (e.g. MP3) or video file (e.g. MP4) here instead. In your submission, put <PT> as the placeholder for the performance.
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Beach L168, Wish, baCh, WOW Petrof, Fake Steinway, VS
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I'm so excited about this first recital! My compliments to navindra for the smooth process - I can just imagine how much work went into this behind the scenes!