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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22880251 - 02/08/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

It helps having someone to remind me to sit straight. :lol:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: NobodyYouKnow]
    #22880271 - 02/08/16 07:01 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

i cant sit straight on what im playing, my face needs to be closer to the keyboard or tends to need to be, probably bad for my posture but i make sure my posture is amazing while in everything else like standing and sitting so im sure its not too bad.

been practicing for around 5-6 hours today,, jeesus my hands are dead, nothing but la campanella for hours :eek:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22906040 - 02/14/16 11:58 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

I promised a progress video and here it is, its 1/3 of the whole piece, still have 2/3 of it to go :frown:



recorded it with my digital camera but i have no firewire yet so i cant upload directly so i had to film it with my phone.

Im pretty embarrassed by all the mistakes ive made on this sample, its amateur as fuck.
i still have MUCH more practice to go,
its so frustrating, when im not filming and dont have pressure on my i can play it much clearer, accurate and dynamic but when i film it my nerves severely damage my performance.
im slowly getting better at playing it under pressure but it still has so long to go.
Sometimes i feel like its impossible to play this perfectly but i want to keep trying.

I really want to master the whole thing it by august but i feel like thats wayy to optimistic, even the idea of mastering it is optimistic, fuck i hope i didnt bite of more than i can chew,
but il keep grinding away at it for hours everyday like i have been,.


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22908254 - 02/15/16 04:44 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

AWWWW YEAH!  Don't let the observer effect get you down, i.e. that everything changes for you when someone is watching, even though everything else is the same.  Sounded and looked great to me!


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22908287 - 02/15/16 04:48 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

thank you! obviously it gonna be waaaay better when im more practiced, but i cant snap my fingers and be a pro like i hoped, ahah gonna take alot of work :smirk:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22908312 - 02/15/16 04:52 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

I look forward to the results. :thumbup:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22909212 - 02/15/16 07:54 PM (7 years, 11 months ago)

i was looking on the abrsm.org forum to know what the technical rating of the piece is, because they have some weird scale for the really challenging pieces, i dont quite understand the levels and what qualifies yet.

but someone said La campanella is beyond diploma standard

this was a neat quote too, definitely motivating :grin:

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When talking about a piece such as "La Campanella" you can throw Grades out of the window. Franz Liszt was a Genius and possibly the greatest ever Virtuoso Pianist in the History of the Instrument. Therefore, before attempting a piece like "La Campanella" ask yourself this question. Do I consider myself to fall into the same bracket as Franz Liszt? i.e. am I a virtuoso pianist with a phenomenal technique and memory and be able to span a tenth and beyond with ease? Personally, my answer would be no and I have been playing the piano for 25 years and can reach a 10th easily. I attempted parts of Liszt's "Apres une Lecture du Dante" at one point in my foolish youth and the only thing I acheved was a feeling of total inadequacy, a mild nervous breakdown and sprained right hand after constantly stretching 12ths. ohmy.gif Sure, it sounded impressive when I played excerpts of the piece to family and friends wheened on Pop Music, but I knew deep down, that what I was playing was only a mediocre attempt at the performance of the music.
I could probably learn the notes of "La Campanella" with a few hours a day of study but would I be able to play it with the flair and artistry that the piece needs? I doubt it as I am no virtuoso! It would sound adequate to the untrained ear I suppose.
Personally, I dont enjoy performing what I call "Tightrope" pieces in the sense that you always feel nervously balanced on the keys and about to fall at any moment during the performance. It takes a very brave, confident person and virtuoso player to perform a piece like this in public....someone say like Franz Liszt in fact! rolleyes.gif
If anyone here can play "La Campanella" with flair and artistry I have just one question..... Can I have your autograph please?




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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE]
    #22943663 - 02/25/16 06:44 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

i was expecting to have much more trouble with progressing forward because where i left off is where the complexity starts increasing dramatically and many people complain about the difficultly in the next part where i have to quickly hit the same key 3 times in a trill motion and do that multiple times in the riff to make it look like my fingers are gliding on the keys and i got to say im picking it up pretty damn well, just increasing speed now.

Also have cleaned up a lot of what i know already.
i got pretty ocd and didnt stop practicing until i could hit almost every note WITHOUT 'nicking' or grazing a note next to it, and i got to say, playing at these speeds and making all those jumps its almost IMPOSSIBLE not to graze another note. but its fun to try, and im making killer progress as well on that so im somewhat satisfied.
just hope i can pull off that deeply complex parts, im a little worried that my pinky strength wont be sufficient for the coming parts but ive gotten good at training a finger to do specific movements its never done before and i gain speed and agility pretty quick because ive had to build it in other movements for so long i know the drill :wink:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE]
    #22944254 - 02/25/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Sounds good Sleeps. :thumbup:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22945257 - 02/25/16 02:33 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

ayy wahht your a mod now! congrats~!


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22945495 - 02/25/16 03:39 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah, how about that?  I'm focused mainly on PS&P.  So behave yourself. :lol:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22988598 - 03/09/16 10:36 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

alright sweet, looks like i might be able to finish this piece by the deadline ive set for myself.
Already finished the next page and i can play it pretty flawlessly most of the time, but still more room for improvement.

already planning which next piece im going to learn after la campanella and it seems la campanella is going to be my training for the next piece i want to take on.

but yeah next is going to be Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

you have probably heard it before if you have seen who framed roger rabbit, i was shitting myself when i found out they were actually playing liszt, so badass.

the scene is called dueling ducks




and this is valentina playing it



the melody the ducks are playing starts near 5:30 or so


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    #22988703 - 03/09/16 11:13 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Amazing


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22991020 - 03/09/16 11:47 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

maaan i just breezed through and learned half a page at like 12:00am tonight, its sick im learning the notes faster and faster because even though its getting more complex the melody recycles the overall notation pattern so i can make alot of accurate guesses based on what ive learned so far to help me memorize the new bars im learning faster.

i can already play half of the new page at a decent speed :laugh:

sorry to keep bumping this thread, just getting excited to know that im definitely going to finish this before august at this pace and even been quite practiced at it by then, but my ultimate goal is to be able to perform it in public by august, fuck im going to try my hardest :laugh:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: SleepyE] * 1
    #22991758 - 03/10/16 09:24 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

How long before we get another peek?  (If you don't mind my asking. :smile: )


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22991785 - 03/10/16 09:39 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

ahah when i get to 2/3 finished.

il breeze through a few of the next pages because they are just long runs of scales and not much left hand activity :rockon:

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    #22991793 - 03/10/16 09:45 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

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    #22992965 - 03/10/16 03:09 PM (7 years, 10 months ago)

:justcantwait: Looking forward to it, don't bust a shoulder practicing too much.. :thumbup:


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Re: any piano players in the house?? [Re: NobodyYouKnow]
    #23061297 - 03/29/16 10:32 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

just a bit of an update, i have 2 more pages to learn until i get to the last section which is the the build up to the climax as well as the climax its self. Thats the last stage where shit gets fucking nuts and crazy
Never thought id make it this far on the piece, been spending an enormous amount of time pretty much everyday burning myself out playing this non stop at full speed and full bore

I estimate it will take another 20 days or so to become proficient in the next 2 pages to come, so expect a progress video in 20 days, so technically i will be a little bit more than 2/3 of the way through it. which will give me almost four months to become proficient at the climax to meet the deadline ive set for myself, which i hope will be enough time for me to be skilled enough to perform the whole thing:eek:
been spending anywhere from 3-7 hours a day practicing when i dont have work,(only work like 2-3 days a week so i can have time for my many endeavours.


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    #23061509 - 03/29/16 11:32 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

I'm looking forward to it mate, don't break your arms practicing too much. I don't know if it's up your alley but Andre Rieu is coming to my town (Adelaide) this year, cheapest tickets are $200... :money::money:.. dunno if I'll make it.


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