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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 25, 2020 20:40:08 GMT -5
The first "serious" musical piece I learned in my first year of lessons. It's "The Little Shepherd" from Claude Debussy's Children's Corner. The musical pieces in this collection were "designed" for children, but they're no piece of cake. Also, the difficulty was interpretation, not simply playing the notes.
In the passage from 1:10-1:25, my piano teacher said it was the "Mozartian" passage where a series of dramatic escalating steps mimic Mozart's style.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 25, 2020 20:44:42 GMT -5
One of my first girlfriends ever -- a Mormon girl -- played this piece in front of the student body during talent night. (This was before she was my girlfriend.) I was wow'ed. It's Claude Debussy's "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" from his suite of piano pieces in Children's Corner. After that, I used this piano piece as a conversation starter and kept bugging her about it. I pretty much wore her down. "Yes, yes, dammit, I'll be your girlfriend if you'll stop talking about Debussy!"
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Post by vup on Feb 25, 2020 23:34:12 GMT -5
My first serious piece was Mozart’s Fantasy in d minor. Loved playing this one with lots of rubato. Lots of really great musical moments in this piece.
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Post by nowhereman on Feb 26, 2020 13:36:14 GMT -5
Recently I've listened to the symphonies by Danish Composer Carl Nielsen and the Brandenburg Concertos by the one and only Johann Sebastian Bach.
Not my favorites but not bad......
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 26, 2020 13:47:17 GMT -5
My first serious piece was Mozart’s Fantasy in d minor. Loved playing this one with lots of rubato. Lots of really great musical moments in this piece. I've never played this piece. But heard it lots of times. I have this CD:
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 26, 2020 16:22:17 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of orchestral versions of "Clair de Lune" (by Claude Debussy). It was written for the piano in Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and the original piano version is perfect. I think my least favorite scene in Ocean's Eleven was the final scene where they piped the orchestral version of "Claire de Lune" while the ten doofs (would've been eleven, per the title, but the George Clooney character was arrested) are staring at the Bellagio waterworks. It just felt contrived and tried too hard to be artsy.
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Post by vup on Feb 26, 2020 19:46:19 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of orchestral versions of "Clair de Lune" (by Claude Debussy). It was written for the piano in Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and the original piano version is perfect. I think my least favorite scene in Ocean's Eleven was the final scene where they piped the orchestral version of "Claire de Lune" while the ten doofs (would've been eleven, per the title, but the George Clooney character was arrested) are staring at the Bellagio waterworks. It just felt contrived and tried too hard to be artsy. Man, the first time I heard Clair de Lune I was probably in my early teens, I had a classical piano CD (although Debussy is technically Romantic), and I had never wanted to learn a piece so badly. Absolutely mesmerized, and played it over and over again very loudly, dancing to it in my parents basement.
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Post by ilikecorn on Feb 26, 2020 20:11:00 GMT -5
My current favorite piano piece is Comptine d'un autre été - L’après-midi from Amélie, composed by Yann Tiersen.
And the large version.
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Post by ilikecorn on Feb 26, 2020 20:19:47 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of orchestral versions of "Clair de Lune" (by Claude Debussy). It was written for the piano in Debussy's Suite Bergamasque and the original piano version is perfect. I think my least favorite scene in Ocean's Eleven was the final scene where they piped the orchestral version of "Claire de Lune" while the ten doofs (would've been eleven, per the title, but the George Clooney character was arrested) are staring at the Bellagio waterworks. It just felt contrived and tried too hard to be artsy. Piano da best.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Feb 26, 2020 20:49:42 GMT -5
Boccherini's La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid
Granted the first time I heard this music was at the end of the movie Master and Commander. A short 2+ minutes piece, but a fun one nonetheless.
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Post by cindra on Feb 26, 2020 21:48:39 GMT -5
I played piano from about 6 until I started high school. Never took it super serious, but still definitely was a "piano kid" for a while. A video of me playing Clementi got over 60k views on YouTube. Possibly my finest moment.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 26, 2020 22:00:52 GMT -5
I started off with the traditional mechanical metronome. But I really started practicing more when I bought my first electronic metronome. I can't find it on the web anymore because this was in the 1980s, but it was about half the size of your hand and you could set it digitally to any speed. So, I was able to improve as I moved the beats from 60/sec --> 130/sec. (The numbers varied depending on what you want the "beat" to be, whether quarter note or half-note or whatever.)
But generally, I stopped when I realized I had no serious talent. My biggest problem was rhythm. If I hit a wrong note, I'd pause. I couldn't seem to continue playing past the mistake. I'd start to miss beats and then I'd just give up. Another problem I had was interpretation. I always tried to mimic someone else's interpretation of the piano pieces instead of coming up with my own. It was just faster to mimic rather than innovate.
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Post by XAsstCoach on Feb 26, 2020 22:18:54 GMT -5
Was a piano kid myself until 6th grade, and never took it seriously either. One day during college I was sitting in our living room with several friends. One got on the electric piano and put the headphones on, started the walkman and begun to play "Take On Me" by Aha without the music sheet. Afterwards we asked how did she play it without the music sheet and she said it just comes to her by listening to the music. Probably never could reach her level, but at that time I surely wished I took playing piano more serious.
Other regret is not taking Spanish in college, instead I chose history as the electives which really had no application to my major or life in general. Spanish would have been more useful to me.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 26, 2020 23:13:38 GMT -5
I played piano from about 6 until I started high school. Never took it super serious, but still definitely was a "piano kid" for a while. A video of me playing Clementi got over 60k views on YouTube. Possibly my finest moment. Link please?
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Post by cindra on Feb 27, 2020 11:25:41 GMT -5
I played piano from about 6 until I started high school. Never took it super serious, but still definitely was a "piano kid" for a while. A video of me playing Clementi got over 60k views on YouTube. Possibly my finest moment. Link please? streamable.com/cgfkrNot posting the YouTube version as I don't want to give away my full name. I'm 8 or 9 in this video. 74k views as of today. This definitely got views because of the humor in it, not because of my stellar playing, lol.
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