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Helly, anyone here play the piano? I love play Bach, Beethoven and mozart, among other prolific composers...
woops... *hello* *playing*
I like playing the piano! My favorite componist is Mozart, I like his music so much that i learned one of his sonatas by my own at my age of 16. My teacher was very commoved by that. And i played that sonata 5 times in concerts. Oh that were really nice times! I miss them.. because now i use to play just my own music because i have always new ideas and i always liked creating music but i'd like to learn something by other real big componists as well but am too lazy.. LOL.
but i have a lot of nice experiences with playing, so we can talk!
Do you like creating music as well?
And what compositions do you play from Bach? You must be great because Bach is so hard to play. Is great, but hard
*smiles*
Was a intermediate one once upon a long time ago. Learning anything harder than intermediate classics using Braille sheet music is very rigorous, and as a young foo of 15 or 16 I had rather branch out and go play keyboards instead. Still very much glad for the musical education, still use my abilities in writing down the sheet music for stuff I hear. Mainly because unlike some people I can't just automatically hear and retain it all, so charts help. Only the NLS for the longest time mainly had a rather Victorian repertoire of music. Now it's a wee bit better but still not a lot of modern stuff unless you sing.
I still can't read braille music properly...what I used to know, I've mostly forgotten I'm afraid. I'm lucky though, in that I've got perfect pitch and a good memory, so I can learn well by ear.
I got my grade 8 in Royal Conservatory of Music back in 2003, but haven't taken much in the way of lessons since then, so I functionally play at about a grade 6-7 level probably. Fur Elise is a piece I find moderately tough in the middle, for instance, while Moonlight Sonata's first movement, which I can't play the whole of, is lovely and fairly easy. However, I didn't just stick to classical, as I like many genres of music and wanted to branch out. I play a good deal of modern stuff, some jazz (though not too much of that) and some more romantic-era stuff as well. I dabble in a little bit of everything, really. Got all psyched last year when I discovered that I can play the weird intro riff to Genesis's "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Sounds harder than it is.
I love Genesis.
And congrats to you on the Conservatory! I have no such exploits at all.
I sure wish NLS had more modern repertoire such as Jazz Standards and maybe some Broadway stuff, maybe some of the lead sheets from the greats like Emmerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Genesis.
Funny, but growing up I thought maybe the NLS Music Section was centered in a convent somewhere where choir boys were made to wear suits and got smacked with a ruler if they deigned slouch. This is the stereotype of classical people, the rough-edged and primitive-tempered, easily-upset types, which makes so many people shun it wholeheartedly.
Sad, because for keyboards anyway, there are some great works and the technique you get from it is outstanding. But much has been edited and historically revised to paint a pristine picture so that all may march all dressed up into Roger Waters' meat grinder, if you've seen the Wall.
I've always been facinated with the piano, ever since I was a wee lad. But I've never had any lessons. Nor do I have much of an understanding of the theory of music. Nevertheless I love playing. I'm not very good, having never been trained. But I find I do have an innate talent to compose my own music. I have lots of songs in my head, but lack the sufficient skill with which to play them. That said, I found with a keyboard, and some audio editing software, I can fake being able to play okay. I've composed a very short piece this way. It sort of tapers off at the end, and due to the latency when recording, the timing's a bit off, but for someone without a lick of training, I don't think it's too bad.
For anyone interested, here it is. it's only a little over a minute in length. Now if I can just really learn this stuff ...
http://soundcloud.com/remy-c-chartier/solitary-requiem
There's a play button, and if you're a jaws user, it's even labeled!
I'm not a very good Pianist, but have perfect pitch and can learn by ear relatively easily. My major problem is that I can't logically estimate sensible fingering, which is essential for quality performance of a piece. I also dispise piano recitals due to some relatively bad experiences with forgetting fingering in the middle of a piece and having to make them up. I've played some bach invensions, 1,4,6,7, and 14, as well as one of his c-minor feuge, though the feuge part isn't completely internalized.
Am also learning bethoven's third sonata in C-Major which is a major pain due to extremely finger-dependent arpegios.
Yeah fingering is really key. If you can read Braille music, the fingering is in it. But all scale and arpeggio patterns have their corresponding fingerings which when you do your exercises, if you learn those you will be a lot more successful.
Hi all! Am back and try to reply to everyone :)
LeoGuardian: I've always admired people who can read braille music! Unfortunately I've never learnt it, I've learnt every piano pieces by ear. However I like braille, i find braille music too hard to learn:O
But you must be great if you not only read but write it!
Shepherdwolf: Congratulations to the conservatory! You're great too!
The_Blind_Guardian: I'll listen to your composition :) I like to create my own music as well so I've always been interested how others do it :)
mat the musician: I've got the same problem with fingering as you do. It's so bad, especially when it happens playing by a public:S It made me feel embarrassed three or more times. That's the reason I get always a bit nervous before playing for someone...:O