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This time you inspired me to play this prelude, your tempo is just the tempo I prefer in this piece! Some people play it slower, some people play it faster, I think your "inner tempo" matches mine. I don't know if the Fugue part is beyond me or not, what you think?
cheers
Originally Posted by Inlanding
al-mahed, That was a very well-played Beethoven ~~ excellent, in fact!
You are an inspiration to practice more regularly and diligently. In my case, too much playing and not enough practicing, that is for sure.
It is very different doing this when you can see that little red light come on! You can hear a couple of things falling to the floor as I was playing - the first one at 1:09 even seemed to have awakened me.
I liked the godfather waltz pretty much, thank you for sharing this, nice playing!
Originally Posted by AnotherSchmoe
Originally Posted by Sean M.
Originally Posted by AnotherSchmoe
Just chiming in with a quiet, relaxing little Chopin piece.
Hey! That's the very piece I was planning on doing next for the piano bar! You beat me to the punch!
...and set the bar high. I like your recording very much. You do a very good job of bringing out the parts that I like best about that prelude.
Thanks Sean! By all means, don't let me stop you! I await your performance with great anticipation.
Edit: Thank you also TLT!
It's comments like these that make everything worth it.
PS: If anyone is still trying to access the Julia recording from the other page, you'll get an error message. I removed the previous recording and put up a new one (I played it a little slower this time, I like it better), here's the new link:
The last one is also from a Playstation 1 videogame, that came out in the year 2000. A lot of great music in that game. Thanks for listening! Again, videos for all recordings are in my signature if anyone is interested.
I’ve really enjoyed all the submissions to the January piano bar! They were all great!
I have a new recording that I thought about waiting until the February piano bar to submit, but we can only live one day at a time. So, here is country classic I recorded this morning.
The weather is kind of dreary here in west central Georgia, with snow and ice in the northern region of the state. So, I’ve been enjoying my piano and entertaining myself!
My dynamics could've used a little more control on the third passage (should have been a little softer) but I didn't realize it until I listened to myself play, at which point I didn't really feel like making another recording.
I really enjoyed your Chopin. Your new digital sounds great! I've been idly thinking of how nice it'd be to have one for late night practice. One suggestion -- your chords sound a bit thick. Try to do more voicing of the soprano and bass. You might be interested in visiting this thread discussing Rachmaninoff's variations of this prelude.
Studio Joe - You are one talented man! This song is great fun to listen to and your performance sounds very professional. BTW - the hyperlink doesn't work for me - I had to copy and paste the URL into my browser.
Studio Joe- thanks. I just tried to use the streaming link in IE and it worked fine. I can't get it to work in Firefox so I must have an option set wrong.
And, Ten Left Thumbs, yes, I want to make the dreary weather go away and let the sun shine through!
And, Joe, I agree with Bill, you are incredibly talented and that song sounds like something you would hear on the radio or a TV show! It was great!!! And, I love your complete home studio and recording set-up. I guess that is why you are "Studio Joe"!!
Take care!!
Rick
Piano enthusiast and amateur musician: "Treat others the way you would like to be treated". Yamaha C7. YouTube Channel
Joe, I agree with Bill, you are incredibly talented and that song sounds like something you would hear on the radio or a TV show! It was great!!! And, I love your complete home studio and recording set-up. I guess that is why you are "Studio Joe"!!
Take care!!
Rick
Thank you very much Rick. I did the 'studio recording' thing semi-professional for a while and still have some of the equipment in a spare bedroom. It's a great hobby.
Last call for the bar... I wanted to squeeze this one in, because I read in the morning paper that today is Philip Glass's birthday. I've been working on "Metamorphosis I" for a while, so I decided to use the birthday as a motivation to wrestle the Red Dot to the ground. So here we are. The actual notes for this piece are almost ridiculously easy, so easy that when I saw the sheet music I thought I would be able to get it down in a week or less. The problem is that you have to twist yourself into a pretzel to play those low bass octaves, and mastering the dynamics and tempo changes also makes it challenging.
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