This song is from an anime=Naruto. Sadness and Sorrow,

http://www.box.net/shared/oiqhf865q

Beautiful! Thanks so much for posting that! I play a few of Jobim's pieces but don't often hear this one done for some reason. I also really love Sinatra's rendition: WAVE/SINATRA

BTW, I used a tone setting on my Roland called "Seashore"..hoping it sounds like waves (for the intro and ending).

Rickster - that song was about as much fun as I've had in awhile! Whooeee! I loved it -

Cathy

Larry B., what a nice playing of Nocturne. That is one I learned a while ago and I think you play it beautifully. It made me get right up and work on it again.

Larry B. - that was lovely, and you played it beautifully.

Augustina - I couldn't get to your piece with that link - I got the generic box.net here's-how-you-share page

Cathy

Well, funny you should say that....it was your YouTube recording of it early last year that got me started on it (and on a whole new path of piano). I can't thank you enough!

Thanks to all for all the kind comments. What a wonderful welcome to the "bar"!

hmm Jotur Heres the Youtube video link:) Youtube wasn't working when I tried to put it up last night

Sadness and Sorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJLNwLTy-M

Augustina: Very nice!
Larry B: Great Job! Was very pretty

Augustina,
Thanks for posting this. Very nicely done!

Glen

Very nice, Augustina. You play that with a very nuanced touch.

All these great posts I am finding to be very motivating - thanks for all the wonderful music. Such great talent!

As a result, I've spent a great deal of time and focus working on a number of classical pieces. Some of those sessions involved working on a few measures only. (seems crazy, but it is worth it to get a hold of 32d notes and difficult intonations in some of those passages).

So, as a method of near-perfect avoidance, I ended up capturing a bunch of interludes in between those practice sessions.

Also, there are contrasting versions of Autumn Leaves, one recorded awhile back, the other just this past weekend.

Hope you like some of those extemporaneous pieces. Some are jazzy, some bluesy, some more etherial. A few of them were recorded on my girlfriend's Bluthner 4 - a very fine instrument.

That's All
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves 1
Here's That Rainy Day
Interlude 1
Interlude 2
Interlude 3
Interlude 4
Interlude 5
Interlude 6
Interlude 7
Interlude 8
Interlude 9
Interlude 10


Glen

My oh my Glen. I'm speechless.

Thanks Glen.

Augustina - thanks for reposting the link. Very pretty piece -

Cathy

Augustina, I liked that a lot!

Glen - sigh. I'm lucky if I can get through two short pieces a month. Then you casually drop a cluster bomb of great stuff - I'm in awe!

I listened to a couple so far and love what I hear. Though I did chuckle a bit at the title of the first piece, considering the length of the ending. I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it works!

Looking forward to listening to the rest.

GREAT!!!!!!!

Inlanding I enjoyed your pieces a lot thanks;)
Thanks everyone for the comments^_^

TLT, Jim, Ben, al-mahed, Augustina

Thanks. I was getting a bit frustrated with a few sections in a movement of a Beethoven Sonata I am learning to play. Over and over and over, I keep trying to get it right, still can't get it as I am reaching beyond my grasp with the entire piece anyway. Here is a link to it, so you can hear what it is supposed to sound like, played by Alexei Nasedkin Op 10 No 1. The part(s) with which I struggle most is at 1:55, 2:02. 4:03, 4:10, 4:17, 4:50, 5:00 in that video. I signed up to play it for the upcoming Beethoven e-cital.

You know how sometimes there are pieces of music that get under your skin...this is one of them for me. Hopefully, I won't burn out by practicing it ad-nauseum.

Anyway, I decided to work on a few standards, then I started free-playing (all the Interludes). If you'd like me to expand on some of them, let me know and I will give it a whirl.

My apologies if it's too much to listen to, but it just came out.

Glen

Ha! Sure - and my wife will be on time for a change...

Rickster, ladypayne, Augustina - great job!

JF

I feel a little embarrassed posting this amongst so many beautiful works, but why not put myself out there anyway? It's air by Purcell out of Unit 2 of Humphries Piano Handbook.

Byron,
That was fantastic - great timing and control. It sounds so great when your left and right hand are moving as one - you do that very well.

Glen

Excellent first submission to the Piano Bar! It really is a beautiful piece, and you showed a nice controlled touch with it. Well done!

Oh Byron, that was nice! I bought a whole Purcell book hoping I could get more of that piece than what I originally found. It wasn't in there I do, however, play Purcell for English country dances sometimes. Great music.

Cathy

Thank you everyone for the replies. Your positivity is very encouraging. What a nice community this is!

very pretty Bryon! I have to ask though. Was there a cat meowing in the background or something? I started listening to it and I thought my cat was having a fit!lolz. Or at least it sounded like a cat and it sounded almost exactly like my cat when she meows.. anyway very nicely played though!

I thought the same thing, but I didn't know if it was a cat or a child. Very distracting, I'm sure it was to Byron, whatever it was. Kudos for playing through the distraction!

Byron - that was great! Excellent control and precision, but very "musical". Sometimes those pieces can sound mechanical, but your performance does not sound that way at all.

Glen - what a variety! I particularly liked hearing the two versions of Autumn Leaves.

Bryon Very pretty! and yeah I thought that was a cat in the background as well. also it does sound a lot like LadyPayne's cat^_^ Great job!^_^

how do you guys get the youtube videos on the forum instead of just the website address?:) I can never figure out that part^^

Byron,

That was very smooth and enjoyable. Your keyboard has a very nice sound quality.

Andy