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Pixi, how about trying Le Onde Canzone popolare? It's only 1 page long and not difficult.

I'll park Nefeli and try that one. One pagers sound right for starters (leaving the 18 pagers for Monica.)

I posted this one to the November piano bar but soon after the recital kicked off, leaving the piano bar in the dust for a while. I figured I would add a nice little link here.

Stella Del Mattino - Recorded on Nov 16, 2008.

I took some time off playing the piece after all the work making a recording for the recital. Once I get things ironed out after the pause I can usually pull off some great renditions. Feel free to compare this one to my recital entry.

Just got my "Best of.........." through the letterbox.

Turned straight to page 100. This is definitely on my list of next to do.

Sorry for butting in

I only have another five hours work. Then Bath-Dinner-Bed duties and I'll join you in starting page 100.
Lets see where this week takes us!

I only have another five hours work. Then Bath-Dinner-Bed duties and I'll join you in starting page 100.
Lets see where this week takes us!

Ok you guys, you have got me interested too. Ive put the "Best of" on my amazon wish list for christmas. I love listening to everyones playing in the last recitals. I have recitals 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 downloaded into my mp3 player, and listen to them everyday. I would like to try to learn some of these pieces. I guess I am becoming a Einuadi fan. yeah!

We'll always take new Einaudi Fans! I also hope that some of my performances as such an inexperienced beginner have shown that some of his pieces are definitely doable with little experience and will only improve over time.

I sure hope you've been good this year wj3!

Thanks AnthonyB. I am really impressed by your playing. You have sure have made good progress. I hope I can do as well. By the way I tried to be good this year......hum..well I thought about being good this year.

Trying to get the LH patterns down on I Due Fiumi. (I assume that is the key to this piece... once those are automatic, everything else falls into line.)

I having some trouble getting the big arp in measures 7 and 8 smooth. My wife casually walked by as I was working on it, and said "What you're doing doesn't look right. It looks uncomfortable. I've never seen anybody try something like that." I had been playing it 5-4-2-1. Her suggestion was to cross over (5-2-1-2), which, I'd admit, seemed pretty natural.

What's the by-the-book way to do this?

I play it 5-2-1-2. No way could I manage 5-4-2-1. Good luck and I hope you can make some good progress on the piece. I will let you know that if I have to "cheat" and look anywhere while playing it is normally the left hand. So don't feel terrible if you have to take glances down while playing.

Hey guys,

I need some advice. I'm 16 years old. So you can guess that i don't have a lot of money to spend. Luckily is Christmas coming up. I really want to ask a Ludovico Einaudi book but i don't know which one, because i want to get the best book for my mum's money :p , so i can ask a few different gifts too :p .

What book should i buy? 'The Best of ...' book? Or is there one album that really stands out? What book(s) do you have? And with what book of Ludovico Einaudi are you the happiest?

Thanks,

Wimbwicket

The "Best of" sheet music collection is clearly the best value of the bunch. As for albums, the "Echoes" (greatest hits) collection would be the one to get if you could only have one Einaudi album. However, there is a very real possibility that you will get that album and then decide that you must simply own everything Einaudi has ever released, and then you'll end up duplicating your efforts. Or at least that's what happened to me. :p

I think I'm incapable of choosing a favorite Einaudi album, but Divenire, Una Mattina, and I Giorni would be way up there. Along with Eden Roc. Oops. Better stop before I name them all.

Lol ok, i think i'll get Best of collection, but one quick question, is Einaudi music easy to play (because this is the Adult Beginners forum)

Well, we have 28 pages of this thread to answer your question, but the one sentence answer is: Some of his music (e.g., Limbo and I due fiumi) is easily accessible to beginners; some of it is wicked hard.

As ever, I would agree with Monica. The 'Best of' music book (published by Ricordi) is the one to go for.

And the Echoes compilation album is the best cd to get.

Speaking of albums - for me, the albums I Giorni and Eden Roc are a little bit better than the others. But there are great tracks on them all, so it doesn't matter which one.

Well, my brother in law and sister are out of town so I sort of borrowed the webcam for a while.

Stella Del Mattino Video

I was a bit speedy towards the end and was too lazy to work out replacing the webcam audio with an audio track recorded directly from the piano but you'll just have to deal with it and like it the way it is. Oh, and I think youtube killed the dynamics. I really hate that they put audio through filters.

Great job, Anthony! I was pleasantly impressed by the audio quality of the webcam mic.

I'd like to revisit this question. For now, I have effectively shelved Alfred's for Einaudi, but I'm questioning the extent to which this is a wise decision.

I'm making reasonable progress on I Due Fiumi, which seems to me an exercise in arpeggiated broken LH chords, with a few RH scales (sort of) thrown in for good measure. In all honesty, it's arguable (a piano teacher would argue, I'd think) that I have no business attempting any of this music. I have had no lessons, and have only completed one method book (Alfred's Book One). To me, I Due Fiumi (and the other Einaudi pieces I've attempted) are much more enjoyable than doing exercises. I tip my hat to those of you able to do your Hanons. To me, that's simple drudgery, and who has time for that? My (piano) bench time is far too scarce to do things that I find annoying.

On the other hand, there must be SOME value in these exercises (Hanons. scales, arps), otherwise they wouldn't have lasted through generations of piano teachers and students. I accept that, so long as I avoid doing these things, I willingly forgo the benefits those exercises bring to those who undertake them.

On the other hand... if there is some long-term technical value in learning to play things like simpler Einaudi pieces (Limbo, Stella del Mattino, I Due Fiumi), that would be the best of all worlds, would it not? Playing things I enjoy which, oh by the way, also have beneficial long-term side effects.

So what's your take? Does playing these pieces make you a better player? I understand that the answer to this depends on what your piano goals are, and thus, YMMV (and MMMV). But those of you who have gone before me, and taken up these pieces as relative piano noobs... did you find that playing these pieces helped you in ways other than being able to play more Einaudi pieces?

aw2pp: I know that you made it through book one while I stopped right about at the blues stuff when I started on my Einaudi Pieces. I think one thing that made a difference over Alfred was that I wasn't even listening to the pieces being played online while with Einaudi at least I could listen to them being played. That helps me when compared to some of the stuff in Alfred for which I had no audio to back me up. Of course, most of the pieces are available to be heard on youtube now. I must say that I can get easy parts of Einaudi pieces down pretty quickly but it takes some effort to work on the tricky sections. In "I Due Fiumi" I could play the first page over and over easily before I finally nailed down the even trickier (for me) section after that. Of course, even the bottom of the first page was tough at first but that came together nicely once I worked on it.

I keep asking myself if I should go back to Alfred's just to finish but whenever I try I can't seem to keep at it for very long.