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| 40 | | | Performer's name: | Serge88 | | From: | Montreal | | Experience: | 6 years of piano experience + 5 years many years ago | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | What'd I say | | Composer: | Ray Charles | | Duration: | 02:17 | | Source of music: | Video, sheet music, IrockU piano lessons | | Instrument used: | Roland FP7 | | Recording method: | Roland FP7 -midi- Garageband - Kontakt piano sampler | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Not exactly like the CD, I play the song about half of the tempo of Ray Charles and I also play with a drum track. It was fun to learn. |
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| 41 | | | Performer's name: | Starr Keys | | Experience: | 3-1/2 this time around without a teacher, 2 years 15 years ago and about 3 as a child with teachers. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMt5PKGsDw | | Title of piece: | It Goes Like It Goes | | Composer: | David Shire | | Duration: | 04:19 | | Source of music: | Sheet music which I significantly altered to help me play and sing it--I needed all the help I could get! | | Instrument used: | Casio PX-3330 (Note the video shows me at my accoustic which I filmed separate from the audio mainly because I couldn't fit all the photos on my digital and they would look silly on it if I could. | | Recording method: | Zoom Q3 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Since my birthday was a few days before my quarterly August recital deadline, and my husband's is about a week after it, I wanted to choose something with a theme reflecting on the passing of time. I was particularly motivated to do this this year because of the health issues confronting us with each of our single remaining parents. My mother and I live on opposite coasts and she has her second major Cancer procedure this year next week, so I�ve gone outside my comfort zone and have used personal photos.
The song is the theme from Norma Rae. It won the Academy award for best song of 1979 but has rarely been covered since the original artist did it for the film. After trying to sing it, I can see why, it spans a wide range and has a lot of leaps and half steps and other chromatic intervals. I�m not terribly happy with the vocal but it is the best I can do right now and I know my mom will like it anyway. I hope you do. It's the first time I've used a sophisticated video editor (on the images, not the audio). I play the accompaniment which I memorized from the sheet music and then liberally changed to make it easier to play and sing and support my vocal phrasing. I had dim sung for lunch from the Chinese market. |
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| 42 | | | Performer's name: | CMohr | | From: | Oregon | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 or so years as a child - 3 years since returning | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Imagination | | Composer: | Jimmy Van Heusen (music), Johnny Burke (lyrics) | | Duration: | 02:22 | | Source of music: | Lead Sheet | | Instrument used: | 1907 Wellington Upright | | Recording method: | The Mikey by Blue Microphones. Converted from WAV to MP3 in iTunes. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Imagination" was written in 1940. I learned this tune at my mom's request and for her 90th birthday on August 9th. She has been asking me to play tunes she knows and started singing this one. I told her I would learn it for her.
This is my own arrangement and although played from memory, it is not without my usual mistakes and hesitations. (I really need to work on keeping good time). But I did manage to add a little improvisation towards the end.
I had a horrible time with the red dot (or in my case the blue dot) this time around.
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| 43 | | | Performer's name: | ClavBoy | | From: | Munich, Germany | | Experience: | 3/4 year | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude No. 1 C Major BWV 846 | | Composer: | J.S.Bach | | Duration: | 02:21 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Roland FP-7F | | Recording method: | Roland R-05 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Still very difficult for me. Practising it since I started with the piano.
Sounds for me as if the first notes of each arpeggio stick out too loud and the legato between the arpeggios is often not there (played without pedalling).
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| 44 | | | Performer's name: | Ken. | | From: | USA | | Experience: | 4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Light Blue | | Composer: | Thelonious Monk | | Duration: | 02:28 | | Source of music: | Thelonious Monk Easy Piano Solos | | Instrument used: | Milton Spinet | | Recording method: | Zoom H4 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One of Monk's lesser played pieces. I wasn't going to submit anything this time since it wasn't up to tempo. The marked tempo is 62 and I was stuck on around 55, but in the last week I started to make progress again, until the time of recording this I was able to play it at tempo, Yay!:) I included two takes since it is a short piece and I couldn't decide which one to pick.
Here is Monk's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twriNk0N9qQ
Here is some info on the tune: The first recorded evidence of this tune comes from a radio broadcast from Pep's Music
Lounge in Philadelphia, where Monk led a trio on February 9, 1957, consisting of Jimmy Bond and bass and Albert
"Tootie" Heath on drums. Interestingly, the first official recording of "Light Blue" was also live, this time at the
Five Spot Cafe on August 7, 1958. It is not a blues but rather a sixteen-bar theme played at a slow, plodding tempo
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| 45 | | | Performer's name: | daveindenton | | From: | Denton, Texas | | Experience: | 2 years, 6 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Theme from Schindler's List | | Composer: | John Williams | | Duration: | 02:00 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P120 | | Recording method: | Audacity via ProSonus Audiobox USB | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I was hesitant to turn this in because it's such a beautiful and moving piece. Hope I did a fair enough job with it. Comments welcome. |
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| 46 | | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | | From: | Cleveland, OH | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 40 years playing on my own, followed by 3.5 years of actual learning with a teacher. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Sonata in C minor, K.457, Mvt.1 | | Composer: | Mozart | | Duration: | 06:05 | | Source of music: | "Mozart, his greatest Piano Solos". The book includes a one-page biography, along with this helpful heading: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Pronounced Mote-zart). Just in case you've never heard of him before.  | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 upright | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-08. Converted to MP3 using Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I had my heart set on learning the 2nd movement of this sonata, but my teacher wanted me to learn this movement first. I wasn't thrilled with that proposal, but I soon found myself falling in love with this piece -- it is so utterly full of excitement, passion, and drama. I think the coda is my favorite part of the entire movement. Listening to a professional recording of this can send shivers through me.
This piece has been a long time in the works. I started learning it over a year ago, brought it to a basic level, and then left it for a long time. But it kept calling me back, so I returned to it again at the beginning of this summer. It doesn't look or sound as if it should be so very difficult, but for me, so many spots took a lot of sweat to learn. It's not done yet, and it certainly isn't effortless yet. When I come back to it next time, one of the things I'll be working on is evening out and speeding up the tempo. But it has come a long way since the beginning, when my teacher's comment on the cantabile section was that it sounded like a "drunken uncle" singing. 
I edited out the first page turn between the exposition and the development sections. Both hands were busy at the time, so I had to stop to make the page turn. You will however, hear the second turn at the bottom of page 4.
BTW, I haven't forgotten the 2nd movement -- that will probably show up in a future recital.  |
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| 47 | | | Performer's name: | DadAgains_Daughter | | From: | Brisbane | | Experience: | since 5yrs old (now 8) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LMU-EAcQI | | Title of piece: | Invention in F Major | | Composer: | J.S.Bach | | Duration: | 01:11 | | Instrument used: | Bernstein (Hailun) 151 | | Recording method: | onboard microphone on Dell laptop! Sounded better than iPad, Blackberry or Nikon D90 microphone | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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| 48 | | | Performer's name: | DadAgain | | Experience: | Many years.... | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cRedstkcbE | | Title of piece: | Prelude and Fugue XX - A minor | | Composer: | J.S.Bach | | Duration: | 04:17 | | Instrument used: | Bernstein (Hailun) 151 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Sorry - way too many stuff ups.
...and try as I might I can never get the hang of Bach. I don't know how to make it sound musical! (and can't do the trills in the Fugue!) |
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| 49 | | | Performer's name: | Yamaha G3 & P-80 Mike White | | From: | United States | | Experience: | Lifetime by ear, self-teaching appx. six years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dance of the Blessed Spirits | | Composer: | Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck | | Duration: | 01:20 | | Source of music: | sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-80 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This piece was sight-read. I have been working on harder pieces, but ran out of time. |
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| 50 | | | Performer's name: | Falmc | | From: | El Salvador | | Experience: | 5 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A5LRiqNNNo | | Title of piece: | Sweet Sereny | | Composer: | Carlos Mendoza Falmc | | Duration: | 01:52 | | Instrument used: | Keyboard | | Recording method: | audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This song was originally written for guitar for my girlfriend Sereny, then when i learn some chords on piano i transcribed the song to piano |
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| 51 | | | Performer's name: | Clemente | | Experience: | Bunch of years as a teenager. Stopped playing/studying piano for a whole bunch of years, and just came back to playing and taking lessons a year and four months ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://pianoandstrings.com | | Title of piece: | Andalucia | | Composer: | Ernesto Lecuona | | Duration: | 03:04 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Boston Baby Grand piano | | Recording method: | ZOOM video recorder | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | I read the first page of this pice on December 6th, 2011. The subsequent weeks were a joke which included 4 new teachers in a span of a month. Finally, on found a new teacher and the piece was picked up again at the end of January, concentrating on this piece every other week. It needs a little bit more of tender loving care.
If you wish to view the video, you are welcome to go to: http://www.pianoandstrings.com
Click on the "Videos" page. |
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| 52 | | | Performer's name: | Norrec (Tim) | | From: | NC, USA | | Experience: | Started playing about 2 years ago, but with a one year break. Been back to playing for two months. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Beaming Sunlight | | Composer: | Michiru Oshima | | Duration: | 01:30 | | Source of music: | I played using sheet music transcribed by 'Snomits' availible at the following link,http://snomits.net/sheets.php?x=anime | | Instrument used: | Keyboard, Yamaha YPG-235 | | Recording method: | Lacking a USB cable, I carried the keyboard to my computer and laid my microphone directly over one of the speakers. I then recorded with Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I watched the Full Metal Alchemist anime on Netflix following my brothers recomendation, I was impressed with much of the music from it and, having recently begun playing piano, I found what sheet music I could. It wasn't until after my break that I actually attempted to learn to play any of it. Thanks goes to Derulux and packa for helping me with the finguring for the section starting at 25 seconds. The only other sturggle I had with this peice was the first sheet music I tried to use contained either errors or notation that was confusing to me, Snomits's version was much clearer.
This is my first time playing anything outside of Alfred's Adult Piano Level 1 and my first time recording. I found recording harder than I expected because every time I listen I hear a mistake and want to try again. I finally settled on this being 'good enough' with time running out. |
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| 53 | | | Performer's name: | notbach | | From: | Texas | | Experience: | 15 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | To a Wild Rose (Op.51 No. 1) | | Composer: | Edward MacDowell | | Duration: | 02:10 | | Source of music: | 'Piano Classics' compilation (Fall River Press) | | Instrument used: | Bosendorfer B-200 (1979) | | Recording method: | Zoom H4n with built-in microphones | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | As usual, I was caught unawares by the recital announcement, only this time I had no ready-to-go pieces to record. I thought it would be fun to start a new piece and see how far I could get with it by the deadline.
It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy overall. I'm getting better at playing through mistakes, and I've left a few in this recording for discipline (haha).
Oh yeah, I've never heard a performance of To a Wild Rose, so I have no idea how far I am from the 'standard' interpretation. Any performance advice would be most welcome (wouter79, you have advanced permission to comment!). |
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| 54 | | | Performer's name: | lyricmudra | | From: | Living in Illinois, USA | | Experience: | Learned classical piano as a child until I was 13 or 14 years old. Did not touch the piano for some 35 years until about three years ago. I have not taken piano lessons since childhood but I plan to find a teacher in the near future. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQIVp_72V60 | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/user/lyricmudra | | Title of piece: | Sheep May Safely Graze (from J.S. Bach's Birthday Cantata) | | Composer: | J.S. Bach (arranged by Egon Petri) | | Duration: | 04:29 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai RX-2 Blak | | Recording method: | Zoom H4N (audio) and Kodak Zi8 (video) | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | When I heard this piece months ago it sounded simple, but it turned to be harder to learn than my previous May recital piece! My current rendition of it needs more work technically (there are wrong and missed notes), needs improvement in voicing, and has to mature more in expression, I believe. This is what I have so far. It is a work in progress. :-) |
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| 55 | | | Performer's name: | RedKat | | From: | Belgium | | Experience: | Experience: Had to follow compulsory "basic" piano during my violin study as a child. Well, it was very formal, just for the record. Now, has been playing for almost 2 years after a 30 year break | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Waltz, B minor, Op. 69 n. 2 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:56 | | Source of music: | Memorized sheet | | Instrument used: | Essex EUP-123 | | Recording method: | Zoom H1 WAV 48/24, Audacity to convert to mp3 192kbs | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I think this is one of the most beautiful waltzes ever written. Hence, my desire of playing it doesn't need any explanation. Yet, I found it challenging and a little bit beyond my current abilities to play in a really comfortable way (you will hear wrong notes here and there, etc.; even the pure length of the piece plus the red dot pressure makes it quite difficult to play without any mistakes). Still, I hope you will enjoy this Chopin's jewel. |
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| 56 | | | Performer's name: | Grouchomarx | | From: | Finalnd | | Experience: | 3-4 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Hungarian Rhapsody 2 Lassan (no Friska) | | Composer: | Franz Liszt | | Duration: | 05:21 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Digital piano roland hp305 | | Recording method: | Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Hadn't visited the site in some time and recalled that the recital would probably be around now. With less than a day worth of time I had no choice but to take the audio from an old video and upload that. Would have like to make a new recording of the piece but noticed that I couldn't play it properly anymore.
With a bit more time I probably would have been able to upload the piece that I'm currently working on(rach op 32 no 12). The piece that I uploaded instead is the first part of Liszt famous Hungarian rhapsody no. 2. |
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| 57 | | | Performer's name: | Tiago84 | | From: | Portugal - Lisbon | | Experience: | 5 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Prelude in E minor (Op28 No4) | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 02:29 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Kawai CN-33 | | Recording method: | Reaper | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Work in progress, oh and ribs!
I've messed up in some parts, already showed it to my teacher and she pointed out the parts I can improve. It has been a lot of fun |
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| 59 | | | Performer's name: | yohyrral (= Larry Hoy) | | From: | Audubon, Pennsylvania | | Experience: | 30 years (mostly) off and more on since I acquired a real piano of my own | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Three Themes for Piano | | Composer: | Lawrence Hoy | | Duration: | 08:34 | | Source of music: | Original composition play by ear | | Instrument used: | J&C Fischer Baby Grand rebuilt c. 2009, vintage unknown- 1920's or 30's | | Recording method: | zoom H2 | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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