LMAO instead it's musical scores!

Diretonic, as you are in debt to the Satie museum, you owe it to everyone to attempt Saties vexations with all the indicated repeats.

I believe it takes around sixteen hours or so...

John cale (ex v/underground) did it years ago along with john cage and many others, if that isnt surreal enough , then I dont know what is.

And as this footage from the time shows, it didnt matter how many times cale played it, he didnt memorise it!!!

I have no idea what this RST thing is but if Gnoissienne 1 is now available I'll take it on.

I like this idea. Unfortunately, my left wrist is not recovering, so it's pointless for me to sign up this time.

Great, Peyton! Now we have just two pieces available.


MaryAnn, I wish you a speedy wrist recovery.


I’ve been working on the Gnossienne No 4 for only one week, and I think that I’m learning faster than usually I do. I’m not spending more time a day on the piano, but I focus on my practice with better concentration. Teamwork is really a big motivation.

- ok, I'll pick up a day pass...



I'd rather scrub the museum floors! I've always had mixed feelings about Satie. Of course there was no escape from Gymnopedie, one of the most overused bits of background TV/radio music ever, usually behind a program about recovery from trauma. So you end up being fond of it. I had a gnossienne 1-3 phase in the car, very effective for safe driving. Vexations would be good for driving in hellish London traffic but you'd need an 8 hour warm-up just to get really p'd off.

- here's a team effort



- but this idea seems like a winner

vexations, the 5-cd set

- lol! Probably recorded once and looped for 20 hours.

This is great news!. (RST is Rossy's serious thread)

Which one you doing Dire tonic?

Gymnopédie 1 - Griffin
Gymnopédie 2 - Dipsey
Gymnopédie 3 - BeccaBb

Gnoissienne 1 - Peyton
Gnoissienne 2 - AimeeO
Gnoissienne 3 - Rupak
Gnoissienne 4 - Recaredo
Gnoissienne 5 -
Gnoissienne 6 -
Gnoissienne 7 - Wayne33yrs

I'm still trying out both of them.

Can I have first refusal on the choice? As soon as someone else is vying for one of them, I'll take a snap decision.

Same here Recaredo

Dire tonic, that's fine with me.

One place left............anyone?

Gymnopédie 1 - Griffin
Gymnopédie 2 - Dipsey
Gymnopédie 3 - BeccaBb

Gnoissienne 1 - Peyton
Gnoissienne 2 - AimeeO
Gnoissienne 3 - Rupak
Gnoissienne 4 - Recaredo
Gnoissienne 5 -
Gnoissienne 6 - dire tonic
Gnoissienne 7 - Wayne33yrs

Ok.. maybe I'm the sucker here. Is there a reason no one wants to do 5? When do I have to learn it by?

Not at all LadyChen be great if you would join in

oh and mid November

Thanks for extending it to mid November for us. I'm just now getting started. I'm hoping to get a good block of time to work on my piece this weekend.

Gnoissienne 5 still up for Grabs!!!!!!!!! Come on you lurkers lol

Oh, right--I could take it, and I would have it ready by mid-November sometime mid-CENTURY!

Ahhh...that's great! Congratulations and thanks Wayne! You finally pulled out all the lurkers, lol

I'm finishing the list for you, lol

Gymnopédie 1 - Griffin
Gymnopédie 2 - Dipsey
Gymnopédie 3 - BeccaBb

Gnoissienne 1 - Peyton
Gnoissienne 2 - AimeeO
Gnoissienne 3 - Rupak
Gnoissienne 4 - Recaredo
Gnoissienne 5 - malkin
Gnoissienne 6 - dire tonic
Gnoissienne 7 - Wayne33yrs

Malkin, you gonna give it a go, or you just taking the p*ss?

Cheers Rupak

I guess the latter then! Gnossienne 5 still up for grabs, come on peeps!

Gymnopédie 1 - Griffin
Gymnopédie 2 - Dipsey
Gymnopédie 3 - BeccaBb

Gnoissienne 1 - Peyton
Gnoissienne 2 - AimeeO
Gnoissienne 3 - Rupak
Gnoissienne 4 - Recaredo
Gnoissienne 5 -
Gnoissienne 6 - dire tonic
Gnoissienne 7 - Wayne33yrs

haha just sign me up

Yipppeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Cheers LadyC

Gymnopédie 1 - Griffin
Gymnopédie 2 - Dipsey
Gymnopédie 3 - BeccaBb

Gnoissienne 1 - Peyton
Gnoissienne 2 - AimeeO
Gnoissienne 3 - Rupak
Gnoissienne 4 - Recaredo
Gnoissienne 5 - LadyChen
Gnoissienne 6 - dire tonic
Gnoissienne 7 - Wayne33yrs

Let the practice commence Anyone need any help with anything, just come back here.

Oh one more thing, the completed pieces to be in the format of Youtube video uploads! Is that OK with all of us?

Nice to see you’re in, LadyChen, and happy birthday!

Happy birthday lady chen, Ok folks, I am not playing in this round as I spent much too much time on met4 last round.

do not forget I have chosen op38 no2 for mendelssohn though!!! for next time.

However, unless wayne wants to do it I am prepared to put them all up on RST together like I did last time.

Even though no one actually realised that takes work lol.

How it worked was that everyone sent me their youtube link in a PM, with a little text explaining their persoal journey with their chosen piece, just a bit of blurb to go with it..

I then posted them all up in the same place on RST on the same day at the same time by post holding pages so no one posted inbetween, to make it a continuous recital.

As wayne has allready put in much work for this one I will leave it up to him to decide if he wants me to do the same?

Over to Yorkshire.......wayne?

Happy birthday Lady Chen! Thanks for joining in!!

Ok, great, now I have to learn the piece AND figure out how to do video LOL!

No probs Ladychen one of us rabble will walk you through it by Pm if you have any "ladyproblems" with the camcorder or technology.. lol.

I had to record my last piece with two tin cans and a piece of string, well I may as well have done, the camcorder couldnt cope!!