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| 20 | | | Performer's name: | Newbert | | From: | Glens Falls, NY | | Experience: | 3-4 years - then 45 years away from piano - now back at it (on and off) for about 9 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | New York State of Mind | | Composer: | Billy Joel | | Duration: | 03:24 | | Source of music: | "The Best of Billy Joel - Easy Piano" (Songbook). | | Instrument used: | Yamaha DGX640 + Pianoteq Stage | | Recording method: | Recorded wav thru Pianoteq, then converted to mp3 thru Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've been a fan of Billy Joel for most of my life, so I was happy to find a songbook that's at my level. I've added a number of chords and embellishment at the end, in order to give the piece a bit more "meat". I hope that they add to the overall performance. |
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| 21 | | | Performer's name: | MaryBee | | From: | Cleveland, OH | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | too many years on my own, past 5 years with a teacher | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Nocturne in C minor, No. 21 | | Composer: | Chopin | | Duration: | 03:55 | | Source of music: | Chopin Complete Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes (Schirmer) - a Christmas present from my husband  | | Instrument used: | Charles Walter 1520 upright | | Recording method: | Tascam DR-08. Converted to MP3 using Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I've been wanting to learn a Chopin Nocturne for quite a while now, but after two themed recitals back-to-back, I needed to find a piece that I could learn fairly quickly. This one was perfect; it is, I think, one of Chopin's easiest, yet it is also quite beautiful. I love the simple, mysterious nature of it, and the sweeping movement enhanced by some interesting composite rhythms: 5-against-2, 3-against-2, 14-against-4, 9-against-4, and 7-against-2. I'm now looking forward to working on some more Chopin Nocturnes in the future. |
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| 22 | | | Performer's name: | Mr Super Hunky | | From: | Arizona currently, Originally the water | | Experience: | 9 plus some | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Everybody Hurts | | Composer: | R.E.M / M.S.H | | Duration: | 03:19 | | Source of music: | Original cover of a cover [The Coors covering R.E.M] which makes this an authentic double cover! | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin BB. | | Recording method: | Partially broken Zoom H2 into Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Lunch is always the same consisting of a fermented vegetable medley with fermented Sauerkraut along with some chicken, brown rice crackers w/ black bean hummus dip. Drinks are water and a few gulps of raw milk kefir.
As far as being back on the mighty Mason BB... well, it is just incredible. The never ending resonance this piano is capable of producing is enough to tickle anyone's fancy. And it feels pretty good too! I Luv it. |
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| 23 | | | Performer's name: | N17 | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Experience: | About 5.5 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Dance in G | | Composer: | Joseph Haydn | | Duration: | 00:47 | | Source of music: | Sheet music in Piano Handbook by Humphries | | Instrument used: | Casio CDP-120 | | Recording method: | Digital to PC with audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm not sure the number of the dance but it's one by Haydn that's included in the pieces in the Piano Handbook which I'm working through along with lessons with a teacher 1-2 times a month. Recording for this recital (my first) has been a humbling experience. I thought I had this piece down a while back....until recording. Listening to the recording and hearing the mistakes/potential for improvement is both frustrating and motivating. There are definitely some dynamic/tempo problems I hadn't noticed before...along with a completely wrong note. Don't hold anything back with any feedback needed! |
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| 24 | | | Performer's name: | Mar_red | | From: | Poland | | Experience: | Self-taught since 2007 | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Love Story | | Composer: | Francis Lai | | Duration: | 03:24 | | Source of music: | Lead sheets (only melody and chords) | | Instrument used: | Schimmel "baby upright" 40" 1972 | | Recording method: | 1. The t.bone SC 140 Stereoset microphones
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3. Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | "Love Story", who doesn't know it?
Just pure beautiful melody.
I tried to do my best with my arrangement of it and to play it as beautifully as I am capable. I'm not sure if I succeeded...
One more thing, I always try to add an intro and an ending to my renditions.
This time at the beginning I went from Am 7 (the song is in Am key) or Am9 (I'm not sure, I am not able to play such runs two times in the same way melodically wise and rhythmically wise, I don't have to, there is no sheet music and at the same time it's a pure joy if your fingers can fly over the keyboard, to a great degree, "as they like" - really) to E7 through GM7, FM7 (or GM9, FM9). I think it's a little bit weird but interesting chord progression , at least I like it .
At the ending I went from Am7 (or Am9 as you already know) to GM7 through GbM7, so I ended in different and, to my knowledge, totally unrelated key!
I hope you will like my version of this beautiful song,my playing and my harmonical experiments . |
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| 25 | | | Performer's name: | joangolfing | | From: | Iowa | | Experience: | 10+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Arietta | | Composer: | Edvard Grieg | | Duration: | 01:18 | | Source of music: | Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano, Dover Publications | | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1 Grand Piano | | Recording method: | Zoom H2, Audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I'm back to another Grieg Lyric piece. Arietta has many subtleties. I worked with the 3 independent voices. The soprano should be heard over the arpeggio in the middle voice and the bass in the third voice. All of them blend together. I know more work is needed and I will return to this piece again some time. |
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| 26 | | | Performer's name: | Sand Tiger | | From: | United States | | Experience: | 2 years 2 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Home page link: | http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/ | | Title of piece: | Pancakes | | Composer: | Sand Tiger | | Duration: | 01:46 | | Source of music: | Original song with lyrics | | Instrument used: | Casio PX150 digital | | Recording method: | Recorded on the Casio, then to the voice recorder, to the computer, to Audacity to boost the volume. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This song with lyrics came out of the Coursera on songwriting earlier in 2014. There are two bars of intro music and the lyrics begin with:
Pancakes (E major)
I remember Sunday mornings
a kid without a care
scent of melting butter
sizzling in the air
Bedtime stories, pillow fights
tender kisses, warm goodnights
Daddy's making pancakes for me
shows me that he cares
fluffy golden pancakes for me
my happy dance on air
Through my sad times
through my bad times
dad was always there
The curious can view the rest and a bit of the story at my blog:
http://sandtigerpiano.blogspot.com/
I have not recorded a version with vocals yet--I am not much of a singer.
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| 27 | | | Performer's name: | (Was)TrueBeginner | | From: | VA, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 6 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/zHQjoNiqmxk | | Title of piece: | Blame | | Composer: | Original | | Duration: | 03:14 | | Source of music: | Self-composition | | Instrument used: | Yamaha GC1M | | Recording method: | Recorded using Flip nano, extracted and normalized sound using Audacity. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Usually for this time of the year, I used to submit something for mother's day. But this time I like to dedicate this song for my dad. He is 91. A month ago, he was hospitalized for a fall, but they found out he had an incurable disease, so his time might not be for long. With all the things going on, I did not got a chance to prepare a good piece for the recital, but I think I should submit something to dedicate to him and all the parents in the world. Sorry to go back to a somber mood in this piece. |
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| 28 | | | Performer's name: | ajames | | From: | United States | | Experience: | 10 months | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Just a Day Away | | Composer: | Ben Crosland | | Duration: | 02:03 | | Source of music: | Cool Beans, Vol. 1 | | Instrument used: | Kawai 350 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4n | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I really enjoy this type of music, it's a great change of pace from Alfred's pieces and hundred year old "Album for the Young" bits about dolls and such (Tchaikovsky recital people know what I'm talking about).
The composer, Ben Crosland, and his publisher (Nikolas) are Piano World regulars, that's how I originally learned of the "Cool Beans" collection. |
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| 29 | | | Performer's name: | jotur/Cathy Turner | | From: | Santa Fe, NM | | Experience: | 2 years of lessons in my early teens, 30+ years off, playing for dancing since 1995, playing for assisted living venues since 2009. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Second Hand Rose | | Composer: | music: James F. Hanley, lyrics: Grant Clarke | | Duration: | 03:01 | | Source of music: | Sheet music, 1921/1965. Found in a thrift store | | Instrument used: | Casio PX-100 | | Recording method: | keyboard to computer, audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | No | | Additional info: | They ran out of plates at the pot luck between the Balkan singing concert and the contra dance, so I ate finger foods, like cookies and brownies Then I felt a little sick, so I came home and recorded instead of staying for the dance.
I got lucky, or maybe just tired, and this is the first and only recording. Cpl of hesitations, less usual for me, and enough wrong notes that if the seniors had been singing along it would have befuddled them. I think that's why I prefer dancers - I can more often than not keep going because I'm a dancer and it's the pulse that's natural and it doesn't disrupt the dancers, but singing requires melody note good and I don't do that so well, and it *does* disrupt singers, and they notice. Dancers could, in my experience, care less. I'm always sorry if I've interrupted the singers' flow. Nonetheless, there are things I like about this and I think are better than I've done before - more appropriate use of detached notes to give it a little lift, for one. I don't get as much lift from the bass as usual - this dosn't make me want to dance, tho I tap my foot - but someday this stuff is going to come together
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| 30 | | | Performer's name: | PikaPianist | | From: | Brisbane | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/GLXfBMY9vLU | | Title of piece: | Sonata in F minor, K466 | | Composer: | Scarlatti | | Duration: | 05:05 | | Source of music: | IMSLP | | Instrument used: | Kawai CS6 digital piano | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Due to being a bit busier at this time of the year, I didn't have the time to polish up the Brahms Intermezzo so I decided to perform this Scarlatti instead.
I prefer to play this piece slow and soft, and like to describe it as a melancholic, isolated introspective contemplation. It's amazing how well this piece sounds when performed on a piano, when it was originally written for harpsichord. It almost feels romantic in some parts. Although technically very simple, trying to determine the ideal amount of pedalling in a piece like this is indeed challenging. The absence of any pedalling will end up making the piece too 'dry', while too much pedalling will just blur the notes into a mess. |
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| 31 | | | Performer's name: | Sam S | | From: | Georgia, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | a lot | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/Axd5tZ7jODQ | | Title of piece: | Suite from the Victorian Kitchen Garden - Prelude and Summer - Clarinet and Piano | | Composer: | Paul Reade | | Duration: | 05:28 | | Instrument used: | 1927 Bechstein Model L and a Buffet Clarinet | | Recording method: | Only one microphone, near the camera, so I'm guessing that's not the best for two instruments. But you could fill a book with what I don't know about recording... | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Laurie, on clarinet, is my wife! We celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary a couple of months ago. She found this piece somewhere - I understand it is the theme from a British TV show? I've never seen it. The recording has the first and last movements, so I spliced them together. The video is actual video of us playing together.
Laurie is a restarter on clarinet, playing again after not playing for over 30 years. So be kind in your comments!
Of course there is no excuse for me. I should be an old veteran at making recordings. But adding another instrument adds another order of magnitude of difficulty. I'm trying to listen to her, trying to read the music, trying to stay together, trying to play through my mistakes - no stopping allowed! We hope to play this at Summerkeys in July.
So its way more stressful than it should be.
The piano part is much harder than it sounds. Octaves in the right hand, arpeggios in tenths, and it doesn't fit the hand all that well. But it's fun to play.
Hope you like it!
This will be possibly be my last recital until 2015. I'm going on a 2185+ mile walk - the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, starting in mid-July. But I'll be back! |
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| 32 | | | Performer's name: | outo | | From: | FIN | | Experience: | 3 (+ childhood lessons) | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Fantasia no. 4 E-minor, Allegro | | Composer: | Georg Philipp Telemann | | Duration: | 02:03 | | Source of music: | Barenreiter (ed. Max Seiffert), but used another score (Schott) as well for fingering suggestions. | | Instrument used: | Yamaha U1 Silent, acoustic mode, waiting to be tuned. | | Recording method: | Canon Ixus 960 IS | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | The piece is something I worked earlier this spring with my teacher and liked it enough to try to properly memorize and polish it. It was a challenge to find good fingerings, had to make a lot of changes and I struggle a bit with the memory part. So a WIP still, sorry for the mistakes.
Did not include the shorter Dolce section, which I haven't been playing much. |
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| 33 | | | Performer's name: | noobpianist90 | | From: | India | | Experience: | Started piano in 2003. Restarted in June 2013 after a 4 year break | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXXh517RPo | | Title of piece: | Minuet in G major BWV Anh 114 | | Composer: | Christian Petzold | | Duration: | 01:36 | | Source of music: | Sheet Music | | Instrument used: | Casio Privia PX-150 | | Recording method: | Line-in Cable using audacity | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | I haven't used any sustain pedal in this since I'm trying to break my habit of overusing it |
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| 34 | | | Performer's name: | Piano_Primo_1 | | From: | Near South Pittsburgh PA, USA | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | 5 years, self taught | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://vimeo.com/95042138 | | Title of piece: | "Back at One" 5 12 14 1 session | | Composer: | Brian McKnight Arranged by Richard Bradley | | Duration: | 04:38 | | Source of music: | Video
http://vimeo.com/95042138
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http://postimg.org/gallery/363etfg9c/ | | Instrument used: | Casio PX 100 | | Recording method: | Digital to computer -windows movie maker , then converted video to .mp3 audio. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Score Arranged by Richard Bradley
Re- upload Long piece ( with coda's, 1rst and 2nd repeat endings ,,, recorded in 1 session. Played thru any pause or near mistakes .
4 min 37 sec. |
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| 35 | | | Performer's name: | Ganddal | | From: | Norway | | Experience: | Can't remember anymore | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Gratulation | | Composer: | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | | Duration: | 02:33 | | Source of music: | Sheet music | | Instrument used: | Yamaha AvantGrand N1 | | Recording method: | Zoom | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942) was a Swedish composer. He composed a lot of music including 5 symphonies and 2 operas. In addition to this he wrote many shorter pieces, and I have made recordings of three small piano pieces from a collection called "Frosoblomster" ("Froso flowers"). For the recital I selected one of them, the two remaining ones ("Sommarsang" and "Vid Froso kyrka") I'm going to present under the May piano bar after the release of this recital. The two latter pieces are the most popular of his piano pieces.
Unfortunately the music of Peterson-Berger is little known outside Sweden. I hope you will enjoy my presentation of music written by this fine composer. |
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| 36 | | | Performer's name: | Ohio_Mark | | From: | Ohio | | Experience: | 2+ | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Beach Buggy Boogie | | Composer: | Martha Mier | | Duration: | 01:21 | | Source of music: | Jazz Rags and Blues | | Instrument used: | Yamaha Clavinova CVP505 | | Recording method: | to USB | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | One of the things that I enjoy with the Clavinova is experimenting with the different voices. For this piece I have a piano setting for the bass harmony and a steel guitar playing the melody.
I have a live recital coming up in June and I think I might be playing this piece in the recital. Easy enough and I think I can sludge through any nervous breakdowns I might have. It will be my first ever live recital. |
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| 37 | | | Performer's name: | Monica K. | | From: | Lexington, KY | | Avatar: |  | | Experience: | Nearly 10 years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Video link: | http://youtu.be/d857u4Opwyk | | Home page link: | http://www.youtube.com/pianomonica | | Title of piece: | Scarborough Fair | | Composer: | David Nevue (arr.) | | Duration: | 03:49 | | Source of music: | Sheet music, obtained from David's site: wwww.davidnevue.com | | Instrument used: | Mason & Hamlin A | | Recording method: | mp3 file recorded using Zoom H4, normalized in Audacity; video recorded on Zoom Q3. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | David Nevue gives this traditional melody a unique and lovely spin with his arrangement, adding two bridges and nice ornamentations. This piece is a heck of a lot of fun to play, and it's one I'm planning on keeping in my permanent repertoire. It's also the first piece I've played that requires several measures to be played WITHOUT the pedal. I felt naked. Lunch was Lean Cuisine spaghetti and meatballs. |
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| 38 | | | Performer's name: | gingko2 | | From: | central MA, USA | | Experience: | returning adult, on and off many years | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | Ivan Sings (Andantino) | | Composer: | Aram Khachaturian | | Duration: | 01:22 | | Source of music: | Schirmer Edition, Selected Piano Works-Intermediate to Early Advanced, Aram Khachaturian | | Instrument used: | Kawai CA63 | | Recording method: | digital to PC, Audacity for amplification | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | This is the first piece in a suite called "Adventures of Ivan." The whole set is playful and expressive. I'd like to learn them all.
Getting the left hand even and soft enough is a challenge. Getting the right hand even is difficult too. Tried to accent some notes and change dynamics but some notes stick out. Still trying to get rid of the "banging" sound. |
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| 39 | | | Performer's name: | Ataru074 | | Experience: | 10+ Total, restarted less than 5 years ago. | | Direct music link: | click to download | | Title of piece: | BWV 866 Fugue | | Composer: | Johann Sebastian Bach | | Duration: | 02:20 | | Source of music: | Bach Well Tempered Clavier vol 1 - Henle | | Instrument used: | Kawai, GS-30 | | Recording method: | Zoom H4, Shure SM 81 mics in ORTF setup. Piano 1/4 stick. | | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | | Additional info: | Fumbled here and there... but first and only take, no editing. |
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