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Greetings everyone! I'm finally ready to submit a piece after so many years. I think it's been more than two years since I've been able to participate. I won't know until the last minute which of the two pieces I will submit. I'm getting started with recording this weekend.

I'm looking forward to it.

I recorded the chorus of "Lullaby of the Bells" from Phantom of the Opera movie 1943, and I am practicing the other half for the whole piece in February.
At least I hope to .....
Oddly the score had accompaniment of a Ukulele. which I might "midi in"....
Hawaiian music must of been big in the 40's

shaka laka lu... hope that means something nice ......:)

@Monica Unfortunately the recorder isn't in the cards just yet. I'm hoping by the time the next recital comes around I'll have one.

I'm not sure yet if I can participate. I will try to record the polonaise requested by outo ;), but no promises!
The Schumann e-cital is getting closer and I'm worried about that too...

I've made a recording that will do. A couple of flubs but nothing disastrous. Hoping to get a better one in the coming days, but happy to have this one to fall back on if necessary.

Same here barbaram. I'd love to do a perfect take from start to finish, so I'll keep trying.
How many people are making a video too?

It's ok, any piece will do Just to hear you play your piano is a pleasure...
I'm struggling with my Schumann so I understand...

I've done some preliminary recordings and have decided to go with Clair de Lune. I know the piece well enough. I'm also learning how to make mp3 recordings. (Yeah, I know it's about time) LOL! I suspect I'll have more problems with the technical aspects rather than the performance.

I'm probably going to be seeking advice on recording as I get closer to submitting my piece.

Not me!
It's hard enough trying to capture good audio

I will sometimes create a video but it is harder to set up, and when there is endless takes it gets tiring resetting everything. Definitely not for this one.

I usually do videos, so that I can watch and correct technic issues that I see. In fact a regularly video something once a week or so. Sometimes it is painful to watch, but I always learn from it.

I managed to get a pretty good recording of my piece today. Not perfect, but pretty good. I could use another month of polishing, but deadlines are deadlines!

Got my recording done today. Sure, there are a few bloopers. But, considering I have struggled with this piece for months, I feel pretty good about what I have. I practiced and recorded after plowing us out from Storm Juno. Easily 3 feet of snow which doesn't count the drifts that were significantly higher. Plowing was mentally draining. I was so worried about getting my truck stuck. I guess I felt pretty good getting the driveway open. So good, that I came in and played pretty decently right off. Did it in one take. I'm so relieved it's done.

Well Done you! Recording really is the hard bit. I just got my hands on a film score wrote for piano. The music is part of a greater collection and costs a fortune. So I listened and wrote it down myself. It`s very simple, very evocative. Can`t tell you what the film is on the grounds that it may incriminate me . . . .this will be my recital piece!

Yes, that final section is very much unique. When I first heard the piece, it almost felt like that last section just didn't "fit in" with the rest of it, but after playing it a while, it grew on me and now I really like it. The tone clusters seem to just keep building the tension until the final bar resolves the whole thing. I know the debate as to whether to "swing it" or "play it straight" but that final section begs to me to "swing it" so that's probably what I'll do. I hope I can do the piece justice.

I committed to Johan B to participate in an ABF recital this year. This one might be it.

I do have a recording. Audio. On my iPhone. "Voice Memo." On a clunker of a piano(*). I rather like the effect--it's like listening to a vintage 78. If I don't get a 'real' recording done, I'm of half a mind to upload this one.

(*) I affectionately call it "The World's Ugliest Piano". A donated, unmaintained spinet from the '70s that sits in the cafeteria at my work and that I practice and play on. Recorded as a lark.

I have a question to (speculate?) .
If I were to submit a piece which was recorded direct cable audio , and also the midi recording which was done concurrently , but played through a piano sound-font; is that coinage for recital?
Because… I plan to do it that way in succession-sequence, for this next recital .

I'm not sure I understand your question. However, the recital software allows you to upload but a single audio file. If you upload a second, it replaces the first (and changes your place in the lineup)

Ok, makes sense; I was going to use them both, in one recording.
The latter which would be the midi recording through a sound-font, last. But spliced together in one recording.

Spicing together? You are aiming for some special effect? More echo?

I record my dig. Piano with a direct cable to my pc and midi cable at the same time,
The end result is 2 recordings and types of data of the same session.
One is audio, the other is a midi.
If a session were 3 minutes,
One sequentially after the other, spliced from the end of the audio, to the beginning of the second (midi). it would be a 6 minute total time recording.
i.e. not layered for a background effect or echo. (This would be 3 minutes.)
But, I’m just going to record as I’ve done n the past.
I was more or less asking about sound-font use ,aiming for a midi produced grand piano sound, but I ‘ll Nix it,- for now.