Hello,
Im Cosmo, from brazil. Play piano for 1 years 6 mounths.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEioUSr4USM

comment about video pls

sry my english

Hello, Cosmo;

Welcome to the Pianist Corner.

This is quite good for someone who has been playing the piano for only two years or so.

You seem to have most of the notes into your fingers; now you need to work on both dynamics and phrasing.

The dynamics comes across on the video as being played at only one level; I hear no distinction being made between louder and softer. A greater attention to dynamics will give the performance of this piece more life; at the moment it lacks life and character.

The playing is a little too metronomic, a little too rigid. The listener needs to hear a break between one phrase and the next, just as you hear a singer take a breath between phrases.

Think of the melody line as being sung; there needs to be some easing of the tempo at certain spots towards the end of phrases; you need to build up to and then even linger - momentarily - on certain notes that represent the culmination of a phrase. That will help give your phrases the "shape" that they need; that means that each phrase has to give the listener a sense that it has direction, that it is going somewhere. You need to decide where each phrase is leading, and how you are going to achieve that. If you don't have a sense of direction of your phrases, then your listener won't have it either.

I think that you have done well to learn this piece, memorize it and perform it publicly after such a short time playing. Now you need to work on refining it and giving it some artistic shape and intepretive personality for it to come alive.

Regards,

I have to say I'm _very_ impressed by your progress. I also agree with BruceD on everything. Your tempo is very strict, which is important in the learning process, but since you already have the notes under your fingers you should be more flexible with the tempo and let the music breathe. Pretend that the right hand is a singer who sings with suitable dynamics and also needs to breathe between phrases while the left hand is the accompagment. I know it has been mentioned more specific in the post above me, but this is my opinion at least.

Listen to Rachmaninoff's interpretation if you want to. It's my favorite of those I've heard (a matter of taste of course):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj3CHx3TDzw

I want to say again that you did a really great job on the nocturne.

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