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No kidding (free agent part). I'm hoping I can crack it in 2 "lesson wks" so we'll see

That was fun. You should keep this one in your back pocket so you can pull it out when playing for some kids (or adults) who would be bored to tears by a Chopin Etude, but would think you’re a real pro after hearing you play the theam music to “Halloween”.

Undone

LOL, if you want the sheet music I used it is here:

http://www.musicroom.fr/images/catalogue/samples/0571520960.jpg

anyone got a recording of the 2nd to last song (Festive Rhondue) since I'm just "not getting" the 1st trill as it just sounds wrong (to me) but then what do I know (lol)

This is completely speculation but z32 may have it

Hi Everyone,

Happy Birthday wj3, and welcome campidiot.

Undone, TTigg and Waltz:

Congrats on all of your wonderful progresses and recordings!

I enjoyed the beautiful and relaxing sounds of TTigg's recital piece "Wonderland", as well as the fun and rhythmic ragtime rhrythms of Undone's "A Bag of Rags". Wow, what a long song that is Undone, I can see myself messing up all over the place if I were to ever attempt such a long piece. Beautifully done!

Waltz, I didn't see the movie "Halloween" but quite a nifty and cool sounding theme song that it has. Congrats on your very first piano bar submission.

And just a little bit of an update from my end, I'm now able to play HR2 with a little more confident and comfort. In fact, I played it so much that I'm afraid I've memorized it by now instead of reading the notes as I go along. I just love practicing that segment from poco ritard until the end, and usually only quit when I fingers seems to go into a spastic condition.

I've also finished learning the piece "Morning Has Broken". Although I still would like to continued to practice those two optional examples of broken chords exercises for a bit longer, especially example # 2 since it's pretty interesting and challenging.

Cheers,

Key Notes

Sorry Ttigg, Festive Rhondue isn’t in the All-In-One version of book 2. The second to the last song here is Danny Boy.

Undone

Good to hear from you Key Notes, and glad to hear about your progress. “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” should be coming up next and then Solace. A couple of great pieces, but you may find ARB to be a bit of a departure from what you have been practicing lately and as such requires a little more time before you start feeling comfortable with it (at least that was my experience). It's well worth it though.

Undone

Thanks for looking. Well at least with #3 we'll all be in the same boat as there is only one option (all-in-one). I think I've got it down but it just doesn't sound "right" to me so we'll see what "teach" says

Those of us already in Book 3 are patiently waiting for you people nearing the end of Book 2 to join us - we're a small but dedicated crew looking for the infusion of some exciting new "blood" to enliven the conversation and spur us on to higher levels of skill and musicality - what seems to be the holdup? To much "wallowing in your comfort zone"?

Regards, JF

well I was off-track by deciding to learn another Wayne Gratz song this week so now I will continue with Canon D then I'm done and will be onto #3

Key Notes: Wonderful to hear from you! I often wonder what you are up to with the piano and am glad you're moving along nicely! You "gotta" watch Halloween: it's an American horror classic (unless you don't like the genre, which is understandable).

John Frank,
Haha, :D, I had a nice chuckle at the last part of your post, that's good.

I have not posted an update (as a normally do) in a while for various (and uninteresting) reasons. However, five or so days ago I gave myself the pass on Musetta's Waltz. Yesterday I gave myself the pass on Battle Hymn of the Republic. I am currently on The Riddle. I have neglected making recordings (and thus providing updates), but this morning I decided to record a quick performance of Musetta's Waltz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9eO-asL78

BHOTR was not too difficult and I will make a recording of it tomorrow (hopefully). The Riddle seems (thus far) to be somewhat easy but we'll see.

W

TTigg - I was only kidding, of course - please take the time to learn the Gratz piece - his stuff is real good & I'd hate to see you miss out - Book 3 will be challenging you soon enough.

Regards, JF

I know you were JF (hence the smiley). Yep, I learned it (A Good Question) and I like it a lot. I'll try to get a video of it later next week, got our annual Car meet this weekend so I'm going to be too busy.

Looking forward to the challenge of #3. I may actually take a break before starting it since I really should get Forest out of the way and memorized (we'll see).

Looking forward to the challenge (and assistance from you guys) when I get there...

Thanks Undone and Waltz for your kind thoughts and encouragements.

Sorry for not being able to post as often as I would like. Lucky that I could still remember my screen name and password. But here I am, 10:28 PM and haven't yet practice my piano, replying to your very thoughtful posts. Yes, while I love my new hobby, I'm afraid that I've managed to spread myself just a bit thin, but what to do, I love most everything that I do.

Thanks for the heads-up Undone regarding Alexander's Ragtime Band and Solace. They'll definitely be fun challenges for me in terms of diversities of styles. I don't mind and willing to take as long as it's necessary in order for me to get familiar and comfortable with a piece. Looking forward to it.

Waltz, I do occasionally enjoyed watching horror movies, and while I'm well aware of Halloween's statuses and popularities, it's not the type of horror that I felt I "gotta" see. Just a bit too for me.

Oh and Undone, once you've moved on to book 3, please don't forget to occasionally come back to visit and continued to keep us book 2 people in line and give us some advice. JF will just have to learn to share you.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Key Notes

JF – I balaim the recital. That’s my storry and I’m sticking with it. Actually, I was spending most of my practice time trying to get that recital piece into some sort of shape and now that it’s over I’m back to concentraiting on completing the final two pieces in Book 2.

I’m looking forward to moving on to book 3 and joining the small yet accomplished group of forum members posting to that thread.

Undone

Waltz – Nice recording of Musetta’s Waltz. I like the temp and feel that youre putting into it. I think you have a couple of notes out of place however. At the poco ritard. (bottom of page one) and re ritard. (bottom of page two), it sounds like your playing a G to F with the right hand instead of going from G to E (and maybe another note or two is off afterward in this messure). Also, the final note for the left hand in each of these sections sounds like your playing a D instead of a C.

You may want to take a closer look at these sections , I think you’ll like the difference in sound.

Undone

Will do, and thanks.

Undone