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Here is my recording of Ballin' the Jack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sUboLFl2rYThis wasn't my finest performance, but was all I could do while the camera was actually recording. Let me know what you think. Thanks, W
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Waltz – Great job on Ballin’ the Jack! This is another on of my favorites from Book 2, but whenever I hear it, I can’t stop thinking of Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise performing it in the movie “Haunted Honeymoonâ€. Great stuff.
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I agree. Great job Waltz!!!!. I don't think this song is in the Alfred Basic book. It sounds challenging.
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Just for you Waltz here is my recording of "Night Song". I hope it works. http://www.box.net/shared/71lybobjhx
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Very nicely done! I gotta get going on recording some of my older (favorite) #2 pieces.. SC
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Thanks TTigg. Good luck in book #3. I hope to be there before too long.
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Very, very well played. Seriously, great job Your crescendos were excellent, you have certainly mastered that piece.
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Waltz – Great job on Ballin’ the Jack! This is another on of my favorites from Book 2, but whenever I hear it, I can’t stop thinking of Gilda Radner and Dom DeLuise performing it in the movie “Haunted Honeymoonâ€. Great stuff.
Undone Thanks Undone I liked it as well. At the beginning, I thought it was going to be easier to play than it actually was. It is a challenging thing to play, moderately hard (for me). I also passed Nobody knows the trouble i've seen. It was absurdly easy, but it did introduce the LH Bb major chords. I don't think there is much of a reason to record it. It really was not challenging, at all. I'm now on La Donna E Mobile.
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Thanks Waltz. I really liked this piece.
Can't wait to hear "La Donna E Mobile" when you are finished with it. I'll be starting "Space Shuttle Blues".
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I'm now on La Donna E Mobile.
Good luck it's a very nice piece...
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My update... with our first public recital now in the rear view mirror, and with summer here (meaning I am taking a break from lessons), I am going to be focusing pretty exclusively on Alfred's Book 2 pieces over the next few months, trying to make some progress. Just started Solace (Joplin's Mexican Serenade), and after an hour or so, it doesn't seem too intimidating.
I would really like to be done with the book by the end of the year, but at this point, that seems a little ambitious. (Mark could do it, and apparently PianoNoobAlexMan did, but I am not sure I can...)
Casio Ap-200 Almost midway thru Alfred's All-In-One Book Two Blogging my family's piano learning experiences: http://aw2pp.blogspot.com/
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Thanks TTigg and HBG I have not yet been able to "bring out" the melody in the piece. It's nice to be doing some staccato again
Last edited by Waltz; 06/09/09 07:49 PM. Reason: superfluous yets
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HG – Fantastic job on “Night Songâ€. I really enjoyed listening to it.
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Thanks Undone. I appreciate the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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OK it's official - I'm finished with book #2 I promise I will try to get my recording of Canon in D done really really soon So it's and and see you over in #3 soon
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TTigg - congratulations - well done - you have a lot to be proud of - see you in Book 3!
Regards, JF
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S TTigg ! ! ! ! ! !
How long did it take you to get through Book 2 ????
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Well folks, I’m finished too. Last night I put the final wraps on “Canon in Dâ€. I still have a few small issues with my recording, but enough is enough, it’s time to move on.
Earlier I wrote that I thought “Danny Boy†might be more challenging than “Canon in Dâ€. Now I’d say that “Danny Boy†is more challenging to learn, but Canon is more challenging to “polishâ€. Maintaining the proper (or at least close to proper) dynamics and tempo throughout while not hitting any wrong notes was the hard part. I kept getting either good dynamics and tempo along with a clunker or two, or clean playing but poor dynamics/tempo. I finally settled on one that had a minimum of all three problems.
Tonight I’ll start on Book 3. But you don’t get rid of me that easily, I’ll still be poking my nose into the Book 2 thread (just as I still read the Book 1 thread), and will continue to post here up until the point where I feel like I’m intruding in “another groups†thread.
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Excellent Undone ! ! ! !
C O N G R A T S ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Yea ! !! ! !
And how long did it take you to get through Book 2?
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S TTigg ! ! ! ! ! ! How long did it take you to get through Book 2 ???? Thanks As for the time line just under 9mths. I did #1 in 3.5mnths and then had like a little break and then moved onto #2. Next week is my 1yr anniversary Well folks, I’m finished too. Last night I put the final wraps on “Canon in Dâ€. I still have a few small issues with my recording, but enough is enough, it’s time to move on. Undone
wOoT!! Congrats Undone, so we did end up moving over to #3 together.. Thanks JF, see you guys over there
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