Elssa - this song fits your playing style perfect - a beautiful melody enhanced by your full, romantic arrangement.

Augustina - a touching and somber performance. I didn't notice any tempo issues. You play this very well.

Augustina - an interesting tune, nicely done.

Such wonderful submissions here this month!

Well, here's another movie theme.. Enjoy

CABARET



Here's the movie theme song..

Um, is this a good place to post videos for newcomers? I've been on the piano for the last 3 months, and I just did a recording of Innocent by Joe Hisaishi a couple of days back to show to my friends on facebook. I started off with a keyboard, then moved onto a DP after much deliberation (my interpretion was played literally 5 days after the DP was delivered and roughly 14 hours of practice on the "new" DP...with occasional breaks like sleep, food, work and such ) Hopefully, with the guidance of everyone here in this forum I can improve my piano skills, though to be honest I pretty much feel that I've lots to learn and I suck at this point

My interpretion


Original recording - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPjPxqtI8w

Very good.
One thing must improve: The recording technique. There seems too much bass.

Lots of great activity this month.

Elssa~ A fine rendition of Stella by Starlight - love the whole note device you used! You gave Cabaret a very nice bounce

ppp~ loved those dense voicings - they really thicken the dark melody line of that little beauty. Well done!

Augustina~ I remember when I first heard that pretty theme from Schindler's List. You play it very caringly and sensitively

Saucermancer~ Welcome to the February Piano Bar! With 14 hours of practice, you played your first piece very well. As you play it more and more, the piece will be well under your fingers and you will be able to keep a steady tempo. Good job!

As the leap month comes to an end, here's a short study nearly in tempo called,
Out of Gas
http://www.box.com/shared/u92l0bdvnt

Plus a bizarre tune called Estranged3z, randomly mixing primarily 4/4 and 3/4 - it sounds a bit wrong.



Glen

Actually, I was doing tempo rubato for the piece...and it wasn't my first piece either (well, it is the first for my current piano, though ). Will have to get better recording equipment so that it sounds better; I tried recording it on my netbook out of pure laziness, but the audio and video quality's pretty bad, compared to recording with my digital camera.

Thanks, Glen Not sure what you meant by "whole note device", but I did use a whole tone scale/run in "Stella".. I like to play that sometimes in dreamy-type tunes.

Out of Gas had a nice cool, jazzy sound. What types of jazz chords/scales were you using with that one?

Enjoyed your Estranged, too - really like that funky DP setting there.

Hi Elssa~
Thanks so much! The first one, Out of Gas, a blues oriented improv, I used inverted augmented ninth chords, minor chords with major sevenths, minor sixths, augmented fifths, half diminished chords and dominant sevenths. Some of the scales correspond to the chords and some don't very much.

Oh,,,
The term, 'device', refers to a crafty scheme or special purpose.

Glen