My "final exam" for piano class this semester
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Congrats on taking lessons! It's great that you've found a teacher that you like, so important.
What an interesting piece you played. Who is the composer? I think you did a great job!
My piano is being tuned Tuesday and I'm thinking of recording the piece I worked on this semester as well.
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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Congrats on taking lessons! It's great that you've found a teacher that you like, so important.
What an interesting piece you played. Who is the composer? I think you did a great job!
My piano is being tuned Tuesday and I'm thinking of recording the piece I worked on this semester as well.
@Bernard said in My "final exam" for piano class this semester:
Congrats on taking lessons! It's great that you've found a teacher that you like, so important.
She’s a PhD candidate in the piano performance program here. And she’s easily one of the best teachers I’ve ever worked with, which is. Saying a lot since I’ve had a lot of teachers over the years!
What an interesting piece you played. Who is the composer? I think you did a great job!
Thank you!! There are two places I really flubbed in this recording, and if I worked on it for another two weeks (both in terms of practicing and in terms of jus taking more recordings over several days) I think I could do much better, but there is a deadline and also I am ready to move onto other things!
The composer is Tonic Huljic, who I know exactly nothing about! The piece was made popular in/around 2003 by the pianist Maksim, who is a kind of cheesy “pop classical” pianist who got a lot of attention in Japan but I don’t think attracted much attention in the U.S.
My piano is being tuned Tuesday and I'm thinking of recording the piece I worked on this semester as well.
I would love to hear it if you do! Am I remembering correctly that you’re working on something Chopin?
I want to get my piano tuned as well, it also has a bit of work to be done. There’s a clicking noise in one spot in the action when I pedal, my tuner told me that the keyboard and the action behind it (if I’m remembering that right) both have to come out to fix it. He said it’s a half day job. It’s more noticeable when it’s drier, so he recommended waiting until mid-winter when the internal humidity has been consistent for several weeks. He’ll do that work and then tune it…
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Glad you're continuing to play!
You know, I remember a very long thread on PW about that Croatian Rhapsody and all of its variants many moons ago!
@Piano-Dad said in My "final exam" for piano class this semester:
Glad you're continuing to play!
Yep! Sometimes I can barely get 15 minutes to practice, but those 15 minutes make it possible to continue, and then when I have, I can actually make meaningful progress.
You know, I remember a very long thread on PW about that Croatian Rhapsody and all of its variants many moons ago!
You have an excellent memory! I’m pretty sure I started that, and it was probably 20 years ago now! I think I sent some people physical copies of the piece in the mail even?? But I never got the piece playable, so even thought there are still some rough patches, it’s nice to be able to play it now.
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@wtg said in My "final exam" for piano class this semester:
I love that piece! And very nicely played.
Thank you!! It's super fun to play!
Blasts from the past
Oh yeah!!! Too bad the links are broken.
Well at least you can't listen to the Kanemasu version and hear how much slower I'm playing it!Ok, so that was 2006, and I never did get it playable back then. So, only 19 years later!
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@shirokuro - I can see those threads, no problem...what do you mean that the links are broken?
edit: oh wait, you must mean links embedded in the posts in the thread...
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@shirokuro - I can see those threads, no problem...what do you mean that the links are broken?
edit: oh wait, you must mean links embedded in the posts in the thread...
@wtg said in My "final exam" for piano class this semester:
oh wait, you must mean links embedded in the posts in the thread...
Yep! I was curious about the other arrangement I had linked, I might have it somewhere but I don't recall. But I'm pretty sure the Kaneyasu one I mentioned is (was) a piano recording of the exact arrangement that I have (and play in the video at the top of this thread). I got it from a Japanese music magazine and they had links to performances of the scores. But that link appears to be broken as well.
