PT recital, my latest recording
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Hi WTFers! The Piano Tell August Recital is live, and I submitted a piece, please give a listen if you have a minute!
https://forum.pianotell.com/d/2497-pianotell-recital-9-is-now-live
My entry: https://forum.pianotell.com/d/2497-pianotell-recital-9-is-now-live/8
Or the direct link to my submission: September Song by Alexis Ffrench
Link to video
(In other news, the Piano World ABF Aug Recital is plagued by technical difficulties and is delayed while they wait for the new site owners to respond...)
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So nice - and the piano is sounding great!
(A bit off topic, but how did your town weather the recent storms and flooding?)
thank you @rontuner !
(A bit off topic, but how did your town weather the recent storms and flooding?)
We got very lucky! We got some much needed rain (and we really needed it) but no flooding in town (as far as I know). But I saw some pretty bad photos of flooding in other places not so far away. And a few places had a lot of other kinds of storm damage as well.
This summer has been rough in a lot of places.
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Haha, I’m so confused! There’s a “September Song” that goes back at least to the 1930s, and this is not that. And then I thought of the song “Try to Remember” whose lyric mentions September in the second line, and it’s
not that either. I am behind the times -
thank you @mik
(I have to lean on expression because I will never be that technically adept)
@Mik I always find that it’s a trade of no what what I play or the level of difficulty it. Either I can focus on musicality and expression, and I end up with pretty sloppy playing, or I can focus on accuracy and I end up with much less musicality… ah well, it’s a process!
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Haha, I’m so confused! There’s a “September Song” that goes back at least to the 1930s, and this is not that. And then I thought of the song “Try to Remember” whose lyric mentions September in the second line, and it’s
not that either. I am behind the times@RealPlayer right, Ffrench’s “September Song” has nothing to do with the original tune of the same name. The hidden melody in Ffrench’s Sept Song is from Earth Wind and Fire’s Fantasy. Someone at Piano Tell also said they can hear Autumn Leaves in Ffrench’s Sept Song, but I don’t hear it.
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@Mik I always find that it’s a trade of no what what I play or the level of difficulty it. Either I can focus on musicality and expression, and I end up with pretty sloppy playing, or I can focus on accuracy and I end up with much less musicality… ah well, it’s a process!
@Mik I always find that it’s a trade of no what what I play or the level of difficulty it. Either I can focus on musicality and expression, and I end up with pretty sloppy playing, or I can focus on accuracy and I end up with much less musicality… ah well, it’s a process!
I noticed that with my long time teacher. She could sight read anything and play it technically correct but it always sounded soulless too me. My timekeeping is abysmal, but my expression is pretty good...not necessarily as written, but as I felt it. Since it's only for my own pleasure that works out fine.
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@Mik I always find that it’s a trade of no what what I play or the level of difficulty it. Either I can focus on musicality and expression, and I end up with pretty sloppy playing, or I can focus on accuracy and I end up with much less musicality… ah well, it’s a process!
I noticed that with my long time teacher. She could sight read anything and play it technically correct but it always sounded soulless too me. My timekeeping is abysmal, but my expression is pretty good...not necessarily as written, but as I felt it. Since it's only for my own pleasure that works out fine.
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@RealPlayer right, Ffrench’s “September Song” has nothing to do with the original tune of the same name. The hidden melody in Ffrench’s Sept Song is from Earth Wind and Fire’s Fantasy. Someone at Piano Tell also said they can hear Autumn Leaves in Ffrench’s Sept Song, but I don’t hear it.
@ShiroKuro Well played. Thank you for posting that. I enjoyed it. I also think there is an element of Autumn Leaves.
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Very lovely, SK. It does have EWF vibes. Is this something you worked on with your teacher, or is it something you did on your own?00
Is this something you worked on with your teacher, or is it something you did on your own?
I've worked on it before, so I did a fair amount on my own first, but then I worked on it a lot with my teacher over the summer. I don't think I could have gotten it to this point on my own. But now that I'm past the recording, I really like how I'm playing it.
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