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What are you playing now?

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #89

    Back in the 2017-2020 period, Klaus and I would work on the same pieces together as motivation, like going to the gym with a friend. We’d exchange recordings, share progress, give advice, etc.

    Well we decided to do it again.

    We just started working on the Chopin B minor Scherzo and Debussy’s La Plus Que Lent.

    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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    • MikM Offline
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      #90

      Nice.

      "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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        Well, the main purpose for me is to have a cautionary tale about how not to practice or play.

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          Yes I imagine when my recordings arrive you realize just how shit your banging at the piece has been.

          If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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            I am working on Chopin nocturne 48.1. I doubt I will ever play it well, but I am not too concerned with that. I’ll wrestle some music out of it here and there, and it will be rewarding.

            Education is extremely important.

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              #94

              I am currently working on the piano part at the end of Layla…

              The Brad

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              • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                I am currently working on the piano part at the end of Layla…

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                @LuFins-Dad said in What are you playing now?:

                I am currently working on the piano part at the end of Layla…

                I don't think I've ever made it to the end of that song. It starts well, but it just goes on and on for so long I end up hitting 'Next track'.

                I was only joking

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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                  Back in the 2017-2020 period, Klaus and I would work on the same pieces together as motivation, like going to the gym with a friend. We’d exchange recordings, share progress, give advice, etc.

                  Well we decided to do it again.

                  We just started working on the Chopin B minor Scherzo and Debussy’s La Plus Que Lent.

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                  @jon-nyc said in What are you playing now?:

                  Back in the 2017-2020 period, Klaus and I would work on the same pieces together as motivation, like going to the gym with a friend.

                  Pieces that I can remember we did together:

                  Brahms 117/2
                  Scriabin 8/12
                  Chopin G minor Ballade
                  Rachmaninoff G# minor prelude (32/12)
                  Rachmaninoff A minor Etude Tableaux
                  Bach/Brahms Chaconne for the left hand
                  Debussy Arabesque
                  Ravel Sonatine

                  There were probably more.

                  If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                  • markM Offline
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                    I started the Gluk piece. I have the first four measures coming along nicely.

                    I had my piano tuned yesterday and my tech has put me in touch with a new teacher who lives about 1 mile from me. I want to start taking lessons again.

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                      Since nobody else here posts recordings I guess I will stop doing so as well. Especially if they are opportunities for inanities about all classical performances being essentially the same, (except Jon’s, which are inferior), or how hand and arm movements are affectations.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • HoraceH Horace

                        Since nobody else here posts recordings I guess I will stop doing so as well. Especially if they are opportunities for inanities about all classical performances being essentially the same, (except Jon’s, which are inferior), or how hand and arm movements are affectations.

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                        @Horace said in What are you playing now?:

                        Since nobody else here posts recordings I guess I will stop doing so as well. Especially if they are opportunities for inanities about all classical performances being essentially the same, (except Jon’s, which are inferior), or how hand and arm movements are affectations.

                        I was going to post a video of my Yuja Wang, but I didn't want people to get it confused with Jon's thread about unfortunate names.

                        I was only joking

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                        • markM mark

                          I started the Gluk piece. I have the first four measures coming along nicely.

                          I had my piano tuned yesterday and my tech has put me in touch with a new teacher who lives about 1 mile from me. I want to start taking lessons again.

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                          #100

                          @mark said in What are you playing now?:

                          I started the Gluk piece.

                          For the unfortunate among you that weren’t at the party on the 27th, he means the Melody from Gluck’s Orfeo, transcribed for piano by Sgambati. It’s one of the pieces I played.

                          Mark is playing off a copy of my Dad’s old score, complete with his hand-written ornamentations that he notated from Rachmaninoff’s recording:

                          Link to video

                          If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                            The b minor Scherzo is fun - some repetition shortens it a bit. While I have the notes in my hands and much of it memorized, getting it secure at tempo may take a while.

                            I've been working on the Rachmaninof/Kreisler Leibesleid forever - and it's fully memorized - but I've never been pleased with my playing of it. I'm currently working on the Liszt/Schubert Ständchen. It sounds better on the digital than on the real piano - so I need to work on that a bit.

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                              jon-nyc
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                              Sorry I meant the Bb minor. The most popular of the set. It seems appropriate for two guys that learned the Gm Ballade together.

                              If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                I’ve heard you play the leibesleid. You did it pretty respectably back in 2018 at your house.

                                If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                  #104

                                  Shifting gears back to a Chopin waltz. I met with the new teacher and he suggested i do the Op64. No 2 or the Op69. No. 2.

                                  Both are wonderful pieces. Not sure which one I will be choosing. I will be going through both of them over the next few days to figure out which one to learn first.

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                                    Neil Young's "Philadelphia."

                                    Link to video

                                    Flushing the toilet is like practicing the piano; you just cannot go too long without doing it.--Axtremus

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                                      Neil Young's "Philadelphia."

                                      Link to video

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