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clavicembalo
post Feb 18 2010, 09:49 PM
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Its just two bars that I have trouble with, I don't really have a problem with the left hand (I assume your talking about the massive 2 octave leaps). Also I fall to pieces trying to play the trio without the music. As I've been playing it for so long I can actually play the first bit with my eyes closed, but I really struggle to play the last page without music.


Although, like you, I had mastered the outer movements first, it was the trio that dictated the overall tempo. I am of an age that saw the resurgence of Ragtime music in the 1970s, following the film The Sting where Marvin Hamlisch arranged Scott Joplin Rags as background music throughout the film. It was The Entertainer that everyone wanted to play, me included (or rather my dad wanted me to learn it). When I first tried it I couldn't manage the left hand leaps or thirds within octaves in the RH.

Essentially, I came back to it a couple of years later and practically sight-read the work. I then became a fan of ragtime and learnt most of the S-J rags, aided by recordings by Joshua Rofkin that accompanied the books published by Paxton in three volumes. I still enjoy them and, as I said on a thread some time ago, went on to try some stride piano. That still requires a good deal of practice!

Do persevere though!
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post Feb 18 2010, 11:18 PM
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QUOTE(kingsley13 @ Feb 18 2010, 09:05 PM) *

QUOTE(Sam-ChopinFan @ Feb 18 2010, 11:10 AM) *
Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag - A and B sections are fine, the TRIO and D Section need some SERIOUS work.


I've been learning this piece for 2 years now and I still can't play the trio! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Don't worry... at this rate it will be more than 2 years till I master the Trio (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
The RH is absoloutley fine... it's the large leaps between Ocatves and Chords. It's also trying to form the chord shapes with your hands quick enough.
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post Feb 20 2010, 03:17 PM
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I'm learning mozart sonata k. 283. 1st mvm. Its really unique, as it has energetic to lullaby bits, but it all goes so smoothly!
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post Feb 20 2010, 05:14 PM
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I'm currently learning Chopin's Grande valse brillante in E-flat major Op. 1. 3 pages out of 10 learnt. Love playing Chopin's waltzes... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piano.gif)
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post Feb 23 2010, 10:20 PM
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This week I've been looking at Painful Struggle which is the second piece in Bartok's Ten Easy Pieces (B&H)...the left hand seems to sound like painful struggle and the right hand comes in mavellously musically. Its a grade 1 stroke 2 if not a full 2 piece and though I hope I can get it its definitely a borderline at the moment...I didn't get Giles Swayne's Whistling last month. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Feb 24 2010, 02:43 PM
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Learning Mozart Fantasy in D minor. I've been practising for like a month and still simply cannot get it to sound "properly" like Mozart (in my teacher's view) even though I could sightread the piece 100% from day one. I'm tearing my hair out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) (Maybe this should have gone into the scream thread instead... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif))
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post Feb 24 2010, 02:46 PM
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Learning Mozart Fantasy in D minor. I've been practising for like a month and still simply cannot get it to sound "properly" like Mozart (in my teacher's view) even though I could sightread the piece 100% from day one. I'm tearing my hair out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) (Maybe this should have gone into the scream thread instead... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif))


I'm going back to learning this after a break (and also now that I have the nice Henle edition!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This seems to be one of those pieces that can be interpreted a million different ways so I wouldn't get too frustrated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Feb 24 2010, 02:54 PM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Feb 24 2010, 02:46 PM) *

QUOTE(Panthera @ Feb 24 2010, 02:43 PM) *

Learning Mozart Fantasy in D minor. I've been practising for like a month and still simply cannot get it to sound "properly" like Mozart (in my teacher's view) even though I could sightread the piece 100% from day one. I'm tearing my hair out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) (Maybe this should have gone into the scream thread instead... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif))


I'm going back to learning this after a break (and also now that I have the nice Henle edition!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This seems to be one of those pieces that can be interpreted a million different ways so I wouldn't get too frustrated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

No, interpretation is the least of the problem; my major issue is touch/tone/pedalling to get the "right" sound (e.g. last lesson I lifted my feet off the pedal about a tenth of a second too quick (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif))
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post Feb 24 2010, 02:58 PM
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No, interpretation is the least of the problem; my major issue is touch/tone/pedalling to get the "right" sound (e.g. last lesson I lifted my feet off the pedal about a tenth of a second too quick (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif))


Is your teacher siting there with a stopwatch or something? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Wish me luck getting those runs up to speed... ick!
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post Feb 25 2010, 10:52 AM
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I had a go of the first Bagatelle in Beethoven's Op.119 last night. Methinks I shall put the effort into learning that one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Feb 25 2010, 07:43 PM
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Some Faure, which for too long i've left unfinished, five of the 8 pieces breve, Nocturne No3, and Impromptu No2...I fear the impromtu will take an age, and the first two pages will have to be memorised...for me a very slow process. Just managed to memorise Griegs Hommage a Chopin, but i still find it difficult to play through... even without the repeat, and it's lethal on the forearms.
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post Feb 26 2010, 07:46 AM
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New piece! La sarabande from Grovlez' L'almanach aux images (from the G7 syllabus)
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post Mar 12 2010, 10:35 PM
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Just starting on Schumann's Arabesque opus 18. It's exquisite! (in my imagination only as yet...) With a following wind I might get it up to scratch in time for his birthday....
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post Mar 14 2010, 02:17 PM
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Just starting on Schumann's Arabesque opus 18. It's exquisite!

Ooh, I just started learning this too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) But then this morning I had a quick go at Des Abends from Fantasiestucke op.12 and loved it too, so now I'm torn!
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post Mar 15 2010, 11:44 AM
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I'm learning a reasonably simple piano duet version of "Sheep May Safely graze" this week. I am getting a little frustrated at turning up to my piano lesson and feeling incapable of playing anything so I thought that it would both 1, force me to keep going instead of stopping when it gets to the difficult bits and also 2, mean my teacher hasn't got his beady eyes on me so much as he'll be concentrating on his part (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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