The other day, I got together with another teacher, a violinist and we set about doing some live playing and recording at his home studio. We had no plans and just waited to see how things went. We started at 2 pm and didn't stop playing until 10:30pm. We were both pretty zonked out as you can imagine but we ended up (after a couple of days editing and mixing down) with a 76 minute home made CD. As we were sight reading all the pieces, there are a few mistakes here and there and some of the faster pieces were only played at about 90% tempo. Overall though, I was pretty pleased with the final results as I discovered several new beautiful pieces of music that I didn't know before. That was the idea of doing the recording in the first place. Hopefully, we will get together again at a later date and give the pieces the proper performances that they deserve.

We took our pieces from the following books:-

Grade 1 Violin Pieces (Trinity) 1998
The Violinist's Collection Book One
Tunes you've always wanted to play
The Eta Cohen Violin Method Book 4

Some of the standout pieces were (sorry I cant remember all the composers)

Plaisir D'Amour (Martini)
Chanson de Matin(Elgar)
Solveig's Song(Grieg)
Cavatina
Chanson Polonaide (Henri Wienioswski)
Delibe's Waltz from Coppelia
Request
Dreaming (Charles Dancla)
Children's Song
Carefree (Carl Reinecke)
Waltz (Charles Dancla)
Traumerei (Schumann)
Berceuse (Cesar Kui)
Minuet (Arthur Somervell)
What is Life? (Orfeo)(Gluck)
Gavotte (Francois Joseph Gossec)
Romanze (Louis Spohr)
Allegro from Sonata in E Minor (Jacobus Nozeman)
Moto Perpetuo (Frank Bridge)

Has anyone played any of the above pieces or know other pieces by the same composers? This is the first time I have heard music by the likes of Dancla, Reinecke and Spohr. They are all beautiful pieces in their own unique way.

Gae

Well done! It's such a nice feeling to record your own CD! I've done a couple now at home and yesterday recorded a clarinet and piano one, using pieces very similar to those you listed. You'll find you get quicker and more efficient at recording e.g. yesterday took me an hour to record 30 minutes worth of music for a CD.

Have fun with your playing and recording - I think the editing bit is the best! I sometimes wish that with all the talent on the forums, that we could all get together and record one great CD!

QUOTE (Gae @ Jan 4 2005, 01:01 AM)

Chanson de Matin(Elgar)

Oooh I love that piece!!! I played it at school as part of the 6th form ensemble when I was in year 11 (as an honoury 6th former because they only had one flute other than me).
Now I'm doing it as a duet with my piano teacher.

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Chanson de Matin(Elgar)

Yes this is very nice and pretty *hums to herself*

I would love to beable to record a CD, just for personal purposes, but do you need a recording studio to do one?? It would just be nice to have a collection of songs on a CD that I have done

Well, you've got a microphone on your computer haven't you? You must have bcause you started that audio thing with me? *is very confused*
Anyway, record yourself and just save it onto a CD

Yes, but my microphone is rubbish, and I have to be a long distance away from my microphone to avoid the squeaky beepy noises!

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 4 2005, 10:46 AM)

Yes, but my microphone is rubbish, and I have to be a long distance away from my microphone to avoid the squeaky beepy noises!

Hmm well then stand a few feet away from your computer then!

Or adjust your microphone...!!

......or get a very long Microphone lead and record yourself in another room. The teacher I did the recordings with does this. He has the microphone set up on a boom in another room to his computers and recording equipment. That way he doesn't pick up the external noise. All he needs now is a window between the two rooms. Now that would make it almost like a real recording studio!

Gae

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......or get a very long Microphone lead and record yourself in another room. The teacher I did the recordings with does this. He has the microphone set up on a boom in another room to his computers and recording equipment. That way he doesn't pick up the external noise. All he needs now is a window between the two rooms. Now that would make it almost like a real recording studio!

Well I would probably record if I ever did in my bedroom which has a room next to which was going to be a shower room but no is an office so they are not very far apart. I jsut don't have any other recording equipment though and my microphone is only a cheap one.

Nicki, If you have a look around there are plenty of freeware audio recording programs on the net for download I'm sure. You would need to amp up the Microphone first though as the levels would be too low to record directly into the computer. If you have Windows XP you can record audio through Movie Maker or even the Windows Sound Recorder. If you are really interested in doing it, there is always a way.
Bye
Gae

QUOTE (Gae @ Jan 4 2005, 04:41 PM)

......or get a very long Microphone lead and record yourself in another room. The teacher I did the recordings with does this. He has the microphone set up on a boom in another room to his computers and recording equipment. That way he doesn't pick up the external noise. All he needs now is a window between the two rooms. Now that would make it almost like a real recording studio! Gae

Or do what a friend of mine does - run a two-way speaker set up, so that however far the rooms are away from each other (in his case, two floors in a very large house) you can still speak to each other.