Okay, slightly different from the last two, which music (specific or general) for piano, do you think is the most fun to play (not necessarily the most favourite to listen to). I quite like playing Ragtime pieces, for example Magnetic Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, Gladiolus Rag and A Breeze From Alabama (I like The Entertainer, but my hands can't quite stretch that far very easily), Tangos are quite fun too - mainly most of the dances with really strange timing. I also quite like Fantasie Impromptu and Valse Opus 64 no 2 (Chopin) because they are quite fun to play and I like to play some of Bach's music (generally the minor ones to the major ones, but I like some like the Gavotte) and Handel's. Anyway, enough of what I think, what do you think is the most fun piano music to play?

QUOTE (Wobby @ Jan 16 2005, 10:59 PM)

Okay, slightly different from the last two, which music (specific or general) for piano, do you think is the most fun to play (not necessarily the most favourite to listen to). I quite like playing Ragtime pieces, for example Magnetic Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, Gladiolus Rag and A Breeze From Alabama (I like The Entertainer, but my hands can't quite stretch that far very easily), Tangos are quite fun too - mainly most of the dances with really strange timing. I also quite like Fantasie Impromptu and Valse Opus 64 no 2 (Chopin) because they are quite funny to play and I like to play some of Bach's music (generally the minor ones to the major ones, but I like some like the Gavotte) and Handel's. Anyway, enough of what I think, what do you think is the most fun piano music to play?

I don't understand you said those pieces were "funny", but I realize that most Baroque pieces, the counterpoint is always fun.

I think Eric Satie is fun to play - if you don't take his notes to heart !! However, I understand that some of it's really not funny !!

I find ragtime great fun to play too.

Also for some reason I think Schubert's Wanderer Fantasia is enormous fun to play (even though there are some bits of it I can't play well).

Quite a lot of Bach too, he is so full of life. For example the Gigue from French Suite no 5 in G

Maggie

i think that flight of the bumblee is so fast (for me) that it is bordering on the impossible and the silly. Thats why i sit there and laugh and say to myself how can anyone play that.
I also like lisening to
moonlight sonata 3rd movement,
maple leaf rag,
Pictures at an Exhibition: O 10 The Hut all for their rythm, (they even make me jig along to them a bit, lol, keep that a secret!)

anything by Einaudi!!!

I like playing contrapuntal stuff, it sounds much harder than it is most of the time!

QUOTE (DGA @ Jan 17 2005, 06:42 AM)

I don't understand you said those pieces were "funny", but I realize that most Baroque pieces, the counterpoint is always fun.

Oh, by funny, I don't literally mean laughable, I just mean fun. But added the 'ny' to makes 'ish' if that makes any sense. Nevermind, I'll change the post.

Hello
wish I could play all that stuff above....I would have most fun playing boogie woogie....I can do a couple of the left had bits in this....
Studying the grades so don't have time for fun....
BYE Mike

QUOTE (Wobby @ Jan 16 2005, 10:59 PM)

Okay, slightly different from the last two, which music (specific or general) for piano, do you think is the most fun to play (not necessarily the most favourite to listen to).

The two most fun pieces I know are "Les noces d'argent" by Chaminade, which is for eight hands at one piano, and one for six hands, one piano, by J S Bach's last descendant, W F E Bach. The middle player plays the ends of the piano, and the work is clearly meant for one man and two ladies.

The most fun music to play must be jazz.
I have to disagree with the person who said contrapuntal music was fun - it is just so hard to play!
How is it that some styles just come so naturally and others make you feel like a beginner.

QUOTE (trio @ Jan 25 2005, 09:28 AM)

The most fun music to play must be jazz. I have to disagree with the person who said contrapuntal music was fun - it is just so hard to play! How is it that some styles just come so naturally and others make you feel like a beginner.

Well, everybody has different opinions. Counterpoint can be fun sometimes, but sometimes not. The element that makes it hard is yes, it's hard to learn. Personally, I think that any kind of piano music is fun once you've mastered it!

i quite like jazz and ragtime - using chords and improvising is fun and sometimes quite challenging
ive also come up with a "12th street rag" arrangement for piano - it doesn't follow the peice exactly- i only eva heard the brass band arrange ment- but it is really fun and quite cheesy!

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Jan 24 2005, 08:22 PM)

Studying the grades so don't have time for fun....

Combine fun and grades - it's the best way to learn!

I personally really like Spanish-y pieces, like Turina's Sacro-Monte
It sounds really amazing!

I think ragtime music is the most fun to play It always cheers me up when i play it, and its sooo quirkey and funky, just makes me wanna get up and dance, lol!!!

QUOTE (Wobby @ Jan 16 2005, 10:59 PM)

Okay, slightly different from the last two, which music (specific or general) for piano, do you think is the most fun to play (not necessarily the most favourite to listen to). I quite like playing Ragtime pieces, for example Magnetic Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, Gladiolus Rag and A Breeze From Alabama (I like The Entertainer, but my hands can't quite stretch that far very easily), Tangos are quite fun too - mainly most of the dances with really strange timing. I also quite like Fantasie Impromptu and Valse Opus 64 no 2 (Chopin) because they are quite fun to play and I like to play some of Bach's music (generally the minor ones to the major ones, but I like some like the Gavotte) and Handel's. Anyway, enough of what I think, what do you think is the most fun piano music to play?

well, i would say einaudi's music is fun to play, because his pieces are all, erm... i cant explain it lol, they just all have a different erm, feeling?? erm, for gods sake i cant think of the word!!!!!!

ill probably remember it later, lol