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PIANO!... Why it is AWESOME! RIGHT HERE!
FruitKat:
--- Quote from: StrikeThePostman ---I'm joining all the Chopin lovers here... My personal favourite to play is Etude in C Minor, Opus 10, No. 12, because it's a good outlet for anger and all that good stuff. The Prelude StarlightRecyler mentioned is really nice too. Just now I'm learning the Fantasie Impromptu, which is a great piece but unfortunately a bitch to play.
Another favourite is Debussy. A few years ago I detested his music because I couldn't play Clair de Lune correctly, but hey, opinions change. I wouldn't have listened to Ben Folds a few years ago either.
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Yay! I'm all for Debussy too... A couple of years back I played "le petit negre" for an exam, and loved it... Especially the part where your left hand plays octaves over your right hand...(once again hard to describe)... but yeah LOTS OF FUN!
Bah, and I'm listening to Fantasie Impromptu now and it sounds SUPER hard, so go you for being really good ... hehe.
And if you don't like Scott Joplin, theres obviously something wrong with you!...
How long have you guys been playing for?
ForteBass:
--- Quote from: StrikeThePostman ---Oh, and Liszt's Transcendental Etudes are amazing. For listening. I'm not playing those quite yet.
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Not many people can. Liszt had a penchant for writing his etudes in a virtuistic style. IE Basically only piano virtuosos can play them.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: StarlightRecycler ---How long have you guys been playing for?
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I've been playing since I was about 8 or 9, I guess - I'm 25 now, so more than 15 years (holy crap!). However for the majority of that I didn't practice nearly as much as I should have - the real love for the piano didn't hit me until about 6 or 7 years ago.
EDIT: and on the subject of Liszt - there are a lot of misconceptions about his work. Certainly, his longer pieces are absolute fiends, but a lot of his short pieces are absolutely beautiful, and much less demanding on the player's technique. Apart from the Consolations (1 and 4 in particular are stunning) he wrote a lot of arrangements and transcriptions of chorales, folk songs, etc. And there's a lot more depth of emotion in his work than he's often given credit for: most people these days, including concert pianists, seem to think that playing Liszt needs to be something spectacular and fff - not so. When you look at his pieces on the page, the dynamics are often very carefully thought out to provide contrast - for instance, his arrangement of Von Arcadelt's "Ave Maria" has some brilliant contrast between forte and piano passages of otherwise identical phrases which really bring out full range of each note. His work is also littered with moments of reflective silence - which even in professional performances are often left out altogether in favour of sustained notes. And in terms of sheer emotional impact, his "Abscheid" (or "Farewell" - I think it's an arrangement of a Russian folk song) is second to none.
yipjumpmusic:
As for me, I've "played" off and on, (sometimes weeks apart when I am really really busy)for...hmm 4 years or so? Not sure.
Johnny C:
1) Bela Bartok
2) Ben Folds
3) John Lennon
4) J.S. Bach
5) Beethoven
I'm in grade 7 Royal Conservatory, so I've tackled 4 out of those 5 but I still suck at jazz.
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