Piano Adventures

[Ex-User (9086)]

As I am continuing my musical education and piano practise I chose to create this thread as a form of progress tracker, where I will post some pieces that I have been excercising, or exploring. I expect to gradually increase my abilities and become more confident as well as have the proficiency which is the most important of all.

I am 6 months into the regular 1.5-2 hours/day schedule.

If there are any suggestion, as to what I should play, any feedback on what I share, thoughts, experiences and observations, I will gladly accept them as a part of the growth and moving in the right direction.

The first piece was recorded with my gaming headset and I will upload only first and second attempts, so there are some errors, that are also a part of the growth as the errors will be different each time and likely less.

The main problem is the overall sharpness of my recording, which I tried to soften by applying a slight reverb and echo. I will take any advice regarding the methods to intentionally soften the sound on the piano. It was a lot softer when I played it than it came out in the recording. I liked the most that my bass notes were more exposed which was intentional as they are more complicated in this piece.

The quality of the recording is passable, by my standards, however there was no noise dampening used and please bear in mind that it is a Senheiser PC 163D headset with a pre World War I piano from germany that was renovated 4 years ago. (German headset, what a coincidence)

The Piece:

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Time Signature: 3/4
Playing speed +/- 1/4=120
Sheets can be found in the original arrangement
My performance:

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http://www.mediafire.com/view/xguioqd75jugr9m/Lullaby of deserted hell.wav

Original:

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Name:廃獄ララバイ-(Lullaby of a Deserted Hell)
Artist:作曲(Zun), 上海アリス幻樂団
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJzwEN6yH9k

Original Arrangement:

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by:akikki
東方 [Piano] Lullaby of Deserted Hell 『3』

 

[Cherry Cola]

Nice, I admire your dedication. Me I play the piano maybe 10 minutes a week, I am slowly improving but very slowly.

Good song in itself too :O

 

[Architect]

Very good, technically very well done. You should work on interpretation, mainly expanding your dynamic range, along several dimensions

• Dynamically, it's all mono-volume. Unfortuantely with that piano it's probably impossible (sounds like an upright spinet) but perhaps you can use the soft pedal to impersonnate piano.
• You have the staccato down quite well but perhaps you can work on your legato more.
• Definitely do more with your tempo, work on your rubato - lean forward and sit back on the tempo.

Start with that, some work there will bring your performance to the next level.