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Piano Board => Performance => Topic started by: kaiwin on March 31, 2006, 02:50:51 AM

Title: Recording HELP!
Post by: kaiwin on March 31, 2006, 02:50:51 AM

Ok.. Right now I'm mentally stressed because I have to do a piano recording for an audition for IU Piano Academy and then a receipt audition for my orchestra both due on the same day.

I am playing a Bach English Suite I think on A minor Prelude and the trouble is well... articulation and making it perfect... basically keeping up with tempo and the trouble parts.
What should I do with teh trouble parts, sometimes hands aren't together especially the parts where both hands are playing simultaneously together (you know what I mean :P).

I'm really stressed out and todays lesson was especially stressful because I focused on my piano concertoand the violin concerto for the orchestra tape.. etc.

I REALLY NEED HELP!

Thanks,
Kaiwin

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: franzliszt2 on March 31, 2006, 10:51:49 AM

Dotted rhythms really gets hand together and eveness. Practice very slow!!! it will help big style, spend a whole day playing it slow, and do not be tempted to even try playing fast, even if u#you think, I wonder if this is working, I'll play fast to find out, just be patient, and relaz#x when playing, warn up thouraghly with hannon, and similar hands togerther warm ups where hands need to be together. As you reach a part of difficulty most people tense up, and try to speed up, take it steady, slowing slighty is better than a massivbe flurry of wrong notes

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: letters on March 31, 2006, 05:26:07 PM

im playing this too, i find it good to play hands separately slowly all the way through, or small sections, until they are perfect. then with small sections, still slowly play hands together. try and make your fingers as even as they can be. then with a metronome keep putting it up a notch until you have that section all together. for example if you took the first page or so youve got the recapitulation sorted as well! just divide it up into logical sections and take it slow. then move up the metronome
hope i help! :)

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: kaiwin on March 31, 2006, 07:35:06 PM

Thanks...

Should help cuz I'm recording tom. the day after.
ARrgghhh

Oh by the way Seattle Young Artists rocks.
I'll try it out tonight
Thanks!

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: xhunterjx on April 01, 2006, 01:00:33 AM

Hey, i was thinking about mebbe trying for the IU Summer Academy as well.

Do you live in Indiana?

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: kaiwin on April 05, 2006, 04:07:35 AM

Nope, I don't live in Indiana. I was born there  though ;D

Success! the Bach sounds pretty good  ;D
Too bad i had to use a tape recorder and a stand up piano. Maybe later I will go to my teachers house and record it on the grand. Thanks.

What helps is...

Your first 3 times playing it in the day is your best times to record.

Hope this helps!

IU!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Recording HELP!
Post by: kreso on April 05, 2006, 07:48:35 AM

If this can help you, here is recording of Prelude from a minor Suite, played by Ivo Pogorelich: https://www.megaupload.com/?d=U38SITH9

Enjoy!