VIDEO: Copland Cat & Mouse

[arielpiano]

I will be playing this piece at the end of the month in a concert:
www.arielpiano.com/Music/copland.wmv
Can you tell who won at the end? The cat or the mouse?

[instromp]

The mouse one the mouse one!!!!! lol.

U are great !!!!

Keep posting more of your great vids!!

[nanabush]

Holy crap how old are you?

[piano121]

That´s fantastic. 8 years old. simply astonishing. You are a very talented kid. Let´me ask you a few questions... It seems to be preety easy to you doesn´t it? how manny hours do you study every day and How did you interest in music first apear? do you have parent´s that are musicians? Did you came to the instrument by yourself, or did your parents walk you in to it, you now what I mean?

Great playing! keep it up! and feed us more!

[lagin]

I think one, that was amazing!  God's given you an incredible talent!  And two, the cat won.  Can't you just hear/see him with his fat, full, belly, smuggly walking off. 

[pianistimo]

i think you're the next koji!  except that you're you and will not have to live up to any name, i guess, but your own. 

i think the cat won.  the bell tolled (and i even thought the mouse was in mouse heaven when you did the crossed hands part) at the end and any swirms or wiggles after that was when the mouse was already swallowed (part or in whole).  our cat leaves the heads and tails at the doorstep.  morbid, i know.

[arielpiano]

how manny hours do you study every day and How did you interest in music first apear? do you have parent´s that are musicians? Did you came to the instrument by yourself, or did your parents walk you in to it, you now what I mean?

Big thanks. I am glad you like my playing.
My interest in music started by listening and playing the piano from a young age. My parents are not musicians. I came to the piano by myself. A lot of my practice is just improvising. I also compose both jazz and classical pieces. I play a lot of jazz every day and I improvise a lot. Would you like to hear some of my jazz?

[piano121]

sure! bring it on!

[lagin]

That's the 2nd time you've been asked how long you practice each day, and the second time you've avoided answering!  You don't have to answer if you don't want, too.  But is there a reason?

[lagin]

By the way, I just visited your webpage.  You are a man of many talents aren't you!  When you're done school, what do you plan to do?  Are you going to pursue a career in performing or perhaps composing?  I love that jazz piece called Lizarb!  What does Lizarb mean?  I still want to know how much you practice!  You have a very large repertoire in many instruments, and I just don't see how you manage with school and everything else!

[arielpiano]

When you're done school, what do you plan to do?  Are you going to pursue a career in performing or perhaps composing?  I love that jazz piece called Lizarb!  What does Lizarb mean?  I still want to know how much you practice!  You have a very large repertoire in many instruments, and I just don't see how you manage with school and everything else!

Dear lagin,
A lot of people are asking me how long I practice, and on the Bartok topic franz_ asked me if I have a Russian teahcer. My teacher went to Mannes and is very heavily into theory. She was learning with Edward Aldwell. She does a lot of analysis and she does not care what is in my fingers but she cares about what is in my head, and this is right. My teacher is against the Russian school that make poor children practice hours upon hours upon hours. I practice on the average an hour, an hour and a half a day. I don't play scales and Czerny etudes. I spend a lot of time improvising jazz. And my teacher approves it.  I manage school fine (I don't watch tv). I hope to be a professional musician. Lizarb means Brazil backwards. And I am glad you liked my site.

[piano121]

I don't watch tv

Thats the best thing you can do

I hope to be a professional musician. Lizarb means Brazil backwards.

You already are. Cheers to Brazil!

Good luck in your carrer, shure I will follow it!

[tompilk]

Dear lagin,
A lot of people are asking me how long I practice, and on the Bartok topic franz_ asked me if I have a Russian teahcer. My teacher went to Mannes and is very heavily into theory. She was learning with Edward Aldwell. She does a lot of analysis and she does not care what is in my fingers but she cares about what is in my head, and this is right. My teacher is against the Russian school that make poor children practice hours upon hours upon hours. I practice on the average an hour, an hour and a half a day. I don't play scales and Czerny etudes. I spend a lot of time improvising jazz. And my teacher approves it.  I manage school fine (I don't watch tv). I hope to be a professional musician. Lizarb means Brazil backwards. And I am glad you liked my site.

wow... your playing is amazing for an 8 year old! and you type better sentences than some of my friends!
Tom

[quantum]

That was cool!   

Thanks I enjoyed that.  Please post more of your stuff.

[nicco]

How strange...so young and..you seem to sort of have the music in you 

well done young padawan 

[arielpiano]

Thanks, but what is a padawan?

[nicco]

Oh right you dont watch TV 

Its someone who is learning, being teached by a master 

May the force be with you.

[letters]

amazing! you play with lots of character. whatever you do, keep at the piano!!!

[sinspawnammes]

You have exceptional spelling for an 8 year old.