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Offline soderlund

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Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
on: August 26, 2006, 05:47:49 PM
This video is me playing at my graduation this spring. This was my first and only public performance so I was really, really nervous, and I made some obvious mistakes. Unfortunately, my friend didn't start recording when I started playing, so the first fourth of the piece is gone, and the end is also missing somehow. But the middlesection is there and I would very much like to hear some opinions from other pianists anyway. Perhaps I should mention that I had only been playing the piano for about 8 months at this recording, so if you think it stinks please have this in mind :)

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Offline lau

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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #1 on: August 26, 2006, 06:36:34 PM
well, the video is like the worst I have ever seen, but I thought the peice was great! I have been playing for 7 years, and I have trouble playing it...   :-\
i'm not asian

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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #2 on: August 26, 2006, 07:06:32 PM
Thank you very much!

Yes I know the video is not very good hehe... My friend used her cell phone I think to film this. And I didn't know she had until afterwards, so we hadn't decided to film it, so perhaps that's why she missed the beginning...

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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #3 on: August 30, 2006, 10:27:21 AM
You've only played for 8 months?!!!  Wow... I would have thought you'd been through 2 or 3 years of it.
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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #4 on: September 03, 2006, 10:12:01 PM
how muc of the 8 months did you spend on this piece?

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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #5 on: September 04, 2006, 02:24:13 AM
Dis video sounds likes its been snatchn drough de swamp and den ya' let yo' dog munch on it

Offline soderlund

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Re: Video Rimsky-Korsakov's flight of the bumblebee
Reply #6 on: September 09, 2006, 02:09:37 PM
Well, actually it was almost nine months I had played.

The thing is, I took my very first piano lesson this monday, soon one week ago. But I sat down at a piano for the very first time spring 2005, because I had to in school. This video is taken 14th of June 2006.

I started playing a little bit then in 2005, but I didn't even have an electric piano. I bought a synthesizer that summer 2005, but it was very bad and I didn't develop my playing very much. But then, on my birthday the 18th september, 2005, I got an electric Casio piano, and it was then I really started playing and learning. So almost nine months after that I mad that video. But when someone asks how long I've been playing I count from my 15th birtday and not spring 2005 when I first sat down at a piano.

Anyway, I have started taking lessons now, and I'm developing much faster already. And the fact is, I'm going to go take a look at a REAL piano tomorrow, not an electric.

how muc of the 8 months did you spend on this piece?

I don't actually remember, it started out with me printing the notes and playing it for fun, because I knew it was way too hard for me. But then it turned out pretty well. I would imagine I started with the piece about a month before I played it on the graduation.
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