And you should save your energy by stopping to write all that crap about how good you are, and how anyone else doesent have a clue what you are talking about. Instead, make a geniune recording of yourself playing a piece on the piano, this empty talk and threats you bring on sure dont scare anyone. And about this "Any speed-any key" crap, who cares? Surely you must have learned something else then backwards czerny etudes and chromatic scales?
I wasn't trying to impress anybody. This thread was about assisting fnork and Dan patschan. Nothing more. The trouble started when I posted ACOUSTIC PIANO sound files. Just the act my doing that simple thing, without commenting on whether their content was good or bad, was enough to start some off on a tangent about computers.
I'm typing this on a Gateway G6-450. A Pentium 2, 1997 computer with Windows 98. The only PC I own. My PC wouldn't support a piano program, writing program, or any type of program that can be used to generate music and alter it. I know this because several years ago I was in Sam Ash and saw a writing system that I believe was called "Sibelius". With this program, you could write music onscreen with the cursor, and print it out which would have been a great convenience to me for my students. The salesman asked me what I had (PC), and when I told him he said that I would have to upgrade the PC before Idecided to add ANY decent music programs. All I've posted thusfar are analog sounds, played on a Yamaha C3 acoustic grand, stereo miked to a recorder and then transferred for me to a wave file recorder to upload.
Let's try this. Since all of my piano playing is done on a "computer", this was something I did 20+ years ago that I had on cassette, ergo not the cleanest of sound. I just ran across an improvisation that I had done about 20 years ago. It's based on "Teen Town" by Weather Report. It combines a programmable rhythm unit playing while I'm switching between 3 different bass synth settings on a Yamaha synth keyboard all played in real time. At the time, I was emulating a Jaco Patorius / Jamaladeen Tacuma hybrid sound, sometimes at a rate of speed far in excess of what a bass player would be capable of, just for fun. The stretches here are all played right hand only, the left hand being used to switch between voices at the proper times for desired effects, and to use the modulation wheel to bend pitch and modulate vibrato in the style being emulated. In some of the phrases, the notes go by far more rapidly than that 8.5 second, 175 note chromatic run I posted (especially at 2:00 to 2:20 of the recording):
https://h1.ripway.com/virtuosic1/R1_0021.MP3Of course, Jake will say it's sped up, even though there was a rhythm unit playing a metronomic beat the whole time I was shredding. Like all my other recordings I've posted, he'll say "it's a fake", "too perfect", "no rubato", etc., etc., so this really is a moot point about my posting "something I'm really playing", isn't it? I have boxes full of casettes with my playing on them. The problem is that you can't plug a cassette player into the internet to upload files. A few recordings, like the one above, one of my students has converted to an MP3 file and uploaded it for me, like the other material I shared here that I recorded at his home for a specific purpose, that is, to demonstrate technique.
Personally, I'm well beyond caring about who thinks what. I have nothing to prove to anybody. I know what I can do, what I can play, and the level of my expertise. My students are aware of my abilities as well. That's more than good enough for me. Like I said, I came here to join a community, and share in one, not constantly fight with one. At this point, let the community be damned. There's no enjoyment here. Just combat, accusations, and slander. Enough already.