TUNE THE PIANO!!!! The slower parts are very expressive and musical, if rather overpedaled and unfocused, not to mention all the wrong notes. The technical passages are a disaster, but the "B" sections octaves show that you can do it .You have an excellent touch and tone production and the right instincts for what to do, particularly with melodic phrasing. Now, you have to get some discipline and hit the right notes and get your foot off the pedal. Make your fingers work. Your only bad habit seems to be willful dilletantism. You could be really good, or you can keep slopping around like this. The choice is yours.Suggested repertoire (this piece is too much for you right now); Chopin, Nocturne in B major from Op.32. Bach Inventions. Mozart, Fantasy in d minor. Debussy, Reverie. Khachaturian, Toccata. They should keep you busy for awhile.Keep at it, but with much more focus and intent.
i think that suggestion was more of an attack than critism
And, put the Ballade aside- you're so young, you can always come back to it later, in a few years or so.
And then there is no way around patient and often very boring and very tedious work in detail. The good news: after a while you may get ADDICTED to this detail-work. It will leave you unsatisfied if you have to leave the piano for some reson BEFORE you have done that detail-work.
ive been a serious student for many years and ive long excelled the level of those pieces.
However, you need to take note of the constructive criticism in this thread, and not take offence in order to move forward.
I just think it's impossible to judge imbetter whole piano-playing skill and flaws or lacks just by listening to a piece he either hasn't working much on or has been playing some time ago forgetting much of it.
I can understand the frustration of imbetter in reading the criticism in here because it sounds really to condescending for his level.I mean all of this sounds like advices one would give to an amateur self-taught hobbist.
But imbetter has been studying piano seriously for many years, has been gone through many of the steps suggested here, has a teacher who has been following him and assigning him pieces and has attended recitals and contests.
I just think it's impossible to judge imbetter whole piano-playing skill and flaws or lacks just by listening to a piece he either hasn't working much on or has been playing some time ago forgetting much of it. Even my teacher would have have a sloppy performance without some practice or familiarity with the notes and structure.
(btw: It's not the first time I see work-in-progress videos on the Audition Room, so I don't think we should criticize everyone who doesn't upload a perfectly mastered and polished piece here)
The flaw in your advice appears to be your blind acceptance of what imbetter says his level at the piano is, as opposed to what you can actually observe in his playing.
What if imbetter posts more incompetently played pieces of equal difficulty? Of lesser difficulty?By your logic it doesn't matter how bad someone's playing is, because you can't judge any pianists true skills by any of their performances! What a lousy critic you'd make!
No you're still not getting it and yet it's so simple.We have a student here who has posted a piece which he himself admitted is sloppy and needs major polishing. (needs more practice, more analysis, more conscious of the structure)Now having a piece that needs to be polished, practiced more, analyzed more, memorized more DOESN'T MEAN the piece is above your level.The only proof of the pudding here would be imbetter posting something at the same level but admittedly polished, well analyzed and memorized.
What's the weather like on your planet?
TUNE THE PIANO!!!
Now having a piece that needs to be polished, practiced more, analyzed more, memorized more DOESN'T MEAN the piece is above your level.
What bearing does the amount of work and effort someone puts into some task have on their ability to perform that task. My grandma may want to be a heart surgeon really badly. If she reads every textbook she can find, does this effort somehow qualify her to operate on your heart tomorrow?