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Topic: Chopstick Sheet Music - if you really need it, OMG  (Read 3667 times)

Spatula

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Fine here you go for your Dabbling enjoyment

Pure embarassment

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GOOD GOD! MAKE IT STOP!

Offline willcowskitz

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Re: Chopstick Sheet Music - if you really need it,
Reply #1 on: May 31, 2004, 03:57:05 PM
Now I know what the famous "Chopsticks" piece sounds like.  :o

Offline squinchy

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Re: Chopstick Sheet Music - if you really need it,
Reply #2 on: May 31, 2004, 10:14:13 PM
I don't know why it did, but listening to chopsticks made me semi-giddy feeling. It was a similar to the feeling one gets when listening to Grande Galop Chromatique, except with a dash of skepticism and a pinch of "eh?"

But hey-Now we all know what the second part sounds like.

We should go on a quest/crusade to variate and improvise on all these "chopsticky" pieces and make them true works of art, or at least something worth hearing.
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Offline Tash

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Re: Chopstick Sheet Music - if you really need it,
Reply #3 on: June 01, 2004, 09:35:57 AM
oh i already knew what the 2nd part sounded like though my version is slightly different at the end. chopsticks is so much funner when it's faster and you make up different rhythms and have 5 other people playing it as well- and now i can give the music to those who don't know how to play it! (not that the people who don't know how to play it would be able to read sheet music...)
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Re: Chopstick Sheet Music - if you really need it,
Reply #4 on: June 01, 2004, 02:10:13 PM
Yeah, that's the whole 30 seconds of it!  I'm sure it can be written into an actual piece of greater length and difficulty.

Question:  Why didn't Liszt write one of those transcription/variations on the theme?  Was it even written during that time?
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