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Offline cabbynum

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Rachmaninoff Prelude in c#
on: December 01, 2012, 04:03:43 AM
Dont judge too harshly I have only been playing piano for 15 months, and only 8 with a teacher.
I would enjoy some suggestions on improvement
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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude in c#
Reply #1 on: December 01, 2012, 04:06:19 AM
i hope it is attached this time
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Offline chopin2015

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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude in c#
Reply #2 on: December 07, 2012, 04:01:34 AM
good, I enjoyed the tone quality. What was the piano you recorded this on?
Thanks for posting!
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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude in c#
Reply #3 on: December 07, 2012, 04:13:56 AM
It has many lovely moments, and is a very good effort considering the time you have been playing.

Three things to work on:

1)  Your timing is off; you pause before the chords that are giving you trouble.

2)  Those chords you can't stretch, you need to roll and you need to make that as unobtrusive as possible - at present they are not so much rolled as broken.

3)  Your dynamics are good at short range, but you need to think about how they work accross the whole of the piece, or at least over several bars at a time, to give it a more cohesive feel.

Oh, and do learn the rest of it.  ;)
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Re: Rachmaninoff Prelude in c#
Reply #4 on: December 07, 2012, 04:16:46 AM
It has many lovely moments, and is a very good effort considering the time you have been playing.

Three things to work on:

1)  Your timing is off; you pause before the chords that are giving you trouble.

2)  Those chords you can't stretch, you need to roll and you need to make that as unobtrusive as possible - at present they are not so much rolled as broken.

3)  Your dynamics are good at short range, but you need to think about how they work accross the whole of the piece, or at least over several bars at a time, to give it a more cohesive feel.

Oh, and do learn the rest of it.  ;)



Yes, can't wait to hear more!
"Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice."
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