Pirates of the Caribbean by Jarrod Radnich

[charlietrantran]

To introduce myself, I've been playing the piano on a serious level for the past 15 years, learning through many different methods, but mainly the Suzuki method. I've never been on a piano forum because I've never had any problems, but since we have internet and all, I figured I might as well take advantage.

First off, I'm not sure how difficult "Pirates of the Caribbean" (Jarrod Radnich's arrangement) is for other advanced pianists, but I managed to learn it in a little less than a month. I'm currently working on polishing it up, and I have some thoughts I would like to hear some opinions on.

At 1:17, he plays a chromatic scale up three octaves starting on F, with right hand fingering 12341234 (ends on C), and then left hand takes over with fingering 4321, and that completes an octave. It's not playing it that's the hard part, but rather playing it as cleanly as Jarrod, it's perfect! I figured the only way I can get it as clean as him is just by practicing it over and over, starting slow, or is their a certain technique? Because it does seem that my fingers get a little jammed up in this situation.

At 1:52, those octaves are played quite fast. I have it very close to that speed, but every time I try it at full speed, I always hit at least one incorrect note. I've always thought myself to be very skilled at fast octaves, but I guess I never planned on playing them THIS fast, and especially while hopping some distance (fast chromatic octaves are no problem). Again, I feel the only way to really perfect this is by continuous practice, gradually increasing speed.

What do you guys think?

[xdjuicebox]

To introduce myself, I've been playing the piano on a serious level for the past 15 years, learning through many different methods, but mainly the Suzuki method. I've never been on a piano forum because I've never had any problems, but since we have internet and all, I figured I might as well take advantage.

First off, I'm not sure how difficult "Pirates of the Caribbean" (Jarrod Radnich's arrangement) is for other advanced pianists, but I managed to learn it in a little less than a month. I'm currently working on polishing it up, and I have some thoughts I would like to hear some opinions on.

At 1:17, he plays a chromatic scale up three octaves starting on F, with right hand fingering 12341234 (ends on C), and then left hand takes over with fingering 4321, and that completes an octave. It's not playing it that's the hard part, but rather playing it as cleanly as Jarrod, it's perfect! I figured the only way I can get it as clean as him is just by practicing it over and over, starting slow, or is their a certain technique? Because it does seem that my fingers get a little jammed up in this situation.

At 1:52, those octaves are played quite fast. I have it very close to that speed, but every time I try it at full speed, I always hit at least one incorrect note. I've always thought myself to be very skilled at fast octaves, but I guess I never planned on playing them THIS fast, and especially while hopping some distance (fast chromatic octaves are no problem). Again, I feel the only way to really perfect this is by continuous practice, gradually increasing speed.

What do you guys think?

I learned this piece too, glad there's someone else out there that knows it This is a fun one ^^
For the chromatic scale, it really depends on if you play it thumb over of thumb under. I play it thumb over [because it's less twisting and just easier], so what I did to get it up to speed was to play the 12341234 separately in chords of 1234, so like F, F#, G, G# was one chord, then I would jump over to A, A#, B, C [in one chord], and then my left hand would plant down the C#, D, D#, and E in one chord. I practiced playing the chords instead of the passage at tempo, and once you get that down, then just expand the chords into the actual passage. The rationale was that if I learned the transition between the quads, then it would be easy - and it is!

Haha oh the octaves...I've always hated those octaves. To be honest, even Jarrod doesn't get them right. I watched a few of his videos, and I saw him actually play an alternate ending because he didn't want to risk messing up on stage. But practice the hands separately is all I got for that. I mess those up too XD

[alonbi]

I learned this piece too, glad there's someone else out there that knows it This is a fun one ^^
For the chromatic scale, it really depends on if you play it thumb over of thumb under. I play it thumb over [because it's less twisting and just easier], so what I did to get it up to speed was to play the 12341234 separately in chords of 1234, so like F, F#, G, G# was one chord, then I would jump over to A, A#, B, C [in one chord], and then my left hand would plant down the C#, D, D#, and E in one chord. I practiced playing the chords instead of the passage at tempo, and once you get that down, then just expand the chords into the actual passage. The rationale was that if I learned the transition between the quads, then it would be easy - and it is!

Haha oh the octaves...I've always hated those octaves. To be honest, even Jarrod doesn't get them right. I watched a few of his videos, and I saw him actually play an alternate ending because he didn't want to risk messing up on stage. But practice the hands separately is all I got for that. I mess those up too XD

To introduce myself, I've been playing the piano on a serious level for the past 15 years, learning through many different methods, but mainly the Suzuki method. I've never been on a piano forum because I've never had any problems, but since we have internet and all, I figured I might as well take advantage.

First off, I'm not sure how difficult "Pirates of the Caribbean" (Jarrod Radnich's arrangement) is for other advanced pianists, but I managed to learn it in a little less than a month. I'm currently working on polishing it up, and I have some thoughts I would like to hear some opinions on.

At 1:17, he plays a chromatic scale up three octaves starting on F, with right hand fingering 12341234 (ends on C), and then left hand takes over with fingering 4321, and that completes an octave. It's not playing it that's the hard part, but rather playing it as cleanly as Jarrod, it's perfect! I figured the only way I can get it as clean as him is just by practicing it over and over, starting slow, or is their a certain technique? Because it does seem that my fingers get a little jammed up in this situation.

At 1:52, those octaves are played quite fast. I have it very close to that speed, but every time I try it at full speed, I always hit at least one incorrect note. I've always thought myself to be very skilled at fast octaves, but I guess I never planned on playing them THIS fast, and especially while hopping some distance (fast chromatic octaves are no problem). Again, I feel the only way to really perfect this is by continuous practice, gradually increasing speed.

What do you guys think?

hey guys.. can someone send me a pdf of the sheet music please? i can't find advanced sheets online..
p.s THAT IS AMAZING!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

hey guys.. can someone send me a pdf of the sheet music please? i can't find advanced sheets online..
p.s THAT IS AMAZING!!!!!

You can buy it right here...

https://jarrodradnich.3dcartstores.com/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean--Virtuosic-Piano-Solo-Sheet-Music-DOWNLOAD-ITEM_p_24.html

[alonbi]

You can buy it right here...

https://jarrodradnich.3dcartstores.com/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean--Virtuosic-Piano-Solo-Sheet-Music-DOWNLOAD-ITEM_p_24.html

haha.. thank you but i found it online.. speaking of "pirates", every thing can be found online if you search for a while.. although i really want to but the sheets any way, to express my appreciatio to this gut, for his amazing work..

[tentypbot]

I've found the sheets PDF format:

https://darkwarez.pl/forum/post-31456767.html#31456767

[jamesyorkpiano]

I love Jarrod's music!  I have recently covered one of his recently released pieces, Don't Stop Believing.  Did everyone come across it?

[joplinfreak]

I finally suckered up to the 7$ and just bought it. More than worth the money, besides I know it's going to good cause. Should take me about 4 months to finish it.