I demand satisfaction!

[m1469]

I challengze you to a dualz  !

OK - by Tuesday, April 23rd (boom), slap down the Chopin Ballade no. 1 in g minor.  It must be memorized.

Here are the rules:

1.  I will judge
2.  Submit all videos/audios to me through pm, don't just post them willy nilly all over the place.
3.  If I try to pass off one of your recordings as my own, you have to just live with it.

Aj, keypeg, j_menz, birba, chopin2015, costicina? Stubworne Studente?  Anybody?

Come to think of it, we should get started on the Chopets again, too.  Slap... I say, slap it down!  

[j_menz]

 It must be memorized.

Rules me out. I don't memorise anything. Ballade No 1 in a fortnight seems an unlikely place to acquire the skill.

1.  I will judge

But you have no judgment.

3.  If I try to pass off one of your recordings as my own, you have to just live with it.

Nope, I'd sue your a** off. Some habits are hard to break.

 Anybody?

Not me.

[m1469]

So... you're in?  Me can't tell.  Me has no judgements  :-.


I'm sure pts would enjoy posting some kind of recording of his awesome skills.  Or, maybe ngzy?  C'mon peeps, start slappin.

[chopin2015]

I'm in. Noone can mess up the coda like I can...

[chopin2015]

You do mean 'slap' , right?

Aaaand I'm not gonna do it if noone else is...

[outin]

I'll do it! My interpretation will be a bit more experimental, I'll play it one note at the time...probably half tempo too, since I believe in the idea of all Chopin's metronome markings being wrongly understood.

[perfect_pitch]

I'm not learning the Ballade until Term 2 of the school year.

[pts1]

I DEMAND SATISFAAAAAAAAACTSHUN!!!!





Hey... wait a minute... aren't those my hubcaps!?

[m1469]

Your inner child?

[m1469]

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[m1469]

[chopin2015]

Oh, crap. I thought you said the 26th! LOL

do you still want to post our recordings? tomorrow is the 26th.

[lloyd_cdb]

This was serious?

[chopin2015]

I recorded a bit today but had to go to school. I have all day tomorrow to record and think I can get a good first take...lol


Well, crap. Did anyone else record it yet? There would have been no way I could have played it on Tuesday. I was working toward tomorrow! This isn't fair!!! I will post it in the Audition room, then. Sorry, m1469!

[m1469]

Well, I'm not going to get it up tomorrow, that's for sure.  I was able to rough the whole thing out, but it's rough!  I'll need another couple of weeks to come close to a first draft recording.  But, even though I was serious before, I didn't necessarily think everybody was serious about doing it.  So, yes?  If truly, then let's set a date and really go for it!

[chopin2015]

ok! mine's rough sometimes, too. Especially since I am playing on a piano from 1938(it sounds so right, though!).

What's the date? You wanna see if Outin still wants to do a recording and then set the date? I never joke about Chopin, girl!

[outin]

What's the date? You wanna see if Outin still wants to do a recording and then set the date?

Sorry, I was definitely not serious...not something I could do for a few years (decades?). I'll apologise to Fred too for joking about something like this 

[chopin2015]

Sorry, I was definitely not serious...not something I could do for a few years (decades?). I'll apologise to Fred too for joking about something like this 

oh...I can't sense when someone is serious or joking on the internet because I am usually very irrational. Well, I am going to record tomorrow and see if I can come up with something worth sharing!

[m1469]

This is by live-feed video, only  :-.

[chopin2015]

This is by live-feed video, only  .

Yeah, so video only? That's what I've been working on.

[m1469]

Yeah, so video only? That's what I've been working on.

Well, sure.  But, if it's going to be a real thing, it should be live through a livestream channel.  And, why not? 

[chopin2015]

Huh? Well Idk about all that. I plan on posting a complete video this week, but here's today's progress/take. I had a good take before this one but the video got deleted. Sorry about the end and the coda, I do better the first couple of takes, when my nerves aren't on the edge!

Will post link in a second.

[m1469]

Huh? Well Idk about all that. I plan on posting a complete video this week, but here's today's progress/take. I had a good take before this one but the video got deleted. Sorry about the end and the coda, I do better the first couple of takes, when my nerves aren't on the edge!

Will post link in a second.

Not satisfied!     As far as I'm concerned then, it could be anybody .  Livestream.  With a stop and a clap in a random spot, placement determined by me  .  

[chopin2015]

It's obviously me, with my tattoos...my vid is almost done uploading, i just want a little feedback and advice before I make a final performance of it.

[m1469]

BOOOOOOOOoooooo!!  We want live, we want live, we want live!!  We want a stop and clap, we want a stop and clap, we want a stop and clap!!


I got a little older and grumpier since I started this thread.  Old people are grumpy, aren't they?  Hmm?


*cues dry ice fog*


The truth of my ideas should stand on their own, and not rest on from whom they came.  However, the truth of them should prove my legitness.  Now that is some mysterious reasoning, and is *obviously* the brain product of a master!  I'm legit, 'cause I says so!  

*cues howling wolf*

[chopin2015]

Fine. In a month, lets do a stream each of us plays 2 chopin pieces. Ballade no 1 and a nocturne or an etude. Im posting a progress vid here though. Shortly! So yall check ot out!

[m1469]

Fine. In a month, lets do a stream each of us plays 2 chopin pieces. Ballade no 1 and a nocturne or an etude. Im posting a progress vid here though. Shortly! So yall check ot out!

heeeyyyyy girl, you gettin' all up in my business!  I'm the lady here, I call the shots, got it?!  

I decree that in one month, we each livestream Ballade no. 1 - that's it.  That's what I said, werd.  Now deal, hunny.  

Until then, there will be more rules arising (for example, there will need to be undeniable proof of identity before then).  Don't like it, eh?  That's the internets.

Is it getting too complicated?  :-


*whooosh*

[chopin2015]

You need to stop being a B****. Got it? Bye!

[m1469]

You need to stop being a B****. Got it? Bye!

    Hope you're off to be practicing 

[birba]

You need to stop being a B****. Got it? Bye!

i can't believe you're actually going through with this farce.      has gone completely bonkers. The whole ps competition pushed her over the edge...

[chopin2015]

I couldn't believe it either. I was trying to give her a second chance. You see, I am usually kind and loving to everyone.

[m1469]

Feel free not to!  It is unfortunate that the forum can't participate in activities like this.  Not just because of the "competition" but also because of past hoaxes which have nothing to do with me.   If you can't see the value in each participant validating their musical contribution on the Internet, then that's not my problem.  And, birba, if you have something of actual musical value that you'd like to contribute, feel free!

[chopin2015]

I posted my recent take in the audition room. Birba is my pianostreet spirit guard so don't bring him into this.

[m1469]

Birba is my pianostreet spirit guard so don't bring him into this.

And what has that got to do with music?

[birba]

Feel free not to!  It is unfortunate that the forum can't participate in activities like this.  Not just because of the "competition" but also because of past hoaxes which have nothing to do with me.   If you can't see the value in each participant validating their musical contribution on the Internet, then that's not my problem.  And, birba, if you have something of actual musical value that you'd like to contribute, feel free!

I don't see how streaming is that much more superior to a video clip.  Yes, it's immediate and you can't do it over,  but you also have to consider the time changes.  I'm not that sure how it works, but wouldn't i have to get up in the dead of night to hear someone playing in australia?

[chopin2015]

I don't have any means for live streaming. So I finished in a timely manner and posted a video recording with low audio quality(not to mention, the piano). Sorry! Moving on, everynody! Nothing to see here.

[m1469]

[johnmar78]

Watch out welwolves is coming,,,,,

Malya, I liked your Chopin  idea, but most of us are ameteur players, we have limited piano times. Unless you are targeting only full time musicians.....

Ballard is nice but very long. If not, shorter pieces like "chopin etude or prelude;D would be more preferable....that people have more time to prepare and maintaine.

T

[m1469]

Ballard is nice but very long.

Did you mean Mallard?

Unless you are targeting only full time musicians.....

Well, at the time, I would prefer to be around real people, even if they are truly capable of smashing me into the ground musically and technically (especially in a way that I can admire), who give me something to help me structure my thoughts and aims, than a bunch of foggy, substanceless fluff.

And, I don't just mean child prodigies or "average," high level graduate students from Universities or Conservatories.  I mean, life-longers.  People with grit, yet who still have a joy.  People with knowledge and a true desire to share with the right people/person, in a way that can change something on a deep level for somebody like me.  Somebody(s) with whom I can musically identify, and who can musically identify with me.

[johnmar78]

Did you mean Mallard? I mean Peking Duck,,,lol. .sorry my spellings its Chopin's  Ballade.

[m1469]

I mean Peking Duck,,,lol. .

mmmmmm....

[goldentone]

By the time the terms are settled I may have mine ready.

[j_menz]

By the time the terms are settled I may have mine ready.

By the time the terms are settled, I suspect there are babes as yet unborn who will have theirs ready, and that some of us will be trying for a very chopinesque Op. Post.

[chopin2015]

Learning ballade 4 now...that one is very emotionally draining.

[birba]

Tell me about it.
And in relation to the other topic being discussed about in the "how free are you..."  thread, there's a passage where i almost lose it.  Bars 169 on.  When that second theme is transfigured into a glorious d-flat major cantilena.  Brrrr...(goosebumps)

[chopin2015]

Tell me about it.
And in relation to the other topic being discussed about in the "how free are you..."  thread, there's a passage where i almost lose it.  Bars 169 on.  When that second theme is transfigured into a glorious d-flat major cantilena.  Brrrr...(goosebumps)

I just got goosebumps too!
I feel bad that I want to learn it. My mom listened and cried to this a lot when my grandpa was sick with lung cancer and he was far away in Russia. This piece brings on feelings of anxiety and panic. It is a dark place to be every day.

[birba]

And that's exactly what that passage represents!  A transfiguration of all that went before into an episode of hope and salvation!  Which proceeds to an end of despair and anxiety...

[chopin2015]

And that's exactly what that passage represents!  A transfiguration of all that went before into an episode of hope and salvation!  Which proceeds to an end of despair and anxiety...

Music itself is salvation! If I am going to be stressed, by all means! Music helps work things out. I also think of unrequited love in the really upbeat part that starts with a trill! I gotta go eat then practice now!