All 3 movements of Beethoven's Pathetique I'd say just for starters, that is seriously good and same difficult!
I would agree with this, and add that in order to cover this version more-or-less directly, note for note, you'd also probably be looking at being able to get through 3-4 Chopin Etudes fairly well.
I'm detecting shades of Liberace here.
Are you all serious? Is what he is doing that end-piano-playing material? Wow.
He's playing a lot of material there Ranniks. Also consider your rhythm issues, do you think you could handle even the intro section? My other reply was tongue in cheek, regarding you wanting to impress people with this piece. You aren't ready, plain and simple as that. Don't try to be another Liberace, he was a master at all the glitter etc. and then some. While most people would consider him having been a moderate pianist.
I don't think this piece has a thousand notes to begin with.
2:59Someone's been playing the Waldstein Yes it does.
I have absolutely no idea who Liberace is.
I have not a doubt in mind that I could learn this piece though, starting today.The only question remaining is how long it would take.That includes getting over any rhythm issues that I have.My reasoning is: dedicate 2 hours a day on this piece for the next 12 months. I won't be able to play it at the video's level, but definitely around there somewhere. My approach would be note for note. If I did 3 notes each day, that would still be over 1000 notes in a year. I don't think this piece has a thousand notes to begin with.
Why would someone dedicate a year of solid practice to this? If you haven't realised that this is terrible after a year you may need to be committed.
I guess us older folks all know who he is (certain images will forever be ingrained in the mind), but not everyone knows he started as a classical pianist.I don't think it works like that. The more one studies the piano the more clear it becomes that the note by note approach will fail in more complex/technically demanding material.I thought at some point that I could learn Chopin Etude 10-2 this way, but all I got was sore hands. And I didn't even try to play in tempo
But surely learning several notes a day could work? I'm a firm believer in hard work....It's taxing though.
Well, you can play the raindrop prelude Outin, that is marvelous to me.
It was never my intention to suggest that I wanted to learn this piece now......It shouldn't be bad to talk about future piano goals.
But I'm not going to. Instead I'll be learning a decent amount of level 2-3 grade stuff with one grade 5 piece along the way. That way I'll be having a strong fundament to tackle harder pieces like this one. Although, this one will need a lot of work.It's not bad to have a goal, even if some deem it unrealistic.
Oh, I don't doubt that the technique required by the piece is very high level. I just question how valuable it is as a piece of music. Perhaps I am being pretentious but if you are going to expend that much effort you may as well approach one of the masterpieces of the piano.
I've put all my skill and dedication into this piece, because I wanted this transcription to be the pinnacle of my transcribing activity, a summary of my pianistic skill, in order to give the term "anime sheet" a new meaning, taking it to the next level.And with this, I can retire now in satisfaction.See you next time
I don't want to derail OP's thread into a discussion about relative musical value but I would like to confirm that by masterpiece I did not necessarily mean overplayed 'pop' classical music (perhaps I should have chosen a less loaded term). I assure you there is plenty of fantastic music that is not played enough, for example, Dutilleux's Piano Sonata. It's true I suppose that a lot of the less popular 'masterpieces' probably require a certain level of theoretical knowledge to fully appreciate. That said, philosophers (and musicologists) have been debating taste for centuries and never reached a satisfactory conclusion thus I cede..!
Another thing is that perfection can be a little boring, so I find some lesser works very pleasing, although I would never consider them masterpieces.
** Notes your addition of Telemann to your "fun". Bach isn't far off.
There's still a huge gorge with no bridge between...
Telemann -> Vivaldi -> Bach's Concerto Transcriptions of Vivaldi -> Bach's own work.Or you could try this one:
I don't want to derail OP's thread into a discussion about relative musical value but I would like to confirm that by masterpiece I did not necessarily mean overplayed 'pop' classical music (perhaps I should have chosen a less loaded term). I assure you there is plenty of fantastic music that is not played enough, for example, Dutilleux's Piano Sonata. It's true I suppose that a lot of the less popular 'masterpieces' probably require a certain level of theoretical knowledge to fully appreciate. That said, philosophers (and musicologists) have been debating taste for centuries and never reached a satisfactory conclusion thus I cede..!As it stands - I apologise for my earlier comment - it was certainly snippy and unnecessary.