Schubert, Military March - duet

[littletune]

Hi everyone! I haven't been posting anything in the audition room for a really long time. So I thought I would post something again. 

But I have to say that if anyone is interested in hearing a good vesion of this piece, there are lots and lots of them on youtube and this one isn't really one of them. It's pretty slow and awkward with lots of little mistakes (and one big one - thanks to me  ).

So I'm posting this more for people who know me and wanted to know if I was still playing the piano and hear what I was doing now.

I'm playing the secondo part and I got completely confused in the "trio" part (the second half of it). It was pretty embarrassing but what can you do 
We played this piece again in March but I haven't seen the video yet so I don't know if it's any better or not. 

I was planning on writing a lot more about why it wasn't as good as it should have been and about why the quality of the video is pretty bad and why I look really weird like a ghost or an alien...  but I think I'm tired of apologizing for being weird and not being good enough and all that.  So I'll just post the video and if anyone has any questions or anything I'll answer later. 

(I would really like to embed the video, but even though it used to be really easy to do it, it doesn't seem to work anymore the way it used to...  )

[awesom_o]

No need to apologize! Duets are very difficult to play!

I would love to see you two perform this on a grand piano.

My girlfriend and I play one duet by Schubert that is over 40 minutes long! It's called the Grand Duo Sonata. Work your way up to it by playing the F minor Fantasy next.

Do you know why you got lost?

I'm guessing it happened because you were going back and forth with your eyes between your hands and the music. Going back and forth is pretty confusing. Better to look at the music and know your part well enough to play it without looking down!

[littletune]

No need to apologize! Duets are very difficult to play!

I would love to see you two perform this on a grand piano.

My girlfriend and I play one duet by Schubert that is over 40 minutes long! It's called the Grand Duo Sonata. Work your way up to it by playing the F minor Fantasy next.

Do you know why you got lost?

I'm guessing it happened because you were going back and forth with your eyes between your hands and the music. Going back and forth is pretty confusing. Better to look at the music and know your part well enough to play it without looking down!

Thank you very much for watching and commenting! 

Yes it was our first duet ever. And I know we should have practiced more than we did. At first we thought we would have one more week to practice, but then we found out it was that week or nothing. After the first two rehearsals together our teacher wasn't so sure we could do it at all because we couldn't even get through the piece once. But then the next two rehearsals were better, so in the end we played it anyway. 

I would really LOVE to play on a grand piano as well!! But the only time we get to play on a grand piano is at the exams and a few days before the exam as a tryout. (My music school is a really small music school so I guess they can't afford it  , but the teachers are all really great! ). When we played this at the end of March again, we played it on an acoustic piano (but an upright).

Wow 40 minutes!!!  That is really long! The girl who was playing with me, was always counting how many pages this piece had, with all the repeats and she was like: that is 7 pages!!!! that is too long!!! 

Well like I posted in the "anything but piano" I almost always make at least one big mistake! (even if I know the piece really well), but here I really think it was because i just didn't know that "trio" part well enough.
And one other thing that could have had something to do with it, was that I completely memorized the first two pages so I didn't look at the music at all, but for the third page (tiro part) I had to look up to see the music and when I did that I saw in the background, all the people standing around watching and it really distracted me. And I couldn't concentrate that well for awhile. 

Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment! 

[rachfan]

Hi littletune,

Nice to hear you playing again at Piano Street.

I enjoyed hearing your duet.  You both did quite well for the most part.  The trio is a bit tricky so probably needed a little more work.  A good thing was that you both maintained sufficient continuity while glossing over to get through that section. But overall you did well.  I give you a lot of credit just for playing in that very noisy venue, with people talking, walking around and everything else.  It looked like a shopping mall or similar.  That alone had to be very distracting.  
  
Are you working on some solo pieces too?

David  

[littletune]

Hi David! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! It made me very happy! 

Yes the trio is really a bit tricky!! It doesn't look like it when you look at the notes (at least for the secondo part) but when you play it, it's pretty complicated!  And it definitely needed a little more work!!
Yes we were playing in a shopping mall and I don't think the noise bothered me (at least I wasn't aware of it), but all the people walking and standing around were a little distracting to me, specially when I looked up at the trio part when I had to look at the sheet music. 


Yes actually right now I am working on a lot of solo pieces! I guess a bit too much! Because last year I didn't take grade 5 exam (because I was sick at the end of the year, when we are supposed to take the exams), so I'm practicing 5 pieces from last year and I'm also learning 5 new pieces for this year.  (I probably won't be playing all 10 of them but just 5).
So I have 2 Etudes (one from Berens, one from Czerny),
2 Bach preludes (BWV 927 - from 12 little preludes, and BWV 934 - from 6 little preludes),
I have 2 Sonatinas (both by Clementi op.36 no.2 and no.3 - first and second movements),
I also have two short pieces of two Slovenian composers
and also Seascape by William Gillock and the one that scares me the most and I'm not sure if I can even learn it well, is Schubert's Impromptu Op.142 No.2.

I thinks I will post these pieces here, as soon as I can.

Thank you again for your nice comment!!