Erik Satie - Gymnopedie no1

[danijelcro]

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie no1

[perfect_pitch]

I'll say these in a supportive but constructive manner...

You intro is out of time - sometimes you make the bars longer than 3 beats, long enough that it sounds like 3 1/2 beats in each bar. Must establish a strong metre right from the start. The intro isn't where you really should be using rubato.

I hear very little dynamics unfortunately. What makes this piece lovely is the delicate crescendos and decrescendos in the melodic line.

You've missed a bar between 0:53 and 0:56. In the section following, you are also missing several F#'s. I'd tell you where they are, but there's a number of them. What I would do is examine it yourself so that you can be aware of this in the future.

Overall, (and this may be hard to do on a keyboard/digital piano), but the accompaniment has to be SO MUCH SOFTER, and overall (if I'm not mistaken) but this piece doesn't really get over say a mp marking or even a p marking. Worth really ensuring the accompaniment is very soft. You're hands look relaxed though so that's a plus.

Hope that helps. It's not bad enough that you aren't capable of, but for a well-known piece like this - it is expected that it's played DAMN WELL. You're getting close.     

[j_menz]

and overall (if I'm not mistaken) but this piece doesn't really get over say a mp marking or even a p marking.

It actually gets to f twice, but IMO it's a pretty soft f.

Agree that the dynamics need to be more developed, as does a legato feel and attention to the balance between the hands. Some of the chords seemed rolled slightly, or at least slightly out as between LH and RH - not a bad thing in many other pieces, but for my money not in this one.

A good start, but as P-P says, it is too well known a piece to not strive for more.