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Offline pencilart3

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Haha, so I got done with my school early and had some free time, so... here you go! I recorded how some different members here might play chopin's first prelude! Don't take this too seriously guys. ;D

Here's a standard interpretation of the piece to base the rest off of:



1 - How ajlongspiano might play it.
2 - How michael_sayers might play it.
3 - How dcstudio might play it.

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2015, 09:56:06 PM
I got a huge kick out of the Michael Sayers one hahahaha

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #2 on: September 10, 2015, 09:57:01 PM
I got a huge kick out of the Michael Sayers one hahahaha

haha have you seen his youtube video? it's terrible!!
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #3 on: September 10, 2015, 10:22:54 PM


HEY!!! mine is really cool!!!!!!!!!!  that is how I would play it...lol.  wow Noah... that was really
great.

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #4 on: September 10, 2015, 10:25:16 PM

HEY!!! mine is really cool!!!!!!!!!!  that is how I would play it...lol.  wow Noah... that was really
great.

LOL thanks dc, I'm glad the interpretation is accurate :D
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #5 on: September 10, 2015, 11:25:56 PM
LOL thanks dc, I'm glad the interpretation is accurate :D

accurate...?   I thought that last arpeggio was me!!  that was great. Even my husband laughed when he heard it---he said "yeah...that guy has heard you play for sure..."  You know that's a unique skill to be able to play a piece in different styles... it seems easy enough--but you would be amazed at how many are unable to do that.  It's the sign of a natural musician.  8)

you really made my day with that!!  I have been having a really bad time getting motivated to play today... now I want to play the Chopin... I have never played that one... but now I think I will.


some people say there's a lot of negativity here... and sometimes there is... but there is also something really great here...  something I never had when I was a student...  There was only your teacher, your friends, and your family available for feedback...  and as you well know... the people around you get tired of hearing the piano after a while....  so all I would ever hear as a kid was "quit pounding on that damn piano!"

you guys though...  all that information, all those live performances, interviews, books, recordings everything is just a click away... and to have a community of people to be supportive and genuinely happy for you when you play well... or not...it's wonderful... and before this internet era it was unheard of unless you were at music school--which is not the greatest place to search for validation...

I have to believe that is why all of you are so unbelievably advanced for such a relatively short time... you and Josh and AJ--geez.  I love that you guys are so supportive of each other and that you love playing like you do.  I am almost jealous...for lack of a better term...you guys have so much fun learning..   

I just started teaching again last week after 3 years...  you guys had something to do with that, too.  Reading your posts and listening to you all play...really made me miss it.   My debate with Josh over total fingering... lol.. that was the clincher... I called the studio and took the job right after that.   It's great to be teaching again, too... I almost took a job as a casino dealer... yikes.

 ;D thanks Noah you are a good guy and a great player!

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #6 on: September 10, 2015, 11:32:16 PM
Noah you are a good guy and a great player!

Thanks DC :)

That's awesome that you're teaching again, and if I was of any help getting you there, I'm glad I could help!!
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #7 on: September 10, 2015, 11:59:40 PM
Thanks DC :)

That's awesome that you're teaching again, and if I was of any help getting you there, I'm glad I could help!!

your very enthusiastic and positive attitude is infectious... and yes you did help. :)

thanks! 

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #8 on: September 11, 2015, 03:24:20 AM


I just started teaching again last week after 3 years...  you guys had something to do with that, too.  Reading your posts and listening to you all play...really made me miss it.   My debate with Josh over total fingering... lol.. that was the clincher... I called the studio and took the job right after that.   It's great to be teaching again, too... I almost took a job as a casino dealer... yikes.


That's great DC, good luck with it! I'm glad we helped and I'm glad something good came out of that debate haha.
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #9 on: September 11, 2015, 03:57:17 AM


I do apologize Josh...  I get a bit arrogant sometimes.. and I just like to argue lol. if your fingering approach works for you than use it..  your playing is great... and really--though I may be banished for saying this...however you achieve musicality to your playing...be it traditional ways... or even playing by ear... that's all that matters. 

Really I have no business lecturing you on non-traditional methods as I employ many of them--just not that particular one.  I make lead sheets out of classical pieces... notate them with chord symbols and melody or sometimes just the chords...  that's pretty heretical in the eyes of the hardcore.  So you do what you will... and keep posting that Bach.  :D

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #10 on: September 11, 2015, 06:26:23 AM

I do apologize Josh...  I get a bit arrogant sometimes.. and I just like to argue lol. if your fingering approach works for you than use it..  your playing is great... and really--though I may be banished for saying this...however you achieve musicality to your playing...be it traditional ways... or even playing by ear... that's all that matters. 

Really I have no business lecturing you on non-traditional methods as I employ many of them--just not that particular one.  I make lead sheets out of classical pieces... notate them with chord symbols and melody or sometimes just the chords...  that's pretty heretical in the eyes of the hardcore.  So you do what you will... and keep posting that Bach.  :D



No that's okay, I enjoyed debating too.

I agree that the end result is more important than the means by which we get there, insofar as music goes that is. I also encourage absolutely any way of being heretical and interesting when it comes to music, despite some of my own conservative leanings. It's like free speech, I may not always agree but I'd always defend the right to express.

Also, The Bach will keep flowing haha ;)
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #11 on: September 11, 2015, 08:22:37 AM
LOL. I expected the slow part of sayers even slower  ;D

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #12 on: September 11, 2015, 01:51:46 PM
LOL. I expected the slow part of sayers even slower  ;D

I lost patience. :D
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #13 on: September 11, 2015, 02:39:29 PM
The Sayers needs more pedal ;D

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #14 on: September 11, 2015, 02:56:26 PM
The Sayers needs more pedal ;D

I was trying!!! :D
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #15 on: September 11, 2015, 04:06:05 PM

the MS one is right on the money... that's hilarious.    ;D

now that's piano humor...

it's impressive really that you took my tendency to end things on a big loud arpeggio--and my stride pattern and incorporated into this.. dude... that's talent--seriously.   Maybe you were making fun of me.. and it's ok--that's the way I play...which is why I am not in any way offended.. in fact I am really rather flattered... ;D

you should do more of these Noah.  ;)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #16 on: September 11, 2015, 04:10:43 PM
you should do more of these Noah.  ;)

Haha, I was hoping you would notice that last arpeggio ;) I did it all with one hand too, I could hardly believe it came out right it just rolled right off! ha ha And I wasn't making fun of you like I was of Michael Sayers, I just thought it might be kind of fun to make a jazz one in your style :P

Sure I'll do more! Maybe I should do some famous pianists also LOL
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #17 on: September 11, 2015, 05:01:08 PM
Haha, I was hoping you would notice that last arpeggio ;) I did it all with one hand too, I could hardly believe it came out right it just rolled right off! ha ha And I wasn't making fun of you like I was of Michael Sayers, I just thought it might be kind of fun to make a jazz one in your style :P

Sure I'll do more! Maybe I should do some famous pianists also LOL

it just rolls right off--yep that's all my riffs! they sound big but they're all pretty easy lol.  You should try jazz, you have the mindset for improvisation... and it's so much fun.  I think improvisation should be required in music school.. but what do I know. 

Famous pianists...YES!

Lang Lang
Glenn Gould (you MUST moan!)
Valentina

I would love to hear your interpretations

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #18 on: September 11, 2015, 05:23:21 PM
Famous pianists...YES!

Lang Lang
Glenn Gould (you MUST moan!)
Valentina

Haha DEFINITELY lang lang, I'll do glenn gould though I don't know how much of him I've heard. I don't know about lisitsa what is her defining characteristic? I think I'll also do argerich (plow through it), and maybe zimerman or pollini singing along. :D
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #19 on: September 11, 2015, 05:28:57 PM
Oh but before we do that, I just couldn't resist the raindrop prelude jazz as well... :D

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #20 on: September 11, 2015, 07:34:28 PM
Oh but before we do that, I just couldn't resist the raindrop prelude jazz as well... :D



Noah.. you are a jazzer, my friend.  I think you would fall in love with jazz improv because it's really no different than what you are doing here...and you had lots of fun playing that.  Besides, playing jazz really does make you a more adept classical player...contrary to what you may have been told...just ask anyone who is proficient in both genres.  Plus...when you grow up to be a pro you have twice the gigs.

Glenn Gould's defining characteristic was that he moaned and played Bach
instead of Val.. maybe Bachscholar.. he's kinda famous...here anyway

and Lang Lang... I think we all know... I can't wait to hear that one.

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #21 on: September 12, 2015, 09:15:02 PM
I like the ajlongspiano one because it's so purty

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #22 on: September 12, 2015, 09:16:24 PM
I like the ajlongspiano one because it's so purty

I try ;)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #24 on: September 12, 2015, 09:20:55 PM
 IBump.  

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #25 on: September 12, 2015, 09:54:29 PM
I like the ajlongspiano one because it's so purty

Then it is a good fake ;)
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #26 on: September 15, 2015, 08:58:26 PM
The Sayers one didn't sound at all like him. It should go at half that speed tops, fortissimo throughout, with the pedal down from start to finish.  ;D

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #27 on: September 15, 2015, 09:09:19 PM
The Sayers one didn't sound at all like him. It should go at half that speed tops, fortissimo throughout, with the pedal down from start to finish.  ;D

Did you see his actual prelude 1 youtube video though? Watch it and then tell me if it sounds like it :D
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #28 on: September 16, 2015, 11:53:41 AM
The Michael Sayers one. Hahaha!

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #29 on: September 16, 2015, 08:51:56 PM
Did you see his actual prelude 1 youtube video though? Watch it and then tell me if it sounds like it :D
Haha indeed, that one sounds like you. But it doesn't much sound like him... way too fast, too little pedal, and not nearly loud enough. I guess the maestro must have had a Bad Day ;-)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #30 on: September 16, 2015, 09:03:29 PM
I guess the maestro must have had a Bad Day ;-)

Krystian Zimerman, Martha Argerich, Arthur Rubinstein, Michael Sayers, Vladimir Horowitz... out of these I would say that Horowitz does not belong. ;D ha ha just kidding.
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #31 on: September 16, 2015, 09:06:37 PM
Krystian Zimerman, Martha Argerich, Arthur Rubinstein, Michael Sayers, Vladimir Horowitz... out of these I would say that Horowitz does not belong. ;D ha ha just kidding.

You dislike Zimmerman>???????

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #32 on: September 16, 2015, 09:12:21 PM
You dislike Zimmerman>???????

uh... actually he's my favorite pianist of all time. You apparently jumped into the thread without reading the previous posts.
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #33 on: September 16, 2015, 09:13:03 PM
uh... actually he's my favorite pianist of all time. You apparently jumped into the thread without reading the previous posts.
Oh OK Nice taste

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #34 on: December 11, 2015, 07:44:57 PM
haha have you seen his youtube video? it's terrible!!

And soon I will have additional "terrible" recordings to share here!  ;D

Maybe I should upload all five of the Liszt Concert Etudes, with many interpretive aspects provided by him personally, of course!

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #35 on: December 11, 2015, 07:50:18 PM
Haha indeed, that one sounds like you. But it doesn't much sound like him... way too fast, too little pedal, and not nearly loud enough. I guess the maestro must have had a Bad Day ;-)

Use of a N.Y. Steinway concert grand helps with volume.  ;)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #36 on: December 11, 2015, 11:57:29 PM
Use of a N.Y. Steinway concert grand helps with volume.  ;)

A Bosendorfer Imperial helps even more! ;)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #37 on: December 12, 2015, 06:55:28 AM
A Bosendorfer Imperial helps even more! ;)

It doesn't!  ;)

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #38 on: December 12, 2015, 12:41:29 PM
Michael I didn't think you would ever come back to piano street. If I would have known that, I wouldn't have posted here how your prelude 1 video was terrible.

I WOULD HAVE MADE A FRICKIN FORUM TOPIC ON IT
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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #39 on: December 12, 2015, 01:04:22 PM
Michael I didn't think you would ever come back to piano street. If I would have known that, I wouldn't have posted here how your prelude 1 video was terrible.

I WOULD HAVE MADE A FRICKIN FORUM TOPIC ON IT

Feel free to do it.  ;D

I would find it to be entertaining reading.

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Re: how different pianists here might interpret the same piece
Reply #40 on: December 14, 2015, 03:21:36 AM
Michael I didn't think you would ever come back to piano street. If I would have known that, I wouldn't have posted here how your prelude 1 video was terrible.

I WOULD HAVE MADE A FRICKIN FORUM TOPIC ON IT

I would've thought that Michael's recordings are far more numerous than yours
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