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Topic: {video} Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 mov III wip  (Read 350 times)

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{video} Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 mov III wip
on: December 24, 2021, 06:42:40 AM
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Part of an ongoing commitment to myself to keep me accountable in moving this piece along  and to completion (eventually).
It's of course wip but goal imroved even if only a little and even if not dramatically so bit all the better if so.

Any way here goes I think I'll hit a bigger benchmark and turn this thing over faster once I have it securely memorized ,that cannot happen soon enough and again it's mainly so In the month or so I don't see my teacher till tentatively January (hoping ) so she can see I'm still chip chip chipping  away at this bear of a transcription/arrangement.

Pardon to the tuning, I like this old Steinway's action  and feel of regulation/touch, and it has a pretty tone when it needs to but the tuning is spicy  for sure

Shot this after work as a quick unpracticed read thru which is best way to a accurately guage  status vs spending an hour working on rough spots then shooting multi takes , that kind of video doesn't really help me right.  :-)

Either way gorgeous piece it's one of my favorite he wrote and in the symphonic lit but hot dang has this been tough for me not hard In a flashy virtuoso fireworks sort of way but I have the same frustration I get w some Bach pieces and  late Brahms  type stuff