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Off-topic / Piano Pieces

  1. buhryan
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:37:01

    hellos.

    Are there any piano pieces out there that you would recommend for me???

    I am currently working on Chopin Etude Op.10 No. 5.

    Any piece would be fine. Classical or anything more recent. I don't really care.

    Actually I would appreciate if you gave me a classical piece, but not anything like La Campanella or anything thats uber hard.

    -buhryan

  2. AwonW
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:47:47

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    Play this.

  3. buhryan
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:54:38

    you know
    that sounds like the piece i just played yesterday o_O
    except mine was more epic

  4. ION
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:55:03

    QUOTE (AwonW @ Mar 8 2010, 09:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

    Spoiler:
    ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

    Play this.



    I love that piece.

    Concerto but w/e

  5. AwonW
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:56:27

    Rachmaninoff is such a beast.

  6. Wind
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:56:52

    Wedding Dress piano cover? biggrin.gif

    or this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-oiN_KDD0

  7. buhryan
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 03:58:41

    Rach concerto 2 O_O
    i said nothing uber hard lolz

    and @wind actually im working on that chopin waltz

  8. ION
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 04:05:53

    QUOTE (AwonW @ Mar 8 2010, 08:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Rachmaninoff is such a beast.


    Yeah hes awesome.

  9. SJ
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 07:52:59

    QUOTE (ION @ Mar 8 2010, 08:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Yeah hes awesome.


    Spoiler:

    ^i like

  10. Zombo
    Date: Tue, Mar 9 2010 15:21:11

    QUOTE (AwonW @ Mar 8 2010, 10:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

    Spoiler:

    Play this.


    hehe john cage is fucking awesome, but he needs a prepared piano to play that smile.gif

    i doubt he's willing to mod his piano to play this smile.gif

    rach 2 is obviously too hard lol, the 3/2 is more realistic but maybe too easy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuMVBLEWJU

    something realistic for you to play would be the 10/12 by chopin, also the fantasie-impromptu

    maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3dGqd1LVA -> baba yaga or the great gate of kiev by mussorgsky, which is awesome

    debussy arabesque 1 is probably too easy, maybe the prelude from bergamasque, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiIVA7tQIDo I just love impressionism
    try Ravel the sonatine, the first+second movement should be doable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L302PJFsQ-g

    outside of classical I would obv look at game music. Final fantasy PC. look at my channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/Medsas

    I would try Rufus' welcoming ceremony, eternal harvest, even Fighting should be doable. Try jazzy stuff like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApGRgadtrc and Paine's theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCCMNRmiFSA or Cinco de Chocobo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_SxusLZUhI . Jazzy stuff is nice to learn because they teach you how to play swing rhythms, which you dont find in classical pieces. It teaches you a lot about rhythm. Here's another swing rhythm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Tq0k-9c6E

  11. hoiboy
    Date: Fri, Mar 12 2010 00:19:20

    Seems to me you should start working on endurance.

    Piano solo for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue would be a nice start

  12. buhryan
    Date: Fri, Mar 12 2010 00:54:52

    QUOTE (hoiboy @ Mar 11 2010, 04:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Seems to me you should start working on endurance.

    Piano solo for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue would be a nice start

    ohmy.gif i love that piece
    but i forgot the name thanksssss biggrin.gif

  13. SoFiredUp.com
    Date: Tue, Mar 16 2010 14:55:25

    Some of us can't play by ear. Can you guys get the sheet music for these pieces?

  14. Zombo
    Date: Tue, Mar 16 2010 22:01:40

    IMSLP (google it)

  15. buhryan
    Date: Wed, Mar 17 2010 04:05:43

    QUOTE (Zombo @ Mar 16 2010, 03:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    IMSLP (google it)

    IMSLP is epic win.

  16. buhryan
    Date: Sat, Apr 10 2010 23:44:19

    Ok I really need a piece now.

    I have to choose 5 pieces play. 1 from each period and 1 etude.

    So far I have:
    Baroque-Prelude in f minor Well-Tempered Clavier Book II-Bach

    Classical-Sonata No.17-Beethoven

    Romantic-Prelude Op.3 No.2-Rachmaninoff

    Contemporary-

    Etude-Etude Op.25 No.2-Chopin

    As you can see, I have no contemporary piece. I was thinking of playing Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev but I want to see if

    theres any other pieces I could play.

  17. Zombo
    Date: Sun, Apr 11 2010 06:51:41

    QUOTE (buhryan @ Apr 10 2010, 07:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Ok I really need a piece now.

    I have to choose 5 pieces play. 1 from each period and 1 etude.

    So far I have:
    Baroque-Prelude in f minor Well-Tempered Clavier Book II-Bach

    Classical-Sonata No.17-Beethoven

    Romantic-Prelude Op.3 No.2-Rachmaninoff

    Contemporary-

    Etude-Etude Op.25 No.2-Chopin

    As you can see, I have no contemporary piece. I was thinking of playing Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev but I want to see if

    theres any other pieces I could play.


    chopin is romantic
    rachmaninoff is late romantic

    chopin can count both as romantic + etude

    if anything you should swap out that rach with an impressionist piece like Debussy (anything arabesque preludes, etc) or a Ravel (sonatine, maybe too hard)

    contemporary can mean New age pop piano music

    but modern pieces are usually very hard to play (harder than any other genre in general), montagues and capulets is an orchestral piece so I dont know about piano arrangement.

    how about Toccata by Khachaturian?



    its not too hard