Piano and Camera...

Amicus Dei of [FoG]

Amicus Dei of [FoG]

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I'm angry at myself because I want to show you all Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart but every time I play it well there's no recording of it and every time I try to record it I basically bomb the whole beginning of it (and usually at least two parts after that).
I'm not camera shy and I definately don't have stage fright so why am I unable to play normally when I'm recording it on my camera? I feel so unfocused as if I'm just sort of in a different world while my hands push keys down without even thinking... it's so wierd...
I tried segmenting it but the beginning is my worst part and every time I mess up on the beginning I get angry at myself and the angrier I am the harder it is to play correctly...
Also I don't want to go slower because when I go slower it not only inherently sounds boring but it's also harder to keep up the techniques I'm using at higher speeds to keep my fingers working right... The speed supports the techniques which in turn support the speed.
Of course on this piece at any moderate to high speed if you miss a note you crash and burn, so every mistake I make turns into either stumbling and adding a beat or redoing what I just did correctly.

If I ever get any video of me playing it correctly I'll post it.
 
Then again I'm going to wait until Tuesday, July 3rd to record it because my piano is SO OUT OF TUNE it hurts and it's actually easier to play the song on my piano lessons teacher's piano... even though I primarily practice on mine o.0

Not to mention it's REALLY hard to play on my electric piano x_x"!
 
I was going to post videos I managed to take but now photobucket is SOOOO SLOOOOOOOOOW it hurts.

so i'll post them later (if i quad-post don't slay me)
 
no quad post for j00

anyway, yeah that happens to me when I try recording stuff (was going to put sommin on purevolume or something buuut yeah you know how it is, Amicus :( )... very weird because I could perform in front of a church full of people but not in front of my mp3 player :P
 
same, i can jam out Sing to the King perfect with my guitar teacher and just me, but when more than 3 people or a recording device are in the room,NOPE! so when we played at church i never looked up, i even played with my eyes closed! it is a cool song and one of my favorites to guitar but when i try and play "for real" i always tank it! buh!
Joey
 
THEY HAVE UPLOADED.
Intro
Part II
Part III
Part III, cont'd
Part II variation
Finale

Part II and Part I repeat between Part III and Part II variation but I didn't rerecord for obvious reasons...

Enjoy my vampiric whiteness and interesting room layout! lol

and wrong notes o.o on part III, cont'd and the finale disregard the horrid crashing and burning. o.o

P.S.: any mod willing to turn the thread's frown upside down? i'm not angry anymore xD
 
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That's much, much better than I could play that particular piece! I've been playing piano for a long, long time, and I still can't read and play the left hand at the same time. Maybe some day, if you're all really, really REALLY nice to me I'll torment you with a video.
 
its way better then me! i would just peck at the keys with my index finger. like i am typing right now!! tho u csnt tell at all, i am accualy very good at this! HAHA FOR DOING IT WRONG! TAKE THAT TEACHERS
 
Sounds good, and better than what I can do and all I can do is fiddle around on the Piano due to my lack of training with such an instrument.
 
*gulp* man your piano sounds like it needs to be tuned :) other than that, your like 10000000 times better than me... i can only play chords... and can't tell you what chord it is :)
 
Stc95 said:
its way better then me! i would just peck at the keys with my index finger. like i am typing right now!! tho u csnt tell at all, i am accualy very good at this! HAHA FOR DOING IT WRONG! TAKE THAT TEACHERS
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pfft. I used to swear by the hunt-and-peck method, but then I got really awesome and now I don't need to look at the keys to type.

It was really funny when yesterday I had my head turned sideways away from the computer screen and I was talking to my friend (who was sitting next to me) while I was typing, and he was like "Arrgh stop doing that!!" because he's not a very good typer >_> lol
 
lol i do that to my mom and she freaks out too. Tho she is a great typist but she always gets wierd when she walks in and i look at her while typing... shes cool like that :)
 
lol i like to type while holding a conversation because i tend to have less spelling errors when i'm subliminally concentrating than when i'm focused on it (as with just about everything)...
I think it has to do with my tenseness... like on piano if i TRY to play I get really tense and basically stiff but if i'm just spaced out "lalalala! look, a pony!" then i play pwnage style :p

Yes, as I said before, sdenotter, my piano needs tuning.
 
That was great! :D I'm trying to reteach myself all the piano I learned when I was 12. Whatever you do, DON'T STOP!!

Meanwhile, this isn't meant to discourage you (as it does me) so much as I just like showing people this, and you're into the piano. But it's a piece by Billy Joel (one of my favorite artists) with which he actually broke the speed record on a piano! He is crazy good...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VB1_aZ-Psk&mode=related&search=
Sorry for the poor quality; if you want, I'll upload the original track.

-Chadley
 
The Billy Joel is cool. But here's some real velocity in piano music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWFLgSL534

I've heard actual recordings of this pianist playing this piece too - trust me, they're not playing his piano roll too fast. :)

Hey Amicus, you're doing great with that Alla Turca. Its really a challenging piece and it took me a whole lot of very slow, repetitive work in small sections before I could play it without getting stuck here and there. And that was several years after I'd earned my bachelor of music in piano performance. :cool: The technical difficulties are formidable, much harder than it sounds. I'm very pleased that you've got the piece sectionalized and are playing the less-familiar sections slower - that is a very smart approach. Keep up your good work!

Paul
 
That was awesome! I love that piece by Mozart. You played it so well. How long have you been taking lessons? I wish my parents had allowed me to learn the piano but they never did (even though their good friend in the neighborhood is a piano instructor!) Oh well. I plan to have my daughter take lessons from a young age. Because it's such an amazing talent. You are so lucky that your parents loved you enough to encourage a musical talent like this.
 
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