Wow! Wonderful! Gershwin and Oscar Levant wouldn't have slowed it down in the middle like you did, but they would have loved hearing it! (They were jazz guys after all!) Keep on playing!
i like it more with a staccato beggining (intro) and make sure that ur speed and pedal don;t interfere with what you want musically. it just sounds like a bunch of notes not a melody
yep, these are fun.. the tempo is good, and you do have the fingers for it.. one story, it is told that glen gould's first encounter with a piano was that he was playing notes and listening to the decay... i know you're already working to eliminate most of the pedal from this piece.. so now slow down (for practice purposes) and listen to all the different nuances of decay which you can achieve.. then, bring it back to tempo and voila! BUT YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY!!!!
This has probably already been said but lay off the pedal just a bit. It's not on on off switch, there are many shades in between up and down. try it sometime.
Otherwise, great performance of a pretty difficult piece.
wow this is a mess!... listen to a professional play it... and my teacher is very classical too, yet she can play and teach these with the correct style
mdcam89 - Then YOU play it better, idioto! This is YouTube and NOT a piano competition. He doesn't have to play it PERFECTLY! Where's YOUR perfect vid of this piece? You think you're his teacher and his judge? He didn't pay you for your insults!
YOUR mouth is a MESS! Since you're still learning with a teacher, that disqualifies you to be HIS teacher!
ok first of all... every musician is a student for life.. even the great soprano renee fleming went to a teacher when she was in the prime of her career.... every musician is constantly learning new things, and are always the student until the day they no longer play... and secondly, if he puts his video out there for the public to listen to, he has to expect feedback, both positive and negative... its the truth, and i think u know it
explains a lot now... i hope she knows that classical piano isn't limited to technical sonata's and if she really appreciates music she should learn to appreciate contemporary works...
over-pedaled, and you butchered the ending... that was so off from how it was meant to be played, the octave half steps are supposed to be dizzying and dramatic going into a slamming end, not slow and surprising going into a build up end, playing the last page of that piece that way basically says "fuck you" to George Gershwin... you have the talent you just need to work on the interpretation of the music... try listening to recordings of professionals and work on it...
paulchandz - Did you hear YOUR Gershwin and Haydn pieces? It sounded MUDDLED! You OVER-PEDALED, and you butchered the ENTIRE piece! LISTEN to YOU play before you criticize anyone else. It was AWFUL! You did PRECISELY what you're telling happypatatoes not to do, you idiot!
And your piano needs tuning, really, really BAD!
The truth is..you SUCK, pautchandz! Your vdz SUCK, SUCK SUCK! So shut UP, UP, UP!
wow your real cool dude... some old guy going onto youtube and picking one piece out of them all to like and then slam everybody else that added comments.... WOW i WISH i was you... only wait... your a deutschbag so i don't... btw were not trying to SLAM his playing... were giving friendly advise to a FELLOW piano student... i never said my playing was perfect, and in fact i was giving him advise on what, at the time, i was working on....
keiron1209 - He doesn't have to slow it down a bit since he's not playing for YOU! Do you think you're his TEACHER? Do you think this is a piano competition and you're his JUDGE?
anybody can creat a fake piano critic account, and with no experience with musc, go online and start fights... try playing some of the stuff you comment on before you talk... because as far as i can see.... all you've done was favorite hundreds of songs and yell at people on them.... wow! your so cool!
Awesome piece! =D
TheJMusicNow 1 month ago
I find that you have way too much pedal... it really detracts from the crispness that the piece requires.
cashkenazipiano 1 year ago
OMG!! are playing on a steinway?!!
CAPGEMS 1 year ago
Wow! Wonderful! Gershwin and Oscar Levant wouldn't have slowed it down in the middle like you did, but they would have loved hearing it! (They were jazz guys after all!) Keep on playing!
TheMikester307 2 years ago
too much pedal n your tempo is a litle unstable but otherwise good
blasiansurfer 2 years ago 2
i like it more with a staccato beggining (intro) and make sure that ur speed and pedal don;t interfere with what you want musically. it just sounds like a bunch of notes not a melody
pierrnicolas 3 years ago
great perfomance! im learning this piece. im planing on to play it alot faster (like Zimmerman)
ktheblenderuser 3 years ago
yep, these are fun.. the tempo is good, and you do have the fingers for it.. one story, it is told that glen gould's first encounter with a piano was that he was playing notes and listening to the decay... i know you're already working to eliminate most of the pedal from this piece.. so now slow down (for practice purposes) and listen to all the different nuances of decay which you can achieve.. then, bring it back to tempo and voila! BUT YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY!!!!
guapobear 4 years ago
yea, use alot less pedal. tempo is fantastic!
spoonflinger 4 years ago
This has probably already been said but lay off the pedal just a bit. It's not on on off switch, there are many shades in between up and down. try it sometime.
Otherwise, great performance of a pretty difficult piece.
siyahambe 4 years ago
Happypatatoes - Your Gerhwin sounds MUCH better than paulchandz'. His sounds muffled, and like MUD.
Yours is awesome!
PianoCriticsKiller 4 years ago
wow this is a mess!... listen to a professional play it... and my teacher is very classical too, yet she can play and teach these with the correct style
mdcam89 4 years ago
mdcam89 - Then YOU play it better, idioto! This is YouTube and NOT a piano competition. He doesn't have to play it PERFECTLY! Where's YOUR perfect vid of this piece? You think you're his teacher and his judge? He didn't pay you for your insults!
YOUR mouth is a MESS! Since you're still learning with a teacher, that disqualifies you to be HIS teacher!
PianoCriticsKiller 4 years ago
ok first of all... every musician is a student for life.. even the great soprano renee fleming went to a teacher when she was in the prime of her career.... every musician is constantly learning new things, and are always the student until the day they no longer play... and secondly, if he puts his video out there for the public to listen to, he has to expect feedback, both positive and negative... its the truth, and i think u know it
mdcam89 4 years ago
oh, and clean the run ups up, they sound mmuddled
paulchandz 4 years ago
My piano teacher, is very classical, and she would not allow me to play this piece the way that you have just mentioned. But I agree with you. :P
happypatatoes 4 years ago
explains a lot now... i hope she knows that classical piano isn't limited to technical sonata's and if she really appreciates music she should learn to appreciate contemporary works...
paulchandz 4 years ago
paulchandz - That was your EARS that sounded mudded, not his playing! lol
PianoCriticsKiller 4 years ago
over-pedaled, and you butchered the ending... that was so off from how it was meant to be played, the octave half steps are supposed to be dizzying and dramatic going into a slamming end, not slow and surprising going into a build up end, playing the last page of that piece that way basically says "fuck you" to George Gershwin... you have the talent you just need to work on the interpretation of the music... try listening to recordings of professionals and work on it...
paulchandz 4 years ago
paulchandz - Did you hear YOUR Gershwin and Haydn pieces? It sounded MUDDLED! You OVER-PEDALED, and you butchered the ENTIRE piece! LISTEN to YOU play before you criticize anyone else. It was AWFUL! You did PRECISELY what you're telling happypatatoes not to do, you idiot!
And your piano needs tuning, really, really BAD!
The truth is..you SUCK, pautchandz! Your vdz SUCK, SUCK SUCK! So shut UP, UP, UP!
PianoCriticsKiller 4 years ago
wow your real cool dude... some old guy going onto youtube and picking one piece out of them all to like and then slam everybody else that added comments.... WOW i WISH i was you... only wait... your a deutschbag so i don't... btw were not trying to SLAM his playing... were giving friendly advise to a FELLOW piano student... i never said my playing was perfect, and in fact i was giving him advise on what, at the time, i was working on....
paulchandz 4 years ago
slow it down a little bit.
keiron1209 4 years ago
keiron1209 - He doesn't have to slow it down a bit since he's not playing for YOU! Do you think you're his TEACHER? Do you think this is a piano competition and you're his JUDGE?
You are a big fat ZERO!
PianoCriticsKiller 4 years ago
lol
FrenchLanguage 4 years ago 2
anybody can creat a fake piano critic account, and with no experience with musc, go online and start fights... try playing some of the stuff you comment on before you talk... because as far as i can see.... all you've done was favorite hundreds of songs and yell at people on them.... wow! your so cool!
paulchandz 4 years ago
FYI Piano Critics Killer, I have been playing this for 35 years and to improve it needs to slow it down!
keiron1209 4 years ago
Maybe overpedalled? I always thought of this one as quite staccato and punchy. You played it fantastically nonetheless
LoxRandom 4 years ago
nice!
xplictconcept 5 years ago
Cool interpretation. I always find that last section with all the tumbling fifths in the left hand and the octaves in the right mega hard- well done!
salexlindsay 5 years ago