Concert Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved by Yoko Shimomura.

[cem1891]

this is a fine attempt. 1. congratulations on attacking this work. I think you should slow it WAYYYYY down and spend some quality time with a metronome. buy it dinner, take it to a movie, show it some love and it'll love you back. You should be working on getting this thing completely memorized to a level where you can call a measure number at random and jump right in with either hands separate or together. once you have it under control work on your pacing, dynamic control and phrasing. bravo.

[unusualcatperson]

@cem1891 Wow, now that's what I call constructive criticism! Hah. This performance was waaay too fast, I normally don't play it like that, so there are some mistakes that I don't normally make. But I probably should slow it down and work on fine-tuning it to perfection.

Thanks! :)

[cem1891]

@unusualcatperson no worries. i just don't think acting like a lot of the 'backseat pianists' on you tube that just want to bash to no end behind the anonymous cloak of the internet does anything to help you. i think there are moments where you have a nice full powerful sound and you obviously connect with the piece but make it musical first. live performance mistakes here and there aren't such a huge deal if musical. just practice slowlly and make small incremental changes in tempo bit by bit.

[cdsayitaintso]

Nice job!! I can't believe you chose to play this at a recital - it's SOOO easy to screw up, no matter how many times you practice. Especially that bloody left hand. Urghh that blood left hand *shakes fist at sheet music*.

[unusualcatperson]

@cdsayitaintso Thanks! :)

I actually didn't have too much trouble with the left hand. At first I did, but I started going through the arpeggios in my book of finger exercises. I do miss quite a bit, simply because accuracy isn't exactly my thing, but memorizing where they go and how they fit together wasn't all that bad.

I was pretty terrified the week before this though. I lost a couple of the chords, every time I played it I missed the same chords. Let's just say that made me panic a bit, lol.

[Arrow9100kj]

VERY NICE!!! A bit too much pedal but niceeeeeee! Takes tremendous skill to play it so Im not criticising.

[unusualcatperson]

@Arrow9100kj Thanks a lot :) And I agree, there was a bit too much pedal. Probably nerves, hah.

[Arrow9100kj]

@unusualcatperson Haha. But kudos to you man, its a pretty ballsy move to play this at a recital O.o!!

[unusualcatperson]

@Arrow9100kj Hah, thanks :)

[robbieee69]

nice bro

[robbieee69]

nice bro

[unusualcatperson]

@robbieee69 Thanks :)