Robert SCHUMANN: Op. 68, No. 8 (The Wild Horseman)

[bluebreezzie]

is this the right tempo? i'm learning this song and I need to get the tempo right.

[xxSullyMan]

Thankyou, I'm learning this song next and this is really something to aspire to.

[MrPianoguy2]

This is very good!! Good staccatos

[glazed394]

i just noticed that my piano teacher made me play this song alot faster than necessary...

[MegiKaca]

im learning this  :)

[TheChen12345]

You know,..,, I already know how to play this song..... but I can't play that fast and you play really good

[goldfariydust]

 Very good!

:D

[goldfariydust]

Vert good!

:D

[cnpjphillypwn]

good, nicely done



[monkeesa]

I used to take lessons and recently found a book of songs many of them written on. I looked up the first one I had learned, The Wild Horseman. It saddened me to learn that I used to be amazing. I could do this easily! not anymore though :( To those of you who are taking lessons, dont give up

[Briansit0]

@monkeesa ok

[TeneaRhiannon]

@monkeesa f0ll0w y0ur drEamZ

[C15ZB1]

@monkeesa i feel the same way i realized recently that I used to be able to play this, and am now trying to reteach it to myself as my children take lessons.

[Nastor1996]

yea, great :P

[theasom1]

i played this a year ago

[kaecks1]

forgot something: isn't it a bit slow?? :D

[theasom1]

@kaecks1 no it is fast



[foodmore]

@kaecks1 Fast doesn't always mean faster.

[foodmore]

@kaecks1 I mean, fast doesn't always means better. :)

[ms7814]

@foodmore yeah, staying in time is MOST important

[kaecks1]

i played this a few years ago when i was 11 or so...

haha i wanted to play this bc at that moment we learned something about robert schumann at school and we listened to some of his pieces.

well.... it was harder than i thought it would be :D but i got it and still can play it :)

[hamburg833]

if you shift your left hand down to the G and your right up to the D, wit the rest of your fingers on B, for left, and GB, for you right, it sounds all happy.

[Laxer8586]

allegro con brio - fast with vigor and spirit

[TetezuiAnimations]

staccato powa

[mynamesfake2]

FINALY FOUND SOME 1 THAT CAN PLAY THIS SONG VERY WELL! :D

[VlogNationXD]

@mynamesfake2 dude, my sheet music says to play it in "Allegro con Brio" I can do allegro, but what does the "con brio" mean?

[mynamesfake2]

@VlogNationXD It means with vigor or spirit.

[Starz3215]

Srry I mean hurted not gutted xD

[Starz3215]

This song always gutted my fingers xD

[MrJdb13]

Yeah I see what you're saying. But it's still pretty awesome.

[lurker54]

fucking a

[zinkharin]

Look at the way the left fingers curl after they hit the keys. Does that bother anyone else when people do that?

[Schnikerdoodle]

@zinkharin

You're actually meant to curl your fingers so that you can reach the black keys more easily. Trust me, I used to learn playing white keys with my fingers strait. Once I started playing songs like this, where you use stacato, I was forced to curl my fingers. Hoped this answered your question :)

[zinkharin]

I was talking about how he curls his left hand into a fist after striking

[puddingpimp]

@Schnikerdoodle

You should have a look at the Taubman Method, apart from being slower with artificially curled fingers, it can cause physical injury (Carpal Tunnel), and neurological injury (Focal Dystonia). you should let your fingers sit naturally when playing, make a fist then stretch the fingers out, then relax, where your fingers naturally stop is where you should have them at rest while playing, to get to the black keys you move your hands toward the piano, and away for the white keys.

[Schnikerdoodle]

@puddingpimp

I can't believe a user with such a strange username can have such beneficial insight. Your small lecture has been eye-opening for me :)

[puddingpimp]

@Schnikerdoodle Shoudln't judge a book by it's cover, or a person by their internet handle. I'd like to add that I'm in no way criticising Cubus'performance, it was wonderful. Just cautioning against a technique which can lead to severe permanent injury. to understand exactly what moving into the piano means, you really have to see it or spend a lot of time practising with straight wrists and curved, not curled or arched fingers, to understand that basically every phrase has different movements.

[puddingpimp]

@Schnikerdoodle another thing you'll notice, is that to play with straight wrists, the angle between your forearm and the keys has to change, which means moving into the piano when you move out from your body, and inward as you come back in. This makes the coreography for some pieces (like Chopin Op10#1) more difficult to learn than the music itself, the temptation is to bend the wrist to simplify the coreography, but it makes the piece painful to play and limits speed well below tempo.

[puddingpimp]

@zinkharin Yes, it is a side-effect of playing with arched fingers, and possible symptoms of the beginning of focal dystonia, it looks characteristic of FD, and likely that he will develop total FD, where he won't be able to uncurl his fingers to play.

[shirschfield]

i'm playing this piece right now

[xxsmileysunxx]

cool.

[JeanneZzzz]

cute cute~

[fertility89]

look at this hands :O hop hop zıp zıp :D

[puertoricanzeboz]

@fertility89 we love türkiye:p

[fertility89]

@puertoricanzeboz we love yes no harder faster stronger :D

[NapSeason]

Oh cool I remember playing this.