Moszkowski - Bolero from op.12 Spanish Dances. (Music / Video Experiment)

This is a little experiment of mine. It's something I've always wanted to attempt.

This piece was presented to me by my piano teacher who is an expert in sight-reading (I'm taking lessons to make up my shortcomings in this area) and I just thought it was a wonderful and fun little piece that I'd like to record. :D

The problem? It's a piano duet. How do you record it?

My answer was to first record the secondo part (left frame) both to video and a music player sitting on the piano stool. That leaves me with both the required video, and a playback option to record and hopefully sync the primo part (right frame) with. I think it worked quite well.

Then it was a case of using PIP / split-screen techniques to have both videos side by side. Another advantage that I wanted to exploit here though was that my camera records in 4:3, and therefore lining the pictures up causes inevitable horizontal compression. So I tried to stretch / convert it to 16:9 to make each panel more respectable and utilise the new-ish 16:9 feature offered by Youtube.

I've noticed some motion blur and am trying to ascertain whether that is the result of all the converting I needed to do. Some input would be nice folks. :)

All in all, not a bad attempt though.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Piano
• Duet
• Moszkowski
• Spanish
• Dances
• Music
• Video
• Experiment
• Bolero
• 4:3
• 16:9
• Picture
• in
• Split
• Screen
• op.12

[deepdeep25]

awesome song. First time I've heard it played on piano. Curious, what software did you use to make the splitscreen?

[Shazomei]

MovieMaker.

I needed to download the RehanFX plugin to get the split-screen though.

[Kirby1967]

Awesome!!! My sis and I played this on two pianos like 30 years ago!

[Jubel06]

BRAVO! This is one of my favorite duets.

[OnlyLiveYourLife]

Interesant.....

[deepdeep25]

Ok, thanks!

[GermanSeabass]

Hah, multi-takes are awesome. Fun piece too, and a great performance!

[qu4zu000]

awesome work there amigo