Corridors of Time "tutorial" (Zohar & Valente piano remix)

This is a mini tutorial for my Zohar & Valente piano remix of Corridors of Time. Sheets and mp3 are available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?p24g9xj16gdejbz

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Alright, so since the sheets were transcribed by Trillian and are now available, here is a video of the piece played very slowly, recorded from a top-down angle. The angle is not perfect, the key cover conceals a part of the fingers, but it should nevertheless still be clear what I am doing, at least much more clear than in my original recording from December. Also, there are a couple of inaccuracies and mistakes in this video, but it should be accurate enough to give you an idea of what's going on.

If you want to play this piece, my main advice would be to learn Zohar's original version first. It is more than enough of a challenge and it will keep you really busy until you can get the more tricky parts of it down (especially the double arpeggio run in bar 29 of his version). I know that I spent a long time until I could get comfortable with it and also that it seemed way too complicated for me at first, and how I would need to slowly go from bar to bar while learning it. Also, some sections of my remix either have only minor additions (the 'chant' section), or have passages that are much more understandable when you have done the original (e.g. bar 9) or are almost unchanged from his original (the last part), so learning his original will give you a good basis.

Also, it would be a really good idea to listen to Valente's remix a lot until you get a feel for the guitars that he inserted there, and for the sound they create and for their rhythmical pattern.

Once you get a solid feel for Valente's remix and for Zohar's version and the distribution of the middle stave between two hands, a lot of what happens here will make much more sense. The additions in the fourth stave aren't that complex as for themselves alone, but implementing them into the given three staves is what makes it so complicated and what lets it feel like a different piece at many parts because you will also need to adjust the stave distribution that you learned in Zohar's original, especially for the left hand.

If you have any trouble getting a part down, then practicing this piece very slowly (even MUCH more slowly than I play it here) would be the one thing that will most probably give you solid results.

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[Dukeruckley]

This would sound great coming from two pianos I think (not that it isn't great alone). How would you recommend divvying up the piece for two people to play concurrently?

[InvertedVerdegrand]

@Dukeruckley hi, i hadn't thought about this but it sounds like a good idea. i think i'd distribute 1&3 and 2&4, because otherwise the two hands would have to play within a narrow space and that would defeat the purpose of such a two piano version. are you serious about making such a version? i'd be interested in your progress. greetings

[weaselwoop]

In the first measure of page 4 I assume you drop the low E in that big chord, cuz I don't care how big someones hands are, no one can play that.

[InvertedVerdegrand]

@weaselwoop hi, no i actually play that :) i will admit though that this chord doesn't really feel comfortable and that i have to stretch my fingers like mad for it, and that i could only hit that e with the fingertip in an unnatural position. but my hands are rather small so i guess most piano players can play that more easily. greetings

[ssaxamaphone]

Is the sustain pedal used at all for this piece?

[InvertedVerdegrand]

@ssaxamaphone hi, sorry for the late reply. yeah i actually use the sustain pedal all the time here, it's just not notated in the sheets. this would sound pretty bad without the pedal, actually. but using the pedal is something i can't really give a deliberate explanation on how to use it properly. i guess that playing many classical pieces throughout the years which had the pedal notated provided for a sense of how to use it 'intuitively'. many greetings

[riverbenddream]

This is going to help me immensely. I can get to measure 11 before just falling apart, but my eyes hurt just trying to read four staves at once, and my head hurts trying to make all the different melodies and parts fit together. Hearing (and seeing) it played slower like this makes the sheet music make a lot more sense to me. Thank you!

[EvanFingerstyle]

I don't know if you'll read this, Verdegrand, but I seriously request you format your future videos like this. It can get some more people's attention if they realize just how hard the pieces you play are. I realize difficulty/complexity don't make a piece any better to listen to, but I'm sure the typical YouTuber would believe so. Your hands move so smoothly and your control over textures makes everything seem effortless, so I think that's a cause for people to underestimate you...

[lynnvryett]

Man...Musicians amaze me. I wish that some day I can come back to this video knowing how to read music and feel it, too. Many thanks for this. I've always wanted to relearn piano...

[Verdegrand]

@starfire139 i mean zohar's original arrangement which has 3 staves. you can find the sheets either on his japanese yahoo briefcase, or on 3llianX's box account for which the link is in the infobox on his channel. the version you see here is an extended version of zohar's version, and once you learn zohar's version, this will make much more sense and be more manageable. greetings

[starfire139]

How do we know what part is Zohar's? You say to learn his part first, but what exactly do you mean?

[GAYLORDFOCKER12345]

i cant really get the left hand down in the beggining