Chopin Ballade No. 3

Recorded on my Steinway B at Twin Valley, Middleton WI.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• piano
• chopin

[danielwills93]

Just a quick comment on this Video, its nice to hear this piece and i enjoyed your performance. It's nice to see your enjoying the music too. May i ask how many years you have been playing? Regards.

[mdbownds]

I began playing when I was ~6 six years old, but had no formal lessons after I was ~14.

[coopandre]

You did some very interesting things here. Do you play by ear? Many of your mistakes were very musical and would make nice improves!!

I would definitely check out the pedal markings and perhaps even listen to a few recordings of the piece.

Thanx for the post.

[mdbownds]

Actually, I'm not that happy with the playing here... I wasn't playing by ear, I was just missing notes!

[jeopheraiye]

A very difficult and beautiful piece.

Unfortunately, you are forgetting a lot of the ties and there are numerous note errors =(

Also, a tip: there are many octave parts that you can split up between two hands.

I would also recommend using more pedal to make the entire piece sound less dry.

[mdbownds]

thanks for all these comments

[scp88np]

woah, that's like the exact case for me.......except that I'm only 15 now. It gives me hope for what I could become! Thank you.

[danielwills93]

wow, thats nice to hear. I think i began when i was seven years old, im now 15 and i havent yet had formal training for piano although i do play and have training for the Trumpet. Thanks for the reply, hopefuly see more videos from you soon..

[pno4tay]

This is a 66-year old amateur. By that I mean the original definition - a musician who makes his living in another field and pursues music in his spare time.

Yes, there are some errors here (ties and notes). But I hear a well regulated piano, a wonderful golden tone, and lots of potential to make this piece work.

I teach a small handful of adult students, and many of them would love to play at THIS level. How many of you who criticized him can even cover the notes of this piece?

[cascarudo71]

jeopheraiye, very nice comment, you are very gentle, and I guess this guy made a good job playing such a difficult piece, yeah... pedal, tied notes, but that could be improved, he´s got the skills to do it very well!!!! mdwounds keep working on it!!!!!!!

[nandoflorestan]

What about the countless tied notes that you didn't see? You repeated them all! This is so wrong that I would remove the video of I were you.

[PianoRon]

PianoCriticsKiller, people gave comments not to be mean, but they care on improving his performance. In order to improve, it is necessary to listen to other comments. Nobody here is being unrespectful! It sounds you really cannot accept others' comments. We are adult not little kids.

[zazanapolitano]

Shut up Bastard eduardommm !!!

[wolfan]

You know you are really helping improving his preformance, but because you are such an expert maybe we don't need any new piano players ever.