Instrument Players - Come and chat (Part II)

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Previous thread is here.

We filled one thread, so here’s another

That's a nice piece skye.

Well done Fluke, congrats!
The Praembulum is lovely, I didn't choose it for g4 but had a go at it recently when I was on my learning loads of repertoire thing. Understandable mistake, it is quite Bach like.

My exam was awful, tbh. Didn't get through a piece without a stumble. Doubt I passed.

Broken of I've landed anything this week its that you really can't tell how you have doing in an exam. I was totally convinced I had failed, to be honest I'm still rather baffled that the examiner gave me a pass, let alone with distinction, so I expect you have done much better than you think. Any mistake we make gets magnified in our own mind - the mistakes and stumble are the parts that stick in the memory. How were the scales and aural? X

Learned, not landed... X

Fluke - That piece looks fun to play but it's by Klebs. What is the relation to Bach? It does sound a bit like Bach, probably because both lived in Baroque Era Germany.

Meanwhile, I've been going through my new "Musical Parnassus" Fischer book. Here is the starting piece of the Terpsichore suite: . It's quite unusual in the sense that there isn't a lot of banging on the keyboard in the Baroque era. Yet, Fischer has started several of his suites in the Musical Parnassus in this manner. The next piece in the same suite which I started working on is an Allemande, so much slower.

And this is going to be my next challenge: Chaconne from Handel's HWV 448. Here it is played on the harpsichord, . There isn't much on YouTube on the piano, but does a pretty good job.

Nice tunes cote. :)

Very nice Cote! Not much chance to do lots of practice recently but really looking forward to torturing the family with flute as well as piano over the Easter holidays

Hello all!

I have been busy practising Beethoven's Pathetique sonata and Bach's partita in C minor. Neither are easy but they are great fun. Not sure if the neighbours feel the same ...

And we are violin hunting!

Cote Krebs was chief assistant to JSB, that's why the music I'm playing sounds so much like Bach.

Interesting. Thanks for the info, Fluke.

Never - Who is the violin for?

Cote violin for DS2.

Oh you are entering a world of hurt. The first year or so of learning violin is excruciating for innocent bystanders.

Oh DS2 has been playing for quite a while. Besides he actually does have a rather good ear and skipped the excruciating bit.

The only excruciating thing is getting him to bloody practise...

Oh good. That sounds far better than what I see friends endure

By the way, have any of you heard of a child prodigy called Alma Deutscher? I can't quite believe my eyes and ears, especially her improvisations such as these, built on 4 random notes

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Cote Alma Deutscher is amazing. What an incredible talent.

Very belated congratulations fluke! Anyone entering an exam is much braver than me.

I am plodding away with my prelude and fugue (no. 2: not a very difficult one). The prelude is OK except for the presto bit which isn't fast enough. The fugue is ... hmmm. It looks easy enough but my fingers disagree. I have until July though (concert).

Re improvisation, can't watch the vids right now (ancient tech) but it's good to see kids being encouraged to improvise - as a general rule, classically trained musicians don't do this enough. My son (6 months of guitar lessons and a bit of classical piano but no formal training) can improvise quite handily on both - I'd find it astonishing if I hadn't heard him practising (hours and hours and hours of improvising over chord sequences recorded on a looper pedal). It's not really about talent - he just knows his theory and he has done so much improvising in the last 4-5 months that it has become second nature. I find improvising petrifying, but he started within a few weeks of picking up an instrument and consequently it's just another musical skill for him.

I remember watching a documentary about Alma Deutscher - an amazing girl with immense talent.
Interesting about improvisation Misti as DS1 has had similar experience on bass guitar - he's happy to improvise as it's been built into his lessons and he does the theory with his teacher. DS2 has no experience of it with cello or piano, though.

Loose we do improvisation every guitar lesson (I'm in the same group class as DS). I find it excruciatingly difficult.

My DC improvise but I can't do it.

Bach's Partita #2 in C minor: each piece seems to do a completely different thing from the previous piece and your fingers just go in a tangle.